The Irish standard., 1893-09-30
}. AN u OPEN SWITCH.
Eleven Persons Killed In a wreok
on the Wabash Line.
FOR Some Unaccountable Reason q Brake
man Turns q Switch, Allowing an
Express Train to Crash 4
Into q Freight.
LIVES CRUSHED OUT.

LAt les C1CSdED QUE.
KNGsBUnY, Ind, Sept. 23.-Every
house in the town is either a morgue or
q hospital. Two trains came together
on the Wabash siding just after day
break Friday. The freight train, with
twenty-five loaded cars, stood on the
side track and was headed east
For more than an hour it had
waited for the second section of
the No. SIS passenger train, west
bound. All the passenger trains have
been going in sections because of the
heavy worlds fair traffic. After the
first section went by at $40 o'clock all
the trainmen knew that another section
was coming. Herbert Thompson was
head brakeman. 1t was his work to
look after the east switch. No man
can tell why Thompson went and
turned the switch after the first train
had passed. 1t was the act of a crazy
man-so say the railroad men. But he
did it. Thompson cannot tell, for no
one has seen him since the dead and
dying were thrown high i'll the air with
the shattered fragments.
KILLED AND INJURED.
Those killed are as follows:
j. H. McKenna, butcher. Of Hyde Park.
Mass; Harry French, l3 years old, member Of
Orphans bell ringers, London, Eng Charles
Birke, San Francisco: Miss Nellie B Tucker,
Newton. Mass: Conductor JAMES Coulter, of
passenger train; Engineer John Greene, Ash
ley, Ind, passenger train: Warren G. Rider,
Phoenix, Ariz.; F.. G. zelle Berlin, Germany:
Baggagemaster Lyons, passenger train; James
D. Roundy, La Moille, Ia
The names of twenty-one of those in
jured have been secured, as follows:
w. Burbank. New Orleans La, 60 years old,
arms and one leg broken. jawbone fractured,
will die: William Adams, II years old, London,
England member Orphan bell ringers, both
legs broken. injured internally, will die: Miss
Hattie Hutchins, Phoenix. A. T., bruised about
head and injured internally, recovery doubt
full Fireman Barber, of Ashley, on pas
senger train, leg broken and severely burned,
recovery doubtful; H. j. Vatkeney, fireman
on freight train, burned and scalded about
head and breast, may die; William Haskins
II years old. London England, compound frac-
ture of right leg, left shoulder broken, recovery
doubtful; Edward Rush. Is years old, London,
bruised about body, head cut; Swien
Garfield, Ironwood, Mich, bruised about
bead and shoulder dislocated: Mrs. L.
Garfield, lronwood, Mich, left arm broken,
shoulder dlslocated and head badly cut;
H. w. Ryder, Phoenix Park. A. T., head cut
and leg bruised, not serious: G. S. Rodgson.
Dover, N. H.. teeth knocked out, arm fractured
and legs bruised; Mrs. S. A.. Seavly, Somer-
vile, head cut and arm dislocated; Albert
Morton, IL years Old London, Eng, arm hurt
and two deep scalp wounds; Frank P. Dow,
Fair Haven, Wash, face cut and hip disloca ted;
James G. Wookly, London, Eng, head
cut and back injured; Engineer Whitman, on
freight engine, right arm broken and badly
1,,,ur jni1, h1f
Miss Hattie Rogers, Phoenix, A. IT,, left leg
fractured and injured internally: Mrs. Dolber,
458 Green avenue, Brooklyn, leg fractured and
cut about the head; Miss Olive HILL Summers
worth, N. H injured internally and head cut:
Miss Annie Hill, Summersworth N. H, slight
wound; Miss N. S Kelly, Boston, severe scalp
wound. -
BOILER BLEW UP.
The boiler of the passenger engine
rection. A pair of trucks were
torn apart and each half sent
flying in opposite directions. One
of the great pieces of iron
was hurled several hundred yards
away, where 1t crashed through far
mer's barn. It's mate was thrown clear
across 2O-acre field on the south side
of the track. The steam escaped, scald'
ing the injured who were not able to
crawl to place Of safety.
AN AWFUL SCENE.
When the two trains came together
the heavy freight train crushed the
passenger by its tremendous weight
Out from this tangled mass of wreck
age, through which clouds of steam
were pouring, came the injured. while
here and there could be seen the arm,
leg or head of some unfortunate ont of
whom all life had been crushed. The
first assistance came from those who
escaped injury. Within half-hour the
awakened townspeople came running
to the scene. BY o'clock special
trains had arrived with surgeons from
Ashley. Peru, Wolcottsvillc, North Lib
erty and Westville. The work of bind
ing UP wounds, recovering the dead
and identifying the bodies continued
until late in the afternoon.
Died from FRIGHT.