The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-09-23
ACRASH In THE DARK.
Eleven Wabash Passengers
Killed at Kingsbury, Ind.
A BRAKEMAN WAS TO BLAME.
Opened . Switch to Let IN Express Train
Hit stan1isg Frsigbt-A Fair
haven Man Isjursd-

Krxesnrrr. Ind, Sept. 2.-Eieven
bloody corpses, some torn and mangied
beyond sernbiance Of humanity. score oil
bleeding and bruised victims, such are the
awful results Of morning horror occur
ring a, this little village on thu Detroit
division Of the Wabash railway. The list
of the dead is as follows:
CaAmrs RfeEx, San Francisco. % years
old, unmarried.
Mrs. NELLIE b. TrcEKgg Newton. Mass.
H. r. SEEEEy. Germany.
HAIRY FRAxcH. Toronto.
EsaIwEKR JoHs GREEs. Ashley, Ind,
leaves a wife and four children.
j. IT, McKExxA, Hyde Park. Mass.
Miss ALICE III. REED, East Boston,
Mass.
WaEREx q. RFnsR, aged 4. Of Arizona.
Mas. BURBANK. New Orleans.
BAsGaeRsAsTER LYoss, Detroit.
J. ID. RoUspT. Lamoilie, O.
cozDUcroE ]. K. CoULrER, Detroit.
The injured in the hospital At Peru.
Ind. are:
Samuel Garfield and wife. of Utica. y.
Y; s. Oliver HiIl. OF somerviile. y. j.;
Miss Anna iIilI. divers sister; q. Hods-
den and wife Of Dover, y. H.; Willie
and Albert MoultoD, aged ITO IA. Orphan
Home boys. OF London. England; James
u. Wooksy, Henry Aaron. Sidney Elem-
ing. James Lane. Charles Botham and
Herbert Lane, members OF troupe OF
handbeil ringers; Frank r. Dow. Of Fair
haven, Wash. a Journalist. confusion OF
the head and shoulder bruised. Dow was
IN the smoker. How he crawled out of
the wreck he does not know. He says he
assisted in pulling out two young women,
then became exhausted and tainted on
the bank. lie IL able to sit up, but his
face is . terrible sight. w. Rider and
and wife. of Phmnix, Ariz., and foster
head. Mrs. Rioer's thigh was fractured.
and the daughter injured internally.
Riders foster son was killed.
Others OF the injured are: Otto Houk.
Germany: Mrs. Doughan, Audenried, Pa. !;
w. j. Hotchkiss; Mrs. Roundy, Lamoille,
Ia, leg broken; Mrs. Keller. Massaehu-
setis, may die; Mrs Seaves, New Hamp-
shire: Fireman Walker: Fireman Barber.
The crashed and spiintered and broken
truss-rods, and the warped and fractured
trucks, the two giant locomotives dis
mantied and literally welded together, at
test in fearful fatality the awful results OF
one mans careiessness. The calamity Is
directly attributable to Brakeman Herbert
Thompson's cuelessness. He has dissp-
pesred, and oil efforts to find him have
thus far been In vain.
The story Of the wreck IL ~ follows
vestibuied limited train SIS, from Detroit
TO Chicago. was running In two sections.
and was due to pass this station at 40
q. m. Fast freight % was on siding here,
waiting to let IS pass. Tho first section Of
81 passed at 5:i5 Q. m, and by whistle
called the attention Of the freight crow 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 81 to leave. He had hardly
done this before the second section of IS
was seen bearing down. Thompson
seemed to be paralyred. swsrving to the
lett. the ponderous mass of steel bearing
Its precious load iunged heavily into the
waiting freight train with horrible crash.
The result was fearful aud the scene that
ensued awful.
Nearly all the passengers were asleep.
and the suddsnness of the crash SO daxed
the unfortunstes that for few minutes all
was stiii save for the wheeling Of escaping
steam. but soon the agonized screams of
the wounded and dying rent the air. Few
of the uninj ured had presence of mind to
make an effort 10 rescue the imprisoned
victims, but with the arrival of a number
OF residents the work of releasing the haf-
less victims was soon under way. Owing
20 the huge mass into which the wreck was
piled II was prodigious undertaking. and
rome hours elapsed before the last of the
living were removed. and the dead were
finally extrtcated only after the arrival OF
crew with apparatus. Tho dead. as fast
a. taken from the wreck, we're laid beside
the track pending removal 10 the under
takers, willis the injured were cared for nj
the nearest residences. Such of the
wounded as would consent were taken 10
the Wabash railway hospital Mt Peru. Ind.
Twelve of the worst injured were taken
there during the day.
William Seidel, Of San Francisco. had an
almost miraculous escape from a horrihle
death. lie was sitting near the middle OF
the smoker and in the same seat "a hi.
friend. Charles Birhe. Charlie and I
were about half asleep" said SsIdei 10.
day. When the crash came could no,
imagine what had happened. / felt N.Y.
self thrown high IN the air and then
struck the ground fully sixty feet from
where our coach was and found myself
badly bruised. bat not seriously hurt. |
at once began locking Tor Birbe. and soon
saw him taken from under the ruin,
crushed frighttnlly. He had been in.
stantiy killed. think | was throw
through the roof Of the car NV cIothe.
were torn and my face scratched. will
take kirhos body home to San Francisco
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