The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-08-17
FOUR KILLED IN WRECK
THIRTY MORE PERSONS INJURED ON THE
PENNSYLVANIA FLYER.
SIDESWIPES FREIGHT ENGINE

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Three Locomotives Piled in Twist
ell Mass at Foot Of Embankment
Five Coaches Leave Rails.
Fort Wayne, Aug. 13. - Four
persons were killed and 80 injured
when the Pennsylvania 1S-hour
train, en- route from CHICAGO to
New York, jumped the track on
the western outskirts of this city,
at $50 O'Clock this evening, while
going at the rate of SO miles an
hour. In leaving the rails, the
two engines pulling the passenger
train sidewiped a freight engine
and the three piled up in a mass of
OF bent and twisted iron
The Dead.
The dead are: VIM. f. Arrick,
freight engineer, Fort Wayne, Ind:
Peter Malone, Fort Wayne, engi-
neer on flyer; w. Creich, Fort
Wayne, fireman on flyer; unknown
passenger at St. Johns Hospital
Taken to Hospitals.
The police department and the
IRE department and every automo-
bile in the city were called to the
rescue and the injured were soon
taken to the hospitals. At least
nifty were on the scene within a
half hour of the time the trains
came together, and within a short
time thousands of people had col
lected about the wreck.
The main track and the track on
which the freight train was stand
ing was torn up for a distance of
TWO hundred yards. The two en-
engines of the flyer were torn
their trucks and thrown down the
embankment, while the engine of
the freight reared in the air over
the trucks of the flyers engines.
Passengers in the seven rear cars
escaped with only cuts and bruises.
Engines Down Embankment.
me baggage car, smoker, buffet
and two sleepers turned over in
the ditch. Most of the injured were
seated in the dining car and smok-
er when the accident occurred. The
Two engines of the flyer were torn
from their trucks and thrown down
the embankment to the park.
the all-steel cars of the flyer were
put to the first actual wreck test
they have ever undergone and prov
ed TO be all that had been claimed
Tor them by their designers. Only
car train were much smashed. Pas
iSengers IN the seven rear cars es-
capped with only cuts and bruises
whereas, it is declared by railroad
men, u The cars had been the old
carnage would have been frightful
1t VIII take a day or more to clear
away the wreckage, as the cars are
extremely heavy.
The wrecking crew from Fort
! Wayne arrived at the scene with
In half hour, while the wreckine
trains from Crestline and CHICAGO
arrived later in the evening Thir-
~ more passengers who are badly
bruised and hurt are at the An
thony Hotel.
Others Expected to Die.
Several of the injured at a late
hour tonight are in extremely seri-
/ Gus conditions and it is expected
that their deaths will occur before
the night is over.
Evidence seems to point to the
ilyer going at an extreme rate of
speed over q temporary switch, as
being the chief cause of the acci-
dent. From Valparaiso to Winona
Lac, the engine which brought the
train out of Chicago was going
badly so the engine which was to
take the train from Fort Wayne to
Crestllne was sent to Winona Lake
10 meet the flyer. The two engines
were then coupled together and dou.
D!e-headed the train towards Fort
wayne at seventy to eighty miles
an hOL-, Just east of the western
limits a switch was constructed to
swing trains from the regular
track to another track. This change
In routing was made necessary by
track elevation work
c. G. Chattell, 3942 Lake avenue,
chicago, was in the dining car when
the accident occurred. He escaped
with only slight injuries to his
head and face. The train was
running at terrific rate of
speed" he declared. The first in
timation / had that anything was
wrong was when all the passengers
IN the diner We're thrown head
long the entire length of the car.
Fighting Like Beasts.
The next thing / realized, mem
were fighting like beasts to get out,
and steam escaping from the kitch-
en- was cooking us. Another man
and l fell to the floor and crawl
eG along in the semi-darkness and
among the cursing, screaming men
to window, through which we
made cur escape"
Robert Russell, OF Toronto. Ont.
and Fred Beckwith, of New York
City, passengers on the flyer. were
imprisoned in the vestibule be-
tween the diner and coach TO the
rear, and were unable to escape
from their narrow prison. Their
cries attracted the rescurers, who,
under the direction of Police Sergt
Dan Kintz, began cutting away the
roof of the car to reach them. En-
couraged by cries from the men in