Odin, IL Train Wreck, Mar 1892

Injured In A Wreck.

Disastrous Collision At A Railway Junction.

Cincinnati, Ohio, March 23.-The Ohio and Mississippi train from St. Louis, due here this morning, arrived several hours late owing to a wreck at Odin, Ill., where the Illinois Central Road crossed the Ohio and Mississippi.

While the Ohio and Mississippi train was crossing the Illinois Central tracks, a freight train on that road tore through it, carrying away the day coach and the front end of the sleeper. There were seventeen passengers in the day coach, all of whom were injured. It was at first thought some were fatally hurt, but later investigation shows they will all recover.

A passenger who was in the day coach says:
“The Illinois Central train tore right through ours. The engineer must have been asleep. His train was made up of seven loaded cars and thirteen empty, which certainly was not an uncontrollable train. The day coach, just behind the smoking car, was shattered, and the sleeper behind that was badly shaken up, but no one in the sleeper was injured.

Everybody in the day coach was more or less hurt. The engineer of the Illinois Central had presence of mind to put out his fire, and thus prevented a conflagration. The injured who were not able to travel were cared for at Odin. Most of them continued their journey.”

Injured

H.B. ANDREWS, Lawrenceburg, Ind., injured about the head.
HENRY FERRIMAN, Olney, Ill., leg hurt.
A.C. FRANCHER, Troy, Ill., seriously.
W.R. HOAGLAND, Chicago, hand cut.
MRS. O.R. JENKINS, Flora, Ill., temple cut.
CHARLES K. LEPPER, Washington, Ind., right arm and shoulder hurt.
R.N. MCCONLEY, Olney, Ill., left side and head.
R. MCCLURE, Salem, Ill., slight injury.
A.H. MOORE, Indianapolis, right leg hurt.
MRS. L.W. MYERS, Elk City, Kan., left arm and head cut.
MISS M L. ROBINSON, Virginia, slightly.
CHARLES RUTLEDGE, Switzerland, Ind., head.
JAMES A. SCUDDER, Terre Haute, Ind., slightly.
M.V. THOMPSON, Ohio and Mississippi fireman, head cut.
J.H. WARD, Lawrenceville, Ind., head and face cut.
S.O. WICKLIN, Fairfield, Ill., slightly.
R.F. WIRES, Lancaster, Ohio, slightly.

The Illinois Central engineer claimed that he could not control his train.

The New York Times, New York, NY 24 Mar 1892
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