The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-09-08
TWELVE MEN KILLED.
Collision on the Panhandle Road
Near Chicago.
THE DISPATCHER sLuNDERsD.
A Fast Kxpress Crashes Inso Milh Train
The smoking Car Tsiesespsd
with Bloody Results.

Chicago Sept IA blunder made in
the Office Of the train dispatcher OF the
Pennsylvania railroad today bore fruit in
the loss of twelve Tires and the injury of q
score OF people. The accident, which oc-
Cured near Colehoar. only fourteen miles
from this city. appears to have been the
result of an inexcusahle biunder. Two
trains were scheduled TO pass south on
single track between Co!ehour and Ham,
mond, Ind, az the same time train Was
due north on the'same track. Orders were
given the operator 1t Colehour for two of
the trains. but none for the third. An ex-
press train which left this city about
o'clock was allowed 10 enter the single
track running at the rate of forty miles an
hour directly toward milk train which
had been given right-of-way in the oppo-
site direction on the same track
The Panhandle express had proceeded
but short distance when q collision oc-
Cured. The engine crews saved their
lives by jumping before the two locomo-
tives came together with q crash that
wrecked them and drove the baggage car
of the Panhandle express completely
through the smoking car behind it. In
this car were about forty people. and in il
the loss of life occurred. Following is 3
list of the killed and injured. The dead:
CHKsrrs z. COFFIN. Carthage, Ind.
A 5. TEMPLE. manager OF the Schiller theater,
Chicago.
EMIL GopESERATH
E 81. kIeSEY. travelling freight agent of the
Wisconsin Central railway
kMIcHAEL VALE. Louisville, Ky.
]. u. ADAMS, Fairfield, ILL.,
1 +. DoMsAkD. Terre HautA
+. d. FLEMING. Fairfield.
w. d. RICHARDSON, Chicago
ALBEIT HEtSx. Nfncenne<, IND.
WILLIAM sHoSTcKER, New Albany, Ind.
UNKNOWN MAN, supposed to be tramp
The injured:
William Richter, Edwardsport, Ind. !;
William Brewer. baggagemaster of the
louisville train; Joseph Vale, Louisville,
Ky: Claude Derber, train newsboy; Her
man LIGHTER. Freelandsville. Ind. !; Harry
Klein, Vincennes. Ind; W. A. Hill, Co
lumbus. Ind. may die; Henry Hogen-
meyer, Sandborr. Ind. John Briscoe. Lo-
gansport. Ind; w. II. Turner, Chicago;
Casper Meyer. Vincennes, Ind; William
Billings. Clyde, o.; Joseph Echembom,
Camden, O.
When the engineers of the coliiding trains
sighted each other coming around curve
they made every effort to check the trains.
but with little effect, and when about 100
yards from each other jumped.
The scenes around the wreck were agon-
king. The dead and wounded were pinned
down in such a manner that before q
wrecking train arrived it was almost i'm
possible TO extrieate any of the bod
les. In the meantime the cries
of the dying were terrible TO hear.
Blood from the mangled ones soaked its
way downward and made puddles of red
sand. Outside through the fragments of
debris could be seen arms, legs. mangled
heads and discolored bodies. Arson Tenn
pie. of Chicago. one OF the killed, was
manager of the Schiller theater and one of
the best-known young men in the city.
Tonight the crews of both trains and A. b.
Kennedy, operator at Colehour, were
placed under arrest pending an inquest