Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-06-22
INDIANA WRECK
HORROR GROWS
TEN PEOPLE KILLED AND At
LEAST FORTY ARE INJURED.
MoT0RMAN DlsoBEES ORDERS.
Cars Came Together Whom Travelling
At Rate Of Fifty Miles An Hour
Terrible ecenes at tho Wreck.

South Bend. Ind, June 2l.-Many
additional details of the horrible
wreck on the Chicago, Lake shere
and South Bend Railroad. in Porter
county. Ind, Saturday night, became
known yesterday and today.
Two of the big electric cars collidod
head-on, and it ia now known that ten
people were killed and at least 40 in.
jured.
According to General Manager H.
U. Wallace. tho wreck WAS due to 4
disobedience Of orders by Notormaa
George A. Reed, Of the eastbound car,
who was killed.
Reed received instructions ct Gary
to wait at Wilson, short distance
west of Baileytown, point at which
the disaster occurred. for the west
bound car to pass.
The impact Of the cars was 80 great
that they were reduced to mass Of
wreckase.
No. So, it was stated, was going at the
rate of so miles an hour to make up
lost time Whom tho crash occurred.
the east-bound car was telescoped and
almost entirely wrecked. In this train
were all of the killed and most Of tho
injured. passengers on train No. So.
west-bound. escaping with slight
bruises and scratches.
Scene Was Terrible.
The scene Of the wreck Immediate
ly after the crash was described by
eye witnesses as being terrible. The
two cars were welded together into
mass of debris In which lay the 10
dead and dying. and the two score
injured. The cries and appeals for
help were horrifying and caused .
scene of utter. confusion for many
minutes. Soon. however, the cool
headed among the passengers brought
order out of chaos. and while some
arranged to convert the homo Of d.
r. Borg, nearby, into temporary hos
pital and morgue, others turned their
attention to rescuing the injured.
Darkness greatly interfered with
the progress Of the rescuers, and to
make matters worse, the nearest tel
ephone was three-quarters of mile
away. Thus it was imposs'n'e to pro-
cure speedy aid from Mich IN City.
Superintendent Welsh, Of .he inter
urban line was in Michigan whom
the accident occurred. When he
learned of the collision he discovered
that IL would be impossible To run
electric cars to the scene because the
trolley wires had been broken. Three
physicians were sent In gasoline
traction speeder and three more dis
tomobile. When the physicians ar
rived at the scene Of accident they
found scores of farmers and villagers
rushing about endeavoring to care for
the wounded and to extricate the dead
and dying.
They were working under difficult
ties. the only light being furnished BY
J a few lanterns procured from nearby
farm houses.
All around the wreck lay the in
jured, covered with blankets and com.
forters brought from the nearest
homes.
Rescuers Use Axes.
Many of the wounded were 80 pin.
toned in the wreckage that 1t was
necessary to use axes to rescue them
and the sound of the blows upon the
splintered wood and twisted iron min
gled with tho cries of the sufferers.
Officials of the Lake Shore railroad
notified the west-bound train to take
on doctors and nurses at Laporte and
South Bend and to put thom OF 1t
Dune Park. Similar instructions were
given to the crew Of the east-bound
train which brought assistance from
Whiting and Indiana Harbor. The
New York and Boston fast express OF
the Lake Shore, which left Chicago al
1880 o'clock, stopped at Dune Park
arriving at 1880. and took aboard the
wounded. who were carried to South
Bend and Laporte and placed in hos