The Penn's Grove record., 1909-06-25
% KILLED, 40 HURT,
IN TROLLEY CRASH
Motorman Disobeys Orders and
Car Is Telescoped.
WOMEN AMONG THE INJURED
Most Of the Victims We're Returning
Home From the Auto Races at
Crown Point, Ind.-Car Was Be-
hind Time.

South Bend, Ind. - Ten persons
killed and forty injured in a wreck
on the Chicago, Lake Shore and South
Bend Railroad in Porter County, In
diana, two of the big electric Ears col
liding head on. According to General
Manager H. U. Wallace, the wreck
was due to disobedience of orders by
Motorman George A. Reed, of the
e~ast-bound car, who was killed.
Reed received instructions at Gary
to wait at Wilson, a short distance
west of Baileytown, the 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 a mass of w~reckage.
The dead are: George A. Reed, mo-
torman, Michigan City, Ind, formerly
of Villa Grove, ILL.,; R. F. Merriman,
married, South Bend; Chas. Johnson,
Porter, Ind; Edward Gilbertson, Por-
ter, Ind; A. Barber, Hishawaka,
Ind; F. T. Moore, residence un-
known; William Leon, secretary of
the Dowagiac Motor Works, Dowa-
giac, Mich; F. A. Lake, president
Dowagiac Motor Works, Dowagiac,
Mich; H. H. H~utson, Niles, Mich;
Charles Swanson, Porter, Ind. The
seriously injured are: Fred Wusth.
Chesterton, Ind, chest crushed; Ar
thur Johnson. Chesterton, skull frac-
tured; Delbert e. Kinney, Michigan
City, conductor east-bound car, right
arm and three ribs broken, right leg
cut; Mrs. Guy Stutzman, Mishawaka,
Ind, hole cut in back of head and face
cut by glass; c. A. Simmons, Benton
Harbor, Mich; both legs broken;
Miss Nan Larsen, Chesterton, Ind, in
ternal injuries, may die; T. w. Louie,
Mishawaka, Ind, badly cut all over
body; Paul Wilson, Michigan City,
formerly of Cleveland, Ohio, assist
ant to General Superintendent Wal
lace, of the Chicago, Lake Shore and
South Bend Railroad, leg broken,
head cut and internal injuries, not
expected to live.
The east-bound car was going fifty
miles an hour to make up lost time.
When the crash occurred the east
bound car was telescoped and almost
demolished. In this train were all of
the killed and most of the injured,
the passengers on the w~est-bound
train escaping with bruises. The two
cars were welded together in a mass
of debris, in which lay the dead and
dying and two-score injured. Dark
ness greatly interfered with the pro-
gress of the rescuers, and to make
matters worse, the nearest telephone
was nearly a mile away.
All but one of the killed were in
the smoking compartment OF the car,
in the front end. This space was
crowded. Titus E. Kinzie, a real es-
tate dealer, and Cordius Kline, both
of South Bend, left the smoking room
less than a minute before the crash
came, and escaped death, although
the latter suffered severe injuries.
Three physicians were sent from
Michigan City in a gasoline traction
speeder and three more dispatched in
an automobile. When the physicians
reached the scene they found scores
of farmers and villagers rushing about
endeayoring to care for the wounded
and to extricate the dead and dying
by the light of a few lanterns. Many
of the wounded were pinioned in the
wreckage, so that it was necessary to
use axes