The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-09-23

INJURED ARE NUMEROUS.
Two Giant Locomotives DismantIed
and Welded Together.
The Agonized Screams of the Wounded
and Dying Rend the Early Morning
Air-One of the Worst Dis.
asters on Record

KINGsBURY, Ind, Sept. o. Eleven
bloody objects, some torn and mangled
beyond semblance of humanity, score
of bleeding and bruised victims. Such
are the awful results of this mornings
horror occurring at this little village on
the Detroit division of the Wabash rail-
way.
The list of the dead is as follows:
CHARLES BIRBE, San Francisco, % years
old; unmarried.
Miss NELLIE B. TUCKER, Newton,
Mass.
H. e. SEELEY, Germany.
HARRY FRANCH, Toronto.
ENGINEER JOHN GREEN, Ashley, Ind
leaves wife and four children.
| J. H. McKENNA, Hyde Park, Mass.
Miss ALICE II. REED, East Boston
Mass.
WARREN G. RIDER. aged 4, of Arizona.
MRS. BURBANK, New Orleans.
BAeeAGEMAsTER Lyons, Detroit.
j. d. RoUNDY, Lamerlle, Ia.
CONDUCTOR j. E. COULTER, of Detroit.
The injured IN the hospital at Peru,
Ind, are:
SAMUEL CANF1ELD AND WIFE, OF Utica,
N. Y.
S. OLIVER HILL, of Somersworth, New
Hampshire.
Miss ANNA HILL, Divers sister.
G. H. HoDsDEN and wife, of Dover,
N. 81.
FRANK P. Dow, OF Fairhaven, Wash
ington journalist, confusion of head and
shoulder bruised.
w. RIDER and wife, of Phoenix, A. Il. 3,
and foster daughter. Mr.. Rider is cut
about the head; Mrs. Riders thigh is
fractured, and the daughter is injured in
ternally. Riders foster son was killed.
Dow was in the smoker. How he
know, but says he assisted in pulling out
two young women, and then, exhausted,
tainted on the bank. He is able to sit up,
but his face is terrible sight.
WILLIE EVANS, EDWARD RUSH, VIII
LIAM HosKINs and ALBERT MoULToN,
aged II to IA, Orphan Home boys of Lon
don, England.
JAMES B. WooKEY, HENRY AARON,
SIDNEY FLEMING, J AMEs LANE, CHARLES
BoTHAM and HERBERT LANE, members
OF a troupe OF handled ringers.
The other injured are:
OTTO HoUK, Germany.
MRS. DoUGAN, Aurdienne, Pa.
w. ]. HoTCHKISS.
MRS. RoUNDY, Lamerlle, Iowa, leg
broken.
Mrs. KELLER. Massachusetts, may die.
MRS. SEAvEY, New Hampshire.
FIREMAN WALKER.
FIREMAN BARBER.
The crushed and splintered timbers and
broken truss rods; the warped and frac-
tured trucks; the two giant locomotives
dismantled and literally welded together,
attest in the fearful fatality the awful
results of one mans carelessness.
The calamity is directly attributable to
Brakeman Herbert Thompson's careless
ness. He has disappeared, and all efforts
to find him have thus far been in vain.
THE STORY OF THE WRECK.
The vestibuled limited train 35, Detroit
TO Chicago, was running in two sections
and was due to pass this station at 4: 40
a. NJ. Fast freight 90 was on the siding
here waiting to let 55 pass. The first Sec
ton of 55 passed at 5:15 a. m. and by a
whistle called the attention OF the freight
crew to the second section. The engi-
neer replied, but it seems Brakeman
Thompson did not notice the signal and
went ahead to open the switch for No. 90
to leave. He had hardly done this before
the second 55 was seen bearing down.
Thompson seemed to be paralyzed.
Swerving to the left the ponderous mass
of steel, drawing its precious load, lunged
heavily into the waiting freight train
with horrible crash.
The result was fearful and the scene
that ensued was awful.
Nearly all the passengers were asleep,
and the suddenness of the crash so dazed
the unfortunates for Jew minutes, that
all was still save for the wheeling of es-
Gaping steam, but soon the agonized
screams OF the wounded and dying rent
the air.
But few of the uninjured had the pres
euce of mind to make an effort to rescue
the imprisoned victims, but with the ar
rival of number of residents the work
of releasing the hapless victims was soon
under Way.e
Owing to the huge mass into which the
wreck was piled, it was prodigious I'M
dertaking, and it was some hours before
the last of the living was removed, and
the dead were finally extricated only after
the arrival of the crew with apparatus.
The dead, as fast as taken from the
wreck, were laid beside the track pending
removal to the undertaker's, while the
Injured were cared for at the nearest resi-
dences. Such of the wounded as would
consent were taken to the Wabash Rail-
way hospital at Peru, Ind. Twelve of the
worst injured were taken there during
the day.
William Seidel, of San Francisco, had
Gu almost miraculous escape from hor-
rible death. He was situing near the
middle of the smoker, and in the same
seat as his friend, Charles Birbe. Char
lie and l were about half asleep,'' said
Seidel today, "when the crash came.
could not imagine what had hap
pened. l felt myself thrown high
in the air, and then struck the
ground fully sixty feet from where our
coach was and found myself badly
bruised but not seriously hurt. / at
once began looking for Birbe, and soon
saw him taken from under the ruins
crushed frightfully. He had been in
stantly killed. l think / was thrown
through the roof of the car. My clothes
were torn and face scratched. l will take
Birbe's body home to San Francisco to-
morrow. He was dealer in horses and
lived in California several years. :"
GUILTY OF CRIMINAL CARELEssNEss.
Railway Employees Held to Await the
Action of the Grand Jury