The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-16
TWELVE PEOPLE KILLED
AND A GOzEN OR MORE PAssEN-
GERS SERIOUSLY INJURED.
Grand Trunk Express Train Wrecked
by Running IntO a Freight
Several Cars Smashed.

TRENTON, Ont. Nov ia Grand
Trunk express train bound for Toronto
crashed into a moving freight train near
Murray Hill crossing, two miles west of
here, at $3.50 o'clock this morning and sew
eral cars were smashed almost to splinters.
So far as known twelve persons were killed
and dozen or more seriously injured. The
dead are:
WILLIAM LUNEss. cattle drover. Tor
onto
CHARLES GooDCHILD, cattle drover,
Toronto.
JOHN CASEY. engineer off duty. Belle
Vile
WILLIAM BRADY, engineer of Montreal
express, Bellevile.
JOHN MACDONALD. fireman of Mon
treaI express, Belleville.
MERLE c. KERN, native Of Russia.
GEORGE HABRICS, native Of Russia
KATRINE HABRICS, native of Russia
Three others, Russians-man, woman and
female child, all unidentified.
Unknown man, legs and part of trunk
only recovered.
All the Russian party had through tickets
to Cincinnati. They arrived at Quebec last
week on the steamship Laurentinian.
The injured are: William Kinnear, Pres
colt, wounded about the head. James New
man, baggageman, Toronto, bad scalp
wounds. Leon La Blanc. baggageman,
Montreal, slightly injured. John Nc
Namara, fireman, Brockville, condition
critical. Albert Tracey, Toronto, legs in
jured. A. P. Walker, fireman, Belleville,
face injured Frederick Cohen, German i'm
migrant, thigh fractured and skull thought
to be crushed c. Paulina, Chesley, ILL.,, in
juries slight. A Carey, Cobourg, shoulder
fractured. b. Backus, Brockville, face
lacerated.
A misplaced switch was the cause of the
accident, the west-bound train taking the
wrong track on which was the east-bound
freight. The train, which left Montreal at
s o'clock last night, consisted of express,
mail and baggage cars, a second-class car,
one first-class coach and two Pullman
sleepers. The second-class car was next to
the baggage car and ahead Of the frst-class
coach and sleepers. 1t was pretty well filed
with people, there being twenty or more
passengers in it, and hardly any of them
escaped without injury. Between Belleville
and Murray Hill crossing the road is single
tracked, the only piece of single track be-
tween Toronto and Montreal At Murray
Hill crossing the west-bound express usual
double track, and it was about a mile and
a half west of this point where the accident
occurred. Whether the signals were right
or not this morning will never be known
from the engineer or fireman of the wrecked
train, for they are both dead. Both engines
were destroyed and the freight engine was
thrown completely over the passenger en-
gine into ditch beyond. The engineer and
fireman of the freight engine, Thomas Ivens
and Alexander Toppin, Of Toronto both
jumped and escaped with slight injuries.
The greatest destruction was wrought in
the second-class car. The baggage car was
driven into and almost completely through
it, the passengers being crushed and man
gled underneath the timbers Of the car.
The mail car was forced right on top of the
baggage car and the express car was
partially wrecked. The frst-class car was
uniniured, as were also the two sleepers,
although the passengers were awakened by
the shock