South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-29
10Th CENTURY CRASHES
INTO THE WRECKAGE

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they had removed wraps and coats
and other articles of Identifying
clothing.
The bodies of many Of those scan
tily clad victims are so horribly
mangled that Identification without
the guidance OF the clothing they
wore, will be impossible.
Some OF the victims We're decapi-
tated. Arms. legs and portions OF
human bodies were scattered thickly
through the wreckage.
Relief parties collected the re-
mains Of three bodies-those OF
woman and two men-and piled
them unfortunately in one basket.
They probably will be buried to-
gether.
The cries of injured and dying
filled the air as recuers worked by
lantern light during the early morn
ing darkness TO rescue the injured.
Blocks Westbound Track.
The wreckage OF the two trains
completely blocked the westbound
track on which the goth Century
Limited, less than a half hour OUT If
Cleveland, was travelling toward
Chicago.
Without a seconds warning sleep
ing passengers on this train were
brought with a crash. into the mass
of wreckage and injured persons on
the other train.
Those passengers and members OF
the train crew of the goth Century
who were not injured at once Joined
in the work of rescuing the injured
from the wreckage OF the three
trains.
BY daybreak nearly a score Of
dead had been laid in a row beside
the railroad track.
According TO survivors of the
wreck. the first section Of train No.
Sc had stopped to take on water
when the first crash came.
The second section of the train,
which was unusually heavily loaded,
plowed into it at a high rate Of
speed a heavy fog prevented the
engineer of the second section from
seeing a flagman who had been sent
back, or seeing that the block sig
nails were set against him.
Telescopes Rear Coaches.
The force of the crash telescoped
the two rear coaches of the first sec
ton, bulging them out on the west
bound track The sudden stopping of
the second section also caused the
rear end Of the second section of
the train TO leave the rails and bulge
over onto the westbOund track.
Almost before the screams of the
injured had been raised the goth
Century Limited. westbound, plow-
ed into the wreckage, and crushed
anew the rear ends of. the both sec
tions of train No. Sc, which had
been thrown over on the Century's
right of way.
Dead and injured were taken from
the rear coaches Of both sections Of
train No. Sc.
Had the Century not been running
slow because Of the fog, casualties
on that train would have been much
heavier.
As IL was, only TWO cOacheS OF the
Century were overturned, and none
was killed on this train.
A number in the two overturned
coaches. however. were injured, one
or two possibly fatally.
Identified by Trinkets.
The Identification of the body said
to be that of Dora Rosenberg of To-
ronto. is based solely on trinkets
found near the body, bearing her
name. There was nothing on the
body TO identify it.
No children have been found
among the dead or injured so far.
but blOod-stained children's clothing
and a toy bank containing So cents
found among the wreckage indicate
some children's names will appear
on the completed list of killed and
injured
A porter on the sc Ond section of
train No. SO slept in The front of his
train through the wreck. He didn't
know there had been a wreck until
a rescue party came through the
train and woke him.