Morning journal and courier., 1893-09-08
TWELVE PERSONS KILLED.

| An UnexcuSable Blunder in a Des patcher's Offlce Causes a Fearful l Head.On COllision-The Locomo' l tive of an Express Train Running at the Rate Of Forty Miles an HouI 1 Crashes Into . Way Train; and l Drove Through the Smoking Car l Killing and Seriously IDjuriDg Itt Passengers-The Dead Were Ter: ribIy mansled, Especially one, a Tramp Who Was Stealing n Ride Close ts One of the Locomotives One Man Was P1nioned Down by Heavy Timbers-lt Was Hard Work to Get at the Bodtes-List of the Killed and Injured.
 CHICAGO, Sspt. 1.-Two fast trains on the Pennsylvania crashed into each other
 near Colthour, @ email town near the h.
 diana state line, this morning. and in an
 instant twelve persons were killed and
 nearly 8 score of others msimed and man
 glsd. The killed are:
 Chester E. Coffin, Csrthagens, Ind, A.
 $. Temple, manager Schiller theater, Chi
 cago; Emile Godenrath, Chicago; E, M.
 Rigney, freight agent Wisconsin Central
 railroad; J. D. Adams, Fairfield, 1lls.; F.
 M. Barnard, Terre Haute; F. D. Fleming,
 Fairfield; W. D. Richardson, Chicago; Al
 bert Heinzs, Vincennes; William Shouts
 ker, New Albany; Michael Vale, Louis
 vile; unknown tramp. The injured are:
 William Richter, Edwardsport, Ind,
 head hurt and internal injuries; William
 Brewer, bsggsgemaster, left leg amputated
 and internal injuries; Joseph Vale, Louis
 vile, head cut; Claude Derber, newsboy,
 foot amputated; Herman L,chter, Free
 huntsville, Ind, head cut; Harry Klem,
 Vincennes, Ind, internal injuries;
 W. A. Hill, Conboge, Ind, skull fractured, may die; Henry Hogen- meyer, Sanborn, Ind, head cut and inter
 nal injuries; John Briscoe, Loganeport, Ind head cut and back hurt; W. H. Tnr- ner (colored). Chicago, head cut, internal injuries; Casper Meyer. Vinesnnes, back cut, internal injuries; William Billings, Clyde, Ohio, head cut, left leg crushed; Joseph Echembom, Camden, Ohio, chest hurt.
 The casualty appears to have been the result of an inexcusable blunder. Two trains were scheduled to pass south OF the single line of track between Colthour, Ills and Hammond, Ind. At about the ssme time train was due north on the track and this sppars to have been fully un- derstood in the train dispatchers' office It was arranged to give the north train with milk and way passengers from Val paraIso, Ind, the right of way. This was done and the train proceeded toward Chicago at the rate of thirty miles an hour.
 Trains Nos. 16O and 12, the latter the Panhandle limited express, were supposed to have been held on the double trsck at Colthour to await the passage of the milk train. The operator at Colthour had re- ceived orders to hold No. 1e0, and did so, but nothing was said to him about No. 12. No. 12>was allowed to enter upon the single track on schedule time, running forty miles an hour, toward the milk train.
 As the express was rounding slight curve the milk train was sighted, and the two trains scarcely slsckened speed dashed | Into each other The engine crews saved | their lives by jumping. The two locomo | lives cams together with a crash that 1 wrecked both and drove the baggage car of | the Panhandle train completely through l the smoking car behind 1t.
 The framework of the baggage car set | tied down and crushed the life out of those | who had not already been moved down in | it's path. Iu the smoking car were forty | passengers, and from this car most of the | lead and wounded were taken. This | was the most difficult task, for the dead | and suffering were buried beneath the | heavy floor of the baggage car, and the | first arrivals at the scene found arms and | legs extending from every window. Every | time portion of the debris was removed | it seemed as if another body would be ex- posed to view.
 The most horrible sight was the remains l of tramp dashed against the tender of | the Panhandle locomotiye. He had been | stealing ride ca the blind baggage plat | form. One man was thrown partially out l of smoker window ana ton or more of | wreckage pinioned the remainder of the | body within the wrecked car. All efforts | to disep gage the body wsre unavailing.
 Accommodations for the injured became l in the vicinity of Colthour and | she patrol wagons began to carry them to | South Chicago. The uninjured passengers l were put aboard train made up at South l Chicago and brought back to Chicago.
 By 3 o'clock the dead and injured pas sengers had bsen taken from the wreck | and then followed the work of clearing away the wreck. The officials say that an | will be made at once.
 Anson s. Temple, who was killed, was @ nephew of the late General Anson Stsger of the Westean Union Telegraph company, who was his guardian. He has been prominent figure in local theatrical circles.