The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-09-19
Cars Te1escoped and Pas
sengers Mangled Beyond
Recognition.
NINE PERSof KILLED OUTRIGHT.
Twenty Injured = Negligence Of
Trainmen the Cause-A
Wifo's Piteous Appeal.

two sections OF the Big Four train,
known as No. As. near the village OF
Manteno. few miles north of Kankakee.
on the line of the Illinois Central Rail-
way.
The followinl' is a list of the dead as
far as is known:
EMIL KIMMEL. Dayton, Ohio.
j. w. POWELL. New Vienna. Ohio.
l. L. SWEET. Louisville. KY.
DAVID JACKSON. Carmel, Ohio.
MINNIE DIVERS Lower Albany. Ind.
ELDERLY MAN. unidentified.
Young NAN. unidentified.
Young WOMAN. unideutiflef.
THREE VICTIMS DYING.
Three victims at st. Luke's Hospital
are in a critical condition. Physicians
say their recovery is doubtful. They
are:-
BLANCHE BELLEsoN, Sinking Springs,
Ohia, probable fracture OF the skull aud
injury to the spine.
WILLIAM EVANS Powellton, w. Va.
Superintendent of coal works. spine In.
A. j. scHoLTER. Ripley. Ohio. mer-
chant. legs cut and internal injuries.
Eleven others at St. Luke's are suffer
ing injuries less severe.
THE CAUSE OF ACCIDENT.
The accident happened in this way: An
Illinois Central passenger train had
stopped to take water az tank quarter
of mile north of Manteno. The first
section of train No. As came to stop. but
it is said that no fiakinan was sent back
to flag the second section of No. As. II 10
straight track for two or three miles,
and IL hagman bad been sent back the
engineer of the second section couli not
have failed to see him. On the other
hand, it Is said the engineer of the second
ra4n N HPAF IN
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 of train No. 45 left
Chicago about a quarter after eight
O'Clock. 1t was followed few minutes
later by the second section. There was
dead sleeper on the rear end OF the
fist train, or ia other words. the car
Was empty. The car ahead OF it was the
day coach and contained some forty or
fifty passengers. The second section Of
the train crashed into the s'deadn sleeper,
driving 1t forward through the day
coach, and il did not stop until 1t had
completely teiescoped the car from end
: to end.
WORSE WRECK IN YEARS.
The wreck was the worst that has
occurred on the Illinois Central system
for twenty years.
Several of the injured are beyond re-
covery and 1t is probable that the list of
fatalities will be sweIled to fourteen.
Several OF the unknown dead are
thought to be prominent men of Cincin
natl and sdjeiniu. cities In Indiana,
Kentucky ana Ohio.
The bodies were badly mutilated and
unrecognizable. Only SHo of the entire
list OF the killed could be Identified All
the injured, excepting L. Blonton, Gin
cinnati; Olive Patton, Cachel, OHIO;
Emily Templeton, Sinking Springs. Ohio;
hanna Corells, Lower Albany. Ind;
Jessie Moran, Cincinnati, Ohio; Emma
GaIlatin. OHIO, and Miss f. Gallatin.
Columbus, o., were brought TO this city
and taken to St, Luke's Hospital by the
city ambulance and patrol wagons.
TAKEN TO CHICAGO.
The train conveying them to the city
arrived at five o'clock this morning.
Ample preparation had been m ade by
the police department to removed the In
jured to the hospital, and with all pos
sible haste under the circumstances they
weIe taken out of the cars. placed on
stretchers, carried to the waiting patrol
wagons and driven TO ST. Luke's, where
corps OF physicians was ready to give
them medical attention. The dead had
been remove to Kankakee.
HE WAS IN THE WRECK.
j. w. Means OF Chester. s. q. ,one OF the
least injured, was an occupant of the
first sleeper in the wrecked train. 81 was
had told the porter TO fix my section.
when our train stopped. did not
attach any particular attention to
that. as l supposed 1t was merely
IA stop on signal or for q water
station. We had been standing
still perhaps four minutes when heard a
rumble behind us. and moment after
the whistle of q locomotive half dozen
times repeated. / turned toward the rear
OF the sleeper, and then there came q
-.
car. was hurled headlong to the aisle
and under one OF the lever berths.
fore I could get out. / heard
cries all about me for help and answer
ing cries from people outside who were
beginning to Come back from the day
coaches and aid in the work OF rescue.
As ] crawled out from the wrecked
sleeper everything was in total darkness,
but could see outlined against the SKY
the cars as they We're wedged together.
broken and splintered. helped to pull
discovered that too was hurt. Then my
arm and hack began to pain and felt
tie blood running from my head"
wIFE's PITEoUs APPEAL.
ORe of the most pltiful sights around
the wreck was the grief OF Mrs. Chris
A number of those on board were from
Dayton, Cynthiana, ana other Ohio
points. and they had secured berths near
together in the sleeper which
was worst wrecked the one
next the sleeper which bore the brunt OF
the collision. Into this car tue forward
end of the last sleeper was driven, crush
lug passengers and berths into the for
ward and in q shapeless mass.
When Mrs. Kimmel was rescued the
light OF the lantern which shone on her
shone beyond on the features of hsl
husband who had been killed by her side.
She was so badly crushed that she could
scarcely make sound, but the words she
could articulatewere fearful appeais to the
reacuers and nurses to find her husband's 9
body. She knew that he was dead, but
she feared that the cars would catch fire
and his body be burned.