Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1921, Page 13

42 BODIES ARE RECOVERED IN INDIANA TRAIN WRECK A\l ;;3 from Indiana southwestern igan. "u“r no reason that railroad officfals eould assign, almost all of the dead taken to the little morgue at Chester- tom; across the tracks from Porter, thelr fatal wounds in the head. - Some were decapitated, ac- counting -for-the failure uA.muvfiixfl a pisd of the twenty-five whi n o Bt 1 Were rushed to Michigan City, Ind., and two of them died on the way. Railroad of ficials :?reugd e belief. early to- day tha$ all of the. others injured woifld récover. Hospitals and pri- vatgy homes at Michigan City and Gary re 1i thers up to 6 o'clock. group of those critically in an ambulance ) ) ived the injured. nary investigation and the handlinggof the identifications at the early <ee, Wright and Markay of n Central. nfusion in Names. Records of the Michigan Central traln disclosed a Jarge number of rail- employes, travelling on passes, schéduled to go on the wrecked train, but. they' could not be located-in the Chesterton morgue. Efforts of vol- Muateer ddctors and nurses from Mich- igan City and Gary to rush the in- jured to hospitals lea to confusion in the check of railroad officials upon the.list of casualties, but it was be- exceed oduy by Coroner Seipel of Val- Ind., assisted by Division M S the Mi lieved the total would not thirty-five 2 The spped’of the New York Central f: i ile fatal ngers train, W, to pass the two @eath cars, saved the passen- gers in ithe rear coaches of both tratns from worse than a , severe Jolting. Hobdies, of Engineer ‘Claude John- son: of Elkhart, lod. and Fireman YGearge Deland " of Elkhart, engine York Central train, early today from tangled mass of crew on ‘thé Néw Wwere refovered beneath’, the Enginger M. F. Long of Jackson, Mich.. and Fireman George Block of Michigan City, Ind., were able to save themselvés, their engine being .far beyond the point of the collision. “1 was not to blame,, Towerman Cook told an Associated Press repre- sentative at-his® home in -Chesterton early today. “I threw the. distant blogk against the Michigan Central train. I threw the block two. miles back from the crossing. I do not know why they failed to catch’ the sighal.” 2 State to Make Inquiry. presentatives of the .Indiana raifroad commnission were :expected on the scene early today, to Start the state's angle of the investigation. An‘official statement issued from the office of the chief dispatcher of the Michigan: Central at Chicago also de- clared the Michigan Central engine crew apparently failed to -observe that the crossing signal' was set ainst them. A8 Because of the darkness, the shock of the catastrophe'and .the frenzied efforts of volunteers many names were at first given out by railroad officials as_among the dead who later were “founid not' o have- been, aboard. “Not Many Infured.” Railroad officia timate early. today, of the total in- red. AR j“’rn heayy death toll, it was be- lieved, made it doubtful if more than a score had been sefiously injured. according to railroad officials, as oply the: passengers in the two coaches Te- ceived the shock of the flying New ork Central train. ase !fle engihé ¢ the New York Central train burst’ through the. wooden hes .with such force _that it ‘wiftHled ound, far -down the 5 small bl started in the wreckage W bdued. ; ? *Within @ short time lights in the upfight coachés of both trains were turied on_agiin from an emergeacy conmection * afd ‘semblance of panic among the uninjured was al- layed, while the unhurt ministered to thoge huried. from their ‘seats but iving: "¢ - , ) 1; lo';oek today parts of what seemed to be at least three.bodies wete taken from the debris. R;n»l road officials” and Corpner Seipel of 4 3 & Hoffman Co. CLEANERS and DYERS . 12— STORES—12 | Main Office, 740 12th St. N. W. | Plamt, 2530 Pa. Ave. 8. E. ', Phone M. 4724 PEIVATE BEANCH EXCHANGE' i Chestertdn morgue were taken -\er{ iron to which their engine was re- dueed by the impact. ]V‘lnlrnho at that time had almost given up hope of identifying half a dozen of the bodies. Entrance to. the little backroom of the undertaker's chapel was barred to all except a few | who were able to show they could as- | sist_in: identification. After stating that Engineer Long of the Michigan Central train had left for his home in Jackson, Mich., members of the wrecking crew of, Michigan Central railroad men ad- -mittéd ‘that-he had-not gone there. They refused to disclose his where- abouts. Derailer Automatically Set. H Officials of the New York Central said that the automatic recording de- vice in the tower at the crossing showed that the New York Central | train hit the automatic tower bell | Signal station, three miles back from the crossing. on each line, ju sccgnds ahead of the Mis traf train, thus giving th Central train the right of w | The derailer on the tr: at the crossing is automatically set when the block signal is set against a train at the block tower two miles back at the block tower two miles. The derailer on the Michigan Central tracks threw that train off the rails, 600 feet from the intersection;; although the engine and coaches bumped along the ties over the intersection, and | the wheels of the Michigan Central engine went back on.the rails when they struck the New York Céntral cross-over. ! Fierke of Grand Rapids, | Edward W. Mich., who Stood on_the platform of the day coach of the Michigan Central | train, just = few feet from the point : where the New York Central engine hit it. and who saw.the passengers in th ng to: escape as (he | L > dowh on them,.gave a | graphie description of thé wrack fo day. Beginning at the point where | the Michigan Central train derailed | and came to a stop across the New York Central tracks, Fierke said: e car swayed suddenly and les the tracks.” We bumped alons. the ties for a few feet at full speed, From one side T heard a blast of 4 Thistle. erbpiogked out. There was 5 I Foather e earing ‘down on us at Tongue Clove to Mouth. I couldn’t move. My tongue stuck up In the roof of my mouth. I tried to of en the dgor into the day coach 0 e people ide. hand refused to function. ol My Derhaps wasn't over thirt. - gnds between the time T saw that nd the moment it hi wagnlen“years to me. i v s “The light from the headli the approaching traim mads Sooror thing as bright as day where I stood. Lihought I was surely going to be ki “As I stood T .could see® into "t day coach. On the side the Nphvs York-Central train was approaching I could see that other passengers had seen the train. A woman jumped ur from her seat. She held a little girl—looked as though she was about | eight or nine years old—to her breast. Men jumped.up—one even started- for th‘e door where I was standing. “Then suddenly the side of the car buckled in. My last conscious xmpressh;n was of everything dis- solving in fromt of me. I remember seeing the nose -of the engine. * I remember the lights in the car g0~ ing out suddenly. I remember hear- {Chicago. THE EVEI&T]_E’G']STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1921 ing & scream that I'll never forget. And then came darkness. “I was thrown. from that platform nearly fifty fest. I lit on the d— the breath knocked out of me. When I sat up the whole middie of our train was gone. It was a little hell there for a few minutes, “I wish 1 could accurately.describe the sensations,” . o' Fierke, outside of numerous bruises, was not injured. 25 The car platform en which.he stood was smashed into fragments:, Volunteers Fight Fixe. _ The scene of the wreck is a%lonely junction point bordering on theysand dunes and about fifty miles from It was two hours before the arrival of the first relief train, and only the efforts of volunteer fire- fighters prevented many of the injured from being burned to death. Clouds of steam from the wrecked engines obscured the scene and made the work of the passengers, who hurried to the rescue of the injured, difficult. Soon tongues .of flames be- gan to lick over the wreckage.. Water from a length of hose obtaimed from a cross-reads host office ‘was played on the fire, which was soon extin- guished. A telephone operator not fidd - nearby ' residents &nd scores o armers came from miles around to help in the relief work. According “to one >account of the disaster, the engineer of the Michi- £an Central train called fireman as they crossing to ask The “fireman replied, G 1-’:'».' meaning that it was set against them. . According to this account, the en- ginder must have misunderstood: the reply, as he did not slacken speed, and an instant later the heavy train struck’ the derailing switch, which was opened at the same time that the signal was set. -The crash followed. All of the dead and injured pas- sevgers were the occupants of a Wwooden combination baggage and passenger coach, which was demol- ished. | ~A pathetic incident of the catas- trophe was revealed in the death of Engineer, Albert Van Riper of the Michigan Central, whose maagled body was extracted from the wreck- age, He was traveling on a pass and Was to have been retired on pension today after fifty years of service at the throttle, during which he had es- caped even a scratch on the finger or a disablthg burn. No Trace of Engineer. MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., February 23. —No trace of William Long, engineer of the Michigan Central _train, crushed by a New York Central ex- press last night, nor his fireman, George Block, could be found here today, although they were supposed 1 come to this, city. 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