The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1893-09-19
EIGHT PEOPLE DEAD.
And Twenty Injured in Wreck
on the Illinois Central.
Second Section Of an Express
Crashes Into the First.
A "Dead" Sleeper Telsscoped-was
an EnEisser Asleep?

CHICAGO, Sept. ls.-Eight people were
killed and twenty injured by fearful
rear-end collision between two sections
OF the big Four" train known as No.
IS near the village of Manteno, a few
miles north OF Kankakee. on the line
of the Illionis Central Railway, late last
night.
The list OF dead reported at the Illinois
Central headquarters in this city is as
follows:
EMIL K1MMELL. Dayton. o.
j. w. POWELL. New Vienna. o.
l.. l.. SWEET, Louisville, Ky.
DAVID JACK SON. Carmel, q.
MINNIE DIVERS, Lower Alba ny,
Ind.
ELDERLY MAN, unidentified.
YOUNG MAN, unidentified.
YOUNG WOMAN, unidentified.
The injured are:
Belleson. Blanche. sinking Springs, o., limbs
badly bruised. Bionton. l.. H.. Cincinnati. fatal
Brown. James W.. Wilmington, o.. internal and
head; Brown, Mrs James W., internal injuries:
Cowells, Anna, Lower Albany, Ind. Evans, Will
lam. Powellton. W. Va. internal injury; Evans
Miss sailie. Poweilton. internal injuries: Foster
]. W. Springfield, o.. scalp wound and eye
gouged; Foster. Mrs. j. W.. ribs broken, in
tcrnaI and probably fatal; Gallatin. Mrs. Emma.
Columbus, o.. back and limbs bruised; Gallatin.
Miss e., Columbus o.. limbs bruised: jackson,
Miss Libbie Cynthiana. o.. internal and other
injuries, probably fatal; Kmmel Mrs Chris.
Dayton. o.. head and body injured: Means. J.
W. Chester. s. c.. slightly injured back and
head; Morse Jessie, Cincinnati, badly injured
internally: Patton, Olive, Carmel. o., body
bruised: Shelter, Albert Jay, Ripley, o.. badly
cut face and head. probably fatal; Templeton.
Emily, Sinking Springs, o., head and body: Wise
hart c. b., Frankfort, o.. internal injury; Blain.
William. indianapolis. Ind. internal injuries and
cuts around head and face.
The accident happened In this way:
An Illinois Central passenger train
had stopped TO take water at a tank q
quarter Of 4 mile north Of Mantsno. !.
The first section Of train No. IS came
to a stop. but It 10 said that no hasman
was sent back to flag the second sec
ton. 1t is n straight track for two
or three miles. and II a hagman had
been sent back the engineer of the sec
ond section could not have failed to see
him.
On the other hand. II is said the en-
gineer OF the second train was asleep
and that the fireman was throwing coal
into the firebox.
Both engineer and fireman saw the
train ahead of them just in time to
Jump. They had narrow escape for
their lives.
The first section left Chicago about
SIS O'Clock. 1t was followed a few
minutes later by the second section.
There WIS a dead" sleeper on the
rear end Of the first train, or. in other
words, the car was empty. The car
ahead of It was the day coach, and con-
tanned some forty or fifty passengers.
The second section OF the train crashed
into the dead" sleeper, driving 1t for
ward through the day coach. 1t COM
| pletely teiescoped the car from end to
end.
The wreck was the worst that has oc-
Cured on the Illinois Central system for
| twenty years.
One Of the pitiful sights around the
wreck was the grief Of Mrs. Chris Kim
mel, herself probably fatally injured.
When she. was rescued the light of the
lantern shone on the features Of her
husband who had been killed by her
side She was so badly crushed she
could scarcely make sound, but the
| words she could articulate were fearful
appeals to the rescuers and nurses to
find her husbands body.
She knew he was dead. but feared the
cars would catch fire and his body be