Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-27
FATAL WRECK ON WABASH
Four Persons Are Known to Be Dead in
Accident in Illinois
ABOUT FORTY PERSONS ARE INJuNEI
All Cars hut One Overturned and
Burned when Buffalo Mail from
Kansas City strikes
open switch. ,


train No. on the Wabash railroad crashed
through an open switch into freight train
near here today. Last reports show four
dead and one missing. Probably thirty-fve
or forty people were injured. most of them
slightly. The cause of the wreck. as given
by General Manager Henry Miller of the
Wa/ash, was Accident caused by the crew
of the freight train leaving the switch
open"
The dead:
JONAS BUTLER OF Peru, Ind. engineer
! Of the passenger train.
A, W. ALLISON. fireman of the passenger
! train, Lafayette, Ind
EDWARD HARDING. mail clerk. Ives
{. II. KARNEs, mail clerk address un.
known.
| Missing;
George 6. .Geodoman. a stock raiser of
/ Springfield, ILL.,
Among the injured are:
j. ID. Foster of DanvilIe, Ind; cut on the
e; L. .Jessup Of Catlin. mail clerk; burned
J NJ A. Sinks of Marion ILL.,. chest injured;
hnrt In head and leg; not fatal
George Goldman of Springfield, ILL.,,
stock raiser, riding in stock car on the
! freight train, Is missing.
| George Morrow, colored porter, Kansas
! City; cut about head; not seriously.
Bert Cain of Kansas City, slightly
! Frank J. Bickford Of Hillsboro Bridge
Mr H Syrned wsn on nh@dIa HAMS az Snd Msees o
,cietls Clannan, years old, Detroit;
Mr.. and Mrs. F. seger of Philadelphia,
Mrs. Fred seebaum of Kansas City
Mrs Luther Shoemaker of spencerville,
Ind. seriously burned.
Arthur shoemaker, months old; badly
/
Mrs. Dolly Waldsman of Guelph, Ont,
burned on the face and arms, Her chill
John, aged 14-all burned. but not seriously.
! Mrs. Nellie Livingston of Buffalo, n. y,
Rose sged pd m ecE ays red Her obb nTs
4; Fern, aged 1-all badly burned, but will
recover.
w A. Butler of Fort Wayne, Ind, scalp
wound.
Joseph Laney of Renfro. okl. hands and
legs burned.
right hand burned.
! c. l.. Flowers postal clerk of Litchfield.
! Ill. scalp wound.
Mrs. Dora Stockton of Montmorency,
neck, ears and face burned
Carrie Booher of Montmorency, slight
burns about head and face.
George H. Yeagy and wife Of Coving-
| ton, Ind, both badly burned, but II ls
believed they will recover.
I SIX Cars Burned.
Besides these there were about twelve
passengers who were in the dining car
| and were taken to Decatur, ILL.,, where
they are being cared for.
| The train consisted of engine smoker,
baggage cars, two Pullmans. one chair car
and a diner All but the diner were
burned The train was going at the rate
of sixty miles an hour and, nearly every
passenger was asleep at the time
Nearly everyone lost all clothing except
night wear.
Mail Clerk Harding was pinioned beneath
the mail car. He was roasted to death be-
fore he could be cut out. Engineer Butler
and Fireman Ellison were crushed beneath
their engine. Their bodies afterward
burned.
! A carload OF paint attached to the
/ freight train was burned and II Is In the
wreckage near the car where George Coda
man was burned to death. A telegraph
pole was burned, which crippled telegraph
service and delayed information.
The farmers took care of the wounded
and provided what clothing they could.
The passengers were then taken 10 Dan
Vile by relief train and were wrapped
in whatever covering could be gathered up
to make them comfortable until they
reached the hospitals.
4 OmciaI Report.
| ST. LOUIS, Sept. 2S--The following ON
cial statement concerning the wreck at
Catlin. ILL.,. was issued by General Manager
Henry Miller at the Wabash headquarters
here this afternoon:
At $40 a. M. eastbound passenger train
No. struck a freight train on the siding
at Catlin. Ill The wreck took fire and
| the mail car, combination car chair car
and two sleepers were burned
Jonas Butler. engineer; A. w. Allison
fireman, and I'D Harding and C. H. Karnes,
mail clerks, were killed.. About thirty
were injured. one fatally.
i The accident was caused by the crew OF
the freight train leaving switch open.
Wreck In wisconsin.
SUPERIOR. Wis, Sept $.-The Twilight
limited, due here at s:25. over the Omaha
road, last night was wrecked by a wash
out ten miles from this city and three men
were slightly injured.