Terre Haute, Indiana Train Wreck
September 23, 1910
WRECK SERIOUSLY INJURES FOUR; ONE FATALLY
HURT
Passenger Train and Extra Freight Crash Near
Terre Haute – Confusion of Orders Possible
Cause.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Sept. 23. – Northbound
Southern Indiana passenger train No. 204
collided with an extra freight one mile south of
Terre Haute tonight.
JOHN CORNUTT, engineer on the
passenger train, was fatally injured. Four
others were seriously and a dozen painfully
injured. It is said the wreck was due to a
confusion of orders.
Besides Cornutt, who was crushed and scalded,
the most seriously injured are:
C.W. BOHLING,
fireman, internal injuries.
JESSE HAMMOND,
car repairer, internal injuries.
WILLIAM BROWHILE,
track worker, skull fractured.
I. CARPENTER,
car repairer, crushed internally.
The seriously injured were brought to St.
Anthony’s Hospital here, while others who needed
little attention went to their homes.
Prof. W.A. McBeth
of the Indiana State Normal School was caught in
the wreckage of the passenger train, but escaped
with a bruised leg.
The Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, IN 24
Sept 1910
TWO WRECK VICTIMS DIES.
Engineer and Car Repairer Succumb to Injuries
Received Near Terre Haute.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Sept. 25 –
John Cornutt,
engineer, and William
Burkebyle, car repairer, died in St.
Anthony’s Hospital today as a result of injuries
sustained in the wreck of a Southern Indiana
passenger train south of Terre Haute Friday.
Physicians said the other victims of the
collision would recover.
Coroner Leavitt
will begin his investigation of the cause of
the wreck tomorrow.
The Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, IN 26
Sept 1910
Transcribed by
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