Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1901-06-26
TRAIN D|TCHEDI |
Wabash Road Meets
With Accident.
Sixteen Passengers Killed,
Several Injured.
Ocean Steamer Luzitania Wrecked
Of Cape Race, Canada,
COMMANDER CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT.

Peru, Ind, June 26.-Sixteen per.
sons were killed and about fifteen
seriously injured in "A wreck OF train
NO. 3, of the wcst.bound Wabash,
nine miles west OF this city. at IL 80
a. IN. today. The dead are all Italian
omigrants enroute to Colorado. Many
of the injured undoubtedly will die.
Dead. Sixteen Italian emigrants,
names unknown, and the Interpreter
is missing. Injured. Mrs. VIM. Cot.
ton, wife of General Superintendent
Cotton of the Iron Mountain railway,
badly bruised; three children. names
unknown, severely Bruised David Ag-
new, Green Oak, Ind, right arm in.
jured; John q. Mara, Denver, right leg
broken Nicola Polasa, head and
shoulder bruised; John Ickes, New
York, head and body bruised; Anna
Jubler, st. Louis, head badly bruis.
eed; Joseph PozZa, Trinidad Colo,
head and left foot injured; Herbert
Monger, Hlllsdale. Mich, face cut; /;
Joseph Cruz, Italian. New York, head.
body and left leg bruised; Mrs. Joseph
Cruz, head and body bruised, will die; ;
George 5. Miller, Alton, ILL.,, left leg
broken John r.. Williamson. Bowling
Green. Ohio, news agent, both arms
and both legs and right shoulder
blade broken Il. =. Claugh. Toledo,
Ohio, head badly crushed and right
shoulder blade broken; j. B. Wood,
Logansport, Ind. back bruised; e.
A. Thompson. Little Rock. Ark, head
and body bruised; w. a. Brode, An.
COLA Ind. face cut; Clark Taylor, Lo
gansport. Ind, head and body bruised !;
Rev. Father Welch. Logansport, Ind,
righ. foot crushed; John Wilken, La
fayette, Ind. right arm and shoulder
broken; Walter Laid, Waba5h, Ind,
right leg injured: Chas. Flanagan, flag
man, body bruised; John Adams, fire
man. head and shoulders lacerated; ;
j. S. Butler, head bruised; J. b. Lucks,
Logansport, Ind, travelling salesman,
slightly bruised. Twenty-one others
severely cut and bruised.
Two sections of train No. 3, one
coming from Detroit and the other
from Toledo, were consolidated in this
city into train of eleven cars, max
ing up the flyer for the journey to
st. Louis. Having left this city one
houI late the train was speeding west
ward at high rate when the engine
plunged through trestle undermined
by the heavy rains. The embank'
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dropped at degree forty feet. Owing
TO the momentum the train appeared
to leap nearly across the abyss.
plunged into the soft earth on the
opposite side and fell back to the
bottom. Engineer Butler and the
fireman, Adams. were thrown from the
cab, but not seriously hurt. The ex-
press car and first chair car tele-
scored. The emigrant car followed by
two chair cars went down on the left
side of the track and the first sleeper
ditched forward on the mass of debris
The remaining ears also left the
trucks, but were not badly damaged
II was in the emigrant and day
coaches that most of the deaths and
injuries occurred. Heavy foliage lined
the banks of the Culyert, the approach
To which was over reverse curve.
There was absolutely no means by
which the engine crew could see the
impending danger. The night was In
tpBsely dark. The train men rushed
10 the neighboring farm houses for
assistance. The farmers, wi,a their
wives and children, bearing torches,
hastened to the scene and all efforts
were bent in giving aid to the injured
Every physician in this town was
taken to the wreck on special train
The injured were brought to the hos
pital in this city.