The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-13
TWO TRAINS COLLIDE
 WHEN SOMEONE BLUNDERS
Most of Sufferers Are Immigrants { on Way to Meet Friends.
oasoekers stana Pewerie.s While vieM tims Pers.h Befsre Their rsy~s--- Hsra Fa.t by Tambrsn--Hela-
 lives walHsg Their
 Arrival FrAnaIc.

ChicaNp Nov. IF .---M0Te than pu@ haIe the passengers on an immigrant srain on the Baltimore and unio Rail- road were killed and Injured in ecl~ lision today between the pasgengeN train and . freight near woodviiie. ind.
 one hundred and sIxty-five passen~ gers were on the train. and of these forty-seven were either killed out right, or were burned Co death In a ire which broke cut i'm the wrsckaKe immediately after the collision. Th9 names of all Of the dead will probably never be known as forty-flve of tha deed bodies were consumed In the flames, CT were 30 badly burned that Identification will be out Of the uues- ton.
 Thirty-eight people were injured. and several of these will die. Eightv others escaped unhurt but lost nearly all thoir baggage and clothing.
 The names of the injured. follows The officials of tho Baltimore and Ohio road declare that this ia the only list that they are at present able to obtain.
 List Of Casualties.
 Robert Novish, arm broken. lost wife and three children.
 Lon Collan. collar bone broken
 Anthoney Bunker, Garrett. Ind. en-
 
 about the head and neck
 Samuel Nose. Garrett, Ind, head cut
 Frank Rennemann, passenger en~ gineer. Farrel. Ind, leg injured.
 -- Snyder. baRgage master, head cuta
 --Koster leg broken.
 Nick opovitch head cut
 Raleff Dather. internal injuries
 z. Petroms internal injuries B. Tuzihnsank, internal injuries.
 Radeii and wife, badly burned
 e. ErmathA, fatally scai6ed RolschoR. badly burned.
 B folats1g s izlk dly. barAeas
 Inereed. collar bone broken, .ioss wife and two children. l Cugrns scalp wound. l J. Ritter. back hurt yife and two children missing.
 l Swarpordy. head badly cut Lacip, back injured c. Ritter. leg broken. Twenty of the injured are still at nearby farm houses. As they cannot | talk English, it Is impossible to gst their names. Some of these are fatally l injured.
 The loss af life iS estimated at fifty | two.
 Due to Thunder. l The disaster was caused by a blun- | der of some employe of the railroad company, but just where the elame | lies has not as yet been determined. | The passenger train, which was load- cd with Russian Jews. Ssrvians and Poles. all of them recent arrivals In this country and bound for chicago | or places in the Northwest. was tho second section of q through train from Baltimdfe. Tho engineer Of the freight train, No. 9s, on instructions received at McCool, Ind, waited ct Q siding at Babcock, Ind, to allow the immigrant train 10 pass.
 | one report is that the engineer of the freight train had not been iufurni- ed that the passenger train was runy ming in two sections, The other is that the first section 5f the passenger train carried no lights or signals of any kind indicating that a section was close behind.
 As soon as the first section Of the immigrant train had passed the switch at Babcock. the freight train in charge of Engineer Burke and Conductor Moste started eastward. A light snow was falling, which increased the dark ness of the early morning, and as the freight was rounding a sharp curve just west of Woodville the second aecs tion of the immigrant train came In sight short distance away, tearing toward Chicago at the rate of forty miles an hour. The two trains came together with unslaclSened sp@ed. and | In the crash six passenger coaches and several freight ears were knocked Into kindling wood and together with the locomotives went rolling down the ton foot embankment. F0rty-1ive Burned to Death. | Fire broke out almost immediately | in the wreckage, and, although a num- | Der of injured were saved by the des. perate efforts of the train crew and surviving passengers, the greater part of those who were pinned down In the debris were burned to death. The flames spread through the wreciage so rapidly that it was impossible to save a number of people who were but slightly hurt, but were held fast by | timbers that weighted them down. These were burned in plain sight of the throng which stood around the scene of the disaster utterly unable to lend assistance in any way. The fro continued until all the shattered ears were entirely consumed, and of tho forty-seven persons whose death fol- lowed the collision, forty-five were burned 10 ashes.
 The crash of the collision was so 1 grent that a number of farmers and other residents of the neighberhood came hastening to the scene, but they could do nothing but lend assistance i to the injured who had already been taken from the wreck, rhe six cars of the immigrant trsm were all burn d. as were three freight cars.
 Relief trains were at once sent 3ui from south Chicago aud from Valparai- so Ind. with every available physician nnd every possible aid was given to the injured. A large number of relatives
 of passengers on the ill-fated train were in Chicago. awaiting It's arrival and when the report was received that many had been killed and injured In the wreck. the scenes around the Balti' more and Ohio station were narrowing Men were there who had como to thil country to escape the massacres ir Russia and who after months of hard work had saYed enough to pay ths massage of members Of their fsmiliea