The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-20
MORE LIVES LOST IN WRECK Score Killed Near Kan
 kakee, III. ENGINEER MISSED SIGNAL Ran Head-on Into Heavy Freight
 Train. Wife of vice-President schafr of Big Four Played Heroine, Aiding
 En suecerfns Dead and
 Wounded.

| sons are believed to have been killed or burned to death and forty injured in wreck of passenger train No. ss, eastbound on the Big Four at Fowler. Ind, at ? o'clock this morning.
 The passenger train left Chicago at II :30 last night and ran into a freight The cause of the collision Is said to be that the engineer on the passenger. train failed to see the block signal.
 Fire followed the collision and 1t is believed that more passengers were burned to death than were killed by the collision. There were twenty-five per- sons In the combination day coach and baggage car and only five of them es- capped alive.
 The passenger train consisted bf three Pullmans, the private car of Vice. President Schaff of the Big Four and a combination day and baggage coach. Some of the passengers in the Pullman cars and private car were injured, but none were killed.
 None of the freight crew was injur- ed.
 Some of the injured passengers were brought here In the private car Mrs. Schaf, who had been visiting In Chi cago, was in the private car on her way to Cincinnati and she had some of the injured taken on board and brought here and assisted in dressing their in- juries. Three of the injured brought here are not expected to live.
 A despatch from La Fayette, Ind. places the number of killed at thir- teen and says there were fifteen people in the combination car and only four have been accounted for. The fire spread rapidly and the entire passenger train with the exception of the sleep CT "Tabong" and the private car of MT. Schaff. was destroyed Conductor Hiddinger of the passenger train and Baggage Master Mckee were burned to death and their bodies have not been recovered.
 Al, 9 o'clock five bodies had been re- moved.
 One of the injured, W. B. Harris. an attorney of Indianapolis, died shortly before noon. Later report says both hremen were killed.
 Mrs. Charles E. Schaff. wes of Vice. President of the Big Four Railroad, played the part of heroine. Arising from her comfortable berth. she sur rendered her private car to the injured and with her own hands helped to dress the wounds and care for the injured. Several Of the Injured were brought to !, this city, in, her private car. The pri- vate car was but slightly damaged, and after being replaced here 1t continued on it's journey to Cincinnati Every where in the car were evidences of the disaster. The thick carpets were cov- cred with mud mixed with blood from the injured.
 The passenger train which left Chi cago at 11;30 o'clock last night was known as the Queen City Special" The train was running at the rate of fifty miles an hour when, the accident occurred and the force of the collision was so great that the tender of the passenger engine was driven the entire length of the combination car, in which were a number of passengers, esti- mated at from fifteen to twenty-five. All the dead and injured wepe taken from the wreckage of this car. none of the passengers in the sTeepers having been hurt.