The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-02-27
Most of the Occupants Bruised,
Crushed, Cut or Manned, and Sew
eraI in a Serious Condition.
TWO PROBABLY WILL DIE
A. II. BROWN, OF LEESBURG, AMONG
THOSE WHO SUFFERED.
Pullman of a Southern Railway Train
Ditched and Dr. Curry, of WASH
ington, and q Woman Hurt.

MILLERSBURG, Ind, Feb. 2s.-Wabash
train No. 9, which left Detroit, south bound.
at 4:5o O'Clock this morning, was derailed
two miles west of here at 9:15 o'clock and
forty passengers were injured. two prob.
ably fatally. Twelve were severely hurt.
and of these several are in critical con-
clifton. Following is partial list of the
injured:
MR.. and MRS. HENRY d. EMERSON.
Buffalo, N. Y, Pan-American representa-
tives to Chicago; Emerson severe scalp
wound, flap lying over left ear; wife cut
about head and face.
IDA c. BENDER, Buffalo, n. Y, slight
| injuries.
PROF s. H. ROWE, New Haven. Conn.,.
| deep incision in back.
| MRS. W. H. ELBOURN. Omaha. Neb.,
and six-months-old babe. Mother slightly
hurt and babes skull fractured; Will likely
Gle.
s. T. GREENFIELD. Chicago, slightly in
| jured.
NJ. A. JASPEN. Johnston, N. J., body
| bruised.
MR. EVANS. San Francisco. deep in
| cision in leg.
| A H BROWN. Leesburg, Ind, badly
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| G.. F. GARRISON, Toronto, slightly hurt.
| J. NJ WAMSLEY travelling man. Buffalo.
| head and face cut.
| MISS JULIA COLLIE, Roc aester, N Y,
head, back and shoulders; badly crippled.
| JOHN BLOMGRED. Chicago, head hurt.
MISS ANNA M'DONALD. Anaconda.
| Mont.
| HENRY KERCHKE, Wilkesbarre, Pa.
| ABRAHAM FOWLER, Creston, Ia.
FRED Z. PORTER, South Dakota.
| DANIEL M'CLAREN, Lanark Ont.
| A. c. SMITH, Denver.
| CHARLES BOGART, Chatham, Ont.
w. L. COMBS, Washington, d. c.
JOHN A. LORIMER, Chicago.
MRS. LORIMER, internally; will die.
MRS. F.. E. BARBER, Chicago.
c. w. EVANS, Boston.
GEORGE DORCY, Boston.
L. KASSING, Waseca, Mimi.
+. M. GROSSMAN, Chicago.
]. A. SELIGMAN, baggageman on Erie
| road.
The REV. ]. w. VANDERBILT, Ransom
| Kan.
| The train was three hours late, and was
| running fifty miles an hour at the time
| of the wreck. 1t had just passed over a
| high trestle when it struck a broken rail
The engine crossed in safety but it caught
| the baggage car, which left the track, with
| the day coach and two seepers, the cars
| rolling over in their terrible descent down
the twenty-foot embankment. Every cal
| except the baggage car landed ton down.
The babe of Mrs w. III. Elbourn, of Oma
ha, was thrown through a chandelier, its
skull was fractured and its face was hor-
| ribly cut 1t seems as if the passengers
| who were thrown pell-mell in the quick
| revolutions of the cars, would all be killed
The only thing which seems to have saved
| them was the fact that on the side OF
| the track on which the train fell was a
high snow drift, perhaps five feet in depth
The train crew escaped injury. The en-.
| gine did not leave the track, and the en-
| gineer and fireman thus escaped injury
| Brakeman Freundel all the way tc
| Millersburg and gave the alarm. Whistles
| were blown and bells rung, calling the
| villagers together. The relief parties from
Millersburg and Benton gave aid and gath.
| cred the partly-clothed passengers ir
blankets and carried them to nearby
| houses.
kilograms were sent out for physicians
and every doctor in Goshen responded
Later a special train carried the injured tc
Millersburg and Benton, where hotels anc
cottages were converted into hospitals
The Lake. Shore made up a relief train
and also carried doctors to the relief OF
the injured.
Such of the passengers as were not in.
jured were provided by the Lake Shore
with tickets, and went on to Chicago or
the regular Lake Shore train. In addi
ton to its other courtesies the Lake Shore
sent specially heated coach to the scene
of the wreck to care for the injured.
A dispatch from Omaha says: Mrs w
II. Elbourn, who, with her children, wa.
injured in the Wabash wreck. near Millers
| burg. is the wife of City Clerk Elbourn, o.
Omaha. She was returning from the wed
ding of her youngest brother. at Detroit Z
few days ago. Mr. Elbourn al once left FOL
the scene of the wreck. Later a messag.
was received saying that the younges
child but a few months old, had beer
fatally injured.
Pullman Car Ditched.
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