The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1906-11-16
AZ KILLED
IMMIGRANT TRAM AND FREIGHT
COLLIDE ON.A CURVE IN
INDIANA.
MANY BURNED TODEATH
The Flames Consumed All but Two Of
the Dead-Pitiful Scenes in Chi
cage, Where Friends Await
ed Loved Ones.

Chicago-More than one-half the
passengers on an immigrant train on
the Baltimore x Ohio railroad were
killed or injured in a collision be-
tween the passenger train and a
freight near Moodville, Ind one hun
dred and sixty-fye passengers were
on the train. and OF these a. were
either killed outright or We're burn "a
TO death IN the fire which broke out
In the wreckage Immediately after the
collision. The names OF all Of the
dead will probably never be known. as
a. OF the bodies were consumed in the
flames. or were 50 badly burned that
Identification is impossible. Thirty
eight people were injured and several
Of these will die Eighty others es-
capped unhurt, but lost nearly all their
baggage and clio hing
Some One Blundered.
The disaster was caused by blum
der OF some employe OF the railroad
company but just whore the blame
lies has not as yet been determined.
The passenger train which was load
ed with Russian Jews Servians and
Poles. all OF them recent arrivals in
this country, and bound for Chicago.
or places in the northwest was the
second section of a through train from
Baltimore The engineer OF freight
train No &c, on instructions received
az McCool. Ind. waited AZ a siding at
Babcock, Ind, 10 allow the immigrant
train to pass. One report is that the
engineer OF the freight train had not
been informed that the passenger
train was running in two sections;
the other is that the first section OF
the passenger train carried no lights
or signals OF any kind indicating that
a second section was close behind.
Collision at a Curve.
AS soon as the first section OF the
immigrant train had passed the switch
az 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 sec
/ ton OF the immigrant train came in
sight a short distance away. tearing
\ toward Chicago at the rate of 40 miles
/ an hour. The two trains came togeth.
err with unslackened speed and in the
crash six passenger coaches and sew
eral freight cars We're knocked into
u kindling wood. and together with the
I locomotive went rolling down the ten
foot embankment
Fire Consumes Dead and Injured.
Fire broke out almost imme diately
in the wrcckaee. and although a mum
Der of injured were saved by tn dos
perate efforts Of the train crew and
surviving passengers. the greater part
By those who were pinned down in -hr
debris were burned 20 death The
flames spread through the wreckage
so rapidly that il was impossible tc
save number Of people who were but
slightly hurt but We're held fast by
timbers Thess We're burned in plair
sight Of the throng which stood around
the scene OF the disaster utterly I'M
able 20 lend assistance ! ne mrs con
tinued until an Of the shattered cars
were entirely Consumed. and Of thu
a. people whose death followed th'
collision As were burned 20 ash s.
PitifuI Scenes in Chicago.
A large number Of the relatives o
the passengers on the Inflated trair
we're in Chicago awaiting their arriva
and when the report of catastrophe
was received. scenes around the Balti
more Il Ohio depot were narrowing
Crowds OF Russians and Poles waited
around the depot all day for new
from Woodvile. and when late in tn
, afternoon. a train came in bearing TIT
IS injured persons, it was with tn
greatest difficulty that the police wer'
. able to open a passageway for tn
wounded The police were inexorable
! and all OF the injured were taken Z
, a hospital. where It Is believed the.
I will receive better care than thei
! friends may be able TO give them.