The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-11-14
FRlGHTFUL COLLISION
An Immigrant and Freichi Train
u me together.
KILLED


Chicago. Nov. Is More han hall
the passengers on an immigrant train
on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
which coilidcd with a freight train
headon AT Woodville Ind. near valpa.
raiso, Monday. were burned to death.
There We're forty-seyen fatalities. all
but one being reduced to ashes Thlr.
ty.eight were injured There were is5
passengers on the train.
The disaster was caused by a blum
der of some employee of the railroad
company, but just where the blame lies
has not yet been determined The pas
senger train, which was loaded with
RUSSIAN Jews, Servians and Poles, all
OF them recent arrivals in this country.
ana bound Tor Chicago or places in
the northwest, was the second section
OF a through train from Baltimore.
Inc engineer of the freight train, No.
30, on instruction received at McCool.
IND, waited at a siding at BabCock.
Ind. to allow the immigration train
TO pass. One report is that the en-
g!neer of the freight had not been in
formed that a passenger train was
running in two sections. The other
is that the first section of the passen-
ger tram carried no lamps or signals
OF any kind indicating that a second
section was elise behind. AS soon as
he iirst section of the immigrant train
had passed the switch at Babcock
he freight train, in charge of Engin-
Ger Burk and Conductor Moste, started
eastward. A light snow was falling.
which increased the darkness of the
easrly morning, and as the freight was
rounding a sharp curve lust west Of
Woodville, the second section of the
tlomirgarnt train came in sight a short
distance away, leading toward Chicago
at the rate of forty miles an hour.
The two trains came together with
unslackened speed, and in the crash
six passenger coaches and several
freight cars were knocked into kin
ding wood, and together with the le-
comotives went rolling down the ten
foot embankment. Fire broke out al
most instantly in the wreckage. al
though a number Of people were saved
by the desperate efforts Of the train
crew and surviving passengers.
The crash of the collision was so
great that a number OF farmers and
other residents OF the neighborhood
came Mastering to the scene. but they
could do nothing but lend assistance to
the injured who had already been talk.
en- from the wreck. All of the six cars
of the immigrant rain were burned
as were three freight cars.
Relief trains were at once sent out
from Chicago and from Valparaiso
Ind. with every available physician
and every possible aid vas given tc
the INJURED.
A large number OF the relatives and
passengers on the Inflated train were
in Chicago awaiting their arrival, n
when the report was received that
many had been killed and injured in
a wreck the scene, around the Balti.
more and Ohio station were harrow
ing.
Men were there who had come to
this country to escape the massscres
in Russia, and who, after months Of
hard work. had saved enough 10 pay
the passage of mcmbers OF their fami
lies. and the grief when they became
ACQUAINTED that their efforts had r..
suited ~ death To those whom they
sought to meet vas pitiful.
Inc Russians had waited around
the station an day waiting for news
from WoUdville. and when, late In the
afternoon. "A train came In bearing the
thlfty-rtght Injured persons. an OF
whom were taken to Mercy hospital for
treatment. itW "a with the greatest
difficulty that the police were able tn
omen a p~assageway for the wounded
Several uf the foreigners became $500
excited that they attempted tu attact
station attaches .hose uniforms led
them Ca believe they were employed
~ the baltimore aud ohio railroad
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brought to this station was Mrs Anna
thtssa Who had come from Narsau
to meet her husband Vhu has been
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