Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-21
.IN[NIY.S[V[N DEAD
IN POWDER WRECK
Another Disaster on the Big
-Four Railroad Costs a Num-
ber of Lives
FRleHrFuL HAVOC WROUGHT
Car Load Of Powder in Freight Train
ExpIodes as Passenger Train Was
Passins-Wreckass Takes Fire and
Several Of the Victims Are Burned
Two Disasters in Ono Day.

Terre Haute, Ind, Jan. 21.-The ex-
act number of persons killed in the de-
struction of the Big Four passenger
train at Sanford, will probably never
be known. The coroner has record
of ten dead, but 1t is known the record
is far from complete. The number
stands at twenty seven dead, according
to the best estimates. 1t Is believed
several bodies were burned in the fire
that followed the explosion.
Paris, ILL.,, Jan. 21.-Of twenty-three
victims of the Sanford, Ind. disaster
brought to this city, four may die six
are seriously injured, and others are
injured about the head and neck by
particles of glass and gravel. 1t is be-
lieyed several will lose the sight of one
or both eyes. Wilbur Menke and E. c.
Sisk, of this city, who assisted in the
work of rescue, say fully a half dozen
bodies were cremated in the wreckage
of the train.
Terre Haute, Ind, Jan. 21.-Big
Four accommodation train No. 8,
which left Terre Haute at $3.50 o'clock
Saturday night, was destroyed by the
explosion Of car Of powder at the
siding east Of Sanford. Ind. at $3.50
o'clock Saturday night. Fifteen per-
sons were killed outright and with
thirty or thirty-five injured. The
train, two coaches and a baggage car,
was demolished The identified dead:
Charles Gosnell. Paris. Ill, died
on relief train.
Is John Franklin, brakeman on pas
sengert train, Ashmore; Ill.
A. D. Hectar, farmer, Elbridge, Ill
Claude Steele. Sanford, Ind.
Reed Wolfe. wife and two children,
Sanford, Ind
William Thompson. Sanford, Ind.
William Davis, Vermillion. Ill.
Three cremated badies were taken
from the wreckage and found fright
fully mutilated. Bodies were found in
the woods some distance from the
wreck.
Four other bodies taken from the
wreck have not been identified. 1t is
believed that others are in the wreck
The list of injured includes:
Conductor Frank Thomas, Mat
toon, Ill.
Engineer Welsch, NATION, Ill.
Fireman Jared. Mattoon, Ill.
Harry Duck, Sandford, Ind.
William Davis, Vermillion, Ill.
]. O. Lawyer, Terre Haute, Ind.
o. D. Wiley, Kansas, Ill
George Richards, Memphis, Tenn.
Lewis Price, Vermillion, III.
u. S. Wishard, Franklin, Ind.
DR.. Hasleu, Grand View, Ill.
oscar Gilbert, Dudley, Ill.
Miss Mary Earhart, Terre Haute,
Ind.
i. F. Rose, superintendent Of main
tainance of way, and his wife.
Samuel Fisk and wife, Terre Haute,
Ind.
T. G. Ainsworth, Paris, Ind.
Miss Cora Buckly, 626 Highland
street, Terre Haute, Ind.
Miss Frances Jones, 1919 Chestnut
street Terre Haute, Ind.
Keith Brayn, salesman, Salem, o.
Miss Anna Cummings, 1884 wabash
avenue, Terre Haute Ind.
Miss Bessie Southcott, Shelbyville,
Ill.
The first intimation people had of the
CHI wfi0h felt
in Terre Haute and as far east as Bra
zil, Ind, and as far south as Sullivan,
Ind. The wires were blown down and
1t was some time before the Big Fou:
officials here learned Of the explosion.
The work Of the rescuing party was
hampered by the almost complete de-
struction of the train and the blsSzias
-timbers which were ignited Immediate
ly after the explosion.
G. M. Armstrong, agent at Sanford.
stated that he thought the car contain
ed about 600 or 800 kegs Of powder.
He said he was standing in the door
Of the station when the explosion oc-
Cured and that he at once called some
section hands and they secured an en-.
gine.
They then broke an interlocking
switch and went to Paris, ILL.,, for the
relief train.
All means Of communication between
this city and Sandford was cut off and
the men from Sanford had not stop
ped to ascertain how much damage
was done. The passengers received nc
aid until the relief passenger train was
mass of flames and the relief party
was able to reach only the passengers
who had been either blown from the
train or were able to crawl from the
coaches after the explosion.
Two Of the men who were cremated
were still alive when the relief party
from the city reached the wreck, but
rescuers were unable to reach them
and were compelled to stand and watch
them burn.
They were lying under mass OF
burning wreckage which could not be
reached or moved.
The flames lighted up the scene 50