The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-28

SOhiilCtAIlS oIueIS. OOHle OF the injured may
die.
The Dead.
ALEXANDER STEWART, Petrolia, Ont
MRS. ALEXANDER STEWART, Pc
trOlia, Ont
A; RICKETTS,. sarnia Tunnel. fireman of
]. GILLIES, Sarnia Tunnel, engineer of
freight train.
MRS. ]. TROTTER, Petrolia, Ont
II. r LAWRENCE, Watford Ont.
F. S. FREEMAN, Oil Springs or Hen
sail. Ont.
NICHOLS JEFFREY, London, Ont
GUY DE PENIER, ticketed to La Crosse
Wash.
DIR. PENwARDEN. ticketed to Pc
trola, Ont.
WOMAN. supposed to be wife of Dr.
Penwarden.
]. II. BROCK, Brucefield, Ont.
o. b. BURWELL. Port Huron, Mich.
GLEN BODLEY, Port Huron, Mich.
WILSON MORTON, Chicago.
ALEXANDER CAMERON. Strathroy
Ont.
MISS NELLIE GEDDES, sarnia, Ont.
MRS. JULIA BARNES. Woodstock. Ont
EDWARD DE BEAUS, Prescott, ONT,
died at hospital.
MRS. BODLEY, Port Huron, Mich.
GEORGE BURKHOLDER. Sarnia, Ont.
a. DOUGLAS, Alvinston. Ont.
WILLIAM JOHN LUCAS, strathroy.
Ont
ROBERT STEVENSON, of Wyoming.
VIOLET BROCK, aged eleven, Of Chi
cago. formerly of Brucefield, Ont.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN. about thirty
five years old.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN. about forty
years old, well dressed.
The Injured.
ALEX. H. STEWART. Chicago. face
bruised.
MRS. J. J. CUTHBERTSON, Port Huron,
Mich, face. head and hand bruised.
JAMES ]. RAMPLIN, Toronto. bruised.
MRS. SAMUEL CUMMINGS, Port H,u-
ron, Mich, slight cuts.
HATTIE NoRTHEY. Peterboro. Ont.
slightly injured.
JAMES r. NoRTHEY, Peterboro. Ont.
bruised.
MRS. CoOTE. Chicago, bruised.
FRANK z. BAKER. London, dislocated
shoulder.
w. NJ. MORSE, WIFE and CHILD. sar-
MIA; Mr.. Morse, fractured arm; Mrs. Morse,
not serious; child. slightly injured.
THOMAS COOTE. Chicago hip injured.
GEORGE STACEY. wanstead, Ont.
slightly injured.
DR. BASIL HARVEY, Chicago, lacerated
wound in head.
MRS. j. M. STEWART and TWO Chill
DREN. Oshkosh, Wis; Mrs. stewart, frac-
tured jaw; Earl. broken arm and collar
bone, Hobart, fractured hip.
RUSSELL QUINN. Chicago. burns on
hand. scalp wound, considered serious.
JAMES BARNES. Woodstock. Ont, in
tured, not seroius.
BEATRICE GEDDES, Sarnia, Ont,
slightly injured.
j. j. CUTHBERTSoN, Port Huron,
Mich, fractured jaw, bruises; considered
serious.
JOHN BIRD, Chicago, fractured arm, in
jured back, scalp wound and lacerations
j. A. LAMONT. Wyoming. Ont. fractured
leg and decorations.
MRS. ". GoTT and DAUGHTER. Lon
don. slightly injured
]. sHAwLERK. Strathroy. slightly in
jured.
w. H. COLE and WIFE, Flint, Mich,
slightly injured
r. X M'DONALD, Strathroy. slightly in
Jured
ANNIE SINCLAIR. Komaka. Ont
slightly injured.
MISS FLossIE CUTHBERTsoN. Port
Huron. slightly injured.
MRS. PUGLEY, London, slightly injured
r. JACKSON. Petrolia. slightly injured.
The Pacific Express was two hours late
and running at high speed when IT struck
the freight as the latter was about to side
track according to orders. When the trains
met with a disastrous crash the locomo-
tives reared their pilots high in the air and
fell into the ditch. The baggage car tele-
scoped with the smoking car. and here the
death list was made. The Pullman sleepers
did not leave the rails, and their occupants
escaped except for bruises
FIFTY MILES AN HOUR.
The train was made up of two Pullman
cars two first-class day coaches and tive
baggage cars. The engineer opened wide
mis- throttle as he pulled out of Watford a
9:5S o'clock blizzard was raging ant
the air was thick with swirling snow. The
train was crowded with people returning
from holiday trips. No.. was running
fully fifty miles hour through th'
blizzard when at the Wanstead siding th'
headlight of the freight engine doomed ul
through the snow. 1t was impossible Il
see hundred feet ahead because or tn
snow and the trains crashed together al
most before the engine crews realized tina
a collision was imminent The impac
threw the two engines clear OF the tract
on the righthand side. The two da.
coaches OF the express were between tn
heavily loaded baggage cars and TN
forr Grind