The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1893-09-23
IN A HUGE BLOODY MASS
1 Wabash Y6ubuled Train Suddenly
Turned Into q Pile Of Cory DabriS
TORN. CRUSHED. MANGLED
Sleeping Passengers Awake to Find
Themselves Pinned Down and
Dying an AgonixlnR Dsath-A
srakoman's carsiessnsss.


KISGsBUKY, Ind. Sept. 22.-<leveu
bloody objects, some torn sud mansled
beyond tho semblancs OF humanity. a
score OF bleeding AID bruised victims,
such are the awfci results of this morn.
'ng's horror Occurring at this little village
on the Dedoit division OF tho Wabash
railway. Tho list Of dead Is as follows:
Charles Birbe, San Francisco. % years old,
Unmarried; Miss Nellie 3. Tucker, New.
son, Mass; II. Il. Seeley, Germany;
Harry Franch, Toronto; Engineer John
Green, Ashley, Ind, who leaves o ~ife
and four children; J. H. McKenna, Hyde
Park, Mass; Miss Alice H. Reed, East
Boston, Mass; Warren G. Ryder, agod A..
OF Arizona; Mrs. Burbank, New Orleans !;
Baggage Master Lyons, Detroit; ]. D..
Roundy, Lamerlle, Iowa; Conductor J. L.
Coulter, Detroit.
The injured In tho hospital at Peru,
Ind, are: Samuel Garfield and his wife,
Utica, N. Y; S. Oliver Hill, Somersvcrth,
n. H; Miss Anna Hill, divers sister; G.
H. Hodsden and wife, Dover, n. H.;
Frank T.. Dow, fairhaven, WASH, Journal
ist, ~ho suffers from confusion of tho
bead and bruised shoulder; w. Rider
and his wife, Phoenix, Ariz., and foster
daughter; Mr.. Rider n cut about the
head, Mrs. Riders thigh IL fractured. tho
daughter Is injured internally, and Riders
foster son is killed. Dow was in the
smoker. How he crawled out Of the
wreck he does not know. He says no as
sisted in pulling out two young women
and then exhausted tainted on the bank.
He 10 abs to sit up, but his face is Q terri
BILE sight.
Other injured are: Willie Evans, Ed.
ward Rush, William Hosking and Albert
Moulton, aged u to IA, orphan home boys
of London, England; James B. Wookey,
Henry Aaron, Sidney Fleming, James
Lane, Charles Botham and Herbert Lane,
members of a troup of hand bell ringers
Otto Houk. Germany; Mrs. Douaan,
Aurdienne, Pa, w. j. Hotchkiss, Mrs.
Roundy, Lamerlle. Iowa, leg broken; Mrs.
Keller, Massachusetts, may die; Mrs.
Seavey, New Hampshire; Fireman Walker
Fireman Barber.
Crushed and splintered timbers and
broken truss rods, warped and fractured
trucks, two giant locomotives dismantled
and literally welded together, attest In
tho fearful fatality the awful results OF one
mans carelessness. Tho clamity ID
directly attributable to Brakeman Herber,
Thompson's carelessne6. He has disap-
peared aud all efforts to fnd him have
thus far been in vain.
Vestfouled limited train IS. Detroit to
Chicago, was running two sections and
due to pass this station at LAO q. m. Fast
freight ~ on the siding here was waiting
TO let Is pass. The first section Of IS
pasted at 6:l5 q. m, and by q whistle
called the attention Of the freight crew to
the second section. The engineer replied
but II seems Brakeman Thompson did
not notice the signal and went ahead to
open the switch for No. SO to leave. He
had hardly done this before the second
IS was seen bearing down. Thompson
seemed to be paralyzed. Swcrving to the
left the ponderous mass of steel drawing
its precious load lunged heavily into the
waiting freight train with q horrible crash.
The result was fearful and the scene
that ensued awful. Nearly all the passen.
gers were asleep and the suddenness of
tho crash SO dazcd tho unfortunate men
and women that for q few minutes all was
still save for the wheezing Of escaping
steam. But soon the agonized screams
of the wounded and dying rent tho air.
Few of the uninjured had presence OF
mind TO make an effort TO rescue the i'm.
prisoned victims, but with tho arrival of a
number of residents tho work Of releasing
the hapless victims was soon under way.
Owing to tho huge mass into which the
wreck piled, 1t was prodigious undertake.
ing and sone hours elapsed before the
last of tho living was removed. The dead
as fast rs taken from the wreck were laid
beside tho track pending tho removal to
the undcrtakers, while the injured were
cared for at the nearest residences.