The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-14
FOUR ARE KILLED IN
 FORT WAYNE WRECK
Thirty Others Injured When
 Flyer Jumps the Track
RAN INTO A SWITCH
Double Header Sideswiped Freight Engine and Three Are Total Wreck-Was Going at Ter
 rife Rate of Speed

Fort wayne. 1nu., August lo'-f oht pet' sens were killed and 30 injured when the Pennsylvania 1S-hour train, en route ron Chicago to New York. jumped the tracl
 on the western outskirts of Fort Wayne tonight, while going at the rate of St miles an hour.
 l In leaving the rails the two engines pulling the passenger train sideswiped a
 freight engine. and the three piled UT | in a mass of bent and twisted iron The baggage car, smoker, buffet and two l seepers turned over in the ditch. Mos | of the injured were seated in the diner
 and smoker when the accident occurred. | The wreckage has not yet been cleared. and the list of dead may be more than the number first reported. The 30 or more | injured are now in the hospitals and
 hotels, and it is believed that at least four or five will die.
 The dead are:
 W. NJ Arrick, freight engineer, Fort Wayne. Peter Malone, Fort Wayne. fireman on flyer.
 Unidentified passenger at St. Jos eph's hospital.
 The police department, the fire de- partment and every ambulance in the city were called to the scene of the ac-
 cident and the injured were soon taken to the hospitals. At least 50 doc tors were on the scene within half an
 hour of the time of the wreck | The main track and the track on
 which the freight train was standing were torn up for a distance of 200 yards. The two engines of the flyer were torn from their trucks and thrown down the embankment while
 the engine of the freight reared IF the air over the trucks of the flyer Iengines. C Passengers in the seven rear cars es'
 caped with only cut and bruises. Among the seriously injured are = Snyder, Crestlne, Ohio, bag gageman, fractured skill. internal i'm
 juries. is in critical condition. F. B. Brobs, Chicago steward dining car, right arm broken. scalp wounds Ed Cohn, New York left eve injured E. J. Massa ger, Milwaukee, left hand and legs crushed.
 Earl Thomas. East Palestine, Ohio, right hip bruised cut on face and ab-
 domen bruised.
 L. B. Ravens, aviator. New York city
 hands and arms cut.
 N IL Crsw ford Philadetphia, cat 1 OH iureasaAi.
 R. B. Russell. Toronto, right ear torn off. face mashed, left collarbone lbrokens
 1 sam Rosenthal. Grand Forks, N. D. 1 left hip dislocated
 Victor Rowers, Mansfield. Ohio, mail clerk, back and foot injured. James k. SIilifnan. New York city, internal injuries.
 William Creigh. Fort Wayne, fire 1 man freight train, scalp wounds. c. c. Chattel of Chicago escaped with only slight injuries to his head and 1 face. "The train was running a a terrific rate of speed" he declared "The first intima tion that 1 had that anything was wrong, was when all the passengers in the dining car were | thrown headlong the entire length oi the car The next thing l realized
 men were fighting like beasts to get out of the car and the steam escaping | from the kitchen was choking us An other man and l fell to the floor and l crawled along in the semi dark ness and among the cursing. screaming men | to a window through which we made | our escape.
 Charles P. Skillman of this city, who 1 resides directly across from the spot
 
 thing as he was sitting on his veranda at the time.
 | The flyer, which was doubleheaded, said Mr. Skllman, twas coming at a l terrific speed Just across the bridge which spans the St. Mary's river the train steered into a new switch which was placed there because of the track eleva- ton work. I guess the train was going
 at too. great rate for the switch to stand the strain.
 | The crash was terrific. For the first
 moment after the three engines struck
 there was comparative silence. Then came I of the two first passenger cars as they slid down the embankment and the screams of passengers
 Besides IS, injured persons at St. Joseph < hospital. 30 more. bruised and cut, are at | a local hotel The baggage car. smoker, buffet and two sleeperss turned over in the ditch. Most of the injured were seated fin the diner and smoker when the accident occurred.
 The all-steel cars of the flyer were put to their first actual wreck test. They have undergone and proved to be all that has been claimed for them by their designers. Only the first two cars of the heavy nine cars were much smashed Passengefs in tHC ccFci iCdi tdiS csCdPtu WllSt ouiy cuts and bruises, whereas, it Is declared by railroad men, if the cars had been of the old-fashioned wood construction the carnage would have been frightfui Several of the injured at late hour tonight are in extremely serious coad- ton and 1t is expected that their deaths will occur before the night is over. Evidence seems to indicate that the flyer was going at an extreme speed over la temporary switch was the chief cause lof the accident. An extra engine had heen coupled on at Winona Lake and the
 double header brought the train toward
 Fort Wayne at 70 to 30 miles an hour.
 Near the western city limits the tempor- |ary switch was constructed to swing trains from the regular main track to another track. This change in routing
 was made necessary by track elevation work a William. s. Monroe, Chicago, was riding on the observation platform of the last car and escaped injury. He said the train
 was running so fast that the telegraph poles could not be seen. The body of Fred Zimmerman, who died | in Milwaukee, and which was being | brought here for burial, was recovered from the baggage car. One of the cars
 caught fire and was burning by the time
 the fire department arrived. | George Mitchell wife, and four chil-