Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 274, Decatur, Adams County, 20 November 1963 — Page 4

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Rail Disaster Lost In Files Os History By BOYD GILL United Press International INDIANAPOLIS (UPD

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seems impossible for a railroad disaster occurring within the memory of thousands of Hoosiers to be lost in the files of history only a few years later. But that appears to have happened in the. case of the tragic train wreck Nov. 12, 1906, hear Woodville, a. little community northwest of Valparaiso. Although the World Almanac, a reliable reference of the world’s major' efishsters of all time, lists rail catastrophes with tolls as low as 15 killed, there’s

not a word about the Woodville wreck. The death toll is recalled by local residents to have been at least 61 killed and possibly as many as 100 "to 110. Reporter Don Kenyon of the Valparaiso Vidette - Messenger dug into the background of the Woodville accident- while seeking the answer to the puzzling question of just how many died in another bad rail wreck in the area—the circus train collision as Ivanhoe near Gary in 1918. . Kenyon learned the details

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.‘ST A’ . ' . from old newspaper files and clippings and interviews with old-timers who remembered the disaster vividly. A Baltimore & Ohio Railroad train was speeding along tracks at a point near where Indiana 49 and U. S. 6 now intersect. It carried a load of immigrants from Poland, Italy, Russia and Austria toward Chicago from the Atlantic Coast. The train crashed head-on into an eastbound freight train and burst into flames. Clippings

show the toll was 61 killed, 77 injured seriously. But Porter County residents who were at the scene afterward recall that through peculiar circumstances many of the dead never were accounted for. They said the train was loaded with many children of the immigrant families, that children rode free on the train, that the railroad and the authorities had no record of the number of passengers aboard and could only count the number of tickets sold

to adults. 57 to 85 Perished The Ivanhoe circus train wreck on June 22, 1918, killed somewhere between 57 and 85 persons—nobody is sure just how many. It happened when a traim carrying the Hagenback - Wallace Circus from. Michigan City to Hammond was struck from the rear by an empty 16-car train while the first was stopped to investigate a “hot wheel.” Newspaper files' show that

most of the dead, members of the circus troupe and roustabouts who had no permanent addresses, were buried in a Chir cago cemetery. Five life - sized white marble elephants were set up in the cemetery plot to memorialize the wreck’s dead, it was said. If the man in your life has to carry a lot pf keys or other heavy items in his trouser pockets, reinforce the pockets by lining their lower parts with some good strong chamois.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1968

Six Are Inducted Into Army Today Six Adams county young mien were sent to Indianapolis this morning by selective service for active induction into the nation's aimed forces. Members of the contingent were Melville D. Sprunger, William D. Schindler, Gerald Lee Staub, Larry Daniel Habegger, Donald Lee Riley, and Jerry Lee Schwartz. *