The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-13
ALL BUT ONE PASSENGER CAR
BURNED AND MANY OCCUPANTS
Railroad MenSay it Was Worst Wreck in Years,
Both Engines ceing Smashed Into Bits---Was
Caused by Failure to Place Signals Many
Pathetic Scenes.
IPublisiers' Pressy

JPublishers' Pressy
Chicago, November 12.-Fifty per
sons are known TO have been trapped
and burned to death and eighty Cth-
ers seriously injured in head-on col
lision early today near Woodyille,
q Baltimore and Ohio immigrant
train was smashed by fast freight
gain
The wrech resulted from the lack
of proper signals on the first section
of the immigrant train, the Baltimore
and Ohio officials say
All but one of the six cars on the
passenger train were burned and all
but six of the bodies were incinerated
and the horror grew as details be
came known.
Twenty five bodies burned beyond
recognition, were dug out of the
wreck late this afternoon.
The known dead:
FRANK RENNERMAN. passenger
engineer. Garret. Ind.
ALBERT CULLERS, passenger
fireman.
MRS. s. INGREED AND TWO
CHILDREN.
MIA AEOLONIA, Is years old.
bound from Vienna to South Chicago.
BERTHA BRANDWEINER, 30
years ~old. bound from Vienna to
South Chicago.
MRS. CURA RABIFINIKERA AND
HER FOUR CHILDREN.
MRS. ANTON ZEJRAWSKI, burn
ed to death in the second car; body
not recovered.
MRS CATHERINE MUSK, 40
years old, Utica, n. Y.
ANNA MUSK, five months old,
killed in her mothers arms
The injured:
Robert Novich. arm broken.
Anthony Burke. Garrett. Ind, engi-
neer of the freight train, scalded,
head and back severely injured.
Sam Nose, passenger conductor,
Garrett. Ind. head cut.
William Snyder, baggageman. head
cut.
- Roster. leg broken.
Nicholas Oppovitch, head cut.
Raleff-Detscher. internal injuries.
F. Peteroff. internal injuries.
S. Tuzizman, internal injuries.
Rageff. badly burned.
Mrs. Rageff badly burned
F. Ermatha, scalded, will probably
die
-Rolsheff. badly burned.
b. Hoistoff, back injured, badly
/ burned.
-Cugros. severe scalp wound
-kramer, right leg fractured.
scalp wound.
John Ritter. spine Injured.
- Swarpoomy, scalp nearly
torn off
-Laciz, back badly injured.
c. Ritter. leg broken.
S. Ingreed. collar bone broken
nose fractured and four teeth knock
ed out.
The missing:
Mrs. Robert Novich and her three
children
Mrs. J. Ritter and two children.
Complete List impossible.
IL is believed that number of 9TH /
er persons have been consumed in /
the burning cars, but as all those rid /
ing in the forward coaches were i'm /
migrants and those who are able 10 /
talk cannot understand the English /
language. il is probable that il will 4
be days before the entire list of miss /
ing can be found out
1s Bodies Sent to chestertown.
at $3.50 O'Clock this afternoon bod /
les were placed in two large boxes /
and taken 10 Chestertown. Indiana. /
some distance from Woodville. 10 be /
pre- pared for burial. There was hard |
" recognizable feature in any of /
the dead faces.
Ii was six o'clock this evening when
n temporary track had been placed /
around the wreck and the derbris
cleared away sufficiently TO aflc,& /
trains to be run.
J. c. Carson. coroner of Porter
county, Indiana. after visiting the
wreck, investigating the circumstan-
ees and counting the survivors, and /
dead. declared that there were fifty
persons dead. Forty one persons. /
lmostly women and children. he de-
|clared. We're burned TO death.
After a careful inspection of the