The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-22
ANOTHER FATAL CRASH
A Sleeping Car and Two Coaches
Telesooped on the Big Four.
NINE KILLED AND MANY INJURED.

The Casualty the Result of CaroIessness
on tho Part OF Railway Employes-The
First Wreck the Illinois Central
System In Twenty Years.
MANTENo, Ills, Sept. 20-The second
section of the Big Four passenger train
No. As crashed into the rear of the first
section that had stopped unexpectedly at
point ten miles north of Kankukee, tele-
scoping one sleeper and two coaches, kill
ing nine people and seriously injuring a
large number. The rear cars of the first
section were the Ohio and Mississippi
sleeper and two chair cars, all fairly we'll
filled with passengers.
The work of rescue was immediately be-
gun, and one by one the horribly mutilated
bodies OF the seven were removed from the
pile of wreckage. The passengers in the
forward cars, although they received u
severe shaking up and many were badly
cut and bruised. were foremost in the
work of caring for the injured.
Mono of the trainmen are able to &C.
count for the wreck, as n man was sent
back from the first section of the train rs
soon as the stop, which was made neces-
sary by some defective machinery in the
locomotive, was made. This flagman has
not been seen since the wreck. and he is
probably the only man who can give the
real cause of the disaster On the other
hand, 1t is said that the engineer of tho
second train was asleep, and that the fire.
man was throwing coal into the firebox.
Both engineer and fireman saw the train
ahead Of them just in time to jump. They
had q narrow escape for their lives
One OF the most pitiful sights around
the wreck was the grief of Mrs. Chris.
kemmell, herself probably fatally injured.
A MI hos
Dayton, Cynthiana and other Ohio points.
and they had secured berths near together
in the sleeper worst wrecked. Into this
car the forward end of the last sleeper was
driven, crushing passengers and berths
into the forward end in shapeless mass.
When Mrs. KENNEL was rescued the
light of the lantern which shone on her
shone beyond on the features of her hus.
band, who had been killed, by her side.
She was so badly crushed that she could
scarcely make a sound, but the words she
could articulate were fearful appeals to
the rescuers and nurses to remove her hus-
bands body. She knew that he was dead,
but feared that the cars would catch fire
and his body be burned.
The idcn titled dead are: Emil Kimmell
Dayton, o.; j. w. Powell, New Vienna,
O.; l.. L. Sweet, Louisville, KY; David
Jackson, Carmel o.; Minnie DIVERS,
Lower Albany, Ind; Charles Deckendaser,
Columbus, o.; Jacob Simpson, Columbus,
O.; Miss o. Edwards, Chicago.
Several of the injured are beyond recov-
cry, and it is probable that the list OF fatal
tiles will be sweled into fourteen.
The wreck was the first that has GO,
CURED OH the Illinois Central system for
twenty years.
j. f. Tamscott, fireman of the engin
6rny l,a
1.-THE first section sent back no light. 1t
was due in Kankakee ten minutes before
the time when the accident took place,
and we never thought of its being just
ahead of u.s."
All the members of the train crews, who
were placed under arrest, have been re-
leased on promise to appear at the inquest