The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-07
CARS GO OVER AN EMBANKMENT
ENGINE AND ALL BUT TWO COACHES
ROLL DOWN TWENTY FEET.
Frantic EndcavOrs by Both Crews to
Prevent the Accident, Which
Occurred on Curve.


a small town eighteen miles east of Cres-
ton, to-day, struck an engine attached to
a freight train, which was endeavoring to
get out of the way by backing onto a side
track, and was derailed, killing Engineer
S. d. Brown, of Burlington, and injuring
thirty persons.
The Dead
SID BROWN, engineer passenger, home
in Burlington, IA.
Injured
o. E. GARRETT. Murray, Ia, head and
body bruised.
MAJOR /. T. HUME, Des Mones, Ia,
bruised about nose left eye and right arm.
COLONEL OLMSTEAD, Des Moines, Sc
verey injured.
GEORGE Won BEHREN, Charlton.
right side hurt.
NJ. SHIRLEY and WIFE, Omaha. Mr.
Shirley cut about face and head, neck
bruised; Mrs. Shirley, bruised.
w. A. SCOTT Chicago, back injured,
right leg and foot bruised.
ALBERT BROWN, right arm and leg
bruised.
MRS. ELLIS PIXLEY. West Salem, Ill.,.
internal injuries; serious.
l. T. MCUNE, Ottumwa, hurt in stomach
and breast.
CLARENCE wEINE, Grinnell. scalp
wound, limbs injured, bruised about back.
T NJ. GALLUP Wyoming. enroute to
Randolph, Ia. scalp wound, right knee and
left wrist injured.
K. G. CARTER, Charlton. Ia, lip cut.
#. r. FLAG, Chicago, internally injured
serious.
]. l. FARTHING, Creston, travelling
salesman Omaha; right hand badly bruised.
WILLIA-I w. BOND.
]. d. JOHNSTON, Chicago, bruised.
c. M. BUCHANAN, Fairfield, Ia, Sc
verely shaken UP.
P. BATES, Chicago, back and chest in
jured.
MRS. F. A BELL, Fairfield, Ia. slightly
bruised.
WILLIAM TREFFEL, Burlington. Ia,
head brakeman passenger train, bruises.
a. C. SWEENEY, Keokuk. Ia, bruised.
E. /. GARDINER, Charlton, Ia. head,
shoulders and lips bruised and cut.
d. O. CAMPBELL. Cleveland, head,
shoulders and legs bruised.
S. ID. REED, Osceola, Ia, slightly
wounded.
WALTER CROWLEY, woodburn. legs
badly injured.
]. L. FARQUHAR, Gallon. o., badly
shocked.
DIR. AvERILL. Alton. Ia, back injured.
T. ]. BURK and WIFE. Jacksonville,
d.,
hurt: Burk's injuries slight.
MARY CHERRY Leroy, Ia, chest and
head hurt, serious internal injuries.
CLYDE WILSON, Hopeville. Ia, collar
bone, head and legs bruised and cut.
r. b. MITCHELL, Weldon, Ia, head and
face badly cut.
G.. B. MILNER, Clarinda, Ia, slightly in
jured both head and arms.
WILLIAM ELDER, Ottumwa, shoulder
dislocated, head cut.
ROSICE MOWNAN. Talmage. Ia, Sc
verely shocked
CLARENCE WHITLOCK, Osceola, Ia =,
arm broken, internal injuries.
S. f. REEM, Osceola, cut over eyes, Sc
we're bruises.
MICHAEL CANNEY. fireman. Ottum-
wa, badly bruised and cut, arm broken.
X HOMELAND. Chicago leg and three
ribs broken.
WILL HARPER, Ottumwa. head and
hands cut
MRS. WILL HARPER. Ottumwa. back
sprained.
All but two rear cars of the passenger
train left the rails and rolled down twen-
ty-foot embankment. The wreck was not
cleared for ten hours. Thayer is situated
in the bed of a deep ravine into which the
track is laid. heavy train in order to
make schedule time is compelled to work
by steam down one hill TO make the top of
the other. This is what the passenger train
was doing. Owing to the fact that both
tracks for a great distance are heavily
curved neither engineer could see the other
train until they were within two hundred
feet of each other The engineer of the
freight train heard the passenger train
coming and made frantic endeavors TO back
his heavy train into a sidetrack. He sue
ceeded in getting all but his engine TO a
place OF safety. On came the passenger
train at the rate of seventy miles an hour.
When within two hundred feet of the
point where the collision occurred Engineer
Brown saw the danger. threw the air
brake to the emergency notch. applied the
sand and stuck TO his engine in a grim
endeavor 10 save the precious freight be-
hind. The crew of the freight engine after
making desperate efforts to avoid the i'm
pending collision stayed with their engine
until the last moment, when they jumped
and saved themselves from instant death
When the crash came the freight engine
was thrown across the track. The passen-
ger engine was hurled down the twenty
foot embankment. followed by the baggage
car, express car. day coach and three chair
cars. The agent at Thayer telegraphed
10 Ottumwa for relief train. and special
with surgeons and nurses left for the
scene.
Died Locked i'm Each Others Arms.