Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1891 — MANGLED IN A WRECK. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MANGLED IN A WRECK.

SHOCKING DISASTER ON THB PANHANDLE ROAD. A Passenger Train Becomes Derailed and Plunges Over an Embankment, Four Persons Being Killed and Many Injured, Two of Them Fatally. Four lives crushed out and thirty persons mangled and maimed was the fearful result of a railroad wreck on tha ! Panhandle at Hagerstown, a little town sixteen miles from Richmond, Ind: The fast express train which runs between Chicago amd Cincinnati, while going at a high rate on the down grade before reaching Hagerstown, was derailed by a portion of the framework of the engine failing under the wheels. Every car was thrown off the track, but the fearful momentum carried the train on. The engineer applied the'break and reversed the lever, but all was unavailing to check the onward rush. Right ahead was % a deep cut canal, which was crossed by a,little bridge. The engine clung to the roadbed, but the swinging cars, forging to one side, missed the crossing and plunged over the embankment, into the iifteen-foot cut The heavy coaches and the sleeper were piled up in a heap, the struggling passengers, crushed and bruised, being caught in the wreck. Almost before a hand had been lent to help them, the smoking car burst into flames, and it seemed as if the horrors of fire were tc be added to the already dreadful calamity.

Soon tha passengers who were not disabled struggled forth and these with the trainmen set to work to take out tlie dead and thoso of the wounded who were unable to help themselves. By strenuous efforts all were removed from the shattered coaches before the flames had gained sufficient headway to stop the rescuers. Throe of those in the sleeper wore taken out dead, and of the wounded one survived but for a few hours. Two others of tlie wounded recoived fatal hurts, while of tlie others at least ten are badly injured. Tlie cars were at one time the track, but strangely all did not go over tlie embankment. The smoker first turned on its side, and the day coach and parlor car Eugenia, the smoking compartment ol which contained all the killed, breaking away from the smoking car, but holding together, rolled over twice in their descent of tfhe embankment. Meanwhile

the derailed baggage car had hung to the engine and away beyond the other cars struck a guard at the road crossing, avain mounted the track and escaped almost uninjured, but the engine, though holding the rail, was about as badly wrecked as the#arlor car and day coach. In leaving the track the cars tore down the telegraph poles and it was almost impossible to get.any accurate news of the accident until the trains arrived at Richmond with the dead and wounded. The wrecking crew was gotten out as soon as possible, carrying surgeons and assistance of every kind, and a second train was sent up at 6 o’clock With a large number of people. Following is a list of the killed: Arthur M. Roeves, capitalist, Richmond; S. G. Needham, claim agent, Richmond division, Richmond; Charles B. Care, conductor; Logansport, Ind.; Otis F. Deal, engineer, maintenance of way, Richmond division. The following were injured, the firsl two fatally: Mrs. George McGrew, Richmond; Mrs J. C. Busin, Sacramento, Cal.; H. Hilb, West Front street, Cincinnati; G. Webster, porter Pullman car, Newport, Ky.; infant grandchild of Mrs. McGrew Staub, of Chicago; “John M. Edwards, Richmond; Adam Steinbcrger and brother Wiley, Westville, Ohio; Frank W. Eddy, Westfield, Mass.; Miss Roth and her sister, Dayton, Ohio; Mrs. C. E. Dudley, Dayton; Mr. and Mrs. Benson / and their two small children, Logansport, Ind.; Mrs. Anna Englebecht, Logansport, and her three children; Henry C. Fox, Richmond; W. H. Kelley, Richmond; T. W. Gilpin, 251 West Fourth street, Philadelphia; John Crocker, Chicago; Charles Page, Richmond; G. H. Edmonds, Troy, Ohio; Mrs. Susan Stambaugh, Trenton, Mo.; Sophia Evans, New Castle, Ind.; Dora Clark, New Castle, Ind.; Clifton Irwin, Martin’s Ferry, Ohio; J. P. Stanzea, Eaton, Ohio; J. W. Kramer, brakeman, Logansport, Ind.; Harriet S. Lombard, Amherst, Wis.; James T. Bootes, Richmond; Bob Hodgin, road foreman of engines.

THE WRECK AT THE CULVERT.