Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1906 — ENGINEER TAKES BLAME FOR WRECK [ARTICLE]

ENGINEER TAKES BLAME FOR WRECK

Weeping on Stand, Say* Be Wa a Heaponalble for tbe Reoent Oleaster in Indiana. Valparaiso, Ind., Nov. 22. —Weeping as be told his story, Frank tialnauer, engineer of the first section If the passenger train Involved In the recent wreck at Woodville, which cost more than sixty lives, shouldered entire responsibility for the disaster at the coroner’s inquest. As the result of his testimony he was arrested in the afternoon. Conductor Moste and Biakeman Woodward of the freight train also were arrested and all three were held In SI,OOO hail. The coroner recommended that they he brought before the giand jury for manslaughter. Galnauer said he got no answer from the freight train on the siding to his regulation whistle signal, and that his train was carrying signals for a following section. He asserted that he took It for granted everything would be all right. He declared he wished no one but himself to be blamed for the disaster, as he should have stopped his train when be received no Signal.