Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-11-22
II KILLED; 20 HURT
PASSENGER TRAIN CRASHES
HEADLONG INTO STANDING
FREIGHT.
FIRE THREATENED LIVES
Fjremen and Police Work For Two
Hours Before Finding First Body
In the Mass of
Debris.


| 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 a time the
lives of the imprisoned injured were
threatened, but a bucket brigade OF
citizens and the Irvington firemen put
out the blaze.
The dead: Mrs. Clifton CLANCY and
son Chester. aged 5 months. Jackson.
KY. Charles CLANCY, aged 10; Lily
CLANCY. aged 2; Chester CLANCY, ST.,
aged 50, father of Clifton CLANCY;
John CLANCY, brother of Clifton
CLANCY: Christ Imholt 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; Engi-
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 Irvingtoh fire department ex-
tinguished the blaze.
The freight was ordered to meet the
passenger at Irvington. 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 Narrow Escape.
Albert Seed. of Louisville, one of
the passengers, told of his remarkable
escape.
Il was awake" said Seed II felt
chilly and was putting on my over
coat when suddenly heard crash
and the next thing knew l was sit
ting beside the wrecked train. l 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-
ing sent to the hospitals.
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 damned that
holes had to be cut in the sides to
take out the dead and injured.
Five In Family Killed.
Out of a family of six. the Chaneys
was alive today and he, Clifton
CLANCY, was at a hospital badly in
jured. His father, wife and three
were among the killed. They
we're on their way to logging camp
in Wisconsin,
Mrs. Joseph Setter and her husband
we're amonc the first in the neighbor-
1ood to req the scene of the wreck
She said the shock of the impact al
most threw them out of bed
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Imholt and Mr.. and
Until the body of Albert Allen was TAX
en- from the wreckage and the names
ound on their ticket. which was pur.
biased at Los Angeles.
From the newspaper and magazine |
clippings. it is believed they are
heatrica! people.