The Detroit times., 1911-08-14
-FOUR KILLED IN
BAD TRAIN WRECK
Pennsylvania Flyer Jumps Track at
Fort Wayne While Going al Ter
rife Rate Of Speed.

FORT WAYNE, Ind, Aug. a.
The Pennsylvania lS-hour train
from Chicago to New York, jumped
the tracks on the western outskirts
OF the city at $3.50 o'clock. Sunday
evening, while going at the rate OF
80 miles an hour. Four passenger
were killed and AZ injured.
The dead are:
w. Z. ARRICK. Fort Wayne, freight
engineer.
PETER MALONE. Fort Wayne. engi'
neer on flyer.
w. cREIGH. Fort Wayne. fireman
on flyer
Unknown passenger at st. Joseph''
hospital.
Among the injured, the following
are In St Joseph's hospital:
ED. COIN. New York city. iett ey'
injured
z. j. MAsSADER. Milwaukee. Wis.
left hand and legs crushed. 1,
EARL THOMAS. East Palestine
Ohio. right hip bruised. cut on face an'
l. b. HAvENS. aviator. New Yorl
city. hands and arms cut.
]. +. SULLIVAN. New York city
legs crushed - "a. IA. an,
LEROY BENsE. Chicago. right han'
n H CRAWFORD. Philadelphia, Gu
on forehead
r. B. RUSSELL. Toronto. ont; RICH
ear torn on. face mashed, left collar
bone broken.
SAM ROsENTHAL. Grand Forks.
d. left hip dislocated.
- sNYDEs. Crestline, Ohio. bag
gageman. fractured skull. Internal In
Juries: Is In critical condition.
II G. BURTON. and n. c. KOHL
(colored). walters on passenger train
hands and arms badly cut.
+. c. BoLYARD. Fort Wayne, scall
wounds. eyes injured. teeth knocked
F. b. BRoBs. Chicago. steward din
ing car. right arm broken. scall
w. F.. THOMAS (coi5red), Chicago
hands and head bruised
WILLIAM MARSHALL (colored)
Chicago, cuts on head and arms
VICTOR Sewers. Mansfield, Ohio
JAMES f. SULLIVAN. New York. In
WILLIAM cREIGH. Fort Wayne
| fireman freight train, scalp wounds.
In leaving the rails, the two en-
gines, pulling the passenger train
side-swiped a freight engine and tn
three piled up In O mass OF bent an
twisted iron. The two engines OF tn
flyer were torn from their trucks an
thrown down the embankment Will
the engine OF the freight reared u
over the trucks of the flyers eI
gines.
Several of the injured are In an e,
4 a. Aalx
Evidence seems to point to IN
fact that the flyer going at an e,
treme rate OF speed over a tempo!
airy switch was sae chief cause c
the accident. From Valparaiso I
Winona Lake, the engine whic
brought the train out Of Chicago wa
going badly. so the engine which wa
to take the train from Fort Wayn
To Crestline was sent TO Winona LAX
To meet the flyer.
The two engines were then coul
led together and the double-heade
| brought the train toward Fort Wayn
at 20 TO 80 miles an hour.
| G. c. Chattell, Chicago, was In tn
dining car when the accident occu4
red. He escaped with only slight II
| juries TO his head and face.
II
| THE train was running at a teI
rife rate of speed" he declared. 'Th
first intimation l had that anythin
was wrong was when all the passel
gers in the dining car we're throw
lheadlong the entire length Of tn
car. The next thing realized me
were fighting like beasts to get OF
OF the car and the steam escapin
from the kitchen was choking u
/ Another man and fell TO the ioc
and crawled along In the semi-darl
ness and among the screaming me
to a window, through which We mad
our escape.
BY a peculiar coincidence, this sam
train was wrecked week ago Z
might, near Hammond, Ind. No on
was killed. A fireman was injure
and the passengers were severel
jolted.
Last nights wreck marked tn
fourth accident that has occurre
since the Pennsylvania 18-hot
train was placed in service. In jun
1906.
The first smashup occurred at Mi
eral Point, Pa, Feb. %, 1907, when tn
westbound train was derailed. MoI
OF the passengers were injured bI
none was killed.
The second accident occurred nee
| Hamilton, Pa, where the train "a
into a landslide. This happened Fel
Is, 1909. No one was badly injure,