Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-06
IDENTIFY DEAD IN
TROLLEY CRASH
Thirty-SK Lose Lives in Accident
at Staunton, ILL.,, and Thirty
one Were Hurt
MOTORMAN ADMITS BLAME
Mistake in Reading of Train Or
der Said to Have Caused
Catastrophe
MOTORMAN ADMITS BLAME
Associated Pressl


STAUNTON, ILL.,, Oct 5.-Coroner
Doris Karnes of Carlinville and his
jury viewed the bodies of seven vic
Tins of yesterdays Illinois Traction
system wreck, which were left here
this afternoon, and returned to Car
linville. The general inquest will be-
gin there tomorrow.
The other bodies were taken to Car
linville tonight.
1t is now almost certain that the
total death list will remain at thirty
six and the injured at thirty-one.
John Herman, the snotorman, who
admits he was responsible for the
wreck, is still under arrest and will
appear before the coroner's jury at
Carlinville.
The dead-Mr and Mrs. John Bot
ma, Benld, Ill; John E. Berry, SPRING
field, ILL.,, land commissioner for the
Illinois Traction system; D. E. Black,
Springfield master mechanic for the
Illinois Traction system; Herman
Bauer. st. Louis; Mrs. G. L. Bunton,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Brugge, st. Louis; e.
M. Ross, Decatur, ILL.,; Mrs. William
Cloud, Benld; DR.. H. C. Ganaway and
S. c. Hill, Princeton, Ind; Edward
C. Hill, Belleville, ILL.,; S. 7. Henry,
Princeville, Ill; ]. r. Harberger,
Jamestown. ILL.,; Manuel A. Intermill,
Baden Baden, Ill; T. j. Kerwin, st.
Louis; Mrs. c. H. Crane, Granite City,
ILL.,. Adolph Kuenze, Belleville, Ill;
J. w. Miller and Miss Elizabeth Nc
Pherson, Gillespie, ILL.,; A. H. Prince,
Champaign, ILL.,; Frank Ruble, ORAL
lon, Ill; DR.. B. F. Radshaw, Curran,
Ill; Mr.. and Mrs. H. B. Robinson,
Benld; w w. Street, Springfield, su-
perintendent st. Louis Springfield di-
vision of the Illinois Traction system;
Miss Ella Sawyer, Belleville, Ill; E.
M. Rose, Chicago; Miss Beatrice SEN
niger, Springfield; j. C. Schaefer, ST.
Louis; Miss B. Swanden, Springfield;
C. Werner, Chaplin, ILL.,; two men and
one woman unidentified.
GIVE LIST OF INJURED
The injured:
Mrs. ]. R. Agee, Springfield, bruised;
Miss Ethel Agee, Springfield, ankle
broken and bruised; Joseph Clark,
Bend, slightly cut; Mrs. l.. E. Cor
dunn, Gillespie, body crushed; Mrs. G.
B. Clifton, Staunton, slight; William
Curle, Springfield, head cut; Miss Mary
Duffner, Nilwood, Ill, nose broken; w.
V. Duncan, Springfield, conductor car,
hip dislocated, foot crushed, back
sprained; Burt Edwards, Mount Olive,
ILL.,, body crushed and serious internal
injuries, not expected to live; Julius
Engleman, O'Fallon, slight; Mrs. JUL
ius Engelman, OFallon, ILL.,, bruised;
Miss Lima Harney East st. Louis,
bruised; John Hohe, Trenton, Ill, jaw
broken; Miss Edith Lansford, Hills
boro, neck and foot hurt; c. F. Mehl,
Staunton, conductor southbound car,
bruised; T. Mccall, Gillespie, bruised;
G. C. MCGEE, Shawneetown, ILL.,, slight;
George Miller, Troy, ILL.,, back sprained;
James Filler Sparta, ILL.,, chest injured,
collarbone broken, rib fractured, seri-
Gus; George Oehler, Staunton, bruised;
James Parker, Staunton, bruised; l..
Y. Rane, Carlinville ILL.,, dispatcher, 1.
It. s., head and chest crushed; Guy
Smith, Shawneetown, ribs broken;
Henry L. Saul, Belleville, bruised;
James Scotland, Gillespie, side injured;
Samuel A Tarrant, Brooklyn, N. Y,
shoulder dislocated NJ. K. Judge,
Litchfield, ILL.,, inspector I. T. s., slight;
Edward White, Decatur, leg injured;
E. ]. Young, Staunton, motorman on
limited, slight; Miss Hazel Sinweger,
Springfield, slight; unidentified man,
had card with name Irwin F. Echerle,
Belleville, both legs badly cut.
THREE OFFICIALS KILLED
Included among the passengers who
met death were three prominent Of
ficials of the Illinois Traction system.
A. w. Street, superintendent Of the St.
ouis-Springfield division, was one,
and the others were John E. Berry,
land commissioner, and D. E. Black,
master mechanic.
Members of the railroad and ware
house commission, who took immediate
cognizance of the calamity on tele-
graphic adVices, are expected to ar
rive here this morning when an in
vestigation into the cause of the dis
aster will be commenced.
It is said the reading of a few words
scrawled on a tissue fiimsy, three
inches wide and five inches long, will
fl; the responsibility for the wreck.
That bit of paper has been jealously
guarded in the coroner's Office here.
A duplicate Of the order was taken
from Conductor Leonard on one of the
cars. The collision occurred between
local train No. Il, northbound, and
limited section two of No. 73, south
bound.
According to the order, No. IA was
running wild after leaving Watt. ILL.,,
hve-eighths of a mile north OF Staun-
ton. Dickerson curve Is on the bend
of a raVine, and just at the cut where
the track winds sharply to the right.
Both trains were going at a speed es-
at nearly 40 miles an hour So
short was the warning that there was
no opportunity to reduce speed before
the local telescoped the limited. The
impact drove both cars down the track
nearly 100 feet, and left them in mass
OF wreckage which the dead and in
jured passengers were pinioned
In the northbound car not one es-
capped uninjured, md few in the other
car.