The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-08
Wabash Train Rolls Down a
3O-FOOt Embankment.
Seven Coaches Are Crushed
Together in a Heap.
OVER THREE SCORE INJURED
The Train Buckled Up While
Rounding a Curve.
Steel Mail Car Sustained Only
Slight Damage.

Danville, Ill, March S.-With the
exception of a negro cook, unidentl-
fled. the persons injured in the wreck
of a passenger train on the Wabash
railway near West Lebanon, Ind. late
Yesterday will recover. it was said to-
dav at the hospital in which they are
cared for.
The bodies of Mrs. D. B. Good of
ST Louis and Mrs. Fred Grant OF
Adrian, Mich, crushed to death when
the day coach of the train rolled
down a 3O-foot embankment, are at
West Lebanon. The report that two
unidentified men were dead in the
wreckage proved unfounded today.
Eight cars left the track and Went
down the bank when the train struck
a broken rail. A steel mail car
turned over twice, but the i've clerks
in it were unhurt
Danville. H.. March s.-Rounding
curve on a thirty-foot embankment at
Redwood creek bridge, two miles west
of West Lebanon, Ind, westbOund Con-
tinental Limited train on the Wabash
railroad left the rails and rolled down
the incline, killing five persons and IN
juring three score. several seriously
The seven coaches of the train were
crushed into a pile al the bottom of the
high embankment leading to the creek
Wrecking crews with steamcranes
worked all night to remove the wreck
age and recover any persons who might
be beneath the debris. Snow and ice
made the work of clearing the wreck
the scene believe that few, if any,
bodies are held in the broken cars.
The locomotive remained upright on
the rails and word was sent as soon as
possible to division headquarters ut
Peru, Ind. and Decatur. Ill. Some de-
lay was experienced because wires were
torn down by the coaches as they rolled
over.
Wrecking and relief trains rushed TO
the scene from east and west and be-
were rapidly placed aboard a special
train and hurried to Danville.
The train was rolling towards st.
Louis and passengers were preparing
to eat dinner as the train approached
the Redwood bridge, near the Illinois
state line. Without a jolt at first, the
whole train seemed to weave to one
side and then the coaches rolled, crush
ed together and piled up alongside the
track. The baggage and mail cars suf-
fered the most, they led the rest of
the train from the track.
Nearly Everyone Hurt.
Nearly every passenger in the train
was hurt by the rolling over of the cars.
Those persons in the coaches that were
crushed suffered more severe injuries.
Two or three were killed instantly, but
the others were pinned down by seats
or splintered timbers and mangled to
death
Those who were unhurt soon drag
9ed the injured from the overturned
cars. with the exception of a few who
could not be extricated until wrecking
derricks arrived
Along the snowy banks of the rail-
road, fires were kindled to keep the
women and children warm while the
men tended the more seriously injur-
ed. Residents of West Lebanon and
Redwood Crossing hurried to the
wreck with hot coffee and bandages
for the wounded. Several men start
ed repairing the telegraph line and
when the relief trains arrived there
was a fairly orderly scene, except for
the wreckage, at which men were tug
ging and prying in an effort to recover
any persons that might be pinioned
there in distress.
Those needing attention were placed
quickly aboard two cabooses and sent
to Danville at top speed. With the
movable injured out of the way, the
wrecking crews began to lift the brok-
en- coaches from the bottom of the 2
foot embankment.
Occurred on a Curve.
AS the wreck occurred at a curve
on high embankment leading to a
bridge, it was difficult to get the