Albuquerque morning journal., 1910-09-22
Victims Horribly Crushed in
FdghtfuI Head-on Collision
on Interurban Electric Line
Near Fort Wayne, Indiana
MISUNDERSTANDING OF
ORDERS CAUSE OF WRECK
Without Moments Warning
Crowded Coaches Are Turned
Into ShambIeSi Screams OF
Wounded Bring Help to SccGe.
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Bluffton, Ind, sept 21.- Forty-two
persons were killed in an interurban
trolley wreck between Bluffton and
Fort Wayne at noon today. Just what
error caused the wreck no one seems
to know. At l1.36 regular train of
one ear left Bluffton TOR Fort Wayne.
At practically the same hour single
car left Fort Wayne for Blutttoh,
empty, to pick up load OF passen-
gers to bring back TO Fort Wayne for
the county tair Near Kingsland, IS
miles south of Fort Wayne the cars
met
Those who were in the accident
can tell little OF what occurred IN
the extra car were no passengers. In
the regular local probably fifty-ftVe
or sixty people or these few es-
capped death or injury
The Dead
w t.. BOWMAN. Blufiton
A. f. HYDE, Pennville.
y Il. STUCkEY, Vera cruz
WILLIAM ). BEERS, Bluffton.
LLOYD BROWN, Bluflton.
l.. c. JUSTUS, Bluffton, general
manager Bluffton. Geneva and Colina
Traction COMPANY
= II. ROBINSON
~ -. COOK
EARNEST CROST
RALPH WATSON.
w -. BUDGAN,
OSCAR ZIMMER
MISS PEARL SAYLOR.
JOHN w TRIBOLET
THOMAS JORDAN.
HAROLD NEBON. son of Lloyd
Brown, about s years old.
MRS. HIRAM FORD.
MARY DAUGH ERTY.
j. r. SWARTZ.
JOSEPH SAWYER, all Of Bluff
ton.
SIt.AS THOMAS.
f. B. TAMM
FRANK KING.
MRS. FRANK KING. all Of War
ren, Ind
MRS. GARRETT MAXWELL, Gar
rctt. Ind
r. f. FOLK, washington, Ind.
JACOB SWARTZ, Uniondale.
BLANCHE ARCHBOLD, Ossian.
CHARLES REBER, Uniondale.
JOHN JOHNSON, Markle.
JESSE HOFFMAN. Marion.
DIR $. T.. THOMPSON, Ann Arbor,
Mich.
MRS. MYRTLE HARLEY, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Folk. Bluffton.
DANIEL DERACH, Petroleum. Ind.
JOHN SMITH. Montpelier.
MRS. JOHN SMITH. Montpelier
JOHN REED, Battery +, Firth
artillery, New York
JOE EDENS, Hartford City, Ind
GEORGE SEMTHURST. Frank
WARREN cRAMER, Frankford,
Ind
BEN CRAMER. Frankford. Ind.
The collision Is presumed to have
been caused by misunderstanding OF
orders in regard t0 the south bound
extra car taking a switch near Kings
land so the north bound car could
pass H.
The motormen Of the two cars had
no time 20 set the brakes when they
sighted each other The heavily
loaded north bound car was crushed
and the bodies of the dead and in
iured were strewn on either side OF
the track amid the wreckage.
The screams of the injured men
and women following the crash ot the
cars brought the neighboring farm
ers to the scene.
The north bound car was in charge
OF Motorman G. Vandine and Conduc-
tor T. A. Spiller. the south bound
car in charge of Benjamin Corkweu
ana Conductor Daniel Wilson
The spot where the cars came to-
gether was in the midst OF field.
ON each side farmers were plowlng
tn accident occurred on curve
bv dense woods. Like a
giant missile the south-h bound car
plowed into the traffic packed north
bound coach.
II cut of seats an inch above the (
flOorand packed in one mass the !
whole interior of the car. seats. over I
head baskets. lighting fixtures. Ing
gage and the bodies Of two score pas I
,engers.
Ia the north-bound car there were I
few capable of giving aid 10 the dy-
ing From the fields came farmers /
who had witnessed the accident or /
had been summoned by neighbors
Word was flashed by telephone To- /
and a special car was loaded I
with an the physicians available and
rushed O. the scene. ]
Al nightfall all the dead and In /
Iured had been removed and the /
wrecked cars were lying beside the /
-ight-of-Way. "a bonfire 10 illuminate /
he spot of one OF the worst electric I
raction wrecks in the history of the /
.Ountry.
one heroic act that viii sand out /
n the annals nf thc wreck Is that .
performed By Conductor Sriller Of 4
he north-bound ear Though injured i
severely he staggered down the track I
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