Show telegraphic NEWS CHICAGO oct II 11 A terrible accident occurred on the chicago atlantic railway early this morning sear near kouts indiana in which the first report stated 25 people were killed and many injured ared the fast freight run into the end of a passenger train telescoping two coaches LATER ADVICES As nearly hearty as could be learned at the train was the passenger express ellve s from the east due in chica chicago 0 o this morning A relief expedition was quickly and secretly organized by the railroad officials here and dispatched to the scene while other help was to be hurried forward as soon as possible two passenger trains arrive in chicago earldin early in the morning from the east over the chicago atlantic and it was impossible to readily learn which was involved the officials of the company any I 1 refusing the slightest sligh slig hest esl scrap of in fl formation rma tion it was judged that the horror occurred between bet five and six this morning LATEST DETAILS A special to the news from hammond ind says the pa passenger Menger train east bound on the chicago atlantic railway leaving hammond at last night broke down near kouts station the en engine g ire started ahead leaving the tra train i and stopped for water lat slate ditch the engine got on the center and could not get back to the train the stock train following lowing tol running on special time crashed into the sleeper telescoping the sleeper and four coaches so far 14 bodies have been taken from the wreck a doctor from huntin huntington ton ind being the only passenger cengeri identified the rest are burned beyond recognition twenty five or thirty are wounded the engineer and fireman on the stock train were ware wounded and are sot rot expected to live CHICAGO oct il 11 A special to the evening svening journal from north judson jl indiana says another chatsworth railroad horror occurred on the chicago atlantic railway this morning sixty miles east of chicago near kouts station seventeen passengers were killed and BURNED UP in the wreck and from 20 to 30 were more or less injured A heavy fresh meat train telescoped the evening ac como dation train the new york express which leaves chicago at p in m the accommodation with one luggage car two coaches and one sleeper nad had stopped at a water tank for water about one mile west of kouts and the freight train following crashed into the sleeper telescoping and burning up the entire passenger train as above stated wm perry auditor of this stark county county and wife and child were victims of the terrible fire which broke out nut almost immediately after the freight train crashed among the passengers not a particle of of their bodies was rescued from the flames the entire responsibility appears to rest on THE ENGINEER of the freight train at this writing the names of the others killed and wounded cannot be ascertained KOUTZ lad ind october 11 the worst horrors of chatsworth were duplicated here today to day A dozen bloodstained blood stained smoke begrimed injured victims of railroad carelessness or alund blundering ering were brought into the village a little station house early this morning and this afternoon nine charred corpses tile the victims of some blundering or carelessness were laid upon the station platform while three miles west down the track of the chicago atlantic railroad near a lonely old water tank piles of fearfully tangled debris mark the spot where a collision seldom equaled for terrible results had occurred according to the best estimate obtainable for only an estimate was possible fully THIRTY HUMAN LIVES had beer been sacrificed outright and half that number of persons had bad suffered injuries more or less serious the east bound express that left chicago last night with a great load of passengers had without a moments warning du a temporary wait been su smashed lashed into from behind by a heavily loaded fast freight plunging madly forward in the darkness bent on beating all competition in hurrying dressed meat to the markets of the seaboard some part of the machinery of the passenger engine had been thrown out oat of order during the run from chicago A trifling stop at a water tank would make it all right it was thought and the stop was accordingly made suddenly out ot of the darkness behind came the flash of a headlight a rush and a rattle of many wheels and then the MIGHTY CRASH just as at chatsworth the sleeping coach now got in its deadly work the massive framework of the sleeper was transformed into a huge catapult and pushed mercilessly forward by the freight it crushed into the cars forward smashing their comparatively light timbers and making the work of destruction eom complete the wreck quickly took fire and the sight of the shrieking victims and the dancing flames was one never to be forgotten tb ta day on his bed of agony at a hotel at kouts the engineer of the passenger train told the FOLLOWING STORY we pass edNo 40 at boone bone grove on time and started towards kouts no 49 pulled out oat of the station less than two minutes behind when they should have waited much longer whence when we were well away from the town we could see her light a little way behind we were not running fast because the engine was on one side we had broken an eccentric strap and were running but one pair of wheels having been forced to disconnect the other pair of wheels which were running loose of course ahe accident acci deat held our speed downa down a little but we had no idea the engineer of no 49 would have any difficulty in keeping off our heels the last time I 1 looked back there was ample room between us we stopped at boone grove tank and were there almost a minute before THEY STRUCK US in the little sitting room of the cottage which serves as a hotel in this town two of the wounded survivors of the accident still remained late this afternoon henry miller a bohemian boy on his way from dundee ills to the old country is stretched on one lounge in a low dark room his head is fearfully battered add aad his right leg is fractured the other wounded man maa is jos mccool a bartender of boston be not been a passenger on the fated train would have been welcomed in chicago by relatives whom he has not seen for years his injuries are for the most part internal and are not so severe but that his recovery is possible he was able to tell of the awful oc occurrence carrence AS FOLLOWS I 1 was in the passenger coach at the time of the accident which was next to the last car in the train just before midnight I 1 went into the smoker which was just ahead of our car ana and chatted for an hour and came back to the coach with a young man who sat down near me the last ive ever seen or expect to see of the poor fellow just as I 1 had stretched myself out to go to sleep and almost before I 1 had closed my eyes there was an awful unearthly crash which god help elp h me I 1 never want to hear again I 1 could feel myself thrown violently toward the top of the car and then I 1 became insensible on the way up I 1 realized that all was confusion in the car tat canes valises vali ses rods of iron and lamps were in confusion about me I 1 must have regained say my consciousness scio asness ness in a very short time for when a I 1 awoke all was darkness in ia the car a and nd the HORRIBLE SHRIEKS and pie wails of agony almost deafened my ears in thi the end of the car farthest from me the stove was overturned and the flames were just at the point of starting to spread with magic rapidity there nassome was some sort of new gas lamp in the cars and reservoirs reaching from one to the other the flames leaped up the sides and in less time than I 1 can tell it the gas was burning the whole length of it the oar overhead I 1 was wedged in between two seats where I 1 could not move a limb of my body and there watched the fire slowly creep upon me it was a terrible sight in the end of the coach near the fire I 1 could see a lady caught between the seats As the fire slow slowly ly crept across the car her dress caught fire and in agony she burned before my eyes just across from my seat I 1 noticed soon before the accident a father his wife and daughter I 1 saw them also CRUSHED TOGETHER and burned just as the flames were blazing but a foot or two away from me a man iau pulled mer me into tie the aisle and saidi said gc come ome to the window he must have taken me or some one else for the moment he looked closely at at my face he dropped me and hurried through the window with an exclamation of evident disappointment I 1 then painfully crawled alter after him in safety I 1 this afternoon when the reporters who had been lout long delayed in reaching kouts owing to the secretiveness of the railroad officials began at last to arrive there was little in the aspect of the village to indicate the calamity that had bad so recently taken place all the dead bodies had bad been careful carefully lily removed from sight only two of the wounded were still in the village and the local authorities of the road were ere DEAF AND DUMB to all seekers after information the coroner had bad been obliged to go to huntington over fifty miles distant to obtain the statements of witnesses and the villagers seemed wholly at sea regarding the extent of the disaster About the only person about and willing to tell the details of the horror was dr 0 W mckee the doctor is a prosperous looking intelligent man of about 37 who promptly responded in the dead of the right eight to a call that be take a handcar hand band car and go to the scene of the wreck three miles from his bis dr mckee rendered noble service he had bad scant time to give his experience in detail but stated to the best beat of his knowledge it would not be overstating the facts to say the collision had bad cost the lives of fully THIRTY PEOPLE it was shortly after 1 a m when he reached the wr wreck eck and he immediately began to give his services to the wounded those who were badly hurt when the crash came he said must have had little chance for their lives so quickly had bad the cars taken fire and so thorough was the work of the flames As an illustration of the destruction and the difficulty of arriving at a correct idea of its magnitude the doctor said that probably not a soul would have been made aware of the all but total wiping out of the miller family of six had not their boy been saved dr mckee stated that only nine bodies had been recovered and they were so badly scarred as to be almost beyond recognition the most left of scarcely any of them being a blackened trunk and in some some cases little beyond OF ASHES the nine were as follows the miller family of dundee father mother two brothers and a girl their 14 year old boy beterman He terman will probably bly die also vr dr perry of north judson ind dr perrys wife dr perrys daughter aged 11 and a young irish lady supt bupt parsons of the chicago at lantic alantic was seen late is in the afternoon gloomily pacing the station platform he was extremely taciturn and was sure no more bodies could be by any an possibility under the wreck only nine persons had been killed he be declared and not more than 11 or 12 hurt and none of the latter seriously he admitted that no flag man had been sent seat back from the passenger train when the stop was made mr parsons said the train men were depending upon the semaphore light fully 2000 feet in the rear of where the stop was made THE CONDUCTOR of the train had pulled the cord for this light when he stepped from his tram train this would throw the glare of the red danger signal on the track the night however was foggy and the engineer of the fast freight must have failed to see the signal superintendent parsons thought the accident would have been an ordinary one had not the stove in the sleeper upset that caused the destruction of the sleeper two coaches and the baggage car and that in the main was doubtless the tha cause of the loss of life coroner leatherman mr parsons said reached the scene from valparaiso about 1130 am and after viewing the debris and making some inquiries had found it necessary to go to huntington in search of witnesses the wounded parsons explained had bad been taken there as early as possible and the passengers who WERE UNHURT to the number of 25 had been forwarded to their destination without delay it appears that coroner leatherman did not impanel a jury and that the procedure dare is not a necessity according to the laws of india a at the wreck the coroner was met by mr johnson Jo hason attorney for the chicago At atlantic lautic and being told that the engineer ol of the freight had bad been taken with other survivors to huntington deel decided dipol to go there which he did in company with the railroads lawyer and sever alother gentlemen the coroner is well spoken of among the peep people e at kouts they did not criticise criticism critic ise his action in going to huntington believing him square the coroner is described as being rather a young man to be charged with buchtan important duty as determining the responsibility for the wreck A PATHETIC INCIDENT of the wreck is related by the st statika aaion agent it is the story of a young lady from ohio whose name could not ti be remembered she was one ot of the passengers on the ill fated train and when the crash came with th the presence of mind and energy worthy of strong minded masculinity she seized an axe from its resting place on the side of the car and hewed her way through the window her own safety assured her thoughts turned to the helpless belp fess unfortunates whose cries for assistance sounded behind her they did acau in van vain for she bile rushed lu in the direction of the cries and personally aided those poor persons from the wreck to use her own language 1 I did all I 1 could and would have bave continued had I 1 not heard dr perry crying and moaning piteously that his feet were burning then my STRENGTH GAVE WAY aud and awas I 1 was compelled to desist and 8 seek eek assistance myself KOUTS ind oct 1111 pm all efforts to obtain information from hunt ington as to the names of the killed and wounded have up to this hour been unavailing the chicago atlantic railroad officials who went there with the coroner today to day seem to have complete possession of all the sources of information on this point and they refuse positively to make public the names of the victims of the disaster the killed and wounded were taken from the scene of the wreck to huntington early this afternoon accompanied by the coroner the water tank at which the wreck took place was tended by an employed for whose accommodation accommodate on a small shanty was attached to the pump house for a long time he be has NOT USED IT but has gone into kouts every night i leaving the ta tank early alone he was asked tonight to night what precautions were taken in his absence to prevent such catastrophes as that which bad occurred not a precaution he answered 41 except a thing they call a semaphore its an english contrivance and is supposed to act as a signal but betit it dont the wrecking force at the scene of the disaster numbers men and their many lights stretch along alone the full length of the wreck and can be seen been miles away over we the marsh enough of the wreck is still left to give an ida ot of the mass of ruins strewn before the tank after the collision the freight train in part escaped but the front cars were heaped inthe in the most fantastic way upon each neach other not a vestige of the passenger coaches was left the telescoping of the baggage car smoker and day coach being complete and the SPEEDY FLAMES did the rest the bodies which the coroner found were burned to a crisp at midnight the track is still impassable the coroner telegraphs the alsoc assoc associated press from huntington at 1 lam am as follows cannot as yet give the names of the killed there were eight adults and one child dead and |