The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1906-11-15
DEAD IN WRECK
FORTY-SEvfN
Bodies lncinerated In the Fire Thai
Followed the Collision.
NUMBER or INJURED MAY DIE

Mistake Of Some Employe Said to
Have Caused the Disaster to Immi-
grant Efforts Made to Fix
the Responsibility for the Indiana
Horror.
Chicago, Nov. 13.--Forty- per-
sons lost their lives and 80 we're in
1ured IN the collision at Woodville,
Ind, between an immigrant train and
freight on the Baltimore and Ohio
road. There were 165 passengers on
the ill.fated train. The names Of all
OF the dead will probably never be
known, as As OF the bodies were con-
sumed In the flames that followed the
collision or were SO badly burned that
identification will be out of the ques-
tion. The disaster was caused by
blunder of some employe of the rail
road company, but just whose blame
It Is has not been determined. The
passenger train, which was loaded
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
tond section OF a through train
from Baltimore. The engineer of the
freight train, No. 96, 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 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 cf M" kidd in
dicating that second section was
close behind.
The freight train, in char~e Of
Engineer Burke and Conductor Moste.
started eastward as sOCn rs the
first section Of the immigTant train
had passed the switch al Babcoclc. A
light snow was falling which increased
the darkness of the morning and as
the freight train was rounding sharp
curve just west of Woodyille, the sec
ond section 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 together.
With Unslackened Speed,
and in the crash six passenger
coaches and several freight cars were
knocked into kindlingwood and to-
gether with the locomotives went roll
ing down the 10-foot embankment
Fire broke out almost Immediately
In the wreckage and although num-
Der OF the injured were saved Ivy 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 wreckage
so rapidly that it was impossible 10
save number OF people who were
but slightly hurt but were held fast
by tlmbsrs that weighted them down.
These were burned in plain sight of
the throng which stood around the
scene of the disaster utterly unable to
lend assistance in any way. The
fire conirnred until all OF the shattered
cars were entirely consumed and of
the AZ persons whose death followed
the collision 45 were burned to ashes.
Relief trains were at once sent out
from South Chicago ana from Val
paraiso, Ind, with every available
physician and every possible aid was
given to the injured. A large number
OF the relatives Of passengers on the
lllfated train were In Chicago await
ing the arrival, and when the report
was received that many had been
killed and injured in wreck, the
scenes around the Baltimore and Ohio |
station were narrowing.