People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1893 — FIXED THE BLAME. [ARTICLE]

FIXED THE BLAME.

Coroner’s Jury on the Colehour (Ind.) Wreck Criticises Tracks, Time-Tables and All Railroad Men Connected with the Running of the Fated Train. Chicago, Sept 11.—Coroner McHale’s jury finished the investigation into the causes of the railroad wreck at Colehour Thursday morning at 3 o’clock Saterday afternoon and two hours later returned a verdict which severely censures the methods of operating the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad. The verdict pronounces the time-table in force throughout the western division to be imperfect, the track facilities between Colehour and Hegewisch inadequate, and recommends that C. D. Law, superintendent of the western division; F. D. O’Connor, train dispatcher on the division at the time of the wreck, and all others connected with the road at the time of the wreck and at all responsible for the running of trains be held to answer for criminal negligence. Casper Myer, one of the victims of the Fort Wayne wreck, near Colehour, died Sunday at Mercy hospital. He was a farmer from Logansport, Ind., and was 54 years old. His lower jaw was broken, nose smashed and he received injuries to his back. His wife was with him at the time of his death. This makes the number of deaths thirteen.