The Grenada sentinel., 1907-01-26
CROWDED PASSENGER TRAIN Is
BLOWN TO PIECES WHEN
POWDER EXPLODED.
27 PEOPLE WERE KILLED
Identified Dead Number q, Injured
35, Several Charred Bodies
Recovered and Others Prob
ably Annihlated.
Identified Dead.

w 1I1oMI OOAN,
Ind
BUD" WOLFE, Sandford, Ind.
]. w. SUTHERLAND, Paris, Ill.
JOHN FRANKLIN, Ashmore, Ill.
A. D. HECTOR, Elbridge, Ill.
CHARLES GOSNELL, Paris, Ill.
CLAUDE STEELE, Sandford, Ind.
A. A. HICKS, EandfOrd, Ind.
FRANK FIELDER, Findlay, o.
MARY EARHART, Terre Haute
Ind.
H. BLAKELEY, Findlay, o.
JOHN A. BOWEN, Mattoon, Ill.
Believed to Have Been Burned to Death
MRS. BUD WOLFE, Sandford, Ind
TWO DAUGHTERS of Mrs. Wolfe
aged s and G.
A. KUKENDAHL, thought to be a
Vandalia fireman.
JAMES FENTON, Sandford, Ind.
- KIEVER, a boy, Paris, Ill. ;
found in tree several hundred feet
from scene of explosion.
Unidentified Dead
BODY OF AGED WOMAN, burned
beyond recognition.
CHARRED BODIES, not identified.
In Hospital.
Injured It st. Anthony's hospital.
Terre Haute: Keith Bryan, Salem, o. );
ISIS Cora Buckley, Terre Haute; L.
F. Rose, engineer of maintenance of
way. Big Four, Mattoon, ILL.,; Mrs. L.
f. Rose, Mattoon, ILL.,; Miss Bessie
Southcott, Shelbyville, H.; Miss Anna
Cummins, Terre Haute; Miss Frances
Jones, Terre Haute; William Davis,
Vermillion, Ill; DR.. Haslett, Grand
View, H.
Injured in hospital at Paris, ILL.,: AL
vim Dane, Terre Haute, will recover,
U. S. Wishard, Franklin, Ind, will re-
cover; Harry Jared, fireman of No
6, Mattoon, ILL.,, perhaps fatally; Louis
Prince, Vermillion, H.; Edward
Welch, Mattoon, HI, engineer of Nc
3; George Richards, Memphis, Tenn;
A. B. Carpenter, Vermillion, Ill; Jo-
seph Hendricks, Mattoon, H.; Frank
Thomas, Mattoon; Chas. Boggles, West
field, H., may die, Perry Duck, Sand
ford, Ind; Will Davis, Vermillion, ILL.,,
nay die; ii. A. Epperson, Westfield,
ILL.,; j. ". Lotter, Tcrre Haute, Ind,
may die; Lindsey Eddington, Vermil-
lion, Ill, may die; Charles A Wiley,
ILL.,, may die; T. A. Ainsworth,
Paris, ILL.,; Oscar Gilbert, Dudley, ILL.,;
9. S, Si:k, Paris, ILL.,; Fred Vermillion,
Ind; Harry p Ogden, Yer
million, H.; Charles Root, Mattoon,
II.
Left at Sandford: P o. Rhodes,
Sandford; Harry Sickle, Terre Haute.
Terre Haute, Ind, Jan. 21.-Twenty-
even charred, mutilated bodies have
,een taken from the smoldering ruins
# the passenger train No. 3 on Jne
Cincinnati, Chicago G ST.
4ouis (Big Four), which was destroyed
~ the explosion of carload of pow
Ter IS it passed a freight train at
nine miles west of here. The
lumber of injured will reach at least
5.
The entire train was blown from the
rack, the coaches demolished, the
ngine hurled so feet The passen-
ers eitLer were blown to pieces, ere
lated or rescued in a more or less |
ljured condition.
The injured, some of whom are |
atally hurt are ct the hospitals in |
'erre Hautc, Paris, ILL.,, and at Sand
ord. The death list will not be COM
lete until workmen have finished |
learing the debris.
Cause of the Expl osion.
According to trainmen of the freight,
ie powder was exploded by the con-
lssion made by the passenger train,
hich was slowing down for the sta
on at Sandford. !. Another theory is
lat gas es aping from an oil pipe line
earby entered the powder car and a
park from tie passing engine ignited
le gas. Others express the belief
lat the disaster was due to tramp
: intoxicated man firing a shot into
le car.
The passenger train was destroyed
Id the freight train demolished.
Young Woman EIectrocuted.
Shelbyville, Ind, Jan. 21.-Daisy
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