Evening journal., 1895-01-29
TWO DEAD, FORTY HURT
Frightful Railroad Wreck Near
Indianapolis.
PLUNGED DOWN AN EMBANKMBNT.


Spreading Rails While at run Speed.
Cars Piled UP In Wild confusion-Fiames
In the Wreck Eastern People Hurt.
INp1ANAPoLis, Jan. ga railroad
wreck causing thS loss Of life and MAIN
ed limbs occurred at Coatesvillo. Van
dalia train No . pas wrecked by the
spreading of tho rni.A Two persons were
killed almost instantly. and 30 or 40 were
seriously injured
The train was running at full speed
and about 90 minutes late lt had Just
passed the town of Coatesyille and was
rounding o curve when the tracks spread.
The private car Of President r. W. Nc
Keen. which was attached TO the train,
jumped the tracks. This WAS followed by
the parlor car and then the ladies car, the
two rear cars going down the embank-
ment ten feet before the train could be
stopped. The smoker left tho track, but
did not 60 over. The two rear cars caught
fire, but were extinguished without dam
age
A man died soon after boing taken
from the car In his pocket was found
letters indicating that his namo was John
w. Morton, manager OF the Grand Opera
House at St Louis. He was carried TO q
schoolhouse unconscious and lived only a
short time. Ho did not speak.
Mrs. w. s. Towers Carthage, Mo, was
carried from the car and died while being
taken to the schoolhouse The injured
were carried up the embankment 20 houses
on the north side of the track, and soon
the townspoople and physicians gathered
TO give assistance.
List of the Injured.
The injured are; Margaret Roberts, 567
Park avenue. indianapolis; Ewing O.
Whiting, Boston; Mrs. Ewing Whiting.
Boston $. Neugeon, Nigo Tex, probably
fatally; r. l.. Wrap, DIR. II. J. Talbot,
Indianapolis Mrs. n. W. Ferguson, Terre
Haute Mrs D. Hudson Greencastle,
Ont. Gertrude Parrish, years old, Pales-
tine, Ills W. 5. Towers, Carthage No /;
ID. W. Mendeshall, Terre Haute; Lulu
Sheets, Indianapolis; j. Lee, Mansfield,
O. John W. Cravens. editor Greencastle
llnd) World; Mrs. Zelda Seguin Wallace,
indianapolis; Richard Trauch, Brazil.
Ind. J. w. Mitchell, Terro Haute; Mrs.
Dein, Omaha; Joseph IL. Dillon, travel
ing salesman. New York, badly bruised
Mrs Joseph II. Dillon, New York, badly
bruised and arm broken; W. ID. Beebe,
Paris, Ills Frank Gully. Washington; ;
Mrs. Rothsohild. Ogden. u. r. Mrs ID.
i. Anderson, Greencastle. Ind. Mrs
Eastuo. Terre Haute; Andrew johnson.
Pullman porter indianapolis C. Il. Car
son, Elmira n. Y, hip crushed and eye
gouged out; G. Sherwood. Nyack, n. Y,
shoulder blade broken; W. l. Sherwood,
NyRok, n. y, one eye knocked out; c.
II. Schmeinmier Evansville, Ind. Con
gressman Farls of the Eighth Indiana
district, badly cut over left eye.
Others were slightly injured.
Zelda Seguin Wallace is a woman Of ma
tional repute a few years ago few Of bet
tor voice or more grace trOd the oporatic
stage, She was member first Of the IA
nous Riohings Opera company ana of the
Parepa Rosa, Emma Abbott and othor
equally famous operatic companies
year ago she appeared at the May musical
festival in this city. Sho IS q wonderfully
well preserved woman. She is the wife ol
ex-Deputy Postmaster David Wallace who
is son Of Governor Wallace and hall
brother Of General Lew Wallace.
Heard Terrible Crash
But few people were gathered about the
Coatesville station when the train passed.
and there We're not many eyewitnesses to
the wreck. The roar Of the departing
train had not died away lefore the resi-
dents of the village were startled by hear
ing terrible crash. With one accord they
rushed in the direction Of the railroad
track, and in a few minutes almost the
entire population of the town was hurry
ing in the direction Of the wrecked train.
The cries Of the injured were heartrend-
ing and everybody went to work with a
viii to rescue them. The Christian Danish
church was turned into a temporary hos
pital, and the greater number Of the in
jured were taken there The others were
cared for at the various houses in tho vi
oinity.
Physicians from indianapolis, Green-
castle, Plainfeld, Clayton and Coatosville
We're on the scene quickly and did oil they
could to relieve the sufferings OF tho in.
iured. Many Of those taken from the
wreck were unconscious and others were
buried under heavy timbers, so that it was
impossible TO reach them for some time.
John W. Norton. the St Louis theatri.
cal manager, was carried dying into the
Christian church. which lies 200 yards
north Of the track and almost directly op.
posite the point whore the cars left the
track and were hurled down the 20 foot
embankment. When tho train was derail-
ed, he was in the parlor car, and it was
from this that he was taken out ia an un.
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