Show FIFTEEN KILLED IN SMASHUP OF TRAIN Disaster in Indianapolis Suburb I Caused by Failure to Close Switch INDIANAPOLIS I APOLIS Ind md X 13 Accord l Accord Accord- 1 I lag Ing to Inspectors orf f th tho Jn Indiana n. railway commission which Investigated investigated In gated sated the wre wreck k of the Cincinnati Hamilton Dayton Daton at fit ln Ir Irvington Irving Irving- ton toti a suburb early today In I which fifteen persons Jo lost t their lives U anti and seventeen oe others were ere seriously Injured in injured In- In injured a n. block signal system m would have prevented pre tho the dister The wreck wrack was b by tho the failure failure fail fail- ure nrc of or the head brakeman to close the switch to a siding on which a u heavy freight train had been run to let Jet the rapidly running passenger tr train ln which was more than an nn hour late pass Carl Gross tho tue head bral- bral brakeman has assumed blame for tor tho the disaster Holias Ho HI has lias not been arrested but Is s under police guard at a hospital where he lie helies lies with a broken brokon leg JeG Later ho donled do- do nied he was responsible saying he ho was wa under the influence of ot an anesthetic when he mado made his first statement I According to the commission this switch could not have been boon left leU open had iad a block system been beon In operation op After ACter tho the wrecking crews crows had completed com corn h the search of ot the demolished hed passenger cars the tho coroners coroner's office here gave out the thc following list 1st of oC dead C. C F. F GRUE Cincin- Cincin 1 tf I I J I I j I Si 1 s t I I c J g ALBERT ALBEnT ALLEN ALLE MRS ALBERT ALLEN ALLE BENJAMIN II BOYLE S WILLIAM WILLIA SHARKEY engineer on onI passenger train Indianapolis IRVIE M. M WIGGINS conductor on passenger train Indianapolis CLEM I I IMHOLT theatrical roan nan from rom romLo Lo Los Angeles HORACE B. B WHITE lUTE brakeman on p passenger train Indianapolis J J. J L L. PALMER n. Tenn CHARLES CHENEY Jackson KJULIA Ky K- JULIA CHENEY CnNEY wife of oC Clifton ClItton Cheney Chenoy Jackson K ICy Ky CHESTER CHENEY JEY old months son on of ot Julia Julin and Clifton Cheney Chenoy JOHN JOH CHENEY NEY Ci 52 Breathitt I ICy Ky Two Two- year Two old daugh daughter ter of or Clifton CHUon Cheney Chenev Jackson ICy Ky C C. OBERG fireman on passenger train rain Tho The passenger train was from irom Cin Cm- Cincinnati bound to Chicago and the engineer engineer en en- ineer wa was trying to make malte up time timet At t Athe tI I the thc he lime of oC the tho collision ho lie was running run- run I ning ning aing more marc than forty miles an n hour I Both ho lie and the fireman man were found dead lead In the cab of ot their engine All tho the dead pa passengers son were tore In the smoker and lay day coach which were Im Immediately irn- irn I mediately behind the steel reinforced mall car that acted as a t battering ram rain Both of ot these cars were of or wood and andI I were demolished |