The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-30
ITRAINs CORNERED AT SWITCH
PLACED WITH
CREW OF THE FREIGHT.
Freight Wrecks on an Alabama Road
Collision of Engine and Traction
Car at Birmingh ham.

CHICAGO. Dec 29.-FOur persons were
Killed and twenty-nine more or less serious
injured by the shock or by the scalding
team that envelOped the coaches in COLI
on on the Chicago * Northwestern Rail-
Dad to-day al Malta, H.. sixty miles west
IL Chicago. The trains in collision were the
omaha flyer, an east-bound passenger
rain, and an east-bOund freight train.
he wreck caught fire and two passenger
soaches. one sleeping car and eight freight
cars were burned, and another sleeping car
| was partly burned
The Dead
GEORGE w. RUDYO. Western agent of
| the Kirk Soap Company, residence 1SI
North Thirty-second avenue. Omaha.
MRS. GEORGE w. RUDYO. Omaha.
ID. o. NICHOLS, Council Bluffs, Ia. man.
ager of the Council Bluffs Electric-light
| Company.
K. B. DUNCAN. sleeping porter. Chi
cage.
The Injured
BERT CARR, Willett, y. Y, badly cut
and bruised.
FRED DUNHAM, Chicago.
GEORGE w. FOX, Boulder, Col
II. d. GRAY. Evanston, H.
EDWARD HINCKLEY. Surprise, Neb.
MRS. ]. l.. kali, Chicago.
CLARENCE LAUSZERUS. Chicago.
W. A. SWEENEY. Larchford. la.
MARION WILKES, Fremont Neb.
MRS. EVA HALL, Chicago.
LINCOLN TAFT. Chicago.
VERONICA ROHRMOSER, MiIlard,
NSn 49,
F. LARRASEE. passenger engineer. leg
| fractured
+. Z. CORRARD. freSn2n;
c. w. AIKEN, yardmaster. .~~--e~---~-->
p ID. O'NEIL, special agent Northwest
ern Railway Company.
JOHN w. WILSON, civil engineer
Northwestern Railway Company.
w. r. DAWES, Pullman conductor.
JOHN SCHOENTGREN, Council Bluffs,
face and hands badly cut and bruised
about body.
II. L. MILLER, brakeman, ankle frac-
tured and body bruised
l.. B. JAMESON and wife. Platte, Neb.
C. Z. FIFER, Racine. Wis. face and
body badly cut by falling glass.
MISS MATTE ELLINGWOOD, Omaha,
Neb. body bruised
A. +. JEWELL, Buffalo. n. Y, hands
and face badly lacerated by falling glass.
j. w. WOODRUFF, Chicago, internal in
juries.
W. H. HICKMAN. sleeping car porter,
face burned.
]. NJ. WILSON. Boone. Ia, hands cut.
DIR. ]. w. ANDERSON. Cripple Creek.
Col. burned.
W. F. RISELY Chicago.
With the exception Of three employees OF
the road. Curran. Larrabee and ONeill,
who were seriously hurt, the injured are
suffering from bruises and cuts from fall
4 ing glass.
Injured passengers were attended imme-
diately by Surgeons from Rochelle and
De Kalb. and later were removed to ST.
Luke's Hospital in Chicago by special
train.
Duncan. the sleeping-car porter. was the
only person killed outright. Mr.. and Mrs.
Rudyo and Mr.. Nichols died from their in
juries while being brought TO Chicago. At
st. Luke's Hospital it is stated that while
several of the injured are in a serious con-
dition. all. IL is believed by the attending
physicians. will recover.
The freight train had taken a siding at
Malta, but the train was longer than the
siding and the freight locomotive pro-
truded upon the main track beyond the
side track. The incoming train from the
west was not stopped until the two loco
motives "cOrnered" at the switch, the pas
eenger engine being thrown into the ditch
and several coaches piling upon the wreck.
The cars caught fire from the locomotive.
A statement given out by officials of the
railroad company explains that the switch
at the east end OF the siding was opened
through mistake and that the responsible
ity probably lies with some member of
the crew OF the freight train. The state
ment places the company's property loss
at about $4,000.
George w. RudyO. in the rear Pullman
from Omaha. with his wife. was fearfuny
burned by steam. and I'm spite of all medical
aid died half an hour after the accident in
great agony. Mrs Rudyo. who was brought
20 Chicago on the relief train. was so badly
burned that she died a few minutes after
her arrival at St. Luke's Hospital.
An hour before the arrival OF the relief
train B. .. Nichols, Of Council Bluffs, Ia,
succumbed TO bis injuries Mr.. Nichols
was coming 10 Chicago 10 be married on
New Years day, 10 Miss Grace Stewart. of
Council Bluffs. Nichols telegraph for
his sweetheart TO come TO him, but he died
few minutes after the message had been
sent.
Engineer Larrabee. OF the passenger
train. said tonight that he found il i'm
pooSiDle ~ SHtSH us train tllI IL was TOO
late. He stuck 10 his engine. although he
could have jumped before the collision oc-
CURED.
John Schoentgen Of Council Bluffs. one Of
the injured. speaking OF the accident.
said:
i asleep In my berth when the
/ crash came and moment later found my
| self underneath pile OF wreckage on the
track. / was in my night clothes and after
great difficulty found "A way out and
\ crawled on 20 a snow bank. The car caught
Mic I fD 70 her
saw Dly valise lying, and l got IL and