South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-21
LIMITED TRAIN
CRASHES INTO
LOCAL, Al DIE
Three Cars Reduced to Kind
ling When Flyer PIungeS
Into Rear of ACCommo-
dation-39 Injured.

SHEPHERDSVILLE. Ky. Dec 21.
-Forty-one persons were killed
and about 20 others injured Thurs
day night when Louisville and Nash
willie passenger train No. seven, from
Cincinnati TO New Orleans, crashed
into the rear Of a Bardstown, Louis
Vile and Springfield accommodation
train just south OF the station here
early Thursday night, according to
W. +. Sheridan. superintendent Of
the Louisville division.
Four Unidentified.
The wreck occurred when a
Louisville and Nashville express
train bound from Cincinnati 20 New
Orleans. crashed into the rear end
of the Bardstown local train a few
yards from the Shepherdsville sta
ton.
Four bodies remain unidentified
while s. identified have been re-
moved from the wreck. All Of the
bodies. it is believed, have been
taken from the wreck.
The identified dead are:
Nat Muir. president Of the Wilson
Muir Banking Co.; George L. Duke,
wife and daughter: James SLAMS
bury. Mrs r. II. Miller, Mrs. Arch
Pulliam. James Morrison. Mack
Miller. Mrs. II. II. Washburn. field
secretary Of the Anti-SaloOn league;
James Thompson. L. s. revenue SER
vice: Mrs Thomas Moore, Mrs. Jo-
seph Hurst and child; Joseph Marks,
Town Marshal John Phillips, wife
and daughter; Ben Talbot and r. c..
Cherry all of Bardstown. Ky.
Mrs. Carrie May Simmons. Shep-
herdsville, Ky; Thomas or George
SpaldinS and Mrs. Elizabeth Nc
Elroy, Springfield, KY; David Phil
lips and Clay Grenwell, New Haven.
KY; Emory Samuel, Dealsville, Ky;
y. 4. Thompson and Mrs. Thomas
Miller. New Hope. Ky; David Mer
rillan, Shelbyville, Ky.
The Rev. Fr. Eugene Bertelli.
Chapeze. KY: Mrs. Kate Ice, Bel
mont, Ky: Forest Overall. High
Grove. Ky; Mrs Stella Mutt, Leacee,
Ky; Mrs. Milly Sturgeon, GAINESVILLE,
o.: Conductor Campbell. of the local
train.
Brought to Louisville.
The injured many of them serios-
ly hurt, were brought 10 Louisville
aboard a special relief train dis
patched Immediately after the wreck
occurred. No attempt has yet been
Of the injured. Deaths of those in
jured, it is feared will swell the
total victims of the wreck.
At the point where the wreck oc-
Cured railway employees today are
clearing up a mass of twisted steel
and splintered wood. all that remains
of the local train. The cars of the
local were virtually demolished.
Although the engine and cars of
the express train left the track they
we're not badly smashed up by the
collision.
Three Cars Wrecked.
From other sources, IL was learn
ed that the accommodation train had
left the station after making a stop.
when the fast train came in sight,
running at a high rate OF speed,
and plunged into the rear end OF the
train ahead. The two wooden
coaches and the baggage car. max
ing up the lighter train. were splin-
tered.
a relief train was started from
Louisville at once, but by the time
it arrived the injured and the bod
les of the dead had been recovered
from the wrecked train. Thirty
five of the injured were placed
aboard the relief train and rushed
10 Louisville. Three or four others
were taken TO private homes in
Shepherdsville, Supt. Sheridan re-
ported, but he said he had been un-
able to learn the exact number.
Fast Train Passengers Escape.
None Of the passengers aboard the
fast train were killed and none of
them received more than minor in
juries. Another locomotive and
train was sent here from Louisville
and after detaching one baggage car
the New Orleans train went on as
soon : the right of way was cleared.
Jesse Weatherford, telegraph op
orator 1T the station here. said that
after the accommodation left the
station ne had thrown his block TO
show the track clear and left the Of
fee 70 help handle baggage. When
he got outside he said, he saw the
fast train approaching, ran back to
the office. pulled his block TO show
red, seized a lantern and rushed to
the platform TO flag it. He reached
the side Of the track just as the
heavy locomotive Numbered by.
Twenty Are Eye Witnesses.
About 20 passengers who had been
discharged by the accommodation
train. when it stopped here were still
on the station platform and were
eve witnesses to the tragedy they
had so narrowly escaped. Several
women among them tainted and had
10 be cared for in addition to the
injured.
Within FIVE minutes Of the crash,
volunteer rescuers We're at work and
local physicians administered first
aid 10 the injured before the arrival
OF the relief train from Louisville.
Many OF the injured we're so badly
hurt they were unconscious and
some Of them were at first thought
70 be dead.