The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-05-10

KILLED.
MICHAEL WELSH. engineer, indianapolis
frightfully mangled, head crushed. limbs torn
from body. found under the engine.
FIREMAN MINNIS. Indianapolis.
+. d. MYERS. Logansporr mail clerk.
o. MCMAHAE, Cincinnati. express msssen-
Ger.
Ar. CHADWICK, Cincinnati, mail clerk.
CHARLES MEYERS, Lafayette, hackman.
JOHN LENNON, Lafayette. mail cart
driver.
JESSE H. LONG. Lebanon. mail clerk.
CHARLES 5. CAHILL. passenger just
bought ticker to Indianapolis.
OTTO GESSELSON, Aibambrs hotel,
Chicago passenger going to the train.
All the above were iTEhtfuliy crushed and
mangled. limbs being severed in several in
stances and heads and bodies terribly dis
figured.
JEFFERSON NJ REESE, Kempton, bruised
and cut about head.
Richard JONES. Pontiac. ILL.,. cut about
head.
LOUIS LEFFLER, Fowler, cut by glass from
breaking windows.
SOPHIA BERGESTHAL, Milwaukee cut about
head and hand badly bruised.
WILLIAM PLACE, living near Frankfort,
Ind. bruised and cut
CHARLES RoUsH. Lafayette. leg broken in
two places.
WILLIAM BECHTEL, Lebanon, Ind, passen-
ger in waiting. arm and hand lacerated.
C. A. MISSES, a. W. CARNIHAN, j. y. WICK
cry, A. Z. WETZLER mail clerks, al from
Cincinnati, were more or less injured. but not
severely.
LAFAYETTE, May :. - Especial. The
south-bOund passenger train on the Cleve-
and, Cincinnati. Chicago x ST. Louis rail-
way, fast vestibule train, due here at
10 a. m, was wrecked this morning
just as it entered the sheds at
the Union station, the accident end
ing ten lives and injuring as many more
people. Persons gathered at the depot
Both employees and passengers were ap-
Ial ed at the terrific speed at which the
doomed train dashed across the bridge
over tia Wabash river The headlight of
The engine glared at them for an instant
Rs II came into view around a short curve
at the east end of the bridge. Then there
was an immense cloud of dust, the rumble
and roar of a swiftly moving train, ter
rible crash, and then the cries for help of
the injured and dying.
The track from the depot west is on up
grade and sharp curve reaches from the
depot to the bridge. The down grade be-
gins a mile or more west of the city and
the air-brakes are applied as soon as the
grade is reached 30 as to slow up for the
bridge and the curve at the station.
The Doomed Train.
The doomed train could be heard as
Joon as it reached the grade. Coming
down the incline the engineer called for
brakes three times The train was in
creasing IN speed every revolution of the
huge drivers and crossed the bridge at an
awful speed. Some declare that the train
was running a. the rate of 100 miles
IN hour. As the train left the last
frog before entering the depot, Just
1t the east end of the bridge, a wheel left
The track. The train dashed on around
the sharp curve az the depot one OF the
derailed cars striking a telegraph pole
standing near the track and breaking
i short off. Then, as the engine struck
The bulge of the curve, it flew the track
and darted out into the depot ward, drag
ging with it two mail cars, the express
car, the combination baggage and emok-
ing car, and throwing the ladies' car and
6rst chair car from the track.
Tore Down the Sheds.
As the train rushed across the yards il
tore down the east line of sheds and they
fell on top OF the heaped up. broken cars.
The engine was buried from sight by the
debris. The mail cars went beyond the
engine and were dashed against some
Lake Erie & Western freight cars on a
siding. The baggage car and smoker
was lifted up and laid on its
side on top of the broken heap.
The ladies' car lost its front
trucks and was caved in on the left
side near the rear end. John Keefe, con-
ductor, and Charles Begerow of New
York, a travelling man. were seated at this
point and narrowly escaped death. John
Lennon. a postofice attachs. who drives
the mail TO this train, and Charles Meyers.
baggageman employed by George Seger
& Son, were caught by the falling sheds
and crushed to death. Charles Cahill.
who was at the depot to take the train for
Indianapolis to visit his mother,
was caught in a similar manner
and killed. Otto Gerselson, a theat-
rical man. with headquarters at
the Alhambra hotel. Chicago. met a like
fate. He was alive when found, but died
soon after be was carried into the waiting
room.
meInnis Found First.
Engineer Michael Welsh and Fireman
Sterling McInnis remained at their
posts and were killed outright. McInnis
was found first. One leg was gone at the
thigh and the other leg was twisted and
broken. The engineer was found under