Waterloo, Indiana Train Wreck
March 21, 1917
ENGINEER IS KILLED AND FIREMAN FATALLY
INJURED.
COACHES DERAILED
Fast Train on Lake Shore Main Line Figures
in Wreck Near Waterloo This Morning.
 TOLEDO,
O., March 21.---Engineer
Storer, of
Toledo, was killed and Fireman
Moulton,
also of Toledo, was injured when westbound New
York Central passenger train No. 19, ran into
thirteen derailed freight cars two miles east of
Waterloo, Ind., at 11:50 today.
(Special to the News.)
WATERLOO, Ind., March 21.---A fast east
bound through passenger train on the Lake Shore
air line crashed into a derailed freight train a
short distance east of Waterloo shortly before
the noon hour, killing the engineer, fatally
injuring the fireman and inflicting injuries on
a half score of passengers.
The dead:
ENGINEER STORER,
of Toledo, instantly killed.
The injured:
CHARLES MOULTON, Toledo, fireman, dying at
Garrett hospital.
ALFRED STRACK,
traveling man, Chicago, will
live.
MR. ARTHUR SISHEL, Atwood, S.D., will live.
MRS. H. M. MOSSATT, San Francisco, condition
critical.
H. A. VALENTINE, San Francisco, seriously hurt.
DR. F. E. DRAKE, Norway, Maine, will recover.
CONDUCTOR CALVIN SUMMITT was in charge of the
wrecked passenger train.
Four of the coaches were derailed by the impact
of the collision sliding off their trucks, but
remaining right side up. One of the steel cars
was thrown sixty feet from the tracks, but did
not overturn and none of the passengers riding
in it was injured beyond painful bruises, due to
being thrown violently against the sides of the
car or to the floor.
The freight had been derailed but a few minutes
when the passenger train crashed into it before
flagmen sent out to stop the fast train could
signal it.
The injured engineer and passengers were rushed
aboard a special interurban car into Garrett to
the Sacred Heart hospital, where
Lolten’s
death is certain.
The Fort Wayne News, Fort Wayne IN, 21 Mar
1917
Transcribed by
Loraine Jordan. Thank you, Loraine!
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