The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-08-14
thirty People in Hos
plta Is, ONE of
Wht m NJ ay Die.
ALL-SIEEL CARS
ARE PUT TO TEST
Had They Been of Old Construc-
ton Carnage Would Have Been
Frightful Terrific Speed of
"Eighteen-Hour" Train Over
Switch Cause of
Disaster.

Fort Wayne, Ind. August l3.-Four
persons were killed and thirty Injured
when the Pennsylvania eighteen-hour
train. en- route from Chicago to New
York, Jumped the track on the west
ern outskirts of this city at $50 o'clock
this evening, while going at the rate
of nifty miles an hour.
In leaving the rails the two engines
pulling the passenger train side
swiped freight engine. and the three
piled UP In a mass OF twisted iron
The dead:
William f. Arrick. Fort Wayne, Ind;
buried under wreckuEc.
Peter Malone, Fort Wayne, engineer
on nicr.
w. creish, Fort Wayne; fireman on
nIer.
Unknown passenger, mt St. Joseph's
Hospital.
The police department.. fire depart
ment and every ambulance in the city
we're called to the scene Of the acct
dent and the injured were soon taken
to hospitals. The main track and the
track on which the freight train was
located were torn up for distance of
200 yards The two engines OF the
hier were torn from their trucks and
thrown down the em6ankment. while
the engine OF the freight reared UP
over the trucks OF the hiers engines
The baggage car. smoker buffet and
two sleepers turned over In the ditch
Most OF the injured we're seated in the
diner and smoker when the accident
occurred.
List May He Incrensed.
The wreckage has not been cleared
and the list of dead may De more than
the number reported The thirty or
more injured are now in the hospitals
and II is believed that at least four or
FIVE will die.
c. c. chattell. Chicago. was in the
dining car when the accident occurred
lie escaped with only slight injuries
TO his head and face.
The train was running at terrific
rate Of speed" he declared. The first
intimation ! had that anything was
wrong was when all the passengers
in the dining car were thrown head
long the entire length of the car. The
next thing l realized men were fight
ing like beasts to get out OF the car,
and the steam escaping 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 esca pc"
dsSeHStIS IN the seven rear cars
escaped with only cuts and bruises,
whereas. 1t is declared by railroa d
men, il the cars had been of the old
fashioned wood construction. the car
mage would have been frightful.
The all-steel cars OF the flier were
PUT to the first actual wreck test thAy
nave ever undergone. and proved to
be all that has been claimed for them
ny their designers. Only the first two
cars of the heavy nine-car train were
much smas shed.
Thirty more passengers, who are
oadiy bruised ana cut, are at the
Flier's Speed the Cause.
Evidence Seems to po Mt to the fact
that the f'er, going at an ex,rema
rate OF speed over temporary switch
was the chief cause of the accident.
FROM Valparaiso to Winona Lake tho
engine which brought the train out OF
chicago was going badly, so the en- :
Slne which was to take the train from
Fort Wayne 10 Crestline was sent TO
Winona Lake to meet the hier.
The two engines were then coun,ed
together and the double header was
men brought TO Fort WAYNE at
seventy or seventy-five miles an hour
Al the western limits of the CITY the
switch was constructed to swine the
trains from the regular main track
10 another track. This change in
routing was made necessary b; traci,
elevation work