St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-08
RAILROAD CRASH.
EkEKEH LIVES SRUFFeD OUT IN Am
INSTANT.
A COLLISION NEAR CHICAGO.

Fourteen People Horribly Man
gied = InexcusabIe Blunder
Causes the Casualty The
Train Dispatcher Makes His
Usual Mistake In Giving Care
less orders.
CHICAGO, Sept. Two fast trains
on the Pennsylvania railroad crashed
into each other near Colehour, a small
town near the Indiana state line, this
morning, and in an instant eleven lives
were lost, and nearly score of other
unfoftunates were manned and MAIL
gled. Following is list of the killed
and injured:
.5S]f KILLED.
CHESTER E. COFFIN, Carthage.
Ind.
A. S. TEMPLE. manager Schiller
theater, Chicago.
EMIL GODENRATH, Chicago.
E. Nj. RIGNEY, freight agent Wis
consin Central railway.
A. ID. ADAMS. Fairfield. Ill.
+. NJ. BOMARD, Terre Haute, Ind.
F. d. FLEMING, Fairfield, LII.
w. d. RICHARDSON, Chisago.
ALBEIT HElNZE, Vincennes, Ind.
WILLIAM SHOUTS KER, New Al
bany.
MICHAEL WALL.
Unknown tramp.
WOUNDED.
William Richter, Edwardsport, Ind.
head nurt and internal injuries.
William Brewer, baggage master
Louisville train, left leg amputated,
Internal injuries.
Joseph Vate, Louisville, KY, head
cut.
Claude Derber. tram newsboy, right
foot amputated.
Herman LIGHTER. Freelandsville, Ind,
head cut.
Harry Klein, Vipcennes, Ind, inter-
nal injuries.
Michael Vate. Louisville, KY, inter-
naliy hurt.
W. A. Hill, Comboge, Ind, skull
fractured: may die
Henry HOgenmeyer. Knox county,
Ind. bead cut and internal injuries.
John Briscoe, Logansport, Ind, head
cut and back hurt.
w: II. Turner (colored), Chicago, head
cut, internal injuries.
casper Meyer, Vincennes, Ind, back
cut, internal injuries.
Williams Billingsera, Clyde, O., head
cut left leg crushed.
Joseph Echenbom, Camden, O., chest
hurt.
The casualty appears to have been
the result of blunder inexcusable by
even the railroad officials. Two trains
were scheduled TO pass on the single
line or tile track between Coiehour, ILL.,.
and Hammond, Ind, constructed by
the pennsylvania to meet the exigen-
cies of the worlds fair traffic.
At about the same time a train
was due north on the same
track, aud this appears to have
Deen rully understood in the train dis
patcher's office. 1t was arranged to
give the north train, due at the union
depot, Chicago, at 9:35 o'clock with
milk and with way passengers from
valparaiso, Ind, the right of way, and it
was ordered 10 proceed toward Chicago,
ana dld so at the rate of thirty miles an
hour In the meantime Trains No. 100
ahd u, the latter the Panhandle limited
express. were supposed to have been
held on the double track at C0lehour to
await the passage of No. As, the milk
train.
Orders were given the operator at
CoIeHouT 10 nOld NO. 100, but nothing
was said to him about No. IL. He obeyed
orders, and No. IL was allowed to enter
upon. the single track on its schedule
time, running forty miles an hour di-
rectly toward the milk train, which had
also been given the right of way
IN an opposite direction on the
same track. The Panhandle express
had proceeded but short distance on
Its way and was rounding a slight curve
when the milk train was sighted ahead.
and the two trains, scarcely Stacking in
speed in the short distance, dashed into
each other. The wreck which ensued
was complete. The engine crews saved
their lives by jumping. the two loco
motives coming together moment later
with force that drove the baggage car
of the Panhandle train completely
through the smoking car behind it. In
this car were about forty passengers.
and IN it the loss of life occurred. So
completely was the car wrecked that it
seemed miraculous that any of those in
1t escaped alive. but when the rescuers
rallied TO the scene and began the work
or securing the bodies of the dead and
reSculng the injured il was found that
many who had been on the Inflated car
were foremost in their ranks.