Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-06-26
A DISASTROUS
TRAIN WRECK
A Passenger Train Of the Wabash
Railroad Meets an Accident
Shortly After Midnight.
SIXTEEN PERSONS KILLED
Fifty People We're Seriously Injured The
Dead Are All Italian Immigrants
Bound for Colorado Many of ~
the Injured Will Die.

Peru, Ind, June 26.-SiXteen persons
were killed, and about fifty seriously In
jured in sthe wreck Of train No.3, of the
westbound Wabash limited, nine miles
west of this city at 1890 a. m. today.
The dead are all italian emigrants en-
route to Colorado. Many of the injured
undoubtedly will die. The dead are:
Sixteen Italian emigrants, names un-
known, interpreter missing. Among the
injured are Mrs. VIM. Cotton, wife of
the general superintendent of the Cot
ton Iron Mountain railway, badly bruis-
ed. Three children, names unknown,
severely bruised.
David Agnew of Green Oak, Ind,
right arm injured: John O'Mara of Den
yer, right leg broken; Nicola Polasa
head and shoulder bruised; John Ickes
of New York, head and body bruised;
Anna Juber of st. Louis, head badly
bruised; Joseph PoZZa of Trinidad,
Colo, head and left foot injured; Her
bert Menger of Hillsdale, face cut; Jo-
seph Crutz, Italian, of New York, head,
body and left leg bruised; Mrs. Joseph
Cruz, head and body bruised, will die;
George s. Miner of Alton, left leg brok-
en-; John f. Williamson of Bowling
Green, Ohio, news agent both arms,
both legs, and right shoulder blade bro
ken; E. P. Claugh of Toledo, Ohio, head
badly crushed and right shoulder blade
broken; J. b. Wood of Logansport, Ind,
back bruised; G. A. Thompson of Little
Rock, Ark, head and body bruised; w.
A. Brode of Angola, Ind, face cut; G.
Taylor of Logansport, Ind, head and
body bruised; Rev. Father Welch of Lo-
gansport, Ind, right foot crushed; John
Wilkins of Lafayette, Ind, right arm
and shoulder broken; Walter Laid of
Wabash, Ind, right leg injured; Chas.
Flanagan, flag1nan, body bruised; John
Adams fireman, head and shoulders
lacerated; J. S. Butler head bruised; ].
B. Lucks of Logahsport, Ind, travelling
salesman, slightly bruised Twenty-one
others were severely cut and bruised.
Two sections of train No. 8, one coming
from Detroit and the other from Toledo,
We're consolidated in this city into one
for the journey to st. Louis.
Having left this city an hour late, the
train was speeding westward at high
rate of speed when the engine plunged
through culvert undermined by heavy
rains. The embankment on both sides
of the little stream dropped forty feet at
a sharp degree. Owing to the momen-
tum of. the train, the engine appeared to
leap nearly across the abyss and plung-
ed into the soft earth on the opposite
side and fell back to the bottom. Engi-
neer Butler and Fireman Adams were
thrown from the cab, but not seriously
hurt. The express car and the first
chair car telescoped. The emigrant car
followed by two chair cars went down
to the left side of the track and the first
sleeper pitched forward on the mass of
debris. The remaining cars also left
the trucks but were not badly damaged.
Tt was in the emigrant and in the day
coaches that most Of the deaths and in
juries occurred. Heavy foliage lined
the banks of the culvert, the approach
to which was over a reverse curve"
There was absolutely no means by
which the engine crew could see the i'm
pending danger. The night was intense
ly dark. The trainmen rushed to the
neighboring farmhouses for assistance.
Farmers, with their wives and children
bearing torches hastened to the scene
and all efforts were bent to giving aid to
the injured. Every physician in this
town was taken to the wreck in a spec
ial train. The injured were brought to
the general hospital in this city.
AN OFFICIAL REPORT.
st. Louis, Mo-, June 26.-The official
report of Division Superintendent e. A.
Gould, to President Ramsey of the Wa
bash system, states that thirteen Ital-
ian emigrants were killed, three sup
posed fatally injured, eleven seriously,
and thirty-one slightly bruised and
scratched Only one of the killed Is
known.
Fannie Mulvie and Mrs. Joe Grose,
whose husband was badly injured, are
missing. The fatally injured are: Luige
Venini, no address; Matte Cruz, wife
of Jose Cruz, Coster Gate, Utah; an
unknown Italian. The accident was
caused by washout at the cu1vert (not
trestle). Superintendent Gould says:
1T learn from persons living near Cass
that two black clouds came In contact
about over the place where the train
was wrecked. The culvert, which
washed out was stone box three feet
square under 25 foot fill. Tke water
was about five feet above the opening
of the culvert and about 200 feet wide,
causing the earth above to slide.'
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