The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-11
Locomotive and Three Cars Go
Four Men Known TO BE Killed.
ENGINEERS LUCKY ESCAPE
BRAkENAN .'INIONED FIVE HOURS
WITH HEAD ABOVE WATER.
Several Passengers Said to Be Miss
ing and IIl-Fated Cars Floating
Down the Swift Current.
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Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
PRINCETON, Ind. March 10-The Chi
cago and Nashville limited passenger train
on the Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad
plunged into a washout when approaching
Hazelton six miles above here, about
o'clock this morning. According TO En-
gineer McCutcheon the :rain was going
twenty-five miles hour along a stretch
of track on siXteen-toOt bank next TO
which a bend OF White river been rag
ing since last weeks flood. The water had
eaten its way under the track and the en-
gine turned a somersauIt down the bank
and sank in the river IL was followed by
the combination mail and baggage
The more weakly constructed smoker. i'm
which were a number OF passengers, was
teescoped on the baggage car, being cut
i'm two lengthwise. The ladies' coach and
the sleeper remained on the track. but the
crevasse I'm the bank sooa widened to a
hundred feet or more and this afternoon
the ladies' coach fell into the river and
foated mile down stream. The pas
sengers in the last two were all re-
moved without serious injuries to any and
sent back to Vincennes. out four others
and possibly five are known to have met
has been recovered from the river and the
report is that a dozen or more in the
smoker. Only two escaped from the car.
| They are William Henderson, of Kokomo,
Ind, the youngest brother of ex-Audtor of
| State j. o. Henderson. and Brakeman
| Haueisen. The known killed are:
GEORGE A. SEARS. conductor, of Terre
| Haute in the smoker.
JOSEPH BOLEMAN, fireman, of Evans
| vile. buried under the engine.
HERBERT ALLEN. Evansville. said to
| be one of the doorkeepers or the last Legis-
| lature.
UNKNOWN MAN, supposed to be w.
II; Lang, commercial traveller for w b.
Phillips's Fort Wayne shirt waist house.
| 1t is also said there was a Hebrew travel
| ing man in the smoker VINO cannot be ac-
| counted for. The injured are:
JOHN MCUTCHEON, engineer, Evans
| Vile. throat cut nearly 60 windpipe, legs
| badly burned and otherwise bruised.
II. j. HILL. express messenger. escaped
from baggage car with few bruises.
- HAUEISEN. brakeman. pinioned
| FIVE hours in smoker with head above
! water, foot and leg crushed.
- BALDWIN. brakeman. several cuts
| and bruises.
WILLIAM f. HENDERSON, Kokomo,
| Ind, injuries not serious.
VICTIMS IN THE SMOKER.
Conductor Sears was seen in the smoker
| before il was washed away several hundred
| yards by the flood How many were in the
| smoker other than those mentioned, no one
| can tell. From d gripsack found ii is be-
| lieved one of the lost a travelling man
| for w. b. Phillips. of Fort Wayne. selling
| ladies' waists This afternoon the flood
| swept away the ladies' coach, leaving only
| the sleeper on the track Many Evansville
people were in the sleeper. including State
| dianapolis, and Sheriff Covert and wife and
| Miss Ada Ragon. returning from the inau-
| guration of President Mckinley.
Superintendent Corbett had just yester-
day returned from tour of repairs on ac-
| count of recent floods and had just resumed
| through trains on slow schedules. The wa
| ter had banked up on the side of the track
| opposite the treacherouS bend in the river
and made the place where the wreck oc-
CURED 4 dangerous point, with water on
both sides. Noroadbed In southern Indiana
| is said TO be- absolutely safe since the food
| If 1t border any of the streams that have
been raging torrents for several days. but
tine railroad men believed the Evansville
| & Terre Haute roadbed was ready for
travel. Five trains are said to have crossed
| the Hazelton embankment before the Can
| non Ball last night, and the officers of the
-oad also claim that track walker had
| been over the spot only a short time before
the accident and reported all safe The
water must have been eating it's way
! through the bank for several hours. There
| was gap in the track several car lengths
| shortly after the ill-fated train went into
| the river.
Engineer McCutcheon saw nothing to in
| dicate that the support to the track was
| gone as his engine approached. His escape
| is wonder to everybody as we'll as to
| himself. When the locomotive took its
header McCutcheon was thrown out of the
| cab and swan back to his engine which
| was not entirely submerged. He could see
nothing of the fireman and the body of the
| latter is probably lying in the cab. There
| is little prospect of recovering any of the
| bodies of the others near the accident. The
current is strong and they may have been
carried miles down the river ere this
Brakeman Haueisens experience was the
| most excruciating of any of the victims
who escaped. He pinioned i'm the smok-
| er by a broken timber. His head remained
| above water and for five hours men worked
| trying to rescue him. His suffering was
terrible and he begged that some one
would take an AK and cut off his leg. Final
| ly the water undermined the car and re-
leased Haueisen and as he was dragged
| from his position the floated away.
! WORK ON THE WRECK
| State Senator LEIGH and Sheriff Covert
who were on the train, spent the day
| working ut the wreck. devoting most of
| their time TO Brakeman Haueisen. This
| wreck and other damage along the line
| from floods has again caused Il suspension
of traffic on the entire system. Yesterday
| was the first day that trains had passed
over the entire road since the recent
floods. \ wrecking train and 200 employees
of the line were sent out to-day TO repair
damage The company has arranged TO
send trains out over the Peoria. Decatur
| * Evansville and Big Four roads.
The baggage car is tied to the track, but
| ii is believed that more of the track will
be washed away and the car will go down
| stream. All day the railroad people have
been dumping large sand bags in the wash
out in an effort TO stop the washing away
| OF the levee. but IL is feared that much of
the track will be carried of in the rushing
| current.
1t is known that seventeen pieces of bag