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Litchfield, IL Train Wreck, Jul 1904

Posted November 9th, 2007 by Linda Houston

TWENTY PERSONS KILLED IN WRECK ON THE WABASH

Train Strikes an Open Switch at Litchfield, Ill., and Seven Cars Are Overturned.

List of Injured Numbers Forty-Five and the Train Is Burned.

St. Louis, Mo., July 3.-A special from Litchfield, Ill., says the Chicago limited on the Wabash railroad, due in St. Louis at 7 p. m., and half an hour late, was wrecked tonight inside the city limits.

The train struck an open switch and was overturned and seven of the nine cars were burned.

It is believed that twenty persons perished in the second and third coaches and that forty were injured.

The injured are being cared for in the St. Francis hospital in this city.

A partial list of the killed follows:

ST. PIERRE Y. BALD, Montreal, Can.

L. O. OESCHSTADT, 1064 South Albany avenue, Chiacgo.

MRS. C. F. LUTHER, Milwaukee.

DAN H. DAVIS, Decatur, Ill.

JOSEPH BARDER, delegate from North Dakota.

JAMES SANFORD, engineer, Decatur, Ill.

SAM SMITH, fireman, Decatur.

MRS. PERKINS, 57 Hunnan aveue, Chicago.

HON. I. F. MILLS, Decatur, Ill.

H. M. DIETRICH, Toledo, O.

REV. N. M. MILLS, Bridgeton, N. J.

R. A. DIETRICH, Chicago.

FLORENCE SMITH, Chicago.

HUGO PEERO, Montreal.

MISS HAKINS, Chicago.

HOWARD GROVES, train dispatcher, Decatur.

DANIEL H. DAVIS, Decatur.

Unknown boy, about 15 years old.

Injured: S. A. ASQUIVITCH, Waterloo, Ia., internally; WILLIAM ARCHIBALD, Honoye Falls, Ky.; GEORGE ARCHIBALD; WILLIAM BALLS, Chicago, fatally; MRS. CARDYOU, Milwaukee, internally; GLEASON S. ELLIS, Marshfield, Wis.; JAMES FIZZELL, Taylorville, Ill.; HARRY M. GASSAWAY, St. Louis; JOSEPH GREIN; ALOIS GEHREG: MRS. THERESA GEHREG, internally; MRS. ANNA KENYON, Kington, KY.; MRS GERTRUDE KITT, Chicago; MARY KITT, aged 10, burned; JOSEPH KUNUCHT, Chicago; S. LIVINGSTON, collector on train; G. S. MACOMBER, Perry, Ky.; MISS HULDAH NOCK, Arlington Heights, Ill.; HARRY RINK, Cincinnati; JAMES B. ROBERTS, Catlin, Ind.; E. H. ROSE, Riverside, Cal., internally; HARRY S. RUBENS, Chicago; J. S. SHRADER, Chicago; MRS. FRANK SMITH, Chicago; MISS FLORENCE SMITH, Chicago; MRS. ELIZABETH WEBER, Chicago, seriously but not fatally; CHARLES WARD, Chicago, left leg torn off at ankle, serious; W. B. THORP, Chester, Pa., slightly injured; MISS FANNIE TIPSON, badly bruised and internally hurt; MRS. B. F. TENNEY, Ada, Minn., hurt internally; B. F. TENNEY, Ada, Minn., injured bones, sprained.

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