The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-16
An EmpIoye Struck a Match and Was
Hurled Out of the Room. Receiv-
ing Fatal Injuries.
TRAIN DISASTER AyERTED
LAKE SHORE LIMITED LEAVES THE
RAILS AT A DANGEROUS SPOT.
Antf-WhislSy Trust People Decide ON
Building a New DistiIIcry at Tcrre
Haute-0ther State News.
peeial to the INDIANAPOLIS Journal.

ON the Fandalia early this morning was
most fortunate for the company in the
cape of the passengers and train crews.
However, the loss of money in the burns
ing of the express car containing the
through safe of the express company. from
New York to St Louis, is very large. Just
how much is moi known here. but it may
be more than $l0o,000 The safe is sealed in
New York and not opened until it reaches
st. Louis. The New York office has mani
Tested great anxiety about the charred con-
tents of the safe and has used the long
distance teleElone for communication with
the local representatives of the company
to-day. The safe was at a white heat and
the coin contents had, presumably, rus to-
gether molten metal. The paper money
can hardly help being mass OF ashes-
There was another safe in the ear, the one
used by the messenger and it's contents
were also destroyed Much of the mer-
chandise express goods were saved.
The safes have not been opened. Smoke
issued from the door crack of the sealed
safe, Indicating that the paper money was
burned. President Weir, of the Adams Ex-
press Company, sent word to handle the
safes carefully and avoid jarring, the
only hope of being reimbursed by the gov
ernment for the burned money was by hav-
ing it reach the Treasury Department as
nearly intact possible. 1t is known that
the average amount of money in the
through safe is between $4,000 and $685. 900.
Often valuable jeweiry is in the safe, as
also gold coin. The safe is about thirty
inches long, eighteen inches wide and TWEEN
ty-four inches deep. The door is a lid the
fun size Of the top of the safe. Just be-
fore the collision messenger Harrison took
from his safe sack OF silver FOR this city.
This coin was melted in the fire.. and dur
ing the day the crowd was trying to get
pieces of metal in the wreckage. Many to-
night think they have some of it, but what
they found are pieces of melted bars of
lead
The conductor and engineer of the switch
ing crew learned at the yard Office that the
passenger train was fifteen minutes late,
and their purpose was to use the main track
part of this time doing some switching. But
engineer Daily had made up the lost time
and was coming into the city time with
out special orders from the train dispatcher,
and this they did not have.
The conductor of the switch engine crew
disappeared Immediately after the accident
His name IS H. A. Hanson. The engineer
of the switch engine, T. " keogh, is a
veteran in the company's service. The
switching crew had two cars and a caboose
and were going east about at the city linn
it's when they saw the incoming passenger
train from the East. They left the engine.
which had slowed down to almost stopping
when the passenger engine struck 1T. The
latter was strong enough 10 send the switch
engine flying backward with such force that
two cars behind it were hoisted into the air
and dropped on top OF H. The passenger
engine did pot leave the track
Engineer Pat Daily had put on the brakes
and then jumped to save himself. He was
cut on the head and bruised, but not serious
ly injured. Fireman Hanley jumped and was
bruised and his shoulder sprained. The ex-
press car. next to the engine broke In two.
!. the rear end going with the second express
car and the baggage car, which was the
third car from the engine.
When the air brakes were put on ne
coupling between the baggage car and the
coach behind it was broken and the
coaches and Pumans dropped back The
baggage car and the express car to which
turned stove in the latter. The city IRE de-
partment was called on. but from lack of
water could render no aid The fire burned
tened in his car and in being released was
wrenched severely, but he will not be per-
manently injured; conductor S hahm was
the .;rrue Irish Hearts theatrical COM
pany had a scalp wound from falling
lamp. The members of the Slaves OF Gold"
theatrical company in getting out their own
baggage from the burning car helped get
out all that belonged to other passengers
Only one piece OF baggage was burned, buc
about all OF it was badly damaged in the
shake up.
The passengers I'm the rear ears were
| iarred but some of the occupants of the
sleeping cars were not awakened Engineer
| Daily and fireman Hanley We're in the en-
| gine in the Coatesville wreck a few weeks
! ing's wreck that engineer Morgan was killed
| some years ago by the same fault os
switch engine crew.
Loss VIII Reach 100000.