The Indianapolis journal., 1902-11-09
greatest aid TO relief, as the fog and dark
ness added some danger to the work.
DT uknE-D rn pI~ KIT LED

great was MS Agency AS tney atteHpleu "
remove the debris to reach him they heard
him pronouncing the name Of God. They
waited while the injured man prayed in in
distinguishable words With his eyes
turned toward heaven Foutz ceased speak
ing. His lips parted. and his head fell and
the pallor Of death oyerspread his counte-
nance. The patrolmen wept as they lifted
the lifeless form from the wreck and laid
it tenderly the ground.
Engineer Bunting was found in his cab
crushed and bleeding. Bunting possessed
the spirit OF martyr. He had tried TO save
his engine from demolition and succeeded at
the cost of one of his legs. When the in
jured were taken TO st. Vincents Hospital,
DIR. c. o. Lowry. superintendent of the City
Dispensary, asked Bunting about his in
juries.
Go to the others first, DOCTOR" he said.
'They need you more than L do"
Because of this Bunting was the last of
the injured to receive attention. Then it was
found that one of his legs was broken and
crushed and the other had sustained a COM
pound fracture.
Bunting showed true heroism," said DR..
Lowry His heroism was better recognized
when his injury proved to be Of such serious
character that one leg required amputa-
ton.
HAD LOST TIME.
The freight train lost considerable time
en- route on account of extra switching on
side tracks and taking sidings for regular
trains to pass. In view of this loss of time,
when the freight train arrived at Norris
town the dispatcher at that place told Con-
ductor wooley that his train had become
f,,fO T,,If C
an extra. He had not been apprised that
a work train would leave the indianapolis
| yards carrying workmen to point near
Irvington. After leaving Morristown Con-
ductor Woolley gave orders TO run into
indianapolis at high speed. The train con-
tinued through 1rvington and around the
! curve of the c., II. & d. tracks, just south
/ of Tuxedo.
A heavy fog obscured the track. The
conductor on the work train had not been
! told of the extra freight which was coming
to Indianapolis and ran out of the city
| thinking he had clear track. The two
engines came together at the point where
the c., H. & d. track breaks off the curve
and runs in a straight line into the city.
1t is about one block from Pleasant run
and about two blocks south of Washington
street.
! SAW THE HEADLIGHT.
| As the freight train rounded the curve it
was about trains length from the work
train. 1t was running along at a rapid
pace The laborers on the front end of the
work train were the first to notice the dim
light of the headlight on the freight train
as it rounded the curve. AS the train
plunged on Engineer Bunting saw Engi-
4 ha
versed but it was too late. The two big
| engines crashed into one another with
great force. AS they settled down the
crash was followed by an explosion from
engine No. 315 The blow-off cock of the
engine blew out, allowing steam and hot
water to pour over the workmen pinoned
beneath the trucks.
Conductor woolley and Brakeman Law
ton were sitting in the caboose when the
crash came. They were thrown off their
seats and received a severe shaking up.
After they extricated themselves they were
met by the horrifying screams of the in
jured. They at once gave assistance.
The railroad officials near the Belt road
were Immediately notified of the disaster
! by Bernice Dittmer, who ran about one
mile from the wreck to tell of the accident.
| Dc4Oic TIC pOAi(C obdAiOi anu Oity D4SRCH-
sary had been notified the residents Of that
locality had been apprised of the wreck by
the great noise that accompanied it.
TRACK TORN UP.
The c., H. s. d. tracks were torn up for
several hundred yards. The roadbed was
also dug up by the cars as they were
twisted and torn before falling into the
gulley Wreck trains were at once sent
| nd tha IT g. II
roundhouses. Both companies worked all
day in clearing the track. 1t was not until
5 clock last night that the entire track
was cleared and the track repaired. The
regular trains out Of Indianapolis were
run over the Big Four tracks The incom-
ing trains also came in over the Big -Four
road.
When the wreck occurred a call was i'm
mediately sent to the city for the ambu-
lances. A number of policemen were sent
along with the City Dispensary and City
Hospital ambulances. The injured were
given slight attention at the scene of the
wreck, then placed in the ambulances and
hurried to ST. vincents Hospital. The dead
were taken to the city morgue. Later they
were taken in charge by Flanner & Buchan-
an, undertakers, and the bodies prepared
for shipment At ST. Vincent's Hospital las
night Ii was said the injured were in &
. precarious condition. Orlando Mckinney
who suffered both legs broken, was con
| sidered to be In the most serious condition
When the wreck became known in the
. | city Drs. Theodore Potter and Hugh Nj
Lash were quickly sent to the scene by th'
| officials of the c., II. * ID. Railroad. Thes'
| physicians, with the assistance OF the hos
| pital internes, looked after the injured a
the hospital.
HELPING THE IMPRISONED.
Conductor Woolley and Brakeman Law
ton, who were not injured. got out of th
A pile of debris into which they fell when tn
crash came and began at once looking afte
: the injured The sight that met their gaz
appalled, them. Pinioned beneath tn
wheels, with hot water and steam pouring
over him, was the body of Bert Foutz
- Beneath other cars and in front of the en-
sine of the work train were the maime
bodies OF the laborers. Woolley at one
s began trying TO extricate the injured. Sew
eral men were sitting on the front part o
the tender, and these probably saved them
selves from instant death by trying to jun
when they saw the freight train. The
received severe injuries in jumping. Tn
crash OF the freight train was so great tina
received their wounds about the legs whe
the two engines came together. In fallin
some of them fell in the pools of hot waite
that escaped from the boiler of engine NJ
3l5 when the explosion came Woolley an
Lawton, with the assistance of Bicycle Pc
licemen Trimpe and Low, with DR.
Schenck, Potter. Lash, Jobes and Kenned,