The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-10
COLLISION AT UNION CITY
Freight and Passenger Trains Crash
Together with Serious Results.
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UNION CITY, Ind. March GA collision
occurred on the Panhandle road here this
being injured. some seriously, others
slightly. but it is thought none will die.
The injured are:
FRED RoUTHFMEL, fireman on freight train,
large cash cut in head, hand and arm mashed.
right leg sprained and injured internally. He
will probably recover.
WILLIAM WILEY. passenger on train from this
city. left leg sprained. two ribs broken and seri-
ously. if not fatally. injured internally.
j. \. WooDBURY, passenger from this caty.
shoulder badly sprained and complains OF inter
nal injuries,
ARTHUR zIPP. of this city, arm sprained and
W. G. MCwHINNEY, superintendent of the
street-cer lines at Marion. Ind, jaw knocked out
A. A. ALpETER of shanesvilIe, o., passenger,
large cash cut in his head and thumb mashed.
j. NJ. WALLACE, mail clerk. injured slightly in
one arm, also bruised in the side.
CURT PIERCE, passenger engineer, slightly
scratched.
EDWARD JONES, freight conductor, lip cut
nose mashed and other bruises.
At $3.50 passenger train No. 1. going west.
and freight train No. 81, going east on the
Panhandle came together in head-on
collision on the curve in the western part
of the city. The two trains were TO pass
in this city. and their orders were
trying to run ont and back into the
west end of the siding. where the collision
occurred. The train crew took chances on
making 1t, which was strictly against the
book of rules. Another long freight Occu-
pied the siding, which Is on the INSIDE
of the curve, and prevented the engI-
neers from seeing the danger until they
were almost together. The freighs
that was the first intimation the
passenger had of their close proximity.
The passenger engineer reversed his en-
gine, and had almost stopped when the
known as the fast meat train. and it Is
scheduled nearly as fast as passen ger.
1t was running at q high rate of speed,
and, being q very heavy train. there was
not time to check it to an appreciable de-
gree.
Both engines are q complete ruin. One
of the passenger cars came very near going
down an embankmsnt. Freight cars were
piled upon one another and smashed 10
splinters. The passengers were given O
good shaking-up. and several of the seats
were torn loose and tossed about the car.
Mr.. Wiley. who was seriously injured, was
thrown half the length of a car. lighting
upon Arthur Zipp and the backs of seats.
j. N. Woodbury. was thrown out the car
window, falling upon a pile of ties. The
other passengers were thrown around with
more or less violence, all escaping with a
few scratches.
saved their lives by jumping. Engineer
Will Schwerimp, on the freight train. made
successful Jump and escaped without
scratch. Ed Jones. conductor on the train.
the iireman's side This delay ed the fire.
man, who also caught his foot and fell
close to the track, where he was sur
rounded in another moment by overturned
freight cars. He was unconscious, and it
was supposed for quite a while that he was
under the ruins OF his engine.
Marshal Taylor. son of p. A. Taylor. of
this city, was brakeman on the freight,
and had u narrow escape. He was on top
of frei ght car when the collision occurred.
The car In front of him arose In the air.
and fell full length clear OF the track. The
car that he was on carOmed and fell side
ways. AS 1t did SO Taylor jumped TO the
side of the forward car and ESCAPED safely.
Maj Frank Bowen, secretary of the Bow
en- Carriage Company, sat at the east win
dow III their Office and saw the two trains
come together. He says the passenger b ad
nearly stopped. and that if 1T had had a
few seconds more time 1t would have sue
ceeded in getting out OF the way. The
freight was coming very fast. The en-
giner of the freight lying on the side
track saw the danger, and whlstled aud
both engines rose In the air, the freight
crOwding the passenger back wards fully
one hundred feet. He saw the freight cars
bunch and arise like bulky contestants in
wrestling mHJcD. ne saw Marenal ayl LOT
make his leap from the car top. He imme.
diately ran to the engine room of the works
and ordered the engineer TO whistle an
alarm to tie city. The locomotive on
the side track added to the volume
of It's whistle. and in q few moments the
fire bells of the city were sounding. People
stood in groups, wondering where the fire
was. until q messenger brought the news
of the collision. Then an immense crowd
swarmed to the scene. All the physicians
i,v ha aaifu
buses were ordered, and the wounded were
taken into private houses and cared for.
The Panhandle wreck and relief train from
Bradford arrived about IL o'clock, and with
the assistance of the Big Four's wreck train
from this city are busy clearing the track.
Operator and Ticket Seller Injured.
Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
CHAMPAIGN, H., March 9.-while a. freight
train on. the Illinois Central was crossing the
Wabash railroad at Toledo this morning at 2
O'Clock, q freight from the west crashed into the
Illinois Central train and plowed its way
through. The engineer and fireman jump and
escaped injury. One Central freight car was
rolled through the side of the depot into the tee
graph Office. Operator Delles was pinned to the
floor by broken timbers, and the ticket seller
Campbell. had his foot crushed.
Engineer Killed and Conductor Injured.
PHILADELPHIA. March "a passenger train
on the central division of the p Philadelphia, VIII
mington & Baltimore railroad, from oxford, Pa,
which was due here at 500 o'clock this morn
ing. colided with freight train on the Whining
ton & Northern railroad at Chaddsford Junction,
about $40 O'Clock. Engineer Phillips. OF the
passenger train. was killed, and conductor VIII
liam Cummins. OF the same train, was badly in
jured. No others were injured.
Jacob II. Vanderbilt Ill.