The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-07-18

TERRE HAUTE. July 1S.-Special.-
The casualties in the wreck at Fontanet
Of the through west-bound passenger
train. No. Z, on the Big -Four early this
morning. published in today's Sentinel.
Were as follows. The killed are:
CHARLES MOEHRMAN. engineer, In
alanapolis. married.
EDWARD FLICK. fireman. Nation.
jill. unmarried.
None of the passengers were hurt.
Rhe two men were buried beneath the
wreck of the cab and we're horribly
>uutilated and scalded. The switch had
been thrown by train wreckers. The mail
car was utterly demolished and two mail
clerks, S. S. Hackett and f. o. Smith,
both OF Indianapolis had miraculous es-
capes.
! The track was torn up by the collision
for quite a distance. The remains OF the
murdered men were shipped TO their
homes. the NATION lodge of the firemen
talking charge of Fleck's remains. 1t
was discovered that the lock and lockbar
ARE missing from the switchstand
United States Marshal Hawkins, Sheriff
Stout and their deputies are on the scene
investigating the outrage.
The town was filled with miners all
day yesterday and they sidetracked
number of freight trains. Later in the
night they grew more desperate and this
dastardly act was the result. Coroner
AIatrox is making a determined effort TO
find the perpetrators
Some persons threw the switch in the
i. < T. II. yards IL this city this morn
ing and wrecked the south-bound through
freight train that leaves here at Clio a.
m The freight train wrecked this morn
ing started out Of Chicago June rs. 1t
has been tied up here since. The dam
age is considerable.
TERRE HAUTE. July 1s.-Special.-
Edward Holloway. aged thirty, of Craw-
fordsville, Ind. the prisoner under arrest
here for wrecking the New York express
on the Big Four at Fontanet Thursday
night. resulting in the instant killing 81
Engineer Moehrman of Indianapolis. and
Fireman Flick OF Mattoon. confessed to-
night
He made a clean breast of the whole
affair. He says that there were seven or
eight others in Ii besides himself. They
we're all miners. As he was a stranger
at Fontanet he does not know them.
They broke the switch-lock with a ham,
fner and threw the switch an inch or TWO.
They were figuring on a freight train
coming along first. and they hid in the
grass TO watch the result.
When they saw the through passenger
train tearing down To the gulley at the
rate Of forty miles an hour one of the
men said.
wei. it doesn't make a d bit of
difference if couple Of the scabs are
killed"
After the wreck Holloway said he fed
and walked all the way to Rockville,
where he was arrested on suspicion. be-
cause while he was listening 70 Isaac
Davis reading an account OF the wreck
IN the morning paper he said that wasn't
(he way 1t occurred, and he told It in
detail.
Holloway is a state militiaman, being
y member Of the Charlottesville company
bf the Indiana legion. He hired as non
onion man 70 the Big -Four and deserted
Immediately TO the strikers.
The Big Four had offered $1,000 reward.
The confession was made TO Lamb *
Beasley. attorneys for the company, and
Sheriff Stout.
Hollowav says the freight train he and
his companions intended to wreck was
the one containing Sheriff James w.
Stout Of This county and Deputy Sheriffs
Crosson ara Frisz.
They had been to Fontanet all day
Trying TO restore order among the riot
Gus miners and they had incurred the
enimity Of the miners to a great degree.
Holloway, especially, had ii in for Cros-
son, who had drawn his pistol and
threatened TO shoot him If ne did not
desist pulling coupling pins.
The sherifs train was up at Coal
Bluff. about two miles distant and was
cOming first. ahead OF the passenger
train. but orders came TO the telegraph
operator at Coal Bluff to hold the sher-
}ffs train there till the through passen-
ger train had passed.
This was how Vigo county's sheriff
md deputies saved their lives and how
the unfortunate engineer and hremen
lost theirs
The switch was thrown at a point
where the train, leaving the track It
rould not help but jump into a deep
gully
ROCKVILLE, July 16.-Special-Ed-
ward Holloway, who was arrested here
by City Marshal Dyson on suspicion of
having been implicated in the wrecking
Of the Big Four train at Fontanet, was
taken to indianapolis this morning for
trial IN the United States court. He
made several conflicting statements con-
cerning his whereabouts at the time Of
ESe wreck and altogether acted in such
manner as 10 convince the officials that
he is one of the party that did the wreck
ing. He claims TO be a resident Of Chi
cago and says he was sent 10 Fontanet
by one Grady. When asked what he was
sent there for. he said. Il was sent with
out orders" He had a bruise on his
One was. that he fell into a cattle-guard
face. about which he told different stories.
Rnd another that he ran against a fence.
Several citizens here will go TO Indian
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