Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1902 — Another Wreck on the C. H. & D. [ARTICLE]

Another Wreck on the C. H. & D.

For the third time within a verj few weeks, the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, R. R, one of the most carefully managed railroads in the country, has been the scene of a serious wreck. The latest of these occured about three o’clock Monday morning, at Liberty, Ind., and was one of .the most unusual wrecks in the history of railroading. A light engine is used as a pusher to help heavy trains up a big hill east of Liberty. That morning this engine pushed a train up the hill and then ran back t j Liberty, where it was to take a siding. When the engineer tried 7 to stop for the siding the lever would not wcrkand the engine continued on the main Lack, at high speed, until it crashed into the rear end of a freight train running backwards. The engineer jumped off and escaped with a broken shoulder, but the fireman, Dayton Osborne, was killedThe force of the collision in some way reversed the light engine, andbaCk it started down the track at a fearful speed, and on the other side of Liberty it met a big freight train with two engines running double header, wrecking both of those engines as well as itself. The engine men jumped | off and were not hurt much, but| Michael Foley, a brakeman, fell between the oa'rs and was killed. s , It was this wreck that by blocking the road caused the great delay of the Cincinnati to Chicago train, due here Monday, at 9:55 a. m., but which did not arrive until 5:30 or 7| hours late.