The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-06-21

Cries Of Injured Mingled With
Sound Of Axe in Relieving
Victims
South Bend, Ind, June 21.-Ten
persons we're killed and forty injured
in q wreck on the Chicago, Lake
Shore and South Bend railroad in
Porter county last night, two of the
big electric cars colliding head-on.
According to General Manager H. U.
Wallace, the wreck was due to dis
obedience OF orders by Motorman
Geo. A. Reed, of the east bound car.
who was killed.
Reed received instructions at Gary
to wait at Wilson, short distance
west Of Baileytown, tao p,.I. ~
which the disaster occurred for tho
west bound car to pass. The impact
Of the cars was 80 great that they
we're reduced to mass Of wreckage.
Tho dead:
GEORGE A. REED, motorman,
Michigan City. Ind, formerly of VIII
Ia Grove, Ill.
RAY F. MERR1MAN, married,
South Bend, Ind.
CHARLES JOHNSON, Porter, Ind.
EDWARD GILBERTSON, Porter,
Ind. sea,,.~y.
A. BARBER, Mishawaka, Ind.
F. T. MOORE, residence unknown.
WIN. LEON, secretary of the
Dowagiac Motor Works. Dowagiac.
Mich.
F. A. LAKE. president Dowasaic
Motor Works, Dowagaic, Mich.
H. H. HUTSON, Niles, Mich.
CHARLES 1asWANTsoN. Porter.
Ind. ! /
The injured:
Fred Wusth, Chestsrton, 1nd.,. hesd
cut; Arthur John, c,hesterton, lnd.
skull fractured; r. 6. schimmeli,
Michigan City, Ind, leg broken;
Chas. Neissen, Tolleston, Ind, back.
head and Shoulders bruised; Delbert
e. Kinney, Michigan City, Ind, con-
ductor east bound car, right arm and
three ribs broken, right leg cut; Mrs.
A. D. Scholler, South Bend, Ind, left
eye badly bruised and right eye
lacerated; C. Kline, South Bend, Ind,
cut on legs, face and head; Donald
Brueger, South Bend, Ind, left leg
broken: e. 8. Calvert, South Bend,
Ind, body badly bruised; r. Lyle
Keller, South Bend, head cut and
body bruised: Mrs. Esther Graffen-
berger, South Bend, Ind, right ankle
sprained; r. E. Brothers, South Bend,
Ind, leg broken; M. Roberick, South
Bend, Ind, severely cut; B. e. Craw-
ford, South Bend, Ind, slightly in
jured: Mrs. Guy Stutzman, Mishawa-
ka, Ind, head cut in back Of head and
face out by glass; B. L. Tucker, Mis-
iaskawa, Ind, bruised and cut on
face; Mrs. Rose Hershey. Goshen,
Ind, severely cut by glass: C. A.
Simmons. Benton Harbor, Mich, both
legs broken: Miss Nan Larsen, Ches-
terton, 1nd.,. internal injuries, may
die; Chas. Nice, Gary, Ind, back and
shoulders bruised; Edward w. Bur-
body bruised; L. v. Teto, Michigan
'Oty, Ind, both legs broken; Louis
;ldantohel, Dast Gary, nose broken;
d. O. Phillips, Chicago, cut on head;
Mrs. A. G. Phillips, Chicago. body
bruised; Geo. A. Robertson, Sidney,
O., cut and bruised on head; G. M.
.Bazntm, Knox, Ind. slightly cut on
head; T. W. Luce, Knox, Ind, facial
artery cut, cheek bone split; T. w.
Louie, Nisahawa, Ind, badly cut all
over body; Paul Wilson, Michigan
City, formerly Of Cleveland, O., as
sistant to General Superintendent
Wallace Of the South Shore railroad,
log broken, head cut and internal in
juries, not expected to live; Mrs.
stella Mendyke, South Chicago.
slightly hurt; Fred Heath, Chester,
Ind, scratched and suffering from
shock; Ed. Austin, Michigan City,
Ind, head gashed; Geo. Wordine,
Michigan City, Ind, leg bruised; Miss
Name Robertson, Sidney, o.. cut on
head and nose broken: Adloph Ertck-
son, Porter, Ind, out on face and
head: A. Moore, Hillsdale, Mich.
scalp wound: unknown Pole. Gary.
scalp cut; A. LEU, stevensville,
Mich, broken leg; John F. Miller,
Michigan City, cut in face.
The east hound car, running as
train No. So, 1t Is stated was going
at the rate Of fifty miles an hour to
make up lost time. When the crash
occurred, the east bound car was
telesooped and almost entirely
wrecked. In this train were all OF
the killed and most of the injured,
the passengers on train No. So, west
bound, escaping with slight bruises
and scratches.
Horrible Scene.
The scene of the wreck immediate
~ after the crash was described by
eye witnesses as being tergible. The
two cars we're welded together into a
mass of debris in which lay the ten
dead and dying and the two-score in
jured. The cries and appeals for
help were horrifying and caused a