The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-11-15
While Thirty-Eight are Hurt
as Result of Collision.
VICTIMS ARE CREMATED
FrightfuI Disaster Occurred on salti.
more and Ohio Railway and Was
Caused by Blunder Of some
Employe.


on an immigrant train On the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad were killed
and injured in e collision Monday be-
tween the passenger train and
freight near Woodville, Ind.
One hundred and sixty-five passen-
gers were on the train, and of these
forty-seyen were either killed outright
or were btrned to death in the fire
which broke out In the wreckage i'm
mediatcly after the collision. The
names Of all the dead will probably
never be known, as forty-fve of the
dead bodies were consumed in tho
flames or were so badly burned that
Identification will be out OF the ques.
ton.
Th1rty-eight People were injured
and several of these will die. Eighty
others escaped unhurt, but lost near
ry all their baggage and clothing.
The disaster was caused by blum
der of some employe cf the railroad
company, but just where the blame
lies has not as yet been determined.
The passenger train which was load
ed with Russian Jews, Servians and
i Poles, all of them recent arrivals in
this country, and bound for Chicago
or places in the northwest, was the
second section Of through train
from Baltimore.
The engineer Of the freight train,
No. &C., on instructions received at
! McCool, Ind, waited at siding at
Babcock, Ind, to allow the immigrant
train to pass. One report is that the
/ engineer CT the freight train lad
not been informed that the: passen-
ger train was running in two sec
! tions; the other is that the first sec
! ton of the passenger train carried
no lights or signals of any kind indi-
eating that a second section was
! close behind.
As soon as the first section OF the
I! immigrant train had passed the
switch at Babcock, the freight train
I! in charge of Engineer Burke and Con-
; ductor Moste started eastward. A
/ light snow was falling, which in.
I; creased the darkness in the early
!; morning, and as the freight was round
) ing a sharp curve just west of Wood
Vile the second section of the immi-
: grant train came in sight a snort dig
tance away, tearing toward Chicago
/ at the rate Of 40 miles an hour. The
I; two trains came together with
unslackensl speed, and In the crash
| Fix passenger coaches and several
freight cars were knocked into kind.
! ling wood, and together with the loco
motives, went rolling down a 1efoot
| embankment.
Fire broke out almost immediately
/ in the wreekage, ana, although a NUM-
Der of the injured we're saved by the
desperate 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 wreck.
age so rapidly taat 1t was fmpossi.
BILE to save a number Of people who
were but slightly hurt, but were held
fast by !imbers that weighted them
{ down. These were burned in plain
sight of the throng which stocd aro,,I1d
the scene of the disaster utterly uHa
BILE to lend assistance in any way
The fire continued until all the shat
tered cars were entirely consumed
Land of the fo-ty.seven persons whose
death followed the collision, 45 were
burned to ashes.