The Prescott daily news., 1910-09-23
|NTERURbAN CARS
 COLLIDE HEAD-0N
DISREGARD OF ORDERS CAUSE3 LOSS OF FORTY LIVES
 IN CRASH.
INQUIRY NOW BEING MADE
Superintendent of Indiana Electric Line Believes Responsibility for Terrible Disaster Rests With
 Scuthbound Motorman.

Fort Wayne, Ind, Sept. 23.-The au- thorities of Wells county and the off cials of the Traction company are making a rigid investigation to attach responsibility for the collision of twa traction cars on the Bluffton line of the Fort Wayne & Wabash Valley Traction company, it. which forty per sons were killed and eight injured. Frank l. Hardy, superintendent Of transportation of the Traction com pany, stated disregard of orders caused the wreck and that B. T. Cork well, motorman of the south-bound car probably Is the one to blame. The disaster, rated as the worst in all interurban history, occurred at sharp curve near Kingsland, six miles from Btufton. The line is operated under a block system, and, until the railway makes public the orders is- sued the crews, it will not be def nitely known which motorman was negligent.
 The northbound car was loaded with passengers from the country south of here. who were coming to the Fort Wayne fair.
 Among the dead are:
 Blanche Archbold, Ossian
 Daniel Debach, Petroleum.
 Mary Dougherty. Bluffton.
 Mrs Hiram Folk, Biulfton.
 Thomas Gordon. Bluffton.
 Mrs. Myrte Harley, daughter of Mrs. Folk. Bluffton.
 A. E. Hyde, Pennville.
 John Johnson. Markle
 L. c Justus, Blulfton, general man- sger Blutfton. Geneva & Celina trac- tion line
 Mrs. Maxwell Garrett, Garrett. John Reed. Battery E, Fifth artil- lery, New York
 Joseph Sawyer. Bluffton.
 John Smith, residence not given. Mrs. John Smith, Montpelier.
 J. E. SwartZ, Bluffton.
 F. B. Tamm, Warren.
 Slar Thomas. Warren.
 Dr. S. v. Thompson, Ann Arbor, Mich.
 Seymour Robinson. Buffton, candi- date for county auditor.
 William Beer. Bufrton.
 II. c. Cook. Buffton.
 W. c. Burgen, Buffton. Del Locke Buffton proprietor of the Bliss house.
 Ernest Cruze. Buffton, former coun- ty treasurer Of Wells county.
 Pearl Sayler. Buffton.
 Carl Raber. Unionville.
 Jacob Schwartz, Unionville.
 Ralph Walfer. Buffton, dry goods merchant.
 Lloyd Brown, Buffton. wholesale grocer
 William Bowman, Buffton. whole sale and retail liquor dealer
 J. w. King. Warren.
 Mrs. Lola King. Warren.
 Oscar Zimmer, Bluffton, general merchant.
 Harold Nelson Bluffton.
 J. w. Tribolet, Bluffton. former state legislator.
 Amos Stuckey, Vera Cruze
 Jesse Hoffman, Marion
 Two unidentified men.
 Two Doctor is the Cars.
 There were two physicians on the cars at the time of the wreck. One of them escaped serious injury and with the other who had himself been painfully hurt. rendered assistance to those who survived the shock of the collision. Relief cars were hurried from this city and physicians wont from Bluffton in automobiles.
 Many of the dead already had been removed from the debris of the splnt cred cars. and the work of taking out the mangled bodies of these in the farther recesses of the wreckage was taken up by the more skillful hands Of the companys wrecking crews.
 Help from the nearby residences was rendered to such as could be re- moved from the wrsckage.
 Trainmen Misunderstood Orders.
 The cars. running at full speed, met on curve quarter of 8 mile north of Kingsland, and before they could be brought under control of the