The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-09-23

It Causes the Loss of Eleven
Lives on the Wabash Road.
OPENED A SWITCH BY MISTAKE

AZ Result tho Second Section Of "a
Crowded Passenger Train crashed Into
Freight standing ON tho siding-Th'
Passenger Engine I.Nulodes.
KNGsBURY, Ind, Sept 23.-EleveU
bodies resting upon improvlsed slabs and
tables under the roof Of the modest Ma
sonic hall of the village, and a score Of I'm
iured as inmates of the city hospital 40
Peru, seventy miles distant, tell the story
of the latest railroad horror of which thi'
village was the scene yesterday The ne
vised list of the dead is ns follows:
j. McKeuna. butcher, Hyde Park, Mass.
Harry French, aged IA of the London
England Charity school, London; Charles
Birbee, san Francisco; Alice Reed, East
Boston, Mass; Miss Lille b. Tucker, BOs
ton, Mass; Warren G. Ryder, Phoenix,
Ariz. II. c. Zelle Germany; j. d. Roundy,
LaMoill, Ia; John Green, engineer of tho
passenger train, Ashley, Ia; j. G. Coulter
conductor passenger train, Detroit; w. n
Lyon, baggagemaster passenger train,
Detroit
An instant of forgetfulness. or absent
mindeduess, on the part of a brakeman
who is given the best Of reputation by the
Wabash officers, tells the story of the sec
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ceeded up lhe slalnE TO the man line 20
GaNe water, 'nS l,, SWl'cn Delng thrown open
| by HERBERT thompson, Jhe trackman OF
OF the treight. Aiter Ineenglhe hall taken
water the freight was backed TO the sd
| ing and Thompson closed the switch he
| gardlng TINS latter TACT there Is no room
/ Tor question Tor at 5'lO the hrsJ secJlon OF
| the express, thirty minutes late, swept
! past on the mann track, giving the usual
| signal-one and two short blasts-to lntl-
mate to the freight that a second section
was following close behind.
What were the movements OF Brake
man thompson IN the next rev moments
| remains to be developed. Certain 1t Is
that when twelve minutes later the sec
ond section OF the west bound express
came laundering along at speed of forty
! miles an hour the switch was open. Like
flash of lightning, therefore the tratr
took the siding and crashed into the wait
ing freight standing there. A seconC
later and the air was filled with shrieks
groans, moans and plteous appeals for hell
and assistance. Ihe passenger train con
sisted Of baggage car, three ordinary
coaches and two sleepers, and the force o.
the collision was such that only the real
sleeper escaped injury.
The locomotive OF the freight car wa
| driven half way into the meat car in itl
rear, the baggage car of the passenger
train was thrown aside, while the passenger
coaches partially telescoped each other
and the third, Grand Trunk coach, cut
in two the sleeping car kansas City
carrying away the smoking compartment
and sections 1 and as clean as though
they had been trimmed with a razor
edged ak. The two forward coaches were
completely wrecked and the occupants
buried in the debris.
Awakened by the shock of the collision
the sleepers in the rear palace car poured
out without waiting to don the clothing
they had discarded the night before, and
aided by the trainmen and those Of the
passengers who escaped injury set them
selves to work to rescuing the injured. In
the meantime the residents of the farm
houses Immediately adjacent to the track
had been awakened, and Immediately
men, women and girls hurried to the scene
and lent what assistance they could.
Most of the dead and injured were in the
two forward day coaches, and these were
so completely wrecked that the work OF
eXtricating the dead and dying was a com
paraUiyely easy one. One after another
the lifeless forms were brought out OF
heaps of timber and placed in row on the
west side of the track, while the injured
/ were carried TO the meadow on the east
side and cared for by the villagers, who
ministered to their suiterings aud alleyi-
ated their pains as far as their facilities
at hand would permit
In the meantime news of the catastrophe
had been wired to La Porte, Westville
Union Mills, Michigan City and other
points within a radius of score of miles
and i'm short time scores of bug2ies,
WAGONS and vehicles of every description