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Show FIFTEEN I ARE KILLED I Cincinnati Pass enger H Crashes Into Freight H Train Indianapolis, Nov. 13. Af least i' H persons were killed and lo scrlouslv ' Injured this morning when an in- : bound Cincinnati,- Hamilton & Dav- mm ton passenger train ran into a open 'H switch and crashed into n frleght trxlr.. mm at Arlington avenue, Irvington, a ?ub- urb. The train was coming from ("in- mm cinnati and was running -10 miles an 1 hour. The dead: H C. Burg, fireman painger trail . I Indianapolis. H C. F. GRUNDHOEFER. Cincinnati H C. IMHOLT and WIFE, theatrical mm people of Los Angeles, Cal. H BEN BOYLE; had ticket to Chlca- H ALBERT ALLEN. Los Angeles H BERT WniTT-' Lml-om,,, f.li.. H Indianapolis. H JOSEPH L. PALMER. Etawah, M ' Tenn. H CHARLES CHANEY, aged 13. Jack- H I sou, Ky. H JOHN CHANBY, aged 52, Jackson H i 'S- CLIFTON' CHANEY, and son, B CHESTER, aged 5 months, Jackson. 1 , LILLY CHANEY. daughter of Cllf- mW . ton Chancy, died at hospital. H CONDUCTOR EARL WIGGINS, H 'Jassengor train, of Indianapolis. H ENGINEER EARL SPARKEY, pas- fmM scnger train, of Indianapolis. IH Fifteen seriously Injured -wqre taken fH to the Deaconness hospital In tnis- IH J. V. JEFFERSON, negro porter. H passenger train. jH Wreck in Flames. jH The wreck caught fire, but th; H flames were soon extinguished. Most IH of the dead wero found in the wreck- H age of tho first car, which telescoped H the baggage car The engineer of th H passenger train Is believed to be In jH the wreck, but the engineer of the IH freight escaped by jumping. J Firemen and police worked at the jH wreck two hours before the first bodv jH was found. Holes were chopped in H the tops of the cars and the injured H supplied with water, for which th3 H cried pitcously H Clear Track Reported. H The passenger train. No, No. 3C. is H reported to have had a clear trak but the brakeman on the freight had H inot closed the Bwltch when it had H cleared the main track for the pas- H jsenger. Carl Gross, head brakeman H on the train, said the switch had been H left open by one of his men. H Tho crash aroused tho neighbor- JH hood. Many homes were thrown open H and the injured carried in and given aid before being sent to hospitals. H Physicians and the firemen in Irv- H ington were hurriedly summoned and H soon ambulances were taking away H the dead and injured. H Coroner Investigating. H Coroner Durham of this county he- H gan an investigation of the wieck at H once. Of a family of six. the Cha- H neys of Jackson, Ky.. on the train. H only one is alive, and he, Clifton Cha- H ney, is badly injured. His father. H wife and three children wero r?nrni-j the killed. They were on their wa H to Wisconsin. IH Mrs. Joseph Sciter and her husbaua H were among the first In the neigh- H borhood to reach tho scene of the ; wreck. She said the shock of the im- IH pact almost threw them out of bed. H "The thing that made us all en." H said Mrs. Seiter, "was the taking oul H j of the wreckage of a dead mother H ! nnd her child. The child was clasped H in the mother's arms when they found H j Mr. and Mrs Imholt and Mr, aud H Mrs. Albert Allen were unidentified until the body of Albert Allen was taken from the wreckage and the names found on their ticket, which was purchased at Los Angeles From H the newspaper and magazine clip- fl pings it Is believed they ar0 theatri- H people H |