Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-11-15
II KILLED.; 20AURT
IN INDIANA WRECK
PASSENGER TRAIN CRASHES
hEAOLONG INTO STANDING
FREIGHT.
FIRE THREATENED LIVES
Plremen and Police Work For TIVE
Hours Before Finding First Body
In the Mass Of
Debris.

Indianapolis. Nov. IA. = Seventeen
persons wer killed, two are missing
and twenty or more were injured
when a Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day
ton passenger train from Cincinnati
crashed head on into standing
freight in an open switch at Irving.
ton, and Indianapolis suburb.
The wreck caught fire from an ex.
ploding gas tank and for time the
lives of the imprisoned injured were
threatened, but q bucket brigade OF
citizens and the Irvington firemen put
out the blaze.
The dead: Mrs. Clifton Clancy and
son Chester, aged months. Jackson,
KY; Charles CLANCY, aged 10; Lily
CLANCY, aged Q; Chester Clancy, Sr.,
aged So, father of Clifton CLANCY;
John CLANCY, brother of Clifton
CLANCY; Christ lmholt and wife,
theatrical people, Los Angeles; Mr..
and Mrs. Albert Allen, Los Angeles;
Harold Burg, Indianapolis; Ben Boyle,
indianapolis; c. F. Grundhoerer, Gin
cinnati; unidentified boy. aged Is, wore
clothing purchased in Louisville; Con.
ductor Earl Virgins Of passenger
train, Indianapolis; Bert White.
freight brakeman, Indianapolis; Engt
neer William Sharkey Of passenger
train, indianapolis.
A gas tank under the mail car, sup
plyingthe train lights, exploded after
the collision and set fire to the wreck.
but the Irvington fire department ex'
tinguished the blaze.
The freight was ordered to meet the
passenger at 1rvington. 1t backed into
the siding, but the switch was left
open and the passenger ran into the
siding. The trains met head.on.
Tells Of Marrow Escape.
Albert Seed, Of Louisville, one Of
the passengers, told Of his remarkable
escape.
Il was awake" said Seed. Il felt
chilly and was putting on my over
coat when suddenly heard crash
and the next thing ! knew was sit
ting beside the wrecked train. / could
hear women and children crying for
help, and with the help of others
found an ak and chopped hole In
the side Of the car. Firemen soon ar
rived and began carrying out the
bodies"
The crash aroused the neighbor
hood. Many homes were thrown open
and the injured were carried in and
given first aid treatments before be
fs,n SAINT IN hn aanft o1
The two engines were almost com.
pletely telescoped. They reared up
when they came together and were so
wrecked that it was hours before the
body Of the engineer on the passenger
train was found in the cab. The bag
gage car was badly splintered but
the two passenger coaches just behind
looked more like pile of kindling
wood. The ends were SO jammed that
holes had to be cut in the sides to
take out the dead and injured.
Five In Family Killed.
Out of family Of six. the Chaneys
Of Jackson, KY. on the train, only one
was alive today and he, Clifton
CLANCY, was at a hospital badly in.
jured. His father, wife and three
children were among the killed. They
were on their way to logging camp
In Wisconsin.
Mrs. Joseph Setter and her husband
were among the first in the neighbor'
hood to reach the scene Of the wreck.
She said the shock Of the impact al
most threw them out Of bed.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. 1mholt and Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Allen were unidentified
until the body Of Albert Allen was TAX
en- from the wreckage and the names
found on their ticket, which was pur-
chased at Los Angeles.
From the newspaper and magazine
clippings, it Is believed they are
theatrical people.
Fred Hutchinson, fireman on the pas.
senger train, who was first reported
dead, was badly scalded and was car.
died into q nearby house. 1t was
some time before the officials learned
his whereabouts and he was reported
rs dead in the wreckage.