Evening star., 1918-06-23
60 DEAD, 129 HURT
IN TRAIN COLLISION
Victims Mostly Members Of
WaIIace-Hagenbeck Circus
Troupe.
ENGINEER IS ARRESTED

By the Associated Press.
KALAMAZOO. MICH, June H.
Alonxo X. Sargent, engineer Of the
train that crashed into the Wall
lace Hasenbeck circus train Mt
Ivanhoe. Ind, this morning. RESULT
ing In the death Of sixty-one per-
sons. was arrested here tonight ON :
an order from Gary, Ind., charged
with manslauEhter.
Sargent was about to board .
train for his home in jackson
VIXEN he was arrested. He refused
to discuss the details of the wreck,
but sisni1ed his willingness to re-
turn to GsFy and face the charge
against him without the formality
Of q requisition.
GARY, Ind, June 22.-The known
death list in the collision today be-
tween an equipment train and a Wal
lace -Hagenbeck circus trsin was. in
creased tonight to sixty with the re-
covery Of eight additional bodies and
the death Of one of the circus troupe
at Gary hospital. .,.-.
1t is known that 129 are in hospitals
in Gary and Hammond tonight.
The equipment train consisted of
empty Pulimans, which were returning
from the east, where they had taken
a detachment of troops.
Thirty-eight bodies had been placed In
Gary undertaking establishments to-
night. Twenty-Five bodies have been
taken to Hammond. Identification. of all
except a few corpses was not attempted
today. Those who died Of dinjuries in
hospital were known, but the efforts
of giving names to the burned and
mutilated bits Of humanity taken
from the wreck were reserved for to-
morrow. The identified dead:
Identified Dead.
Earl Michael Berry. Schenectady, N.
Y; Mrs Veronica Connors. Mrs. Jo-
ohio; Miss Louise Cottrell. London.
England: John Collins. New Haven.
Conn: Mr.. and Mrs. D. Cattanack of
Chicago. Arthur Derrick, Erickton.
Md; Joseph Derrick. Max Derrick,
Miss Jewell Fred M,5,ss Msdsett ;ss MRS a,se Mat
Powell, Rose Roseland. John Rooney,
Mrs. Jennie Todd, Bloomington. Ill. /;
Fred Whipple. Michigan City, Ind.
The Injured.
Among the injured are the following:
Arthur Adair. Chicago: M. A. Anderson,
Chicago: A. NJ. Ball, Cincinnati; Jack
Baity, Peru, Ind; William Burns. Lock-
mort NY: Mr.. and Mrs G. W. Brown.
Denver Col; r. B. Brinkley. Charles
Brown. F. B. Bullard. Baraboo, Wis. /:
". III. Curtiss. West Baden, Ind: Mrs.
w. II. Curtiss. Joe Coyle. Cincinnati;
Ben Carpenter, Everett. wash; Frank
men. Philadelphia: William Daily. Provi-
dence, R. l.; John Dempsey. New York
city: William Davis. Columbus. Ohio;
James De Grote, George Donahue. Mid
dleton. Ohio; Frank i, Diliey; Ed Pevons, ns
EuTene Enos, Bloomington. ILL.,;
Chsries Emerson, Charles Grosecloss.
Indianapolis: G. H; Goodman: an & Carl Car
Green, George Green. lanes Grasper'
fam.s ng. Howard. Carl Hutchinson. Ear
nest Hitchcock, Albert e. Ingraman.
Ludington, Md; James Johnson. Paul
Kramer Peru. Ind; Gus a.a.,1 Lindstlorm'
RssdinE. i Pa: Henry Lomar. Jena Lelo.
lanes Leo, Rene McCrea, Toledo. Ohio !:
Bertie Mcintosh. John McFadden.
John Moore. James Mathews. John
Miller. William Micheal, Beaver Falls.
Pa: James Mulvaney, Steubenville.
Ohio; Aonzo Moore. Definance. Ohio;
John Nelson, Joliet. ILL.,; Dewey Nun
naiiey, Lexington. KY; Charles Nor
Robert O'Connor, Arthur PARKS. John
PSeirertnborger, Albert Palmer, Ches-
ter POLK. Manuel Ricksnd. Elmer
Rysn. q. F. Reed. Herman Rex. Ed
Rspier. Jack Robinson, A. F. Rob-
erts. Memphis. Tenn; w. M. Streetor.
Columbus Smith. William Smith. s.
mers, Bloomington. Ill; Alexander
Todd, Bloomington. ILL.,: w. 8. Turn
bull, William Thomas, William Thur
man, Parson Waddell, Columbus. Ohio;
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Ward. Bloom
inSton. ILL.,. Gus Werner. West Baden.
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