New-York tribune., 1906-11-13
SCORES DEAD IN WRECK
FLAMES KILL WOUNDED.
Immigrant Train on the Baltimore
6 Ohio an Collision.

Chicago. Nov. 12-hore than one-half the pas
sengers on an Immigrant train on the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad killed and injured in a
collision to-day Woodvle. Ind.
One hundred and siXty-fve passengers were
the train. Forty-seven We're killed outright
or burned TO death in fire that broke out
in the wreckage Immediately after the collision
The names Of all the dead will probably never
be known, as fOrty-fve of the bodies were con-
sumed in the flames or badly burned
that identification will be out Of the question.
Thirty-eight people were injured. several of
whom will die. Eighty others escaped urhurt.
but lost nearly all their baggage and clothing.
The passenger train, which was loaded with
Russian Jews. Servians and Poles bound for
Chicago or places northwest. was the second
section of through train from Baltimore. The
engineer of freight train No. 90, on instructions
received at McCoOl, Ind, waited at a siding at
Babcock. Ind. to allow the immigrant train to
pass. One report IS that he had not been in
formed that the passenger train was running in
two sections; the other is that the first section
of the passenger train carried no lights or sig
nails OF any kind indicating that a second sec
ton was close behind. AS soon as the first sec
ton Of the immigrant train had passed the
switch at Babcock the freight started eastward
A light snow was falling which increased the
was rounding a sharp curve just west of Wood
willie it hit the second section OF the immigrant
train, which was running forty miles hour
Six passenger coaches and several freight cars
were knocked into kindling wood AMI. together
with the locomotives. went rolling Down a ten
foot embankment.
Fire broke out almost Immediately in the
wreckage and, although many of the injured
were saved by the desperate efforts cf the train
| crew and surviving passengers, the greater
| part of those who pinned down in the de-
bris were burned to death. The flames spread
| through the wreckage so rapidly that it was
| impossible TO save number Of people who were
| only slightly hurt, but We're held fast by tim
bers that weighted them down. These were
| burned in plain sight Of the throng that stood
| around the scene Of the disaster, unable TO lend
| assistance. The fire continues until the shat
| tered cars we're consumed, and of the forty
seven people whose death followed TIE collision
| forty-fve were burned 70 ashes.
| Relief trains were at once sent out from South
Chicago and from Valparaiso Ind. and every
| possible aid was given to the injured A large
number of the relatives of passengers on the
ill-fated train were in Chicago. awtiting theil
| arrival, and the scenes around the Baltimore
| & Ohio Station were narrowing.
Crowds Of Russians and Poles waited around
the station all day fO- news from WoodvlHe. am
when late in the afternoon train came In bear
ing thirty-eight injured persons, al of whom
| were taken to Mercy Hospital. it vas with tht
| greatest difficulty tha. the police we're able tC
| open a way for the wounded. Several OF the
foreigners became so excited that they at
| tempted to attack station employees whose uni
| forms led them to believe they were employed
| by the Baltimore & Ohio road.
Al the hospital tonight it was SAID that i
| would for some time be impossible TO predic
the result in the cases of several Of the injured