Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-01-29
TWO DEAD. FORTY HURT
Frightful Railroad Wreck Near
 Indianapolis.
PLUNGED DOWN AN BMBANKMENT.
vandalia Passenger Train Wrecked by Spreading Rails While at Full Speed. Cars Piled Up In Wild ConfusIon-FIames In the wreck-Eastern People Hurt.


 Spreading Rails While at Full Speed.
 Cars Piled Up In Wild ConfusIon-FIames
 In the wreck-Eastern People Hurt.
 INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 2e.-A railroad wreck, causing the loss of life and maim- ed limbs. occurred at Coatesville. Van dalia train No. 2 was wrecked by the spreading of tho rails Two persons were killed almost instantly. and 30 or 10 were seriously injured.
 The train was running at full speed and about 20 minutes late It had just passed the town of Coatesville and was rounding curve when the tracks spread. The private car of President R. W. Mo Keen. which was attached to the train, jumped the traoka This was followed by the parlor car and then the ladies' car, the two rear cars going down the embark ment ten feet before the train could be stopped. The smoker left the track, but cid not go over. The two rear cars caught fire, but were extinguished without dam. age.
 A man died soon after being taken from the car. In his pocket was found letters indicating that h:s name was John W. Morton, manager of the Grand Opera House at St Louis He w& carried to a schoolhouse unconscious and lived only a short time. He 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 to houses on the north side of the track, and soon the townspeople 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, Vigo. Tex. probably fatally; F. L. Wrap. Dr. H. J. Talbott, Indianapolis; Mrs. N. W. Ferguson, Terre Haute; Mrs D. Hudson. Greencastle, Ont. Gertrude Parrish, years old, Pales. tine, Ills /; W. s. Towers. Carthage, Mo. |; D. W. Mendeshall, Terre Haute; Lulu Sheets. Indianapolis; ]. Lee, Mansfield, O. John W. Cravens. editor Greencastle (Ind. World; Mrs. Zelda Seguin Wallace, Indianapolis; Richard Trauch, Brazil, Ind. !. W. Mitchell, Terre Haute; Mrs. Deid. Omaha; Joseph H. Dillon, travel ing salesman. New York. badly bruised; !; Mrs. Joseph H. Dillon, New York badly bruised and arm broken; w D. Beebe. Paris. Ills. ; Frank Gully. Washington; {; Mrs. Rothschild. Ogden. L. T. : Mrs. D. l.. Anderson, Greencastle. Ind; Mrs Eastuc, Terre Haute; Andrew Johnson. Pullman porter. Indianapolis; C. F. Car son, Elmira, N. Y.. hip crushed and eye gouged out; c. Sherwood. Nyack, N. Y, shoulder blade broken; W. l. Sherwood, Nyack, \. Y, one eye knocked out; c. H. Schmeinmier, Evansville, Ind. Con gressman Paris of the Eighth Indiana district. badly cut over left eye.
 Others were slightly injured. Zelda Seguin Wallace is a woman of nA tional repute. A few years ago few of bet ter voice or moro grace trod the operatic stage. She was a member first of the fla nous RichiAgs Opera company and of the Parepa Rosa. Emma Abbott md other | equally famous operatic companies A year ago she appeared at the May musical festival in this city. She is a wonderfully we'll preserved woman She is the wife of OK Deputy Postmaster David Wallace, who is a son of Governor Wallace and half brother of General Lew Wallace. Heard n Terrible Crash.
 But few people were gathered about the | Coatesville station when the train passed. and thero were not many eyewitnesses tc | the wreck. The roar of the departing train had not died away before the resi-. dents of the village were startled by hear. ing a terrible crash. With one accord they rushed in the direction of the railroad track, and in a few minutes almost the
  ing in the direction of the wrecked train
 The cries of the injured were heartrend. ing. and everybody went to work with 6 will to rescue them. The Christian Danish church was turned into temporary hos pital, and the greater number of the in. jured were taken there. The others wers cared for nt the various houses in the vi. cinity.
 Physicians from Indianapolis, Green. castle Plainfleld. Clayton and Coatosvills were on the scene quickly and did all they could to relieve the sufTerings of tho in, jured. Many of those taken from the wreck were unconscious and others werG buried under heavy timbers, so that 1t wal impossible to reach them for some time.
 John W. Norton. tho St Louis theatri, cal manager. was carried dying into the Christian church, which lies 200 yardi north of the track and almost directly op pUsite the point where tho cars left ths track and woro hurled down tho 20 fool embankment When the train was derail ed, he was in the parlor car, and 1t wal from this that he was taken out in an un conscious state.