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fireman of one OF the engines was crushed
to death. His body was recovered.
According to Mr.. Harris, both trains had
orders to stop at Fowler, but the passenger
train ran by the block signal which the
engineer failed to see on account of fog.
Vice President Schafr was not on board
the train but his wife occupied the private
car. She was not injured
Survivors of the wreck were taken to
Kankakee in the private car of Vice Pres-
dent Schaff With them was the body OF
John Schannan of Willamsport, Ind, who
died on the way. The engineer Of the
freight train told passengers that the pas
senger train was going at the rate of fifty
miles an hour when the collision occurred.
Names of Dead Not Known.
INDIANAPOLIS, January 19.-Generai
Superintendent H. F. HOughton of the Big
-Four said his information at 10 am. was
that between ten and fifteen persons were
killed in the wreck at Fowler. He said the
list Of seriously injured was not large.
CINCINNATI. Ohio, January 19.-At Big
Four headquarters here it is stated that the
names Of the ten persons roasted to death
In the wreck at Fowler, Ind. will not be
known until later in the day.
Wreck on the Rock Island.
PEORIA ILL.,, January 19.-Train 337 on
the Rock Island railroad early today ran
into a washout two and one-half miles west
Of Bureau, III. The engine, baggage car.
chair car and sleeper were derailed. The
engineer and fireman were seriously hurt
and three or four passengers Slightly in
1ured. All of the injured were brought back
to the city.
Engine Explodes; Three Killed.
DESOTE. Kan, January 19.-The locomo-
tive drawing east-bound Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe freight train No SO exploded
on bridge near here this morning The
bridge was demolished and the engine and
fourteen freight cars went into the creek.
F. w. Bartell. engineer; w. W. Dortch,
fireman. and II. E. Shaw, brakeman. of
Argentine. Kan, were killed their bodies
being buried under the wreckage.
Engineer Jumped to Death.
MERIDIAN, Miss, January 19.-Engineer
Jack Tew of passenger train No. g. south
bound on the New Orleans and Northeast
ern railroad, jumped from his cab at mid
night last night just as the train met
northbound freight train head on. He was
drowned in a creek. Fireman John Car
roll was seriously injured by jumping.
Three passengers were slightly hurt. :"
Two Wrecks in Indiana.
HAMMOND, Ind, January 19.-In the
wreck of a suburban train on the Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern railroad last
night thirteen persons were injured none
fatally.
The wreck was not reported by railroad
officials until today. Those injured were
from Chicago and Hammond.
BY collision between freight trains on
the Indiana Harbor railroad today two
trainmen were fatally hurt.
Winnipeg Flyer Wrecked.
MINNEAPOLIS. Mimi, January 19-The
Winnipeg flyer of the Great Northern road
south bound, was wrecked ten miles out of
Minneapolis today. The entire train. with
the exception Of the engine and baggage
and express cars, left the rails.
Three coaches. the observation car and
two sleepers turned over. Three passen-
gers. two men and one woman, who were
In the overturned cars. were injured, but
not seriously.