Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1893 — TWELVE LIVES LOST. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TWELVE LIVES LOST.

BAD WRECK ON THE FT. WAYNE RAILWAY. Two Trains Collide on the “T” Near Colehour—Twelve People Killed and Nineteen Others Seriously Hurt—Passenger Train Runs Into a Mlik Train. Disaster and Death. In a collision the other morning between a milk train of the Pittsburg, Chicago and Fort Wayne Railway and an east-bound passenger- train out of Chicago on the Panhandle, or Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway, twelve persons were killed outright and nineteen others were injured. The collision occurred on the “Y” running from the main line *just south of Colehour to East Hammond, Ind., at the point of a curve, and in a sparsely settled locality. The baggage car of the east-bound passenger train was ground into pieces, and from this most of the killed and injured. were taken. The eoqne of the wreck being far removed from immediate police and surgioal aid made the calamity a most distressing one, and it was more than an hour before the first of those rescued, maimed and bleeding, could be carried to houses in Colehour and South, Chicago for treatment. Physicians were summoned from the latter place and engines and unused cars were hastily prepared and rushed to the scene of the wreck. Terrible Force of the Collision. The trains met on the Single track of the “Y,” or East Hammond branch, just where there is a heavy curve. The contact of the moving masses of cars was tremendous and hardly a standing portion was left es the east-bound bagage car. The twisted and torn pieces of this car were penetrated in every direction by the jagged iron points of the milk train locomotive, and when the residents of Colehour came hurrying to the scene they found the fruit

cars of bpth a trains : heaped over the bodies of bpried beneath. The cries oithbse got yak. dead and the portions of more than one dumb form to,ld plainly the story of a great loss of fife. All the horrible details of a railway collision were present —the great heap of torn and collapsed cars, the hot fragments of iron, and the hiss of escaping steam. Even the latter could not drown the moans of the wounded, who were helpless, while the uninjured passengers and those of the train crew not Duried in the wreck made preparations for their relief. Word of the calamity having reached South Chicago, the police notified the surgeons of that city, and by 10 o’clock a procession of these and many citizens was on its way to the death field. Twelve dead bodies were taken out the wreck. The list of the killed is: Anson Temple, Manager of Bchiller Theater, Chicago. Unknown man with Manager Temple. Probably an actor. William Rignet, Traveling Passenger Agent Wisconsin Central Railroad. G. A. Hines, Vincennes, Ind. William Shomickeb, New Albanv, Ind. William Bichabdron. Chicago. R. D. Adams, Fatrfieldjtll. E. A. Babnabd, Terre Haute, Ind. Four unknown men. Nineteen people were badly hurt. # Colehour, a settlement that is practically a southern continuation of South Chicago, and which contains many of the latter’s shipping interests, lies between the lake shore and the Calumet River at 105th street. It is but a short distance north of Roby, and is cut by three railways, the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago, the Lake Shore, and the Baltimore and Ohio. The Indiana State line touches the lake shore just southeast of Colehour, which is thirteen miles from the city hall. The town concentrates its business along the river front, where there are salt, lumber and coal docks and ship-building yards. ■’ '

MEETING OF THE WRECKED TRAINS—THE MOMENT OF COLLISION.