Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-09-04
|N7ERuRBAN HORROR
Most Terrible Accident on a
Trolley lira Which Has
So Far Occurred.
FIFTEEN VICTIMS ARE DEAD
Fifty Others Are Wounded, and Some
Of These May Die. zvE

Victims We're En- Route to the Coles
r. County Fair at Charleston-
Both Cars Smashed into
Kindiine Wood.
NATION, ILL.,, Sept. --LATEST re-
ports from the scene of disaster
show that fifteen persons We're
killed and about fifty injured in a
head-on collision between an inter-
urban express train consisting of
u motor cur and Il trailer and u
traction car on the NATION and
Charleston electric line. The crash oc.
Cured oil sharp curve one mildaYest
Of Charleston, Ill. 4 confusion of or
ders received over the telephone is said
to have been the cause of the terrible
accident. The cars approached each
other Mt high rate of speed, and the
impact was so terrific that the motor
car and railer We're telescoped by the
traction car. There was no warning,
and few passengers had time to es-
cape by jumping.
Scene at the Wreck Was Horrible.
The passengers, nearly all of them
Ell route to the Coles county fair at
Charleston. We're crushed or MANNED
where they sat In their seats. Some
of these who escaped death and were
able to talk say that the scene at the
wreck was grewsome. The dead and
dying We're jammcd together in a
mass Women We're shrieking with
pain and children were crying for I'M
conscious mothers who were thought
to be among the dead. When the news
of the wreck reached AIattoon special
cars We're hurried to the scene and
the dead and injured were broguht to
the morgue and hospital here. Some
of the Injured are III critical condi-
ton. and there is little hope for their
recovery.
List OF Those Killed.
The dead are: Neil Fugate, Garys.
ILL.,: Thomas Weakley, Mattoon. ILL.,;
William Nelson. North Ottawa, ILL.,:
Charles Nelson. son 6f William Nell
son. aged S years; Howard Cole,
Cooks Mills. ILL.,. aged 6: Harold Cole,
aged s, brother of Howard: lack Van
deventcr. MattOon: Edward Reynolds,
Paradise. ILL.,: Albert Smith, Mattoon.
ILL.,: w. A. Price, North Nation. H.:
Douglas Logan. Humboldt, ILL.,; Edna
Malbnlm, Cooks Mills, ILL.,; three I'M
identified bodies.
THIRTY-oNE SERIOUSLY HURT
Line Has Only One Track and Is Run
by Telephone.
Following are the names of those
seriously injured: Albert Mapes. Mat
toon; G. G. Armentrout, badly bruised
and internally hurt: Mrs. G. G. Ar
mentrout and two children,f badly
bruised and cut; Charles Joseph. Sails
bury, Ind, side and leg hurt, also in,
ltenally; Mrs. l.. NJ. Price. Mattoon,.
lslN.; shoulder and face bruised and
Fcnt: Samuel Boyer. right leg broken
and back bruised; Porter Myers. Hum
boldt, injured in hack and hips: JAS.
Cnsstevens, Garys. leg broken and cuts
anu utulsGS, MIS-. Wv llIEtAl SOlc. SOpk
Mills; G. w. Davies. aged 50: Olec
Miller, North Ottawa, may die; A. c.
Ealy, Mattoon. badly hurt; G. u
Jones. ribs broken; C. r. Curtis. Mat.
toon, left arm broken and badly
bruised; Mrs. Alex. Langston, badly
hurt: Mrs. Sarah c. Phillips. badly
bruised and hurt internally; A. j..
Phillips, ribs probably broken and Sc
riously hurt; Otto Tower, Humboldt,
leg broken and otherwise hurt; Chas.
Redman. Mattoon, right arm broken
, and seriously bruised; Grace Young.
Ilegs crushed: Mrs. ]. G.. Monroe, her
two little boys, and Will Jones. badly
hurt; William Swift, Garys, seriously
injured; S +. Eios, Mattoon. both legs
broken: Jerome Goss, AIattoon. bac!;
badly hurt. Charles Jones, ribs brok :
EN- aud injured internally; Mrs. Chas
Jones. legs badly injured.
Medical aid was summoned from
this city, hut in the meantime doctors
and others had hurried from Charles.
lton, a mile from the scene of the dis.
+ aster The dead and injured were ex.
treated from the mass of broken tim
beers and seats. First aid was given
the maimed and bruised and the dead
We're laid alongside the track Tho
victims could not he taken to Charles
ton because the track was blocked in
J that direction. and consequently were
brought to this city.
The line OH which the disaster hap
pened is hut twelve miles long. run.
ming between Nation and Charleston.
IN. and has but a single track Tele.
phones are placed every few miles ut
which orders are transmitted to the
conductors and motormen of the cars
!, passing over the road a misunder-
standing of one of these telephone or.
> lers is said to have caused the disas
> ter.
Merger of Farmers Elevators.
Minneapolis, MINI. Aug 3O.-A big
. merger CT farmers elevators in Mime.
5 sofa is to be formed at meeting
called to take place hi Minneapolis
Sept. 5, by presidents and managers
of several elevators throughout the
state. The plan is to secure the CO.
opedntion of 200 farmers elevators In
, the state info ono CENTRAL OrpnniZatiO