The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-05-11
MANY LIVES CRUSHED.

Because Of Detective Air-Brakss rraia
- The Big Fo1r Roa4 Gets Beyond Its
Engineers Contfol-It Leaves the Track
4afayette, lad Ten 1en Killed aud
Maay Hurt-F1vs. Lives Lost In 3 Rail-
way Disaster In Ohio.
LAFAYETTE, Ind, May a. Ono of tho
must horrible wrecks in the history of
Indiana occurred on the Big Four road
IN this city at 1:15: Sunday morning,
Is result Of which ten men are now
dead and many more injured. The train
was the east bound passenger leaving
Chicago at 9 p m. The accident was
caused by the failure Of the air brakes
to work. The engineer undoubtedly
discovered this before reaching the cut
beyond the Wsbash river, assthe vigor-
GUS whistling of the engine for brakes
could be heard when tho train was still
q mile westof the city. 3 - 5EL- So.
The engineers desperate effort to
stop the train was shown by the large
amount of sand thrown by him on the
bridge through which the train came
just before the fatal crash. The train
dashed out of the bridge over the Wa
bash river At speed of not less than 80
miles IN hour, when. the engine left the,
track. crashing into the depot building,
tearing of q portion of the depot and
train sheds, carrying them several hun
bred feet.
The engine when it left the track was
followed by the baggage car, two postal
cars and the express Car and piled in
one promiscuous mass, q total and COM
plete wreck, burying a score or more of
victims in the pile of debris. The trucks
Of the first day coach We're dragged
out and the side of the car knocked
into fragments, but no passengers in
this car were injured. The chair car
and two Pullman sleepers renamed on
the track. The wreck was complete
one, the engine and cars being torn to
pieces and piled up together with their
contents.
Fire broke out from the stove in the
baggage car, but the fire department
speedily extinguished the flames. A
large crowd Of citizens gathered very
quickly at the scene of the disaster and
assisted in rescuing the victims, and
large force of local physicians rave the
necessary attention to the wounded.
Several victims of the wreck were per-
sons standing in the depot waiting for
the train, a hackman, q mail-cart driver
and passengers. ..-..
The list of the dead is as follows:
Michael Weloh, engineer, Indianapolis, fright
fully mangled, head crushed, leg torn from
body, found under the engine; Fireman Nc
r~AS n~NS- n ~ r
mail clerk; I. F. Mcmahon, Cincinnati, ex-
press messenger: A. r. Chadwick, Cincinnati,
mail clerk; Charles Myers Lafayette, hack.
man; John Lennon, Lafayette, mail-cart
driver; Jesse H. Long, Lebanon, Ind, mail
clerk; Charles Schahill, passenger. just bought
, ticket to Indianapolis; Otto Jerselson Al
hambra hotel, Chicago, passenger going to
train.
These were all frightfully crushed
and mangled, their limbs being severed
in several instances and bodies terribly
disfigured.
The INJURED are as follows:
jefferson Reese, Kempton, bruised and cut
about the head; Richard Jones. Pontiac, ILL.,,
cut about head; Louis Lefler, Fowler cut by
glass from breaking windows; Sephas Bergen
Gale, Milwaukee, cut about head and hand bad
ly bruised; William Place, living near Frank
fort, Ind, bruised and cut; Charles Roush. La
fayette, leg broken in two places; William
Rechtell, Lebanon. Ind. passenger in waiting
room, arm and hand lacerated; c. A. Wissell,
A. w. COrnahan, L. A. Wetzler and j. N. Wick
cry, mail clerlks, all from Cincinnati, were more
or less injured, but not seriously.
The damage to property will be fully
$4,000, while the subsequent losses
which will grow out of the disaster
will make the total a very large sum.
CINCINNATI, May s.-A rear-end col
lision between two freight trains on
the Dayton & Michigan road occurred
Saturday near Tadmer, north of Dayton.
The first train had stopped for water, and
the succeeding one ran into the rear
end of it. Six tramps had hidden them
selves among some railroad ties on one
of the cars, and when the shock came
five of them were killed outright and
one was injured.