The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-11-14
WRECK IS CAUSED
YCARfLESSN{SS
Head Brakeman Assumes Blame
for Disaster That Cost
Fifteen Lives.
HE IS UNDER POLICE GUARD
Fails to Close Switch, and Fast
Passenger Train Crashes
Into Freight.

indianapolis, Ind, November 13.-
According to the inspectors for the
Indiana Railway Commission. the dis
assrous wreck on the Cincinnati. Ham
ilton and Dayton Railway at Irving
ton, a suburb. at an early hour to-day
in which fifteen persons lost their lives
and seventeen others were seriously
injured. was the result of the COM
pany's failure to install a block signal
system as it had been ordered to 90
by the commission.
The wreck was caused by the failure
of the head brakeman TO close the
switch to a siding. on which heavy
freight train had been run to let the
rapidly running passenger train. more
than an hour late, pass.
Carl Grass. the head brakeman. has
assumed blame for the disaster He
is under police guard at the hospital
where he lies with q broken leg.
Among the dead passengers were five
menJoers Of the CLANCY family. or
Jackson, Ky. The sixth OF the family.
Clifton CLANCY. was badly hurt. HIS
father, wife and three children were
killed.
The passenger train. No So from
Cincinnati to Chicago. was more than
an hour late, and at the time OF the
head-on collision was running more
than forty miles an hour. The engi-
n.er had been given a clear track.
Both he and his fireman were found
dead in the cab Of their engine.
All the passengers found dead were
In the emoker and day coaches which
were Immediately behind the steel re-
tnforced mail car. Both passenger cars
were Of wood and were completely de-
mol:shed. The injured in many cases
remained pinned under heavy timbers
until chopped out with axes
The bodies, as fast a. they were
brought from the wreckage, were con-
veyed to the morgue here to awsit
identification Passengers who were
not injured-and these were in the
Pullman cars-conttnued their jour
ney. II
INSPECTORS for the State Railway
Immediately and began an exhaustive
investigation.
Thsse VIE We're I1ned.
The dead:
G Imholt and wife. of Los Angeles,
Cal
Albert Alien Of Los Angeles. Cal
Ber, White. brakeman. freight, In
dianapolis. Ind
Joseph I. Palmer. Etwah. Tenn
Charles Chsney. aged thirteen, Jack
son. Ky.
John CLANCY. aged hfsy-two. Jack
son. Ky.
Mr.. Clifton Clancy and son. Chester.
aged Eve months. Jackson Ky.
Idly CLANCY. aged two years. daugh-
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Clifton CLANCY.
Jackson Ky; died after being taken
to hospital
Conductor Earl virgins. Of pas
senger train. Indianapolis. Ind
Engineer william Sharkey. ~ the
passenger train. Indianapolis. 1nj.
c. F. Grundhoefer. 4ass Darro~
Avenue. Cincinnati. q.
Ben Pcyie. had ticket e. Chicago.
C. BurF. indianapolis
s1jsrea b usspstsa-
Among the seriously injured are:
Burton Jones. mail clerk. Dayton q. =
injured about head ard back.
CyifscN CLANCY. Jackson. ny. IN
Sured about the body.
A. York. engsnee. freight train: IN
jured In jumping.
J. C. sk..lman. baseagemsH or pas
senger train: legs broken
Ca-i sross. Indianapolis. head brake
man on freight train: Les broken.
J. ". JEFFERSON. chicago. coiored pcr-
tar On the passenger train
Fred Hutchinson. haemsn. passeneVr,
train. Madison. Va
Mrs Mary Sears. ,s3' Indiana Ave-
nue.. Chicago.
Vary zen. CHICAGO.
Hugh Kemp. Berlin. X.
". J. and r. J. Filler, Liberty. Ind
NrA !. G. GkiIImsn. wife % shs
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