Show DASHED INTO A i FREIGHT TRAI TRAIN J Terrible Disaster on the Wa Wabash Wabash a bash Road in Illinois Caused by y an Open Switch Danville Ill III Sept 26 Passenger train No 8 of the railroad running from Kansas City to Buffalo N Y known as the Buffalo Mail and due In this city at a m ran Into an open switch west of Catlin Ill early today and crashed into a section n of a freight train All the passenger cars but one were turned over and burned Four are known to have been killed an and d several others are missing injured are being taken care of at the local hospitals Dead Engineer J S Butler of Peru Ind C H Karnes mail clerk W W Ellison fireman Lafayette Ind Ed Harding mail ma 1 clerk cler Ivesville Ill Injured J D Foster Danville Ind cut o othe on n the head headE headE E L Jessup of Catlin mall mail clerk burned and cut on head not seriously M A Sinks Marion Ill chest In Injured injured injured hurt in head and leg not fatal George Springfield Ill a astock astock stock raiser riding in a stock car on o othe n the freight train is missing George Gorrow colored porter Kan Kansas Kansas Kansas sas City cut about head not seriously Bert Cain Kansas City slightly burned Frank J BIckford Hillsboro Bridge BridgeN N H burned on hands and feet t Mrs Luther Shoemaker Spencerville Ind seriously burned Arthur Shoemaker 8 months old badly burned will die Mrs Dollie Guelph Ont burned on the face and arms her chil hll Thin dren aret a aired ed 8 Vison 10 John 14 all all burned but not not seriously ser Mrs Nellie Livingston hands and neck burned her children Rose aged 10 Gladys 8 John 4 and an d Kern Korn 1 all badly burned but will re recover recover recover cover W A Butler Fort Wayne Ind scalp wound C L Flowers postal clerk Litchfield Ill III scalp wounds George Gearge H and wife Coving ton Ind both badly burned but It Is 1 s believed they will recover t Several Minor Injuries Besides these there were several suf suffering suffering fering from slight burns and scalp scat P wounds and there were about twelve passengers who were in the dining car carand carand ca r and were taken to Decatur Ill III where e they are being cared forThe for forThe forThe The train consisted of engine smoker baggage car two Pullmans one cha chair t r car and a diner All but the diner dine r were burned The he train was going at ata ata a aa t a speed sp ed of sixty miles an hour and an d nearly every passenger was asleep a athe at atthe atthe t the tine tI Nearly every one lost all clothing ex et except except night wear The farmers took too k care of the wounded and provided provide kd d what clothing they could The passengers passengers gers gelS were then taken taJ en to Danville by a relief train and were wrapped in what whatever whatever whatever ever covering could be gathered up to tomake tomake t 0 make them comfortable until thy th Y reached the hospital Roasted to Death Mail Clerk Harding was pinioned be beneath beneath neath the mail mall car He was roasted to t o death before he could be cut out Engineer Butler and Fireman Ellison Eliso n were ver crushed beneath their engine engin e Their bodies afterward burned burnedA A carload of paint attached to the th e freight train was burned and it Is i ithe in inthe Inthe n the wreckage near this Car Oar that George Georg 4 e is believed to have been bee n burned to Yo death A telegraph pole was w as burned which crippled service service ice lc and delayed information |