The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-07-05
Nineteen Dead and Twenty
five Badly Injured When
Flyer Hits Freight.
GOING so MILES AN HOUR
TRYING TO MAKE UP LOST
TIME OVER THE c, n. & D.
TRACKS.

persons were killed outright, three |
were probably fatally hurt, and half a
dozen were seriously injured in a
head-on collision between a freight |
and passenger train on the tracks of
the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton |
here yesterday. OF the killed. |
eighteen were passengers, the other
ger train crew. Twenty-three persons,
in all. are reported to have been more |
or less seriously injured.
The trains were the Cincinnati sec.
ton of the Twentieth Century Limited
on the Big Four and the second sec.
ton of freight train on the Cincin.
natl, Hamilton and Dayton road.
The Dead.
Baker, H. p, Cincinnati, y.
Bodey, Mrs. Jessie j., Dayton, o.
Cooley, John W., McCutcheonsville,
Ohio.
Daubenmire, Miss Fay H., Pleasant
Vile, o.
Dunleavy. William. Dayton, o.
Frohle, George, Dayton, o.
Garrugus, A. S., Columbus, o.
Golden, Frank, passenger train
brakeman.
Grant, C. B., Springfield, o.
King Yen Lun, Columbus. o.
Kirr J. Smith, Dayton, o.
Moulton. Charles H., Youngstown, O.
Smith, H. A, Dayton, o.
Snyder, Ray B., London, ..
Van Horn, Richard, Dayton, o.
One unidentified woman, about 40
years old.
Three unidentified men.
The Injured.
Cubanissy, Oscar, Cincinnati, O.,
head and side hurt.
Davis, Joe, Cleveland, o.
Dayton, A. F., Latonia, KY, condi-
ton serious.
Doty. c. E., Bellefontaine, O., right
leg broken.
Edwards. Frank, Latonia. KY.
Erskine, w. S., Memphis. Tenn,
back injured, condition serious.
Ferguson, Jerry, Dayton, O., side in
jured.
Garrigus, S. W., Columbus, O., arms
and several ribs broken.
Greenwood. Wilbur, Springfield, o.
Hagan, Jasper, Hamilton, o.
Hallor, William, Dayton, o.
Jennings, Peter engineer passenger
train, seriously injured.
Kenney, James L. H., Louisville, KY,
right leg and ribs broken.
Kirk, Mrs. ]. Smith, Dayton, O., may
die.
Lamm. w. P, fireman passenger
train, may die.
Indy, Mrs. Emma, Caledonia, o.,
thighs and hips injured, condition SER
ious.
Litzey, William, Harrodsburg, KY.
badly burned, may die.
Rankin, John, Springfield, O.. right
leg and hip hurt.
Smith, H. A.. Dayton, O., leg cut OFF.
Valid, George. train pilot on c. H. &
D., may die.
Weisner, William, Cincinnati, O.,
head and shoulder crushed. condition
serious.
White, John ]. Dayton, o.
White, w. D., Cleveland, o., head
cut.
Fifty Miles an Hour.
The freight train wasa attempting
to make a siding to give the passen-
ger train a clear track, when the fly
| ing limited, travelling at rate of fifty
miles an hour, flashed around curve
and crashed into it.
The Big Four train had been detour-
ed to avoid blocked track on that
road at Genoa. few miles south of
here. caused by freight wreck earlier
in the day. In addition to its regular
crew it carried pilot engineer Of the
Cincinnati. Hamilton and Dayton road
who was practically in charge Of the
train.
A misunderstanding Of orders caus-
ed the disaster, which was one of the
worst that this section of the country
has ever experienced.
Pilot Engineer George Valid had re.
ceived orders to wait at Post Town, a
siding station three miles north of this
city, according to railroad officers.
| The freight train was to have passed
him there but was late in pulling out
of Middletown.
| Confusion Of Orders.
instead OF the seven minutes mar
gin which Valid thought he had to
reach Middletown, the time was less
than five minutes.
The first section of the freight had
taken the siding here and Conductor
John Weaver in charge of the second
section. tried to reach the north end
of the same siding. Before his train
had cleared the switch points the pas.
senger train rounded a curve screened
by the thickly wooded lots on each
side OF the track. The engine crews
had time to jump and all escaped ser.
ious injury.
The crash when the trains met was
terrific. The freight, made up of gon.
dola coal cars. flat cars. and box cars
loaded with lumber, being so heavy
that the lighter passenger engine and
coaches crumpled beneath the impact
like paper.
Directly behind the passenger loco
motive and the tender was a combina
ton baggage and smoking car, follow
ed by a day coach and chair car. Ali
the dead and injured were in the first