The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-08-06
BIG FOUR TRAIN RUNNING FIFTY
NILES PER HOUR. TURNS OVER
ACCIDENT AT LOUISVILLE, IND.
So Are Seriously Injured. While
scores Escape Unhurt In Mlraeu-
lous Manner.

ter sunday, July 20. when Big Fou
train No. lG, enroute from Chicago I,
Cincinnati at louisville, seventeen
miles northwest of Indianapolis jump
ed he track and overturned some o
the coaches The train was runnin.
al fity miles an hour.
There We're about 200 passengers n
the coaches and the fact that none
was killed, is regarded as miraculous
By the railroad officials.
Passengers who were imprisoned
IN the overturned cars escaned
through windows. Physicians from
louisville and Indianapolis. among
them surgeons OF the Big Four. dress.
ed The victims injuries, and. with the
exception OF six persons who are now
in hospitals in this city. all the pas
sensers continued their journey.
The cause OF the wreck. so far as
could be determined by officials OF the
road. was the dropping OF a brake
beam or brake shoe from beneath one
Of ne cars. causing the trucks TO pass
over the obstruction. The impact thurs
caused. II Is believed. resulted In the
derailment OF the baggage car. and
nnally the entire train left the rails.
Many miraculous escapes are re.
corded especially among those work
Ing in the baggage and mail cars and
among the passengers riding In the
forward coach
Clark Deer, a railway postal clerk.
VINO ives In Cincinnati. was crushed
beneath several hundred mounds ~
man pouches, and II is believed he
may have suffered internal Injuries
O. fFfrrnnpbg
who lives in this city. was bruised nv
being thrown against mail pouch |
rack e. VI Anthony, Of LAFAYETTE an |
Other postal clerk. was in the forward |
end of the car just before the train |
was derailed. and. believing tina, tbis
speed was greater than was safe az
thar point. retired to the middle ~
the mail car
he no sooner had left the front end
unll me mail car was completely
turned over All of the postal clerks
climbed through the windows after II
was overturned. l.
Perhaps he most miraculous escana
q ne wreck was that OF Haskell wall
lt}eaf-old boy Of Lebanon. who was
ndns the blind" baggage between
ne baggage car and the mail cars
Wal boarded the train at Lebanon
and was going to come 10 Indianan-
ons When he felt the cars swaying
ron side TO side he knew sometime
vas wrong and he jumped from his
perch between the two cars. A sec.
ohl after he leaped the cars between !
Hheh ne was riding were turned over !
Dl' Wall had jumped far enough 10
esape being pinioned beneath them !.
.M's FISHER. Of Thorntown. who
s'A a.s wife, was on his way 10 In.
e'aAalois. also had a narrow escane =
I'n serious injury. Fisher was ria. y
ns " ihe smoker, and Just before the |,
''A he started back 10 the dav
toa'h where his wife was waiting for
A'H Just as he got TO the door the g
Ia vas derailed and the force pitched -
I'm Dack into the coach. When the ,
~ stopped again Fisher was thrown ?
M, me ground. Mrs. Fisher -
.'nlurd through an open window in ~
= p'-' iaiiN overturned coach in which C
she Was riding. "'0'
feature Of the wreck was Tho -
POSITION IN which the derailed ana =.
'e.lNlned cars lay after the acct. ~
~ ne mail car. which was conn. a.
" " me engine, was only =.
Nv '''' behind the engine when /,
a, ,4'hed. and the baggage car ~
'.'l was coupled TO the mail car ~,
IN NV Yards behind. Fifty wards 80
the baggage car were the Ave -,
n stf coaches II Is believed tha, -
-ali car left the tracks FIRST and pu
n. Yea The entire train with n Tho ~
IGN. was not overturned va
=, ochan. division superintend.
lne Big Four. was az the scena
et wreck. lie declined IN et,.o
4 80 sta'emtnt as TO the cause 90 An
'c,,. nap. but he said he was ra,ber
49, 20 the belief that II was
Nm. some Of the paraphernaIia r
aih the mail car becomine -
T.t aNl striking the trucks h ,..s
49,. ne wreck was not cansad b.. -.
\ s rails was Mr.. Scban's nosi. ioo,
y ihent. He said the ,raci, 7,
! ...'" IN good condition. so far q, ,oo,
=. we're concerned. and tho toe a.,
ma III sood condition. The rails his
y p''nt where the wreck occ,rraJ -
4 ,.' oeen laid about three wa.,Ls i, !
-d,. die OF the best material 90
,b ~ onicials Of the road All 49,,
~ Is pear the 1909 stamn bav' u,sn
:, sA made this year. nav o M
M four wrecking crew which
III, NE scene as soon as r,nrd
ared N "'s city, had the main track n,
,eve-.1 clock last evening HE.
nv y homes at ZionsvilIa w ~
\ !, "Ner freely to those suear,ne 49, nj
sc cures and physicians were ' ns mic mic
, sc~t., uhtil all had been cared ~ shrt,
.o,l,ent attracted MANY nersn 1or sa a
\ ,sa ishoOring towns and m nons NJ
y agtomobilists visited '" ,he ms
4 IN KIN indianapolis and f'eho, me Nus Nus
ra,t, scene Of the wreck Sa s "a"
n Nm rain from IndiananoIss oe
sn.. Ire was much consns,a al
.le oa who had been imnrisonaa LIS
w. o,,erturned cars were fran,, eu brag
NJ We're separataI aNellng to- has
co Sgogt the safety Of RI, o,h con me
rn,I prevailed for b oisers Anita
Cd wv families and friends 1' we an henr