The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-08
Bad Wreck In Indiana Last Night
Which Caused Severe Injuries
to Forty-flve
People.
FOUR ALREADY DEAD
Continental Limited Speeding at Fif.
ty Miles an Hour, Struck Split
Rail and Toppled
Over.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
WEST LEBANON, Ind, March S.
Five of the forty-five persons injured
in the wreck OF the west bound con-
tinental limited on the Wabash rail
road late yesterday are in critical
condition today and the present death
list of four is expected to be increas-
ed before nightfall The injured who
may die are: Thomas Gage, Sparks
vile, Ind; Edward Back, st. Louis;
Henry Green. colored; Ollie Copeman,
Kingland, Ind, and John Sheridan,
Dublin. Ireland
Two of the dead taken from the
wreck had not yet been identified
early today. The two other known
dead are Mrs. U. Good OF st. Louis
and Mrs. r. S. Grant of Adrian, Mich.
The train was running fifty miles
an hour when 1t struck split rail.
All OF the coaches plunged over a
trestle into Redwood creek. The day
coach, In which all OF the dead have
been found. was resting In five feee
of water today.
/ Other persons who were badly IN
jured in the wreck follow:
| e. F. Jennings, Buffalo, badly bruis-
ed
D. e. L. Nfitten, Goodland, Ind,
scalp wounds.
j. Il. Jenson, Chicago, face and
head cut.
!. William Byles. colored porter, De
I troit, head cut.
4 w. A. Grimes, colored porter, De
troft. leg and hack hurt.
4 G. B. Daley, ST. Louis, conductor
/ dining car, shoulder broken, hurt IN
A ternally
Mrs. Samuel Gerard, Danville, III.
head and back hurt.
! F. F. Cage, Sparkville, Ind, arm
and shoulder badly crushed
i W. II. Beech, Dana, H., back badly
sprained.
4 w. w. Young, Bismarck, H., heat
and hip bruised and cut.
4 James Kegan, Columbia. Mo-, side
4 crushed and badly hurt
4 George Weiss, New York, left arm
hurt and both legs badly bruised.
Z Charles Rosenberg, Dallas, Texas
head and leg hurt.
A. NJ Caldwell, Champaign ILL.,
: head cut and chest crushed.
Charles M Miller, Little Rock, Ark
serious internal injuries.
;.,;,
les, but for whom medical treatmen
was necessary are:
; Mrs Margaret Orr, residence un
known.
Samuel Gerard, Danville, H.
!, e. c. Kohl, Crawfordsville. Ind.
Mrs. j. L. Beason, residence III
known.
Charles Camerer, Inwood, Ill.
C. T. Balsley, Danville, H.
f. w. Henchon, st, Louis.
e. H. Minschander, Lawry City, Nc
Mrs. Holland, Detroit.
Chauncey Morrison, Jacksonville
Mich.
l Fred Thompson, West F,rankfor
III.
t Albert Leins. Danville, H.
] Charles r, Thomas, Decatur, III.
=. e. Pentrol, ST. Louis.
May Hudson, Sydney, III.
I First news OF the wreck, whic
. took place west of this place, was r.
0 ceived from a flagman who hurrie
d here on foot Immediately followin
e the plunge of the cars over the thirt
! foot trestle. All telegraph wire
We're torn down by the plunge of tn
t train and it was over an hour afte
t. the wreck before news of the cata
n trophe was general. Special trair
l. we're sent from Danville, H., to tax
the injured there. Relief trains ais
e were sent out from Peru. Ind. the d
II vision headquarters of the Wabas
e Physicians boarded the latter traI
t. at Lafayette.
/ Mrs. Good, one of the dead, W.
D holding her eight months old child
# her arms at the time OF the wrec
g The child miraculously escaped injul
and today did not show a scratch ;
i a result of its experience.
The limited was running one hol
y and forty minutes late when Il
y wreck occurred.
y ----
MERRITT, B. C. March s. II
bodies of seven of the fifteen men b
lieved to have perished as the resu
sof gas explosion in the Diamon
vale collieries near here, have bee