New-York tribune., 1909-06-21
TEN KILLED In WRECK
CAR HEAD ON.
Has Going Fifty Miles an Hour and
Dashed Into One Standing Stu.

South Rand Ind June 2O-Ten persons were
killed and forty injured in wreck on the CuIcaeO'
Lake Shore & South Bend Railroad III
County Ind last night. of the big eIect'c
cars coming into collision head According 70
General Manager H. L. Wallace, the wreck was que
disobedience of orders by Motorman cieo' se ~
Reed Of the eastbound car. who was killed
Reed received Instructions at Gary to walt at '"
son, a short distance west Of Baileytowh' tue P0
at which the disaster occurred. for the WestOou"u
ear to pass The impact of the cars was SO e'1'
that they were reduced to mass OF Wreckase'
The dead: George a. Reed. motoTmen, OF MIclI-
gan City Ind Ray F. Merriman. of South %behu' %
Ind: Charles Johnson of Porter. Ind; Edward N'''
bertson, of Porter. Ind; A Barber. OF MisHa"aA"'
Ind: F. r. Moore. residence unknown "''a'
Leon secretary of the DOagiac Motor "oiNS' ~
Dowagiac Mich: F. A. Lake. president oi nv
Dowagiac Motor Works, Dowagiac, Mich; n. II.
TI,tson of Niles Mich and Charles Swanson. OF
Porter. Ind.
The eastbound car was going fifty miles an hour
TO make up lost time. When the CRASH occu'Itu 'i7
eastbound car was telescoped and almost denoI-
ished In this train were all Of the killed ana most
Of the injured passengers on the westoound 'ra'"
escaping with bruises
The two cars welded together IN a mass VI
debris in which lay the dead and dying ana '"'
score injured The cries for help caused scene Oh
confusion for many minutes. Soon. however 'he
cool headed passengers brought order out ot chaos
and while some converted the home of F. K. Borg
into a hospital and morgue others rescued the IN
jured.
Darkness greatly interfered with the progress Of
tre rescue and to make matters worse the nearest
telephone was nearly mile away
All but one of the killed in the smoking
compartment Of the car, in the front END. ms
suace was crowded Titus F. Kinzie and Cordus
Kline. both Of South Bend. left the smoking room
less than p minute before the crash came and es-
capped DEATH although the latter suffered severe IN
iuries.
David Crawford. chauffeur. OF South bend'
said: There were about fifty persons IN our car
Most Of US got on Hammond. having been al
the automobile races at Crown Point, Tired out by
the long day Of excitement many Of the passeh-
gers went to sleep Suddenly there was terrI"c
crash. The motorman was pinned between the YES
tIbules Of the two cars solidiy that 1t WIS I'M
,ossfhIa for rs to remove the body. lie had appar-
entity done nothing 10 prevent the collision The ac-
cideut occurred straight track.
G A schimmel notorman OF the westbound
ca- said that his car was at n fun stop when
tho eastbouud car struck It. He added; MY car
was nearing Dune Park when saw the headlight
NJ the eastbound train flashing in the distance
That train had been ordered TO wait Tor my car
a. wilson some distance west Of Dune PARK
realized at once that the motorman Of the car
had overlooked his orders. put on the brakes and
brought nv car a stop while the eastbound
chr kept rushing toward | tried TO back my
car but the air brakes did not release the wheels
and could not move before the crash came
sunerintendent Welsh of the Interurhan linz
was I'm Michigan city when the accident occurred
but II was impossible 10 run electric cars TO the
scene because the trolley wire had been broken
Three physicians were sent I'm a gasolene traction
speeder and three more dispatched In an auto
mobile when the physicians reached the scene
they found scores farmers and villagers rushing
"a bout endeavoriug 10 care for the wounded and TO
extricate the dead and dying by the light or
feV lanterns. Many OF tho wounded pinioned
fr the vsreckaEs. that u was necessary % use
axes
phcers Of the Lake Shore Michigan Southern
Railroad told "A passing westhound train TO take on
doctors and nurses NJ South Bend and Laporte and
pat thcu on AZ Dune Park. Similar instructions
we're given an eastbound train, which brought as
sIstauc. from Whiting and Indiana Harbor The
Nfr York & Boston fast express OF the Lake shore
& Michigan Southern Railroad stopped az Dune
Psrl, and took aboard the wounded. who were car
rfed 10 South Bend and Laporte and placed IN hos
7 lt0ls
one ~ the heroes Of the wreck was G a sim
mons Of Benton tIsrbor. Mich He lost conscious
ness Immediately after the collision. When lie re-
covered his senses he lying In the sand near a
ditch Both OF his legs were broken but when Or.
Axe OF Michigan city. reached him and rendered
surgical aid he refused IT, instructing the physician
70 give his time 10 others seriously injured
than
My legs broken" said he. but my head Is
all right and I guess l can stand II FOR a while
Mrs Guy Stutzmau. Of Mishawaka, who suffered
a deep IA sh In The back Of her head was holding
a small baby at the time Of the accident. but the
infant sped without a scratch.