Norwich bulletin., 1910-10-05
DUE TO DISREGARD OF ORDERS
Local Grew Had Orders to Pass the Excursion Train
Which was Running in Two Sections, at Staunton
Trains Came Together on Sharp Curve at High
Speed-Most Horrible Spectacle Ever Seen in that
Part of the Country.

age. through which the bodies OF the
dead and wounded were sighted. 1t is
not definitely known how many of the
passengers escaped uninjured, but it is
certain that by far the larger portion
of those on both cars were either killed
or desperately injured. The two trains
were so closely twisted together that
it was a marvel that anybody escaped
death or injury.
Physicians Rushed to the Scene.
AS quickly as possible word of the
accident was telephoned to Springfield
and Peoria, and a special car was inn
mediately rushed from these points.
Other cars also We're sent north from
Granite City, ILL., These last took manv
of the injured and hurried them back
to Granite City. where they were plac-
ed in hospitals. AS fast as the dead
were eXtricated they were placed in
one of the cars sent from Springfield.
In short time a car containing z3
bodies was sent to Carlinville, where
they were placed in an undertaking
establishment. From Springfield all
physicians were hurried to Staunton.
Within few minutes after the col
lision occurred farmers from surround
ing country and nearly every man in
Staunton was on his way to the scene
of the accident to render whatever as
sistance was possible. The early COM
ers were greeted with spectacle such
as was never before seen in this part
of the country.
Dead and Wounded in Every Concsiv-
able Position.
The two cars had come together with
such awful force that they were not
only telescoped, but they We're actu-
ally battered out of all semblance to
their original shape. They were sim
ply a mass of splintered wood and
twisted iron and steel, eight feet high.
In this pile of wrecllage the dead and
wounded WE'RE flung In every con-
ceivable position and every Imaginable
form of mutilatfon. Some bodies OF
the dead We're actually torn apart, and
streams of blood flowed down the de-
brls in a dozen places The. farmers
and the citizens of Staunton worked
with desperate haste. however and in
a short time had taken from the wreck
all of the living and most Of the dead.
News Spread by Rural Telephone.
BY means of the rural telephone. the
news of the accident was quickly
spread throughout the country, and
when it became known that % of the
killed had been taken to Carlinville the
long distance telephone to that town
was literally swamped with messages
from anxious inquirers asking for the
names of those killed.
The Identified Dead.
Springfield, ILL.,, Oct. 4.-The dead
identified at Carlinville follow:
J. r. Habbeger, Jamestown. ILL.,, mer-
chant; c, Werner, Chaplin, ILL.,; Her
man Bauer, carpenter,St Louis; Man.
uel A. Indermill, Baden, ILL.,, insurance
| agent; DIR. H. c. Galloway, Decatur.
Ill: J. G. Schaefer, ST. Louis; Mrs.
William McCloud, BenId, ILL.,; S. C.
Hill, Princeton Ind, railway trainman;l
| John Blocktna, Benld, teannster; Mrs.
| John BloclStna Benld; DR.. B. F. Rem
shaw, Curran, Ill; H. B. Robinson,
Benld miner; Mrs. Fl. B. Robinson,
Benld: E. NJ. Rose, Chicago, collector
Golfers Weekly: A. Price, auditor Of
| disbursements of the Illinois Traction
company, Champaign.