The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-28
INJURED ATTENDED TO BY DIR!
JOHN III. OLIVER AND ROSS.
Brakeman Angel Had Been Ordered
to Close the Switch and Neglected
His Instructions.


GEORGE H. FRAZIER. engineer Of pas
senger train Is Walcott street. city.
Injured
LOUIS N. GRANT. fireman. 1914 South
eastern avenue left arm broken, scalp
wound and severely bruised.
JOHN F. CLAYTON, baggageman. 9O6
Wright street, severe cuts about the head
and bruised.
PATRICK MLAUGHLIN, express mes
senger, Louisville, KY, bruised on the left
hip and knee.
CHARLES HORNEY. conductor, Louis
vile, KY, bruises and severe scalp wound
on back of the head.
MRS. JENNIE KINAEBER, Columbus,
Ind, bruised about the face and cut on chin.
PETER KEssLER, Seymour. Ind. right
shoulder hurt.
An open switch the J., NJ. & /. Rail-
road at the siding at Saffron, two miles
south of the Belt Railroad. caused a wreck
at 6:24 o'clock last night which resulted
in the death of Engineer George H. Frazier,
the severe injury of the fireman. Louis
Grant, and the slight injury of five others.
including two passengers of the train. Train
No. 80, Louisville accommodation of the
j., M. & l. road, consisting of one baggage
coach and two passenger coaches, ran into
an open switch-open. it is claimed, because
Louis Angel, a brakeman. The train crashed
into cut of four steel cars loaded with
stone which were standing on the siding
awaiting the passage of the passenger train.
The report of the wreck reached Indianap-
oils Immediately, and soon after 1t was re-
ceived a special car was sent to the scene
in which Drs. John H. oliver and David
Ross were taken to the scene of the wreck
to attend the injured.
KILLED IN THE CAB.
The engineer of the passenger train,
George Frazier was killed at his seat in
the cab of his locomotive by the driving
rod of the engine which was driven through
the cab. His fireman, Louis Grant, jumped
from the cab when the train left the main
track and escaped with broken arm and
severe body bruises. The baggagemaster,
John F. Clayton, and the express mes
senger, Patrick Mclaughlin, were busy at
their duties of arranging the baggage when
the train struck the coal cars. and each
was hurled to the forward end of the car.
Mclaughlin was fortunate in sustaining
only slight bruises on the hip and knee and
Clayton, in striking the end of the car, cut
a large cash in his head and this injury,
with several severe bruises and scratches,
was sufficiently serious to necess.tate his
being sent to his home, 906 Wright street,
city. Charles Horney, the conductor of the
passenger train, was standing in the last
coach of the train talking with pas
senger when the wreck occurred and he
was thrown with great violence to the
floor and rendered unconscious. His in
juries consist of a severe scalp wound on
the back of the head and painful bruise.
The other two persons injured. Mrs. Jennie
Kinaeber of Columbus, Ind:, and Peter
Kessler. of Seymour, were but slightly in
jured and were able to proceed with the
an IN thai wv han left WI
other engine at 1925 o'clock.
Last nights wreck on the J., NJ. & l.
is the second one on this system within two
weeks. Nov: 16 the same train, No. S2
| operated by the same crew, collided with a
| freight engine about a mile north of the
scene of last nights wreck, opposite Gar
| field Park In this collision, Fireman Louis
Grant painfully injured and Frazier,
| the engineer who was killed last night,
10 h s Ta
| Ii was claimed, was due 10 the bad judg-
ment of the engineer of the freight engine
! in allowing his engine to protrude from the
| siding onto the main track In the way of
| the passenger train. The passenger en-
| gine struck it with the force OF train
running twenty miles an hour and both
| locomotives were derailed and rolled down
! the embankment at that point. The prop
erty loss and damage of the wreck was
| insignificant and the right of way was only
| blocked few hours.
| NEGLECTED INSTRUCTIONS.
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! due to the neglect of Louis Angel to follow
| out the instructions given him by his su-
perior, John Long. conductor of the freight
train known to the railroad men as the
second s4, local freight between Indian
apols and Jeffersonville. Long, Angel and
Edgar Phillips, the rear brakeman. were in
charge of the freight train. They left In
dianapolis before 6 o'clock, but when
/ lo1 h. a;
covered that there was a lack of water in
| the tender. After waiting for the passage
| of Train SO, from Louisville, a section of
the train was left at the siding near Green
wood. Another part. consisting of four
| cars, two of them new steel cars laden with
| stone was taken to the siding at Saffron.
| Here the engine was cut from the cars and
| Angel, the front brakeman. instructed by
| the conductor TO stay with the cut and
after the engine had pulled out of the sid
| ing to close the switch. The engine was
| then started TO Indianapolis TO replenish
| the water tank.
| After the engine had passed the switch
| Angel threw over what is know as q
| ''throw-off''-a mechanical device used on
railroad switches to prevent the cars left
standing on siding from rolling onto the
| main track should the passage of another
train start them in motion-but did not
close the switch. The switch target is
| about the length of car from the throw
| off," and this oversight of Angels is hard
for the railroad employees TO account for
| He is said TO De railroad man OF more
| than four years experience and has
worked on the Panhandle system Ions
| enough to know the entire road between
| indianapolis and Louisville.
Train 81 left Indianapolis at 6:l5 O'Clock
| with seventy-five passengers from Indian
apolis for way points between here and
| Louisville and passengers for points or
the Madison branch. Charles Horney was
the conductor in charge of the train. which
| run slowly until after the Belt sailroao
| had been crossed. At Raymond street
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