The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-09-20
ANOTHER FATAL CRASH
A Sleeping Car and Two Coaches
TelesOOped on the Big -Four.
NINE KILLED AND MANY INJURED.

The Casualty the Result of Carelessness
on tho Part of Railway Employes-The
First wreck on the Illinois Central
System in Twenty Years.
MANTENo, Ills, Sept. 2O-The second
section of the Big Four passenger train
No. 45 crashed into the rear of the first
section that had stopped unexpectedly at
point ten miles north Of Kankakee, tele-
scoping one sleeper and two coaches, kill
ing nine people and seriously injuring
large number. The rear cars Of the first
section were the Ohio and Mississippi
sleeper and two chair cars, all fairly well
filled with passengers
The work of rescue was Immediately be-
gun, and one by one the horribly mutilated
bodies of the seven were removed from the
pile of wreckage The passengers in the
forward cars, although they received a
severe shaking up and many were badly
cut and bruised, were foremost in the
work of caring for the injured.
None of the trainmen are able to ac-
count for the wreck, as man was sent
back from the first section Of the train Is
soon as the stop, which was made neces-
sary by some defective machinery in the
locomotive was made. This flagman has
not been seen since the wreck, and he is
probably the only man who can give the
real cause Of the disaster On the other
hand, it is said that the engineer of the
second train was asleep, and that the fire.
man was throwing coal into the freboX.
Both engineer and fireman saw the train
ahead of them just in time to jump. They
had a narrow escape for their lives.
! One of the most pitiful sights around
the wreck was the grief of Mrs. Chris.
4 Kemmell, herself probably fatally injured.
| A number of those on board were from
| Dayton, Cynthiana and other Ohio points,
| and they had secured berths near together
I in the sleeper worst wrecked. Into this
car the forward end of the last sleeper was
! driven, crushing passengers and berths
! into the forward end in a shapeless mass.
! When Mrs. KENNEL was rescued the
! light of the lantern which shOne ON her
shone beyond on the features of her hus
band, who had been killed, by her side
! She was so badly crushed that she could
| scarcely make a sound, but the words she
could articulate were fearful appeals tC
| the rescuers and nurses to remove her hus
bands body. She knew that he was dead
but feared that the cars would catch fir,
and his body be burned.
AN ANGl tlltl btiNl are Iillu hlllultl
| Dayton, o.; J. w. Powell, New Vienna
o.; l.. L. Sweet, Louisville, KY; DaviC
jackson, Carmel, o.; Minnie DIVERS
Lower Albany, Ind; Charles Deckendaser
Columbus, o.; Jacob Simpson, Columbus
| O.; Miss o. Edwards, Chicago.
Several of the injured are beyond recov
cry, and it is probable that the list of fatal
tiles will be swelled into fourteen.
The wreck was the first that has oc
Cured on the Illinois Central system fo
twenty years.
j. f. Tamscott, fireman of the engir
drawing the second section, said today
"The first section sent back no light.
was due in Kankakee ten minutes befor,
the time when the accident took place
and we never thought Of its being jus
ahead Of us"
All the members of the train crews, VIII,
were placed under arrest, have been re
leased on promise to appear at the inquest