The Prescott daily news., 1912-11-14
c., H. & D. PASSENGER TRAIN RUNS INTO FREIGHT NEAR
 INDIANAPOLIS.
FIRE FOLLOWS EXPLOSION
Bremen and Policemen Work I've Hours in Debris at Irvinqton Be- fore First Body Is Found-In~
 jured Pinned in Wreck.

Indianapolis, Nov 14.-Twenty per. sons were killed and 20 or more were injured when Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton passenger train from Gin. cinnati crashed head-on into freight standing in an open switch at Irving. ton, an Indianapolis suburb. Two per. sons are missing
 The wreck caught fire from an ex. plOding gas tank, and for a time the lives of many imprisoned in the wreck were threatened, but a bucket brigade and the Irvington firemen put out the blaze.
 The two trains had orders to meet at lrvington, the freight to take a side track. The freight sidetracked as ordered, but the switch, which was opened to allow it to pass from the main line, was not closed afterward Two Women and Baby Are Victims.
 The known dead are:
 Mrs. Julia Cheney, 30 years old, wife of Clifton Cheney, Jackson, Ky.
 Charles Cheney, 13, her son.
 Chester Cheney, months old, her baby.
 John Cheney, her brother-in-law.
 Chris lmholt and wife, vaudeville actors, Cincinnati.
 Albert Allen, Los Angeles.
 Fred Hutchinson, fireman of the freight, Madison, Va.
 olr-, Indianapolis.
 Irwin Wiggins, passenger conductor, Indianapolis.
 - Jefferson, negro porter.
 Joseph L. Palmer, Elewa, Tenn.
 Chester Cheney, Sr., 52, Breathitt county, Ky, father of Clifton Cheney.
 William Sharkey, Indianapolis.
 Harold Burg, Indianapolis.
 Ben Boyle, Chicago.
 Unidentified boy, 15, with Louis vile, Ky, clothier's mark on his coat.
 Four-year-old daughter of Clifton Cheney, Jackson, Ky, first name un- known.
 Unidentified woman, believed to be Mrs. Albert Allen, Los Angeles.
 Unidentified man.
 The missing are:
 - Cox, passenger.
 Unidentified negro porter.
 Six of them died in hospitals here.
 One Body Unidentified.
 One unidentified dead man, from names found in notebook found i'll his pocket may be either c. F. Grund- hoefer, 4440 Darrow avenue, Winton place, Cincinnati, or Charles s. Span genbury, 590 Sixty-seventh avenue, Milwaukee, Wis.
 Williams, the passenger conductor, was killed where he stood in the aisle of passenger coach. His glasses were still on his nose, and he stood upright, crushed to death.
 Mrs. Cheney and her 5-month-old baby, which she clasped in her arms, were killed instantly.
 Most of the dead were found in the wreckage of the first car, which tele- scoped the baggage car.
 Bremen and police worked at the wreck two hours before the first body was 1OunQ. ItOleS WtIS CnoppSu III the tops of the cars and the injured supplied with water, for which they were crying.
 Responsibility Is Admitted.
 The passenger train, No. 36, Is re- ported to have had a clear track, but the brakeman on the freight had not closed the switch when it had cleared the main track for the passenger. Carl Gross, head brakeman on the freight train, said the switch had been left open by one of his men.
 The crash aroused the neighbor- hood. Many homes were thrown open and the injured carried fH and given aid before being sent to the hospitals. Physicians and the firemen in Irving ton were called.
 The two engines were demolished. It was not until after daylight that the body of the engineer on the pas senger train was found in the cab. He had remained at his post. trying to stop his train. The baggage car was splintered and the two passenger coaches just behind were telescoped.