The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-25
Lake Erie & Western Passenger Train
struck by an Illinois Central
stock Car ON a Crossing.
ONE COACH BROKEN IN TWO
AND FEW OF THE SIXTY OCCU-
PANTS ESCAPED INJURY.
Chicago & Northwestern Train
Man Killed and Thirty Hurt.

BLOOMINGTON, ILL.,, Aug. A.-Thirty or
more passengers were seriously injured,
some perhaps fatally by a peculiar cplli-
sion at the junction of the Illinois Central
and the Lake Erie & Western Railroad.
two miles southeast of this city, shortly be-
fore noon to-day. While a passenger train
west-bound on the latter road was passing
over the crossing car of stock which was
being pushed by a switch engine on the
Illinois Central broke loose from the engine
and dashed into the side of the passenger
train with terrific force, breaking the coach
in two and injuring nearly every one of the
sixty occupants. The coach thrown
over on its side and partially down an en-
bankment. The train crew removed the in
jured to farmhouses for medical care and
others were brought to the hospital i'm this
city on a special train. The crossing has
been a dangerous one. the Big Four also
crossing the tracks of the Central but a
short distance away, and is unprotected by
either targets or interockng plant Fol-
lowing is the complete list of the injured:
j. l.. MCOLLOM, Saybrook, ILL.,. hip hurt
and hand cut; internal injuries.
r. T. DAY Holder, ILL.,, head badly cut
and conclusion of brain, knee hurt.
MRS. SARAH III. FAwCETT, aged sixty,
Saybrook, very seriously injured internally,
may die.
MISS GRACE KERsHNER, Normal, ILL.,,
shoulder hurt.
MISS JESSIE YOULE, Saybrook, head
cut and bruised.
n. c. KEPNER, Normal back injured;
head, face and lips cut; internal hurts.
MISS LUCY SMITH, Bloomington. shout
der hurt, face cut and bruised and badly
shaken up.
MISS MARY GRIM, Gibson City, ILL.,.
knee and hand cut and bruised.
E. H. CROSBY, wife and child. Gridley,
Ill. Crosby bruised: wife, side Of head hurt
and leg injured; child. head badly hurt.
A. o.. MCDONALD, Saybrook, badly
bruised arm.
MRS. MARY RYAN. Bloomington, shout
der and face injured and internal injuries
of a serious nature.
MISS LIZZIE OSTERTAGE, Gibson City,
head badly cut and arm bruised.
MRS. j. NICHOLS, Chicago knee gashed
and bruised on various parts of the body.
DANIEL UMMELL. Remington, Ind,
aged sixty-five, probably fatal: very serious
internal injuries, side and back badly hurt,
head cut and bruised all over body.
W. p BROOKS, Arrowsmith Ill.,, head
cut badly and hand gashed.
MRS T. PRATT, Paducah, ILL.,, bruised
and shocked.
MRS S. Il. MCORD, Lynn. ILL.,, back and
neck bruised. the latter strained.
c. +. WOODWARD, Bloomington. ILL.,,
nip and BACK Spralned ana padly bruised.
ALEXANDER wOODBINE, Elliott ILL.,,
head bruised and leg injured.
JAMES f. RADBOURNE, Saybrook, hip
bruised internal hurts.
MISS LUCY SNAIL. Bloomington, collar
bone broken badly bruised and hurt inter-
nally.
MRS. WILLIAM PHILLIPS, Blooming
ton, back hurt and internal injuries.
MRS MYRTLE WATSON, Colfax, ILL.,,
back hurt and internal injuries.
w. H. JOHNSON, Melvin, ILL.,. serious
cash in throat. knee sprained. bruised.
MRS. MARY BRODWELL Remington,
Ind, with three children; mother bruised;
Bessie. head cut open, very serious; Lydie,
aged ten, hand and face hurt; babe of one
year, bruised.
MISS SADIE RUMP, Bloomington, head
injured and limbs and back sprained.
MRS. CHARLES CLAYTON, Clinton,
| Ill., shoulder bruised, back seriously injured.
| A N. RHODES, Bloomington, ILL.,, left
| thigh injured and bruised.
c. NJ. MEANS, Gibson City, head cut and
bruised.
| MISS NELLIE ARROWSMITH, Arrow
smith, ILL.,, knee hurt and head cut.
| MISS ANNA WALL, Bloomington, badly
| shaken up and bruised.
MRS. l.. b. JONES, Glenavon, ILL.,, head
| bruised.
MISS MAUD REDMOND, Ivesdale, ILL.,.
| hand cut by glass.