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Medora, IN Freight Train Splits Switch and Wrecks, June 1921

Posted January 1st, 2008 by Stu Beitler

TRAINMEN KILLED

FAST FREIGHT TRAIN SPLITS SWITCH IN INDIANA AND IS WRECKED.

Seymour, Ind., June 9 -- Three trainmen were killed and two others scalded by escaping steam when a fast Baltimore and Ohio freight train was wrecked at Medora, west of here. All of the trainmen lived in Seymour. The dead are:
Engineer HUGO FEISLER.
Fireman TOM HILL.
Brakeman HARRY McCULLEY.

Engineer MEDFORD DOWNING and Fireman WILLIAM HARDING, on the second engine of the train, were scalded and are in a serious condition.
The train, which was the fastest freight between Cincinnati and St. Louis, split a switch at Medora, and 17 cars of merchandise, including five cars of livestock, were piled up in the wreckage.

The Van Wert Daily Bulletin Ohio 1921-06-09
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Researched and Transcribed by Stu Beitler. Thank you, Stu!

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