People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1894 — HE OWNS UP. [ARTICLE]

HE OWNS UP.

K<l Holloway Confesses to Having Caused the Wreck at Fontanel, Ind. Terre Haute, Ind., July 18.— Ed Holloway has confessed that he threw the switch at Fontanet which wrecked the Hig Four New York express train last Friday morning, causing the death of the engineer and fireman. Holloway had gone to Fontanet, where five freight trains had been sidetracked by the miners, to serve as a ’scab’ brakeman but deserted the company and joined the miners in their acts of depredation. The next morning, within a few hours after the wreck he turned up at Rockville, a dozen miles away, and criticised a report in „ a morning paper of the wreck that had occurred at 1:20 a. m. This aroused suspicion and he was arrested and brought here where a deputy sheriff recognized him as a man he had threatened to shoot for pulling coupling pins at Fontanet. In his confession Holloway savs eight or ten miners by threatening to hang him forced him to break the switch lock and throw the switch. They did not particularly care whether they caught a freight or passenger train, but said they wanted to kill a few scabs. Holloway did not know the names of the miners, but has promised to identify them if brought before him. He was taken to Indianapolis to take a look at McKillup and Rash, two men arrested on the general charge of obstructing interstate commerce. They were at Fontanet the night of the wreck, and McKillup has been identified by a brakeman of the passenger train as a man he saw near by immediately after the crash and who excitedly asked if a freight train had been ditched. Several Fontanet men who are under suspicion have fled. Holloway failed to identify McKillup. On the train returning to Terre Haute again confessed to throwing the switch but later on denied emphatically that his previous statements were true, declaring his innocence of the whole affair.