The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-04
FORTY WERE INJURED.
Engine Struck String Of
Freight Cars.
Train Was Piled I'm a Heap
Across the Track.
BOUND FOR ST. LOUIS.
The Unfortunate Train Was the
Chicago Limited.

LitchfeId. ILL.,. July 4.-The list of
dead as a result of the Wabash wreck
here last night now numbers is, two
persons among the injured having
died. Two more victims are expected
to die.
Litchfield is in mourning today, and
the grand celebration of the Fourth
that had been planned has been de-
clared off. The citizens are doing
everything in their power to care for
the wounded and dead. Ever since
the wreck friends of those on board
the ilI-fated train have been arriving
in town to look after the dead and in
jured.
A wrecking crew got to work early
and is cleaning up the debris and they
may uncover other victims.
States Attorney l.. v. HILL of Kills
boro, is here with Coroner Grey and
is making an investigation into the
circumstances of the wreck, and It is
not improbable that arrests may be
ordered.
The open switch is a mystery which
the officials are trying to solve. Ac-
cording to the Wabash station agent,
Charles A. Corneau, the switch had
not been used during the entire day
by any of the trainmen. A short time
before the wreck a south-bound fast
in safety.
ST. Francis hospital is crowded
with the wounded, cots having been
placed in the corridors to accommo-
date them, and private houses have
been thrown open for the care of
those not so badly injured.
Struck Open Switch.
The Chicago Limited on the Wabash
railroad, due in st. Louis at p. m.
half an hour late. was wrecked last
night inside the city limits. The train
struck an open switch and was over
turned, and seven Of the nine cars
were burned.
1t is believed that twenty persons
perished in the second and third
coaches and that forty were injured
The injured are being cared for in
the st. Francis hospital in this city
A partial list of the killed follows:
ST. PIERRE V. BALD, Montreal,
Canada.
L. Q. EsCHsTADT, 1854 South AL
bany avenue. Chicago.
MRS. G. F. LUTHER, Milwaukee,
Wis
DAN H. DAVIS. Decatur. III.
JOSEPH BARBER, delegate from
North Dakota.
JAMES SANFORD. engineer. De-
catur, ILL.,
SAM SMITH, fireman, Decatur, Ill
MRS. PERKINS. 800 Union avenue.
Chicago.
HON. 1. r. MILLS, Decatur, III.
Injured.
S. A. Asquivitch, Waterloo. Ia; in
ternally.
William Archibald, Honeye Falls, Ky.
George Archibald.
william Balls, Chicago; fatally.
Mrs. Candyou, Milwaukee; internally.
Gleason S. Ellis MarshfieId, Wis.
James Fizzell, Taylorville. Ill.
Harry NJ. Gassaway, ST. Louis.
Joseph Grein.
OloiS Gehreg.
Mrs. Theresa Gebreg, internally.
Mrs. Anna Kenyon, Kingston, KY
Mrs Gertrude Kit, Chicago.
Mary Kit, aged 10; burned.
Joseph Kilt. II years old; burned.
Wilcol Kunocnt, Chicago.
S. Livingston, collector on train
c.. S. Macomber, Perry, KY.
Miss Huldah Mock, Arlington Heights,
Ill.
Harry Rink, Cincinnati.
James B. Roberts, Catlin, Ind
E. H. Rose, Riverside, Cal; internal
ly.
Harry s. Rubens, Chicago.
William ]. Schrader, Chicago.
Frank Smith. Chicago.
Mrs. Frank Smith, Chicago
Miss Florence Smith, Chicago.
Mrs. Elizabeth Weber, Chicago; SER
iously but not fatally.
Charles Ward, Chicago; left leg torn
w. B. Thorp, Chester, Pa; slightly
injured.
Miss Fannie Tipson, badly bruised
and internally nurt.
Mrs. B. F. Tenny. Ada, MINI; inter-
nally hurt.
B. F. Tenney. Ada, Mimi; injured
bones sprained.
Piled in a Heap.
The engine after running into the
switch struck string of freight cars
and with the first three coaches was
piled into a heap across the track and
caught fire Immediately. The last car
on the train was g special from Wis
consin. 1t was uncoupled and pushed
back and saved.
1. R. Miles, one of the dead. was
internal revenue collector at Decatur
and one of the most prominent Re-
pubIicans in central Illinois.
The track was reported clear at the
last station, and as the train was run
ming about fifty miles an hour, the
open switch was not noticed
Nearly all the passengers were
bound for ST. Louis, and those not in
jured left on the Illinois Central train
an hour later.
Coroner Gray is here and will hold
an inquest.
Know Little About It.
st. Louis, July 4.-Mr. and Mrs W.
Bachelor OF Chicago. who were on
the wrecked train, arrived in st.
Louis, coming over the Illinois Cen
tral.
I'VE know very little about the
wreck" said Mr.. Bachelor, when seen