New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-14
CHICAGO New York 49, Hour
Train Jumps the Track at
Fort Wayne, Ind.
GOING 70 MILES AN HOUR
Double Header Strikes Switch at
Too Great a Rate of Speed
Steel Cars Believed to Have
Prevented Worse Carnage.

the pennsylvania eighteen-hour train.
on route from Chicago TO New York,
i,mned the track on the western out
skirts Of the city at $50 o'clock this
evening,
In leaving the rails the two engines
milling the passenger train sidewiped
freight engine and the three piled up
in mass of bent and twisted iron.
The baggage car, smoker, buffet and
two sleepers turned over In the ditch.
Most of the injured were seated in the
diner and smoker when the accident oc-
CURED.
THE DEAD.
crrlCH W. Fort Wayne: fireman on flyer
MALONE. Peter. Fort Wayne; engineer on NY
SNYDER. ---. believed to have lived in Chi
caso. died in St Josephs Hospital.
ENG1NEER-B Believed 10 be either Arrick or
Berger. buried under wreckaEe
THE INJURED.
rroRsr r II. chicago; risht arm broken,
re-, and ankles cut; not fatal
BURTON. II. c.. negro waiter.
BoLYARD. T. Y. Fort Wayne, fireman; badly
cut about the head.
COLE, II. c., negro walter
CRAWFORD. y. H.. Philadelphia
CHArTEIL C.. c., Chicago
pOsTHEENY. Daniel Chicago
DOSE. II. r., No. 81 West 4oth street. New
York.
HAvENs l. E. 10. 1877 Brosdway, New
York.
hAM. Ed c., New York
MANSFIELD. William. address unknown
r.fr
MAsSEEGER, T. J.. Milwaukee
PERRY. Roy No. $500 Wabash avenue, Chi
cosENTHAL. samuel. North Forks. y. D.
RUSSELL. -, Chicago.
sEYBOLD. J. T.. Chicago. sprained wrist and
minor injuries.
SULLIVAN. James Z, New York.
SoWEEs. Victor Mansfield. Ohio.
THOMAS ". H.. No. 3217 state street, Chi
Caco.
Ten others who were injured have not
been identified.
The police department, fire depart
ment and every ambulance in the city
were called 10 the scene of the accident,
and the injured were hurried to hospi-
tails.
The train left Chicago at 30 O'Clock
At 1l:46 Tonight. owing TO engine
trouble. the train was more than an
hour late and was running with double
header engines. The first trouble oc-
CURED at Winona. Ind, where the engine
broke down This caused more than
an hours delay. and when the extra
engine was attached to the train an at
tempt 10 make up time was started.
The main track and the track on which
the freight train was located were torn
up for distance Of two hundred yards
The two engines OF the flyer were torn
from their trucks and thrown down the
embankment, while the engine of the
freight reared up over the trucks Of the
myers engines.
Running at Terrific Speed.
g.. G.. Chatten. Of Chicago was in the
dining car when the accident occurred.
and escaped with slight injuries to his
head and face.
The train was running at terrific
rate" he declared. The first intimation
lad that anything was wrong was
when all the passengers in the dining
car were thrown headong the entire
length of the car. The next thing ! re-
allied men were fighting like beasts TO
get out of the car. and the steam escap
ing from the kitchen was choking us.
Another man and / fell TO the floor and
crawled along in the semi darkness and
among the screaming men TO window,
through which we made our escape
Charles Z. Skilmsn, of this city, who
iesides directly across from the spot
where the wreck occurred, saw the whole
thing a. he was sitting on his verauda al
the time
The train. which was double headed
said Mr.. Skillman. was coming at
terrific speed Just across the bridge
which spans the st. Mary's River the
train veered into q new switch placed
there because of the track elevation
work. ] guess the train was going at
too great a rate for the switch 10 stand
the strain. for as 1 watched the train II
seemed TO me as though the rails of the
switch just slid from under the train
directly over TO the freight train stand
ing on the north track The crash was
simply terrific For the first minute
after the three engines struck there was
comparative silence. Then came the
sound Of the escaping steam. the crash
u the two first passenger cars as they
slid down the embankment into Swinney
Park and the screams Of the pas
sengers."
Men Escape Before Woman
George Mitchell, his wife and four chill
dren. of Los Angeles, were passengers
on the train. and escaped serious injury
miraculously.
Instantly" said Mr.. Mitchell. there
was a panic such as never would sup
pose could happen. i saw strong men
seize q woman whose companion mad
broken a window and was pushing her
through it, pull the woman back ana
crawl out themselves. Several men
rushed over me and my family, ana as
matter Of fact we were the last 10
get out Of the car. MY daughter, aged
fourteen. has bad cut on her log, Dnt
the rest of us escaped with only bruises
and slight cuts. If it had not been that
the cars were Of steel, think that we
would all have been killed"
Most Of the injured were seated In the