The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-29
Train Was Late, and While Running
at n High Rate of Speed to Make Tn
Lost Time Jumped the switch.
THE INDIANAPOLIS VICTIMS
MRS. ZELDA SEGUIN WALLACE
AMONG THOSE BADLY MANGLED.
John w. Norton, of st. Louis, Well
known Theatrical Manager, Still
Unconscious and VIII Die.
,ecial to the INDIANAPOLIS Journal

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
COATESvILLE, Ind, Jan. 2S.-The first
passenger wreck in which life was lost on
the vanadala railroad since its construc-
ton, forty-four years ago, occurred just
east of this city this afternoon, when No.
90 limited, from st. Louis, and due in In
dianapolis at 2:s5 O'Clock, was thrown from
the tracks and four coaches plunged down
a fifteen-foot embankment. The scene of
the wreck is at the west end of a danger
curve. few hundred yards beyond
this fatal spot where to-day's dreadful
accident occurred the bank is nearly forty
feet high, and the train, therefore, narrowly
escaped a terrible catastrophe. There is
steep decline from the outskirts of Coates
Vile, toward which the limited was going at
high speed when fatal switch was struck.
President W. r. McKeen's private car to-
gether with Pullman sleeper, dining car
and day coach left the track and rolled
to the bottom of the ditch. The engine
and two postal cars passed over safely, and
the combination baggage car and smoker
was thrown from the trucks. The train
was fairly well filed with passengers. but
the seriously injured were mostly in the
parlor car. One lady was killed and a
list of twenty-six seriously or badly in
jured, among them being Mrs. Zelda Sc
guin Wallace and number of other In
dianapolis residents The list of casualties
follows.
DEAD.
MRS. w. S. TOWERS, Carthage. No.;
died while being removed from wreck.
FATALLY INJURED.
JOHN w. NORTON, manager Grand
Opera House, st. Louis; skull crushed and
internal injuries. Taken out unconscious
and reported dying at midnight.
SERIOUSLY INJURED.
MRS. ZELDA sEGUIN WALLACE. city;
injured in back and shoulders.
REV DR. HENRY c. TALBOTT, $50
North Meridian street, city; right chest
crushed and hip seriously injured.
MARGARET ROBERTS, 567 Park avenue,
city; injured in the head.
JOHN r. WISE, conductor, city;
broken and injured in back of head.
REV G. H SCHNURE, Evansville;
head injured and seriously hurt internally.
HON. JOHN w. CRAvENS. editor World
Bloomington, Ind; ribs fractured and in
ternal injuries.
RICHARD GROUSE, Brazil, Ind: head
and chest badly injured.
D. w. MINSHALI4, Terre Haute Van
dalia director and president Clay County
Coal Company; cut on head and badly
bruised.
MRS. NJ w. FERGUSON, Terre IIaute;
injured in side Baby in arms not hurt.
MRS. d. L. ANDERSON Greencastle;
head cut and right arm fractured.
MRS. FESTuS, Terre Haute, ribs frac-
tured-
JOSEPH p. DILLON New York. man
ager Pauline Hall Opera Company injured
about the head.
MRS. JOSEPH P. DILLON, wife of
above arm broken.
j. A. BAILEY, Philadelphia, wrist
sprained.
concussion of the brain.
MRS. F. r. DERSI, Omaha, badly bruised
EWING o. WHITING. and wife, Bos-
ton, both slightly injured
S. NEWMAGEN, Waco, Tex, head cut
and hip broken.
c. F. CARRIER, Elmira, n. Y, eye in
jured and hip fractured
F. L. RAPP Pittsburg; injured in head.
JOHN LEE, Mansfield O.; right leg hurt
C. SHERWOOD, Nyack, n. y, shoulder
blade fractured.
GERTRUDE PARISH, Palestine, Ind,
four years DID, cheek bone fractured.
w. S. TOWERS husband of Mrs. Tow
ers, killed., Carthage, Mo-; injured about
the head.
GEORGE VAUGHAN, Terre Haute
brakeman; head and knee injured.
CHARLES JONES, colorea porter; back
injured.
ANDREW JOHNSON, colored porter;
arm broken.
MRS. sTARBuCK and child Terre
| Haute slight injuries.
H. H. GRAYsON, Pittsburg. porter; cut
on head.
MISS LULA SHEETS, 124 North Ala
bama street city; painfully bruised.
FRANK r. GURLEY, Pullman conductor;
badly bruised.
SLIGHTLY INJURED
GEORGE w. FARIS, Terre haute, Con-
gressman-elect for Eighth district; cut on
head and back, not serious.
w. 1. SHERWOOD, Nyaek, n. Y, eye
and hand injured.
w. b. BEBEE, Paris, ILL.,; scalp wound.
MRS. JOHN LEE, Mansfield, o.; scalp
wound.
A. G. ARMSTRONG, St Louis porter;
finger mashed.
A. DEAL, St. Louis. porter; arm sprained.
MRS. WALLACE'S INJURIES.
For while it was supposed that Mrs.
Zelda Seguin- Wallace had been killed and
such a story was sent out, but when she
found liz the wrecked car. she had re-
gained consciousness. Although suffering
great agony both from the shock and the
injury to her back and side. it is believed
she can recover Mrs. W. s Towers
was fifty-seven years old, and was trav-
cling with her husband to Philadelphia to
suffering from Internal injuries that are
probably more serious than could be learned
from the hasty examinations made by the
corps of physicians who arrived this even
ing and "a number may vet die That the