The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-06-25
INDIANA WRECK
HORROR GROWS
TEN PEOPLE KILLED AND At
LEAST FORTY OTHERS ARE
INJURED.
M0T0RMAN DIsOBERs ORDERS.
Cars Came Together When Travelling
AZ Rate OF Fifty Miles An Hour
Terrible Scenes at the Wreck.

South Bend. Ind. June 21.-Many
additional details of the horrible
wreck on the Chicago. Lake Shore
and South Bend Railroad. in Porter
county. Ind. Saturday night. became
known yesterday and today.
Two of the big electric cars collided
head-on, and ~ is now known that ten
people were killed and at least 40 In
jured.
According to General Manager H.
u. Wallace, the wreck was due to a
disobedience o. orders by Motorman
George A. Reed. Of the eastbound car.
who was killed.
Reed received instructions at Gary
to wait at Wilson, q short distance
west of Baileytown. point at which
the disaster occurred. for the west
bound car to pass.
The impact Of the cars was SO great
that they were reduced to q mass OF
wreckage.
The east-bound car, running as train
No. SO. it was stated. was going at the
rate of so miles an hour to make up
lost time. When the crash occurred,
the east-bound car was telescoped and
almost entirely wrecked. In this train
were all OF the killed and most OF the
injured. passengers on train No. IS,
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
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 home Of Z.
| r. Borg. nearby. into temporary hos.
| pital and morgue. others turned theiI
| 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 a mile
| away. Thus it was impossible to pro
cure speedy aid from Michigan City.
Superintendent Welsh. of the inter
urban line was in Michigan City when
| the accident occurred. When he
learned of the collision he discovered
that 1t would be impossible to rux
| electric cars to the scene because the
trolley wires had been broken. Three
| physicians were sent in q gasoline
l t.a ixx, a L.
patched as soon as possible in an au
tomobile. When the physicians ar
rived at the scene of accident the,
found scores OF farmers and villagers
| rushing about endeavoring to care fol
the wounded and to extricate the dead
and dying.
They were working under Difficult
ties, the only light being furnished by
. few lanterns procured from nearby
farm houses.
All around the wreck lay the In
1ured. covered with blankets and com
forters brought from the nearest
homes.
/ Rescuers Use Axes.
Many of the wounded were SO 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 the cries Of the sufferers.
Oficials OF the Lake Shore railroad
notified the west-bound train to take
on doctors and nurses at Laporte and
South Bend and to put them of at
Dune Park. Similar instructions We're
!. 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 AT
1880 O'Clock, stopped at Dune Park.
arriving at 1880. and took aboard the
wounded, who were carried to South