Show OFfiCIALS ARE KILlED IN WRECK to J. J T. T Har Harahan bal Former Forme President Illinois Central and Three Others Dea DeaL Dead 1 LIMITED PLOWS INTO TRAIN TAKING W WATER TER Accident Occurs on Illinois Central at Illinois CENTRALIA Ill J Jan 22 Tames T. T Sr former president of the Illinois Central railroad d Frank Franko O. O M Moldier second vice president of ot tho the tock Rock Island railroad E. E B B. B Peirce general solicitor of the Rock Island and Eldridge E E. Wright son of Luke LukeE E E. E Wright former secretary y of war were killed in a collision of two Illinois iut Illi nois Central trains at Kinmundy IlL HI labout about twenty n miles les northeast of here early today Two trainmen wore injured and nd the passengers in the tile 5 were wore were badly shaken and bruised ct Train No 25 known as 8 tho tile Now Orl Orleans express s was taking water vat at Kinmundy at 1 o'clock o'clock- when tra train N No 3 3 the Panama limited ran into the Tear of f No 25 Tho The killed wore were in the private te car of Mr Melcher Their bodies were found near the berths they had H occupied The Tile a olis f I t 1 r J J. J T T. T engine of No 3 plowed its way through the t-bo private car which was attached to No 26 and was wag stopped by the steel stoel coaches immediately preceding The Tho impact shoved the tho standing train for a distance of or feet down the time tracks although its Ito brakes were locked Fo Four r occupants of the thc Private atc cpr I escaped cs death or injury These are aio n Byron rou B. B Guns Curry private ate sei set rotary of Vice President nt Thomas B. B attorney for lor tho Rock Island for the tho tato f of Arkansas an and LO J Louis 3 inns iana inna and ano two negro ro porters Trainmen Able to Proceed The rube cugin cI and ancl fireman of jf the were were slightly h injured in jU hut lut were able to take tae the time tr tram iu as aa soon as I time tho wreckage was wa c cleared a away aj trains left here won soon afI fl r time tile wreck to bring S the UlC lie Injured and d J o to I ll Ihl limited l carried bu Cars CHIB only and withstood tho the t terrific smash liue ex- ex step I ll ff yas compo d of or coaches made of lJ r han retired from rein th pr II- II of oC time ilm Illinois Cc c road m 1111 a n Ih lived llred d at etl a. a Ill and Pierce In fn Park Tark III n a t Vu- Vu aim aim- bUlb burb 0 o Chicago Sir 1111 lJ ht lcd In fn Ini 7 ti or iC r Kinmundy J 3 I to town toT n of or 1300 i u opened their doors doom to succor the he Injured soon after netel th the news vs spread o of i tho the wreck Tho Tho crashing of or tho engine into the time private car wn was for fot v sc e eral ral blocks block Cries of or moro mol than a a. Injured aro p p above abo tho hll III of ot steam from tom from th tn splintered d mass of or rcck wreckage Kc Trainmen ought to reach who I had Id d been In Vice President car ctr r I I Caught in iu Berths The engineer a and amid nd Ill fireman man of ot time the lini lint It ted r only Injured d were i removed first V While hlll takIng them out omit stumbled on the tho bodies of M and aril Mr ni n The e bodies o of and ind v ic found n n a ten few later ator All had b beo heon on caught ht in their thel I without a I. possible po chance of or c escape For fOl more than two j from J both oth l and j of the tho littIe lit lit- tIe tic lc town of oC worked wom to cure care for fot the injured I before help from roam outside outside out out- side points point limo Tho nr first t train tl ca carrying ph 1 ni-md ni 11 l railroad officials left C he- he foi fore for I 4 amid o'clock-amid and made mane the run 1111 to Kin In mundy In half an sum hour A numb number of oC the time injured who had hen been to th homes 5 of ot r residents ot 01 mund were r pU pla plaCed cd Pd time tho relief train and brought bronchi to to the Centrilla hospital Tho The bodies of or Mr lr 11 I Mr Melcher Richer Mr and Mr Wright werA brou brought ht to Centralia with tho Injured aboard tho lie relief train The rime cause of or tho time wreck has halt not been explained Jaud and ti seem cern reluctant to express an opinion Both Hoth trains how how- were late Train No 25 was wa duo clue nt sit I it nt 1152 o'clock last night htmL hilt did not hut uirl e airl until 1 I o'clock this thui morning The ibe limited do 11 s not hot atop at i i o C d J. J a Q OFFICERS KILLED Continued from irni page 1 Kinmundy wae to pas pace through that point at 1230 It was WM running run run- ning halt an hour behind time time- at high speed Private Ow Oar Demolished private car was isaa demolished the car Immediately preceding a steel teel Pullman withstood th the shock but nil oc occupants cc- cc tv ivre re thrown from thick their berths and amid In this way received their Robert Stuart and Vert Vort firemen both bothof bothof of th the limited were the two trainmen Injured Both are from Champaign and were taken to their homei Stuart was cut and bruised nail and VerVe Vert's lop log was broken The Tho bod j of dead were taken through here this morning to Grant deputy coroner of Manon Marlon Ma Ma- non county will the Inquest Tho cause of th wreck IK is ascribed to scarcity of water w alons the road A A special ape ape- cial order makes If ie necessary for all trains to take water at and a a. freight train that took water before the tho express held the tho express longer than Stuart and Vert were a a. freight crew late late- Iv lv put on Oem a fl passenger train It Is bo- bo yi they time forgot the order for alt all trains to take tak v Tie of 25 did not have laye timeto time timeto to nag flag the he limited Th The wreck occurred half a a. block north of the depoL Th engine of the limited went half way wa- through time the private car splintering U. U The four men who rho escaped were In the front of the car and crawled through the tho openings made by th time 9 Bodies Bodice Are Mutilated The boles bogles of the four dur dead were mutt muti The top of Mr Harahan's head Wa was off Time arms of most of the victims were severed and a a doctor re reported reported re- re ported the legs are held on by shreds Mr body perhaps was mutilated more than the others thera The responsibility for tho wreck was wan placed on the tower man manat at bv hr J. J Broecker thurman ot of train No 2 25 at the inquest which hegan here hiem- before b fore noon lie testified the man should have blocked No- No 3 for ten tar minutes The Inquest probably will be bi continued to allow the tho Injured train men I who were were taken taken to Champaign to testify The fireman of Xo 25 Jesse Gilbert who wi-ic was standing on the tender w ai as thrown to the ground and internal In In- juries The two trains were combined after the wreckage wits cleared and proceeded south Brocker testified at the that he left heft his hin car and w went nt to lag the theother other train I ran bock back with m ni- white and red Ian han tern Jem he testified and amid gave Stuart the signals Ftc Ite by whis whistles tIes showing showing- that he caught the tha signals but It seemed to bo too lato for him to it toston I Stop ston his engine The rue responsibility for or the wreck wieck ac according cording cording- to the deputy coroner lies between be be- tween Broecker and tIme the engineer of the tIit limited |