Evening star., 1901-06-26
KILLED OCEAN NERASHORE AT THE WHITE HOUSE
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TRAIN GES THROUGH S1E HAD 300 PASSENGERS ABOARD MAY GO
SIXTEEN WE'RE KILLED
Terrible Disaster on Wabash Road
Near Peru, Ind.
TRAIN PLUNGES THROUGH 4 TRESTLE
Fifty Other Passengers Were
More Or Less Seriously Injured.
LIST OF THE CASUALTIES

PERU. Ind, June 26.-Sixteen persons
were killed and about fifty were seriously
injured in wreck Of train No. 3, the west
bound Wabash limited, nine miles west of
this city, at 1870 am. today. The dead
are all Italian emigrants en- route to Colo
rado. Many Of the injured undoubtedly
will die.
The dead:
Sixteen Italian emigrants, names un-
known: interpreter missing.
The injured:
Mrs. VIM. Cotton, wife of general super
intendent of Iron Mountain railway, badly
bruised: three children, names unknown
severely bruised; David Agnew, Green Oak,
Ind, right arm injured. John OMara,
Denver, right leg broken; unknown Italian,
New York, right leg and right side man
gled Nicola' Polasa, head and shoulder
bruised: John Ickes, New York. head and
body bruised; Anna Juber, st. Louis, head
badly bruised; Joseph Pozza, Trinidad,
Col. head and left foot injured; Herbert
Menger. Hillsdale, Mich, face cut; Joseph
Cruise. Italian, New York city, head, body
and left leg bruised.
Mrs. Joseph Cruise, head and body
bruised; will die. George I. Miller, Alton,
ILL.,, left leg broken. John F. Williamson.
arms. both legs and right shoulder blade
broken. E. P. Claugh. Toledo, Ohio, head
badly crushed, right shoulder blade
broken; J. B. Wood, Logansport, Ind,
Rock Ark, head and body bruised. VIM.
Brode, Angola, Ind, face cut. Clark
Taylor, Logansport, Ind, head and body
badly cut. Rev. Father Welsch. Logans-
kins, Lafayette. Ind, right arm and Shout
der broken. Walter Laid Wabash, Ind,
right leg injured. Charles Flanagan, flag
man. body bruised John Adams, fireman,
head and shoulders lacerated j. s. But
ler. head bruised. ]. B. Lucks, Logans-
port, Ind, travelling salesman slightly
bruised. Twenty others, whose names
have not yet been obtained, severely cut
and bruised.
Train Was behind Time.
Two sections of train No. 3-one coming
from Detroit and the other from Toledo
were consolidated in this city into train
Of eleven cars, making up the flyer for It's
journey to St. Louis. 1t consisted of
combination baggag and express
combination baggage and smoker, day
coach, emgrant coach, three chair cars.
three sleepers and the private car Of Cen
eral Superintendent William Cotton OF the
Iron Mountain railway. Having left this
city one hour late, the train was speeding
westward at a high rate, when at point
nine miles west, the engine plunged
through a trestle which had been under
mined by the recent heavy rains The en-
bankment on both sides Of the little stream
dropped at a sharp degree a distance OF
forty feet. Owing to the momentum of the
train the engine appeared to leap nearly
across the abyss. plunged into the soft
earth on the opposite side and fell back to
the bottom. Engineer Butler and Fireman
Adams were thrown from the cab, but not
seriously hurt. The express and the
first chair car were telescoped. The emf
grant car, followed by two chair cars, went
down on the left side Of the track and the
first sleeper pitched forward upon the mass
of debris. It's windows and trucks were
broken, but none of the occupants was in
jured. The remaining cars also left their
trucks, but were not badly damaged. 1t
was in the emigrant and day coaches that
most of the deaths and injuries occurred.
Heavy foliage lined the banks on both
sides of the culvert, the approach to which
was over reverse curve"
Danger Could Not Be Foreseen.
There was absolutely no means by which
the engine crew could see the impending
danger. In fact, the engine ran out upon
the trestle before the structure gave way.
The night was intensely dark. For few
minutes after the fatal plunge and dreadful
roar of crashing tinbers, death1ike STILL
ness prevailed, which was only broken by
the cries of the injured.
Trainmen caught up their lanterns and
assistance. The farmers, with their wives
and children bearing torches hastened to
the scene and all efforts were bent to CIV
ing first aid to the injured. Telephone mes
sages were dispatched to this city, and
every physician was hurriedly taken to
special train, which carried them to the
scene. The Injured were placed aboard the
cars and brought to the general hospital
in this city. where everything possible was
done to ameliorate their condition. Many
operations were necessary, the most nota-
BILE of which was the one performed on
John Williamson, the news agent Lad Of
fourteen years. Both the boys arms, both
his legs and the right shoulder blade were
broken. Under the surgeons knife the lad
bore up wonderfully and possibly may re-
cover.
For a time after the rescuers reached the
scene of the wreck little could be done in
the way of removing the dead Hundreds
of tons of twisted iron and broken timbers
rested upon the car where the unfortunate q
emigrants were crushed.
But by means Of wrecking derricks the
mass was gradually opened and by day-
hight nearly all the dead had been removed
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