The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-23
Train Jumps Track on Sharp Curve Near Cincinnati
COACHES ARE TtLESCOPED
Three of Train Crew and Two Pas senqers Meet Death While 15 or More Persons Are
 Injured.

Cincinnati, January 22.-tspecial.)- )-The dead:
 Frank Stadtlander, conductor, S25 Monroe street, Newport Ky, married.
 c. W. Goldie. fireman, Indianapolis. John Stickel, Hazel avenue Norwood. married
 Free c. Murphy, engineer, Indianapolis. Michael Lewis, Kansas City, Kan.
 The injured:
 Probably l5 passengers, cut and bruised. not seriously.
 Death rode with the huge mogul en- zine that was bringing into Cincinnati this morning at terrific speed the night Chicago express train of the Big Four railroad. AS the train rushed along. within but mile or two of the end of its journey, there was sudden jar, tho massive steel engine reared and leaped like horse in fright, the cars attached to It were jerked and tossed about, then came chaos that meant death to five men.
 Passengers, tossed about like feathers in a storm, were helpless while iron and steel and timbers crashed with an ac- compartment in minor of hissing steams that made for a few moments tur- moil in which was not even heard by themselves the shouts of men and women, who escaping death, will never know how they escaped.
 Wrecked on Sharp Curve.
 Tie wreck occurred alonKssde the ' g -Four roindhouse In Riverside about 7.30 Saturday morning when the engine of ex- press No R8. coming from Chicago. jumped from the tack at A sharp curve, leaped onto the Baltimore and Ohio southwestern tracks and whirling about plowed its way through one of the coaches of it's own train.
 The train WAS filled with passengers and one of the remarkable features Of the smashup Is that none of the passengers was seriously hurt, although the engine cut its way through the coach into which 1t had circled
 scoped. Five of the crew of the train met death, one instantly, and within six hours death relieved the sufferings of the other four.
 Probably a. dozen of the passengers were cut and bruised, but none injured to an extent that prevented them from boarding street cars and continuing their way to the center of the city.
 It was nearly four hours after the wreck occurred before the body of the fseman C. E. Goldie of Indianapolis, was discovered under the tender of the train. The wrecking crew had been searching under the wreckage of the engine and the combination coach into which the engine had impaled itself
 Narrow Escapes.
 All who saw the wreck marvel how the passengers in the combination smoker and baggage coach escaped annihilation. The engine apparently turned a somersault. It was lying heading toward the north west with It's head rammed into the side of the combination car The latter was lying half twisted over. It was a mass of splnters
 tossed 100 feet and rammed into a freight car standing on sidetrack to the south of the main track The day coach was east of the engine and how it cleared the engine and landed where it did will always be a mystery. Two Pullman cars were found rightside up and very little damaged. The day coach was smashed in the front and the windows were shattered. The vestibule was rammed up to the front of the car and splintered
 The wrecked train left Chicago last night at Il :45. It was going along at high rate of speed when the engine jumped the track Two theories, are ad- vanced as to the reason for this One is that the sleety rails were the cause and the other that 1t was due to something dropping from the engine. The train con- sisted of combination baggage coach and smoker, two mall cars and two Pull man cars