The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-10-05
a DREADFUL WRECK,
AM OPEN SWITCH CAUSES MANY
!. DEATHS AND WOUNDS.

TS@N ANU WOUNOS,
a HassehEer Train Crashes Into q Freight
on aside Track Horrible Circumstap,a.
sarround tho Catastrophe-The Cu,ns-
BILE brakeman Makes His Escape.
K1NasBURY, Ind, Sept. 22-Eleyen
persons lost their lives in a collision
between freight train and the Toront
and Montreal express on the Wabash
railroad at this station at $50 O'clock
Ihis morning. A score OF others are
Injured, many of whom will die The
irelgnC was on siding west of the
depot and was bound east. The 6rst
seccion OF the express train passed bv
on Cne main track at 5:25 a. M 1t is said
SnaC Ine brakeman supposed that the
haIg htreignG Tram would now move, and ran
Dack TO open the switch. Before the
cars had begun to move the section of
Cne fast express came west at the rate
OF nttS miles and hour, and before the
preakman could turn the switch. dashed
INTO the side-track and collided with
tne freight train. The wreck was com
The list of the killed is as follows: J.
q. Mckenna, butcher, of Hyde Park
Mass, Harry French, thirteen years
old, member of Orphans Bell Ringers
London, England; Charles Berbo, 5 n u
francisco; Miss Alice II. Reed, East
- boston, Mass; Miss Nellie b. Tucker.
Newton. Mass; Conductor James Cul
Ter, Engineer John Green, Ashely I.d:
OF passenger train; Warren q. Rider. of
thoenix, AriZ; L. Il Selle, Berlin, Ger
many; Baggage Master Lyons, of the
passenger @ train; James ID. Roundy, La
The injured are: Mrs. Il. w. Burbank
New Orleans, La, sixty years oil /, arms
ana one leg broken, jawbnne fractured,
VIII die; William Adams, fourteen
years old, London, England, menber
orphans Bell Ringers, both legs broken
injured Internally, will die; Miss II utrc
Hutchins, Ph@nix, Ariz, bruised ABOUT
neao and injured internally, recovery
oouotful; Fireman Barber of Ashley, pn
passenger Train, leg broken and severe
~ hurt. I'll. j. Vatkeney, iirrman ON
freight train, burned and sc ,ltlvd about
Gne h9ad and breast, may die; VIM. J
Hasklns, Ia years old, LnnIon, Eng
!anu, compound fracture OF rIghr leg,
!ett shoulder broken, recovery doubtful
OChers less seriously hurt are: Edward
Rush, Ii years old, London; SvrIn Can.
neid, ironwwood, Miss; Miss LION
neid, !ronwood, Mich; III. y. Ryder,
u. -. u,
Andovcr, N. H.; Mrs. :. a. Seavrly.
Somerville, Mass.
IL was the worst wreck the Wabash
ROAD has ever had. To add to the hor
rCrs, the boiler of the passenger engine
DieW up scattering human bodies and
Wkeckage in all directions. The Torou-
TO and Montreal express was due i'm
SHcago at 7:15 and does not stop at ,hls
station The freight train lay here on Il
atr RI @Ir ILL
The passenger engine and the freight
locomotive collided at full speed and
the Two machines lay jammrd together.
their boilers meeting end to end. The
force OF the collision drove The freight
engine back against the box cars, com
pletely demo'ishing the first three. The
passenger engine was partially stopped |
ny the collision and the bag4ago and |
smoking cars, day coach and one sleeper
were telescoped. The rest of the |
coaches piled upon top of each other ia |
tangled mess Of wood and iron. The
steam escaped Scalding the injured, who
were unable to crawl to IA place of safe
ty.
News of the accident was received at
headquarters OF this division of the
road ats o'clock, and Dlvlslol Super
lntendent Gould and Trainmaster &. a.
LimeWell were brought to The scene
with wrecking crew. When they ar
rived, however, the citizens Of Kings
bury had carried away the dead and
wounded who could be removed. The
Masonic hall was turned into morgue
and drays and farmers wagons were
kept busy tor two hours hauling the
dead and wounded to the village, a mile
distant from the depot.
There was two sleeperS on the train |
"The Marian" and "Iho Kansas City,"
the former escaped injury, but the |
front part of the Kansas City was con-
verted into kindling wood by the day |
coach which smashed into it. Two bod
les were taken from the sleeper, those
of Harry French, London, England,
and Chas. Berbo, Of San Francisco.
The smoaking car was twisted into a
heap Of splinters and few of the passen-
gers escaped death or injury. The day
coach which followed was also entirely
whecked by being hurled against the
sleeper Kansas City.
Division Superintendent Gould ad-
mitted that freight brakeman, Uebert
Thompson, was to blame for the acci-
dent. he turned the switch in the face
of the freight engine and let the passen-
ger train 20 on the side traick where
the freight train was standing.
Conductor Perks was III charge Of the
freight train, and was in the caboOse.
He was not harmed. The engineer of
the passenger train, John Green, met
an awful death. He had no time TO
jump and was thrown from his cab for
ward clear over the freight engine, a
distance Of several car lengths. His
conductor, James Coulter, was taken
from beneath the wrecked smoking car
with his spine broken. He died as soon
as he was taken into The depot.
James b. Woakley and Henry Aaren,
with a company of boys from DR.. Bar
nardos' orphanage in London, England,
were aboard the train bound for Chi
cago. One of the lads, Harry French,
WAS killed and several Others were bad.
ly Injured One of them, William
Adams, lies unconscious in the station
and cannot recover. Mr.. Woaklry Is
also badly hurt Physicians and sur.
geons arrived on the ground from all
directions in respOnse to The railway