St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-09-24
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Fort Wayne, Ind, Sept. 21.-Forty
two persons were killed and seven
were seriously injured in a head-on
collision between two traction cars
on the Fort Wayne-Bluffton Division
OF the Fort Wayne and Wabash Val
ley Line to-day
The wreck uccurred one and a
half miles north of Bluffton, at a
sharp curve. The cars in collision
were north-bound local car, crowd
ed to the steps, which left Bluffton
at 11:15 o'clock, and a southbound
extra" car from Fort Wayne. They
met while both were running at high
speed.
The Dead: W. E. Bowman, Bluff
ton; A. E. Hyde, Pennville; S. E.
Stuckey, Veracruz; William S. Beers,
Bluffton; Lloyd Brown, Bluffton; L..
z. Justus, Bluffton, general manager
Bluffton, Genva and Celina Traction
line; S. H. Robinson, Bluffton; H.
D. Cook, Button; Ernest Grouse,
Bluffton; Silas Thomas, Warren;
Ralph Walser, Bluffton; w. D. Bur-
gan, Button; Sscar thinner, Bluff
ton; Miss Pearl Sayler Button; R.
F. Folk, Washington, Ind; Jacob
Swartz, Uniondale; F. B. Tamm,
Warren, Ind. John Tribolet, Bluff
ton; Charles Reber, Uniondale;
Blanche Archbold, Ossin; Thomas
Gordon, Bluffton; Frank King and
wife, Warren; son of Lloyd Brown,
Bluffton, about eighteen years old;
Harold Nelson, bluffton; John John
son, Markle; Jesse Hoffman, Marion;
Or. S. E. Thompson, Ann Arbor,
Mich; Mrs. Hiram Folk Bluffton;
Mrs. Myrtle, daughter of Mrs. Folk;
Mary Daugherty, Bluffton; Daniel
Debach, Petroleum, Ind; J. E.
Swartz, Bluffton: Joseph Sawyer,
Bluffton: John Smith and wife,
Joe -, piano polisher,
Bluffton; John Reed, Battery E.,
Fifth Artillery, New York; two I'M
Identified men; unidentified woman.
Eleven persons injured in the
wreck were brous 1t to this city.
Harold Nelson, of Bluffton, died
on the train, and three others died
on the operating table at the hos
pital
The injured are:
F. A. Parkhurst, Bluffton broken
spine and head wounds; Fred Jones,
banker, both legs crushed;
9. A. Brown, Warren, both legs
broken; John Eichenberger, Berne,
legs broken and injured internally;
Margaret Tribolet, Bluffton, concus-
sion of the brain and, internally in
jured; Mrs. w. D. Burgan, Bluffton,
broken leg and numerous body
wounds; B. T. Corkwell, Fort
Wayne, motto man, scalp wounds.
The collision is presumed to have
been caused by misunderstanding of
orders in regard to the south-bound
extra car taking switch near
so that the north-bound
,ar could pass it.
The motormen of the two cars
lid not have time to set brakes when
hey sighted each other. The heavily
oaded north-bound car was crushed
Ind the bodies of the dead and in
Iured were streWn on either side of
he track amid the wreckage. The
of the injured men and wo-
men, following the crash of the cars
brought the neighboring farmers to
he scene.
Conductor Spiller, of the south
bound car was unhurt and ran back
toward Kingsland and tagged a car
from Indianapolis. which was ap-
preaching the wreck at full speed and
otherwise probably would have
plunged into it, adding to the list
of the killed and injured in the
collision.
Wrecking cars and physicians were
rushed from Fort Wayne and Bluff
ton, and the bodies of the dead and
the injured were conveyed to hospi-
tails in the two cities.
WANTED-A girl to do sewing.
Apply at the store of Osendorf,
Patecek & Company, Covington.
STRAYED-From near Morris
Retreat on or about May II, one
black and white OK, one yellow OK,
with probably little white on him.
The above two steers were marked:
Crop, split and saw set in right ear
and swallow fork in the left ear.
Weight about 900 pounds each. One
yellow steer, light shade of brindle,
think he is marked swallow fork and
under bit in one ear and over square
in the other. Were near Covington
when last heard of, about30 day ago.
Any information leading to the re-
covery of these steers will be proper
ly rewarded by notifying
r. KITTRELL,
sep24-2t. Genessee, La.
NOTICE.
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