The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-31
FIFTEEN DEAD.
Results of Trolley Car Collision More
Serious Than First Reported.

Nation, ILL.,, Aug. 31-Fifteen persons
We're killed and about fifty injured in
the headon collision between an inter
Urban express train consisting of
motor car and a trailer and a traction
car on the Nation ard Charleston cleo
trio lire yesterday. The crash occurred
on sharp curve one mile west of
Charleston, Ill. A confusion of orders
received over the telephone is said to
have been the cause of the accident
The cars approa ched each other at a
high rate of speed and the impact was
so terrific that the motor car and trailer
were telescoped by the traction car
There was no warning and few passen-
gers mad time to escape by jumping
The passengers, nearly all of whom were
en- route to the Coles county fair at
Charleston, were crushed or manned
where they sat in their seats. Some Of
those who escaped and who were able to
speak say the scene at the wreck was
gruesome. The dead and dying were
jammed together in mass. Women
were shricking with pain and children
were crying for mothers who were
thought to be among the dead.
When the news of the wreck reached
Nation special cars were hurried to the
scene and the dead and injured were
brought to the morgue and hospital here
Some of the injured are in critical con-
dition and there is little hope for their
recovery.
The Dead:
NEIL FUGATE, Garys, Ill.
THOMAS WEAKLEY, NATION. Ill.
WILLIAM NELSON, North Okaw, Ill
CHARLES NELSON, son of William
Nelson aged years.
HOWARD COLE, Cooks Mills, ILL.,,
aged years.
HAROLD COLE. s years, brother of
Howard Cole.
lack VANDEvENTER, Nation,
Ill.
EDWARD REYNOLDS, Paradise,
ALBERT SMITH, NATION, Ill.
w. A. PRICE. North Nation, Ill.
DOUGLAS LOGAN, Humboldt.
EDNA WALBALM, Cooks Mills, ILL.,,
died last night at a hospital.
THREE UNIDENTIFIED BODIES.
The Seriously Injured:
Albert Mapes. Nation, Ill.
G. G. Armentrout. badly bruised and
internally hurt.
Mrs G.. ..Armeptrout and two chill
dren badly bru Used and cut.
Charles Joseph, Salisbury, Ind, side
and leg hurt and hurt internally.
Mrs. L. M. Price. Nation. Ill, shout
der and face bruised and cut.
Samuel Boyer, right leg broken and
back bruised.
Porter Myer, Humboldt, injured in
back and hips.
James Casstevens. Garys, leg broken
and cuts and bruises.
Mrs. William Cole, Cooks Mills.
C. w. Davies. aged SO.
Alec Miller. North Okaw, may die.
A. c. Ealy. Nation, badly hurt.
G. H. Jones. ribs broken.
c.. r. Curtis. Nation. left arm |
broken and badly bruised.
Mrs. Langston. badly hurt.
Mrs. Sarah c. Phillips. badly bruised |
and hurt internally.
A. j. Phillips, ribs broken and seri-
ously hurt
Otto Tower Humboldt, leg broken
and otherwise hurt.
Charles Redman. Nation, right arm
broken and seriously bruised.
Grace Young. legs crushed.
Mrs. J. c. Monroe. and two little
boys. badly hurt.
Will Jones. badly hurt.
William Switz. Garys, seriously in
iured.
jerome Goss. Mattoon. back badly
hurt.
Charles Jones. ribs broken and in
jured internally.
ured.
Medical aid was summoned from
his city. but in the meantime doctors
and others had hurried from Charles
on a mile from the scene of the dis
lster The dead and injured were ex-
racted from the broken mass of tim
oers and seats. First aid was given
he manned and bruised and the dead
yictims could not be taken to Charles
on because the track was blocked in
hat direction and consequently they
we're brought to this city.
The line on which the disaster hap
1ened is but twelve miles long, rum
ling between Nation and Charleston,
H. and has but a single track. Tele-
phones are placed every few miles at
which orders are transmitted to the
and motormen of the cars
PASSING over the road. A misunder-
itanding of one of these telephone
orders is said to have caused the dis
lster yesterday.