The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-31
LouisvilIe Express and the st. Louis
Accommodation Run Into Each
Other Near Coal City.
TWO PEOPLE MEET DEATH
SEVEN RECEIVE INJURIES, THREE
OF WHOM WILL PROBABLY DIE.
Blame Is Placed on the Telegraph OPP
orator at Storr's Station, Who
Did Not Deliver an Order.

more & Ohio Southwestern railway near
Coal City. fourteen miles from Cincinnati.
They were the Louisville express, which
left this city at :05 p m, and the st. Louis
accommodation, due here at 7:05. The latter
hour late. Two persons were killed
and seven injured. The dead are:
FIREMAN WILSON, of the Louisville ex-
UNKNOWN MAN, buried under the
wreck.
The injured are:
HIRAM BRUNIG, fireman. OF the St.
leg. skull and shoulder; very dangerously.
JACOB BOWER, OF the big cooper shop
in Lawrenceburg Ind.., hip dslocated, Leg
ALONZO PRUETT. engineer of the Louis
vile express. internal injuries; left arm
badly cut and bruised.
Louis train, back and side injured. He was
taken to his brothers home, in Cleves, o.
FRED B1NEKAMP, of Aurora, Ind, a
passenger, severe scalp wounds.
T. NJ. VOGHT, express messenger the
st. Louis train, internal injuries. besides
bad cuts and bruises. He called deliriously
residence is Cincinnati.
GEORGE WEISELBERGER, United
States Express Company messenger, Louis
vile, very slightly.
OF the injured all are very seriously hurt
except Binekamp and Weiselberger. 1t is
fatally hurt. A special train arrived at
midnight with the injured. and they were at
once taken to the Betts-street Hospital,
where complete arrangements for the care
of them had been made. The injury to pas
sengers other than those named was very
slight: James wachtef Aurora, Ind:
Fred Denkincen. Cochran, Ind; Dr. Higgins.
of North Carolina. en- route to Louisville.
and A. VI. Howorth was slightly hurt while
sitting in the smoker.
The first known of the collision here was
when the wrecking train was sent out,
about o'clock. accompanied by physicians,
railway officials and others. They were
followed by the newspaper men and others
in carriages. The widest rumors of the
loss of life were soon current. The hospi-
tails were put in readiness and police head
| quarters were promptly equipped for the
care of the injured. When information was
obtained from the scene it was found that
| there were two killed and seven injured.
| Both engines were wrecked, as the engi-
neers had very little time to check The
| speed of their trains. The combination
car of the Louisville express and the ex-
press car on the train from st. Louis were
telescoped.
| Coal City is coaling station on the road
and has no telephone. When the engines
were wrecked they knocked out telegraph
| pole with such force as to cut off all tele-
| graphic communication. 1t required some
time for the railroad to get telegraphc
| communication with this city and then the
wire and the operator at Coal City were
| kept busy with orders. The Big Four
tracks are parallel with those of the South
western at Coal City and their tracks were
| not obstructed. Passengers arriving on the
| Knickerbocker express after o'clock say
their train shot by Coal City at great speed
and they had only a passing view, but
that there was horrible spectacle OF
wreckage.
The cause of the accident was the failure
| OF the operator at Storrs station, with
in the city limits, to report to the Louis
vile train an order to wait at Delhi and
let the ST. Louis train pass it there. The
trains, when they sighted each other a mile
this side OF Coal City, were going at full
speed and had but little time to slow up
before the collision. The road is compara-
lively straight at this point The Louis
vile express was heavily loaded and there
were many passengers to transfer, the pas
sengers Of both trains being transferred.
| The blockade will be opened tonight Gen.
eral superintendent Rawn was here all
night and the division superintendents and
others were on the scene doing everything
in their power for the relief of the injured.
Later-The regular operator at Storrs
station Is away a short holiday vaca-
ton this week and the mistake i'm orders
was made by a substitute, whose name
cannot be learned Storrs is between Gin
cinnati and Coal City. If the Storrs opera
tor had stopped the outgoing train for or
ders the trains would have passed safely at
Delhi.
| Coal Boats Sunk and Man Killed
| PlTTSBURG, Dec. 30-The towboat
Harry Brown, while en- route to the South
with a large fleet of coal. ran aground at
Glasshouse rifle, Brunot's island, at 4
o'clock this morning. The pilot attempted
to back into deeper water to release the
fleet, when a heavy cable parted, the ends
| striking Jonathan Wood and a deck hand
| known as Whitley" The latter was in
| stantly killed and Wood was seriously but
not fatally injured. The coal boats and a
barge containing sixty thousand bushels
1 of coal are at the bottom of the river as
| a result of the accident, and the channel
| IL blockaded. The sunken boats will be
| blown out with dynamite by the govern
| ment to-day. The loss will be very heavy
| Elevated Railway Collision,