Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1907 — ANOTHER TERRIBLE RAILROAD WRECK. [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER TERRIBLE RAILROAD WRECK.

There was a terrible railroad wreck Of an east bound Big Four train early Saturday morning, about three quarters of a mile southeast of Fowler. The passenger train . collided at full speed, in the mist, withan extra freight; which was standing on the track waiting for the switch to be opened to side track for the passenger. The impact of the two trains jammed the two engines into one inextricable mass, and the combination car which followed the engine | was completely telescoped by the | tender, that reaching several feet I beyond the rear of the car. Every person on that car was either killed |or injured except one. Eight dead i* bodies werefouncl in the wreckage ■ and two of the injured died on the way to the hospital at Kankakee. The combination car took fire and was totally burned as were also two sleeping cars next behind it, which could not be got away in time to save them. There was no one kille ’ on any of the sleepers, nor very severely injuied. Some of those whose bodies were found in the remains of the oar were not dead until the fire reached them and their groans and cries are described as terrible. Eight dead bodies were in the morgue at Fowler that afterno ?n, burned past recognition. Among these are sup posed to be the bodies of the conductor and the baggage man. The only person among the dead thought to be known at Fowler I was ; i Mr. Shannon, of Williamsport. > The fireman of the passenger was found dead under the wreck, while the engineer who lumped, was badly hurt. The engineer of the freight ; was hurt but the fireman escaped ... O’- . . ifiu ? v pf The private car of the vice president of the road was attached to the train, but none of its occupants were injured. J ' The spot where the wreck occurred is inside corporation ! limits of Fowler, but nearly a mile from the depot The responsibility, for the wreck seems to be with the freight crew who should have teen on the side track. There were eight badly injured who were putin a sleeper and taken to the hospital. Quite a number of less severely injured were still at Fowler that afternoon.

Later reports of the bad wreck at Fowler Saturday morning do not differ materially from our account obtained that same day by |tele phone, directly from Fowler. The dead are only ten in all however but one more of the injured, E. W. Tripp, the engineer, will probably not recover. There was only one woman on the wrecked car, which was a combination smoker and baggage car, and she was pinned under the wreckage and burned to death in spite of all efforts to rescue her. She was at first thought to be a Mrs. Price, of Long Beach, Cal, but thia is now denied and her identity has not been established. ! In all five of the dead had not been identified at last accounts. A cerf tain added degree of local interest is given to the wreck from the fact |> that John A. Shannon, one of the [ dead was a cousin by marriage of LMrs. A. A. Yates of our city, and j has visited here some and his wife 1 quite often. Miss Mary Yates went to the funeral, which was held at fc Williamsport, which was his home k tho be has been teaching in Chicago for some years and was on his way to spend Sunday, with his fam- , ily, when he met his death. He leaves a. widow and two sons. —— A comfortable office room 16 by . 20 ft for rent heat and light furnished 172.00 per year. B. Foesythbl

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