The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-10-25
Railroad Officials Are Still
Probing Into Affair, But Had
Not Finished Their lnvesti-
cation.
cORONER'S INQUEST
HELD ON WEDNESDAY
Yesterday Right Arm Of Louis
Marshall Was Found in a
Field Near the Scene of the
Catastrophe.

On Wednesday, coroner John A.
Burnett of Butler county, Ohio, will
commence his inquest in the terrible
Collinsville, O., catastrophe, which oc-
cured Friday, and resulted in the
death of Louis Marshall, this city: r.
C. Webb, Anderson; Burt H. Hatfield,
Greensboro; O. o. Raines, Kokomo;
Charles A. Johnson, Eaton, and an un-
identified man, and If possible he will
establish the responsibility for the af-
fair.
However, In the meantime, officials
of the Richmond division will contin-
ue their investigation to establish the
responsibility. Local railroad Off
eials have nothing to give out at the
present time. They say that all facts
will be given out in ample time, when
they have established in their own
minds the responsibility. Nothing
will be given out at present, they say,
because they do not want to injure
any employe by making an official
statement which appears to be true
now but which on a complete investi-
cation might be entirely wrong. Net
tleton Neff. superintendent, was very
busy today and could not be seen.
His chief clerk, Charles Green. spoke
for him.
The State May Act.
One OF the officials Of the company
was asked whether or not the man or
men on whom the responsibility is
laid would be discharged. The Off
be developed. Providing, however,
the parties responsible are discharged,
the state of Ohio will probably bring
criminal procedure against them and
If they are found guilty, they may be
sent to the penitentiary.
The wreckage has been entirely
cleaned up, according to the officials
The extent Of damage to the COM
pany's property has not been fully de-
termined, but the company officials
state that 1t will not reach 500, 900,
an estimated figure contained In ac-
counts published in an Indianapolis
paper. The damage however, will be
very great and perhaps be over the
o2O0,OOO mark.
The right arm of Engineer Louis
Marshall. who was instantly killed
and his body mangled beyond recog-
milton, was found yesterday afternoon
In corn field about fifty feet away
from the scene Of the accident. It
was brought here for burial today.
Begged Him to Remain.
Just before Marshall left on his trip
Friday. Mrs. Marshall had begged her
husband to remain at home on ac-
count of his cold. He, however, said
his cold was not SO severe as to pre-
vent him attending to his duties He
promised his wife, that as soon as he
returned from Cincinnati. he would
lay off for few days and that they
would enjoy pleasure trip together.
They had made their plans for trip
TO Cincinnati and other nearby points
Mrs. Marshall was not notified of
her husbands death as soon as the
word was received here Relatives
feared for the result and refused to
tell her the exact truth. She was
told that he was injured. Mrs. Mar
shall was up town Friday evening to
ascertain her husbands condition but
by some means she failed to learn the
exact truth.
The funeral Of Mr.. Marshall was
held this afternoon at his home, 12O
South Third street, at 1870 O'Clock,
and later at St Paul's Lutheran
church at O'Clock. Burial was in
Lutherania cemetery. A large num-
ber of his former friends also attend.
ed the service at the church.