Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-27
SIXTEEN LIVES lost N
A wreck ON THE WABASH.
TRESTLE GAVE WAY, THROWING
THE TRAIN INTO A RAvINE
FIFTY FEET DEEP.
, FIFTY PERSONS INJURED.
WENT DOWN-SLEEPER SPAN
NED THE OPENING.

PERU, Ind. June Sixteen per-
sons were killed and about ID were Sc
riously injured in wreck of train No.
3, the west-bound Wabash limited,
nine miles west of this city at 1890
d. m. to-day. The dead are all Italian
em.grants en- route to Colorado. Many
OF the injured undoubtedly will die.
The dead are sixteen Italian emf
grants. names unknown: interpreter
missing.
The injured are Mrs. William Cot
ten. wife OF the general superintendent
or the Iron Mountain railway, badly
bruised; three children, severely
bruised; David Agnew, Green Oak,
Ind, right arm injured; John O'Mara,
Denver, right leg broken; unknown
Italian, New YORK, right leg and right
side mangled; 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; Jos Cruz,
Italian, head, body and left leg
bruised; Mrs. Jos Cruz, head and body
bruised Twill die); George r. Miller,
Alton, H., left leg broken; John F.
Williamson, Bowling Green, Ohio,
news agent, both arms, both legs and
right shoulder blade broken; E. p.
Ciaugh, Toledo, head badly injured,
right shoulder blade broken; j. B.
Wood, Logansport, Ind, back bruised
G. A. Thompson, Little Rock, Ark,
head and BODY bruised; William Brode,
Angola, Ind. face cut; Clark Taylor,
Logansport, Ind. head and body badly
cut; the Rev. Father Welsch, Logans-
port, Ind, right foot crushed John
and shoulder broken; Walter Laid,
Wabash, Ind, right leg injured;
Charles Flanagan, flagman, body
bruised; John Adams, fireman, head
and shoulder lacerated; J. S. Butler,
head bruised; ]. R. Lucks, Logans-
port, Ind, travelling salesman, slightly
bruised
Twenty others, whose names have
not been obtained, We're severely cut
and bruised.
The first four cars were demolished
and three sleepers were badly dam
aged, but none of the occupants were
seriously injured.
Responses 10 Appeals.
Messages were sent over the city
and within a very short time almost
every physician in Peru was at the
station ready to board the relief train,
which was soon made up and speeding
on the way to the scene of the wreck.
Meantime appeals were sent from this
place to other towns along the Wabash
railroad, and relief and wreck trains
were sent out from Logansport, Peru
Lafayette. Ind, and Danville, Ill. Cass
the station near which the wreck oc-
CURED, is only Ave miles from Logans-
port, and several ambulances were sent
from that city.
At o'clock a relief train which left
this city returned with twenty-seven
of the injured passengers, half Of
whom are women. They were taken to
railway The l. of an Italian
woman and two children. who had
died ON the way, arrived on the train.
Little attention was paid to the dead
by the crews of the relief trains, and
the bodies of the killed were placed on
bank beside the wreck. while all eff
forts were directed toward rescuing the
injured from the debris.
4 Trcstle Gave Way.
The wrecked train is due at Peru at
TO-: 80 in the evening, but left here last
night one hour late Between Peru and
Logansport. the next stopping point. is
a straight stretch of track, practically
without grade, and all trains are ac-
customed to make good time between
these two cities. Within little over an
hour after the west-bound flyer pulled
out of the union station word reached
the telegraph station of the wreck and
frantic appeals were sent for aid
Under full head of steam engine
No. 1872 was rushing on through the
darkness, when the Inflated train
struck a short tTestle. As the engine
crossed the structure it gave way, and
the engine was plunged down a forty.
foot ravine and was buried under -four
of the cars of the train. The remain
ing car, a sleeper. which was just the
length of the trestle, caught on the
ahutments at each end of the bridge
work and spanned the ravine over the
wrecEage.
When the trestle work collapsed IN
del the heavy locomotive the engine
turned over half a dozen times before
ii landed upside down at the foot Of
the embankment. throwing the fireman
and engineer out as it fell. Engineer
Butler struck on his back forty fee
from the wreckage and escaped witt
a broken ankle. Fireman Adams wa:
caught under part of the flying de5ri:
and was probably fatally hurt.