Warren sheaf., 1903-08-06
many ARE INJURED
IN railway Wreck
Head On Collision Between Freight
and Passenger Trains 1njure
Sixteen Persons.
ACCIDENT RESULT OF SHORT
DELAY and A VERY HEAVY FOG

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Broken Drawbar Made the Freight
q Six Minutes Behind Time-Brake-
III mans Signal to Fast Passenger
Train Not Seen In Time ON Account
of the Fog.
Indianapolis, Ind, Aug. IA special
to the News from Hartford City, Ind,
says: A head-on collision occurred at
.2:4O Monday morning between a vest
bound Pan Handle freight and the east
bound passenger. Number Of persons
injured Is. Some may die
The injured: w. H. Maui, Logans-
port, left leg cut and bruised: George
Aldworth, 231 West Conger street,
Chicago, going to Ireland, right leg
crushed off below the knee; M. L. Balm,
Richmond, right leg shattered; c. H.
Frederick, Ridgeville, Ind, left leg
broken; j. A. Watts, Chicago, right leg
cut in several places and dislocated;
Christopher Gerhardt, SO East Huron
street, Chicago, both legs crushed and
hurt internally. William ]. Wells, Chi
cagO, both legs crushed and one side in
jured; P. ]. Barrett, Chicago, both legs
broken; George Rowe, Logansport, en-
gineer Of the freight, bottom of right
foot torn and bruised, caught between
apron of engine and tender; Ben Pala-
ors, Denver, on his way to Italy, right
leg bruised; John R. Killing, Logansport,
conductor, going to Bradford to take
the local, left leg broken at the ankle,
right foot bruised; George Galtwein,
Chicago, on his way to Boston, feet
bruised and cut and back sprained; E.
w. Snyder, Logansport, on his way to
Columbus, right foot crushed; W. A.
Rumell, Logansport, on his way to
Union City, left leg bruised; Ephriam
Whistler, Logansport, rural route No. 5,
on his way to Columbus, left leg badly
sprained and bruised between the knee
and ankle, left side bruised; Richard
Harvey, Elmwood, on his way to Pitts
burg, right leg broken between the knee
and ankle, big toe broken on left foot.
These are the most seriously wounded
Five or six others were cut and bruised.
How the Accident Happened.
The accident happened opposite the
Clelland factory. The freight was sec
ton Of No. 81. It had orders to get to
the lap track west Of the Clelland fac
tory and to let the passenger by A
broken drawbar caused six minutes
delay. The engineer sent the brake
man ahead to flag the passenger.
The freight stopped at the Washington
street crossing, but soon followed the
flagman. There was heavy fog, max
ing it impossible to see so feet ahead,
Opposite the Clelland Office the fagman
saw the passenger coming at full speed.
He had just time to give shout and
jumped for safety. Both engines were
reversed when they met, but the mo-
mentum was not checked to any ex-
tent. The passenger train consisted of
six cars. There were two baggage and
express cars, a smoker, lady's coach,
the Pullman sleeper Woodland and
tourist sleeper. The second baggage
car telescoped the smoker, tearing
through half it's length and sweeping
the people from its path like chaff.
The shock threw many people from
their seats The passengers from the
other cars rushed to the aid Of those in
the front Of the smoker, but it was near
ily an hour and half after the accident
before the last one was taken from the
wreck of the smoker
Terrible Accident in Austria.
Berlin, Aug. A dispatch to the
Volks Zeitung from Breslau reports
serious disaster on the railway be-
tween Sucha and Kalvaria, Austrian
Silesia. A train consisting Of II cars
heavily loaded with stone broke their
couplings and ran at terrific speed
down sharp grade for 20 miles until
they collided with passenger train
Thirty persons are said to have been
killed and 81 others severely injured
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