3 KILLED AS TRAIN PLUNGES IN RIVER - EASTBOUND WABASH LIMITED GOES THROUGH BRIDGE NEAR ATTICA, IN - FORTY PERSONS ARE INJURED
Railroad Men Killed After Instructions to Cross Structure Weakened by a Former Accident – Scores Were Rescued.
Aticca, Ind., April 6. – Three persons were killed and about 40 others injured, some seriously, when the eastbound Wabash passenger train No. 4, known as the Continental Limited, was wrecked when the bridge over the Wabash river, just west of here, gave way. The engine, a baggage car and the day coach dropped into the water.
When the cars left the bridge the day coach, which was crowded, fell with the rear end out of the water and, though the majority of the injured were in this car, none of them was killed. The car partly had settled in the water before the work of rescuing the passengers was commenced and in a few minutes all had been taken out. They were taken to a hospital at Lafayette on a special train.
Bridge Tested Before Wreck.
The railroad's bridge over the Wabash river was weakened earlier in the day when a freight train was wrecked upon the structure, and the Continental Limited was stopped on the west side when it reached the place. A switch engine was sent across the bridge to determine whether the structure would hold the fast passenger train. Railroad officials believed it safe and the limited was ordered to proceed.
The train crept out on the bridge slowly and when about a hundred feet out upon the structure the bridge gave way beneath the weight of the train. The engineer was caught under his engine and crushed to death. The fireman, who jumped, was scalded to death.
Three men were killed, two from Peru, and thirty-one persons were injured, some seriously, in a wreck on the Wabash railroad at Attica, Ind., Sunday afternoon, when the engine, mail car and combination baggage and coach went down with two spans of the bridge which crosses the Wabash river at that point. The dead and injured follow:
TIMOTHY HULL, Peru, Ind., engineer
JACOB MILLER, Peru, Ind., fireman
HARRY THOMAS, Huntington, Ind., expressman.
The Peru Injured:
George F. Blair, both arms and both legs sprained.
Ed. Riggle, Wabash employee, injury below right eye, chest bruised.
Joe Webb, porter, back sprained, right leg injured.
Two spans of the bridge, measuring 260 feet went down, presumably after the engine or one of the cars became derailed in some unknown manner. The engine landed on the east embankment with the tank immediately behind it. The mail and combination car fell into the river, leaving the ladies' coach over-hanging the second pier with the front end in the air. These three cars are all steel, which probably accounts for so few dead. The sleeping car and diner remained on the bridge on the rails, none of the passengers in them sustaining injuries, although they were shaken considerably. The structural iron of the bridge was twisted and broken but the piers were not damaged.
Contributed by Rita Osborne #47817349 02/19/2014
Railroad Men Killed After Instructions to Cross Structure Weakened by a Former Accident – Scores Were Rescued.
Aticca, Ind., April 6. – Three persons were killed and about 40 others injured, some seriously, when the eastbound Wabash passenger train No. 4, known as the Continental Limited, was wrecked when the bridge over the Wabash river, just west of here, gave way. The engine, a baggage car and the day coach dropped into the water.
When the cars left the bridge the day coach, which was crowded, fell with the rear end out of the water and, though the majority of the injured were in this car, none of them was killed. The car partly had settled in the water before the work of rescuing the passengers was commenced and in a few minutes all had been taken out. They were taken to a hospital at Lafayette on a special train.
Bridge Tested Before Wreck.
The railroad's bridge over the Wabash river was weakened earlier in the day when a freight train was wrecked upon the structure, and the Continental Limited was stopped on the west side when it reached the place. A switch engine was sent across the bridge to determine whether the structure would hold the fast passenger train. Railroad officials believed it safe and the limited was ordered to proceed.
The train crept out on the bridge slowly and when about a hundred feet out upon the structure the bridge gave way beneath the weight of the train. The engineer was caught under his engine and crushed to death. The fireman, who jumped, was scalded to death.
Three men were killed, two from Peru, and thirty-one persons were injured, some seriously, in a wreck on the Wabash railroad at Attica, Ind., Sunday afternoon, when the engine, mail car and combination baggage and coach went down with two spans of the bridge which crosses the Wabash river at that point. The dead and injured follow:
TIMOTHY HULL, Peru, Ind., engineer
JACOB MILLER, Peru, Ind., fireman
HARRY THOMAS, Huntington, Ind., expressman.
The Peru Injured:
George F. Blair, both arms and both legs sprained.
Ed. Riggle, Wabash employee, injury below right eye, chest bruised.
Joe Webb, porter, back sprained, right leg injured.
Two spans of the bridge, measuring 260 feet went down, presumably after the engine or one of the cars became derailed in some unknown manner. The engine landed on the east embankment with the tank immediately behind it. The mail and combination car fell into the river, leaving the ladies' coach over-hanging the second pier with the front end in the air. These three cars are all steel, which probably accounts for so few dead. The sleeping car and diner remained on the bridge on the rails, none of the passengers in them sustaining injuries, although they were shaken considerably. The structural iron of the bridge was twisted and broken but the piers were not damaged.
Contributed by Rita Osborne #47817349 02/19/2014
3 KILLED AS TRAIN PLUNGES IN RIVER - EASTBOUND WABASH LIMITED GOES THROUGH BRIDGE NEAR ATTICA, IN - FORTY PERSONS ARE INJURED
Railroad Men Killed After Instructions to Cross Structure Weakened by a Former Accident – Scores Were Rescued.
Aticca, Ind., April 6. – Three persons were killed and about 40 others injured, some seriously, when the eastbound Wabash passenger train No. 4, known as the Continental Limited, was wrecked when the bridge over the Wabash river, just west of here, gave way. The engine, a baggage car and the day coach dropped into the water.
When the cars left the bridge the day coach, which was crowded, fell with the rear end out of the water and, though the majority of the injured were in this car, none of them was killed. The car partly had settled in the water before the work of rescuing the passengers was commenced and in a few minutes all had been taken out. They were taken to a hospital at Lafayette on a special train.
Bridge Tested Before Wreck.
The railroad's bridge over the Wabash river was weakened earlier in the day when a freight train was wrecked upon the structure, and the Continental Limited was stopped on the west side when it reached the place. A switch engine was sent across the bridge to determine whether the structure would hold the fast passenger train. Railroad officials believed it safe and the limited was ordered to proceed.
The train crept out on the bridge slowly and when about a hundred feet out upon the structure the bridge gave way beneath the weight of the train. The engineer was caught under his engine and crushed to death. The fireman, who jumped, was scalded to death.
Three men were killed, two from Peru, and thirty-one persons were injured, some seriously, in a wreck on the Wabash railroad at Attica, Ind., Sunday afternoon, when the engine, mail car and combination baggage and coach went down with two spans of the bridge which crosses the Wabash river at that point. The dead and injured follow:
TIMOTHY HULL, Peru, Ind., engineer
JACOB MILLER, Peru, Ind., fireman
HARRY THOMAS, Huntington, Ind., expressman.
The Peru Injured:
George F. Blair, both arms and both legs sprained.
Ed. Riggle, Wabash employee, injury below right eye, chest bruised.
Joe Webb, porter, back sprained, right leg injured.
Two spans of the bridge, measuring 260 feet went down, presumably after the engine or one of the cars became derailed in some unknown manner. The engine landed on the east embankment with the tank immediately behind it. The mail and combination car fell into the river, leaving the ladies' coach over-hanging the second pier with the front end in the air. These three cars are all steel, which probably accounts for so few dead. The sleeping car and diner remained on the bridge on the rails, none of the passengers in them sustaining injuries, although they were shaken considerably. The structural iron of the bridge was twisted and broken but the piers were not damaged.
Contributed by Rita Osborne #47817349 02/19/2014
Railroad Men Killed After Instructions to Cross Structure Weakened by a Former Accident – Scores Were Rescued.
Aticca, Ind., April 6. – Three persons were killed and about 40 others injured, some seriously, when the eastbound Wabash passenger train No. 4, known as the Continental Limited, was wrecked when the bridge over the Wabash river, just west of here, gave way. The engine, a baggage car and the day coach dropped into the water.
When the cars left the bridge the day coach, which was crowded, fell with the rear end out of the water and, though the majority of the injured were in this car, none of them was killed. The car partly had settled in the water before the work of rescuing the passengers was commenced and in a few minutes all had been taken out. They were taken to a hospital at Lafayette on a special train.
Bridge Tested Before Wreck.
The railroad's bridge over the Wabash river was weakened earlier in the day when a freight train was wrecked upon the structure, and the Continental Limited was stopped on the west side when it reached the place. A switch engine was sent across the bridge to determine whether the structure would hold the fast passenger train. Railroad officials believed it safe and the limited was ordered to proceed.
The train crept out on the bridge slowly and when about a hundred feet out upon the structure the bridge gave way beneath the weight of the train. The engineer was caught under his engine and crushed to death. The fireman, who jumped, was scalded to death.
Three men were killed, two from Peru, and thirty-one persons were injured, some seriously, in a wreck on the Wabash railroad at Attica, Ind., Sunday afternoon, when the engine, mail car and combination baggage and coach went down with two spans of the bridge which crosses the Wabash river at that point. The dead and injured follow:
TIMOTHY HULL, Peru, Ind., engineer
JACOB MILLER, Peru, Ind., fireman
HARRY THOMAS, Huntington, Ind., expressman.
The Peru Injured:
George F. Blair, both arms and both legs sprained.
Ed. Riggle, Wabash employee, injury below right eye, chest bruised.
Joe Webb, porter, back sprained, right leg injured.
Two spans of the bridge, measuring 260 feet went down, presumably after the engine or one of the cars became derailed in some unknown manner. The engine landed on the east embankment with the tank immediately behind it. The mail and combination car fell into the river, leaving the ladies' coach over-hanging the second pier with the front end in the air. These three cars are all steel, which probably accounts for so few dead. The sleeping car and diner remained on the bridge on the rails, none of the passengers in them sustaining injuries, although they were shaken considerably. The structural iron of the bridge was twisted and broken but the piers were not damaged.
Contributed by Rita Osborne #47817349 02/19/2014
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