The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-04
WRECKS LIST
OF DEAD GROWS
Deaths Among Wabash Catas.
trophies Injured Swell Num-
Der of Fatalities.
OPEN SWITCH THROWS
TRAINFROM TRACK
Mystery Surrounds Opening of the
Switch and Officials Are
Investigating.

Litchfield, Ill, July 4.-Nineteen
are dead and a number are missing
as a result of the wreck on the Wa
bash railroad here last night, when
train No. II, from Chicago, left the
track at misplaced switch and
crashed into a line Of freight cars
standing on a sidetrack.
Seven hundred persons were on the
Inflated train at the time It dashed
into the sidetrack.
Two more bodies were taken from
beneath the wreckage today.
The number of dead will not exceed
twenty while the injured number any
where from thirty-f1ve to fifty. It WILL
be some time before a complete list
of casualties can be obtained. The
list of the dead includes the followings
MRS. FLORENCE SMITH. Chicago.
MRS. PERKINS, Chicago,
CHARLES GALAISE, Chicago.
HARRY NJ, BEATRIcH, Chicago
MRS. c. F. LUTHER, milwaukee,.
ISAAC r. MILLS, DECATUR
UBALD ST. PIERRE, Montreal.
JACOB BARBER, Park River. N. d.
L. A. EICHSTADT, Chicago.
JAMES SANFORD, engineer, DECATUR
w, +. SMITH, fireman. Decatur
REV, M, NJ MILLS, Bridgetown, Iowa.
CHARLES WARD, Chicago.
Fl. L. GRAVES, train dispatcher, De-
catur
RICHIE NOACK, boy about years,
Arlington Heights. Chicago.
Four unidentified men.
The list of the injured:
s. A. Asquivitch, Waterloo, Iowas inter-
nally.
William Archibald. Honey Falls, KY,
George Archibald.
William Balls, Chicago, fatally.
Mrs. Candyou, Milwaukee, internally,
Gleason S. Ellis, Marshheld, Wis.
James Ftzzell Taylorville, III,
Harry M Gassaway, st. Louis.
Joseph Grein.
Alois Gehreg.
Mrs Theresa Gehreg, internally,
Mrs Anna Kenyon. Kingston, KY
Mrs. Gertrude Kitt,. Chicago.
Mary Kilt. aged TO-, burned.
Joseph Kit aged 10, burned.
Wilcol Kunocht, Chicago
S. Livingston, collector on train.
G. S. Macomber, Perry, Ky.
Miss Huldah Mock, Arlington Heights,
Illinois.
Harry Rink, Cincinnati
James B. Roberts, Catlin, Ind.
e. Fl. Rose, Riverside, CAL, internally
49,. Harry s. Ruhena, Chicago. .--.,,.-r-.
William ]. Schrader, Chicago.
Mrs. Frank Smith, Chicago.
Miss Florence Smith, Chicago.
Mrs. Elizabeth Weber, Chicago. serious
~ put not Tata1ly.
Charles Ward, Chicago, left leg torn OFF
w. B. Thorpe, Chester. Pa, slightly in
tured,
Miss Fannie T1pson. badly bruised and
internally hurt,
Mrs. B. B. Tenney, Ada, Min11.s Internal
ly hurt,
2. :. Penney. Adas MIMI. injured bones
A wrecl1ing crew got to work early
| and Is cleaning up the debris, and
| they may uncover other victims.
The wrecked train was the Wabash
| roads Chicago-St. Louis limited. II
was running thru Lttehheld thirty
minutes behind time and was going
at the rate Of fifty miles an hour wher
1t struck an open switch, The train
consisted of seven cars, Of which the
four forward cars were overturned
against some freightcaps on an adj
joining track and burned. Two sleep.
ers and a diner in the rear We're u1l,
injured,
Charles Corneau, station agent a;
Litchfield, said that the wreck wa
the result Of malicious mischief, ant
tempered with. Not fifteen minutes
before the accident the third sectiol
| Of passenger No. La, south-bound
passed over it safely. But when No
II was derailed there the switch wa
turned and the lock lying on tn
ground beside it.
States Attorney L. ". Hill
Of Hillsboro, who is here witt
Coroner Gray, is making al
investigation into the circumstance
Of the wreck and It Is not i'm
probable 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 ha
not been used during the entire da;
by any Of the trainmen.
Nearly all the passengers wer
bound for st. Louis and those not In
jured left on the Illinois Central trail
an hour later. The injured are beln
,, cared for at the ST. Francis hosptta
here.