Auteur: Steve Shook
Beschrijving:
Head-on Wreck on the Panhandle Railroad
Hebron, Indiana
Date: October 1903
Source Type: Photograph
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: C. H. Hathaway
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: A head-on collision between two trains traveling on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, more commonly referred to as the Panhandle Railroad, that occurred at 6:15 am on October 18, 1903.
The collision took place just east of the town of Hebron, Indiana. The New York-to-Chicago No. 1 Panhandle passenger train was traveling in two sections. Charles Truman was the engineer of the second section of this passenger train and had the right-of-way. Ira Ford, the engineer of an eastbound freight train, had taken to a siding to wait for the passenger train to pass. After the first section of the westbound passenger train passed, Engineer Ford pulled out of the siding having forgotten that the second section of the passenger train had yet to pass.
Both trains were running under a full head of steam, resulting in a spectacular collision. All the crewman, except Engineer Truman, leaped from their trains prior to the impact. Truman was discovered in the wreck with a broken leg and bruised face. Chester Stanley, a tramp riding on one of the freight trains, was also injured. Both of the injured men were taken to Logansport, Cass County, Indiana, for treatment of their injuries. Both died the following day. Engineer Ford sustained severe injuries to both of his legs as a result of leaping from his locomotive.
Some accounts of this collision state that a second tramp was instantly killed by flying pieces wreckage and that he was never identified, his remains laid to rest in the Hebron Cemetery. Research concerning this collision has been unable to verify the casualty of this second tramp. Note that the date of this wreck has been widely published as having taken place on October 23, 1903; this date is incorrect, the wreck took place on October 18, 1903.
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