The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-21
Two Big Electric Cars in Head
On Collision.
MOtOrman DisObeyed Orders and
Is Among the Dead.
INJURED NUMBER n
One Car Running at a Rate o
so Miles an Hour.
1t Was Telescoped and Almost
Entirely Wrecked.

South Bend, Ind, June 2I.-Ten
persons were killed and forty injured
IN a WRECK on inc Chicago, Lake Shore
and South Bend railway in Porter
county, Indiana, Saturday night, two
OF tho big electric cars cCIiiding head
on.
According to General Manager H.
L. Wallace the wreck was due to dis
obedience OF orders by Motcrman Geo.
"A. Reed. who was Killed. Reed was
instructed to wait at wilson, a short
diStarce ives eff Raiicytcwn, the place
OF the disaster, for the westbound car
He did not do so and the cars crashed
together.
The Dead,
GEORGE A. REED, motorman,
Michigan City, Indiana.
RAY F. MERRIMAN, South Bend.
CHAS- JOHNSON. porter, Indiana.
EDWARD GILBERTSON, porter
Indiana.
A. BARBER. Mishawaka. Indiana.
F. T. MOORE, residence unknown.
WILLIAM LEON, Dowagiac, Mich.
F. A. LAKE, Dowagiac, Mich.
H. H HUTSON, Niles. Mich.
CHAS. SWANSON, porter, Indiana
The Most Seriously Injured
D. E. Kinney, Michigan City, Ind.
K. Lyle Kelley, South Bend, Ind.
T.. bIOlQeTS, south Bend.
Meyer Roderick, South Bend
Cordius Kline, South Bend.
Mrs. Guy Stutzeman, Mishawaka,
Ind.
Mich ~
Miss Nan Larsen. Chesterton. Ind.
L. V. Teto, Michigan City, Ind.
I. W. Luce, Knox, Ind.
T. w. Louie, Mishawaka Ind.
Paul Wilson. Michigan City, assis-
tant to General Supt. Wallace
Going so Miles an Hour.
The eastbound car, running as train
No. SO it is stated was going at the
rate of SO miles an hour to make up
time. The eastbound car was tele-
scoped and almost entirely wrecked.
In this train were all of the killed and
most of the injured. Rescue work
soon was started but darkness greatly
interfered. w. H. Parry, of Gary.
Indiana, was among the first to real
ize the extent of the catastrophe. The
arm of a man lying near him in the
sand aroused him to begin rescue
work.
All but one of the killed were in
the smoking compartment of the car
m the front end. This space, origin
ally used as a baggage and freight
room, was fitted up for the use Of the
smoker and was crowded. Supt. Welsh
of the Interurban line, was in Miclni-
Gan lily when the ACCIDENT occurred.
When he learned of the collision he
also discovered that it would be i'm
possible to run electric cars to the
scene because the trolley wires had
been broken. Three physicians were
sent in a gasoline traction speeder
and three more dispatched as soon as
possible in an automobile.
BY Light of Lanterns.
When the physicians reached the
place they found scores of farmers
| and villagers endeavoring to care for
the wounded and striving to extricate
the dead and dying. They were work
ing under difficulties. the only light
around the wreck, lay the injured, COW
| by homes.
One of the heroes of the wreck was
C. A. Simmons of Benton Harbor,
Mich. He lost consciousness imme-
| diately after the collision. When he
recovered his senses he was lying in
| the sand near a ditch. Both of his
| legs were broken, but when DR.. Axe
| of Michigan City reached him and
| rendered surgical aid he refused it.
instructing the physician to give his
| time to others more seriously injured
| than he.
| MY legs are broken" he said. ''but
my head is all right and I guess can
stand it for awhile
| Mrs. Guy Stutzeman of Mishawaka
who suffered from a deep cash in the
| back of the head, was holding a one
year-old baby at the time of the ac-
| cident. but the infant escaped without
| q scratch.