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From the "Auburn Daily Advertiser," Thursday, September 22,
1910, Auburn, N.Y. Cayuga County, page 2, I think this might be the wreck you are
referring to: I am doing some work in this paper and had just happened across it, so
remembered it when I saw your query.
(The short notice of the accident is on page one):
Fort Wayne, Ind. Sept. 22 - The most disastrous wreck in the history of interurban
electric railroading in the Middle West occurred yesterday afternoon near Kingsland, Ind.,
and claimed a toll of 42 dead and a score injured, at least six of whom will probably die.
The dead: W.E. Bowman, Bluffton; A.E. Hyde, Pennville; S.E. Stuckey, Vera Cruz; William S.
Beers, Bluffton; Lloyd Brown, Bluffton; L.C. Justus, Bluffton, general manager Bluffton,
Geneva & Celina Traction line; S.H. Robinson, Bluffton; H.D. Cook, Bluffton; Ernest
Crouse, Bluffton; Silas Thomas, Warren; Ralph Walser, Bluffton; W.D. Burgan, Bluffton;
Oscar Zimmer, Bluffton; Miss Pearl Sayler, Bluffton; R.F. Ford, Washington, Ind.; Jacob
Swartz, Uniondale; F.B. Tamm, Warren; John W. Tribolet, Bluffton; Charles Reber,
Uniondale; Blanche Archbold, Ossian; Thomas Gordon, Bluffton; Frank King and wife, Warren;
Son of Lloyd Brown, Bluffton, Harold Nelson, Bluffton; John Johnson, Markle; Jesse
Hoffman, Marion; Dr. S.E. Thom!
pson, Ann Arbor, Mich; Mrs. Hiram Folk, Bluffton; Mrs. Myrtle Harley, daughter of Mrs.
Folk; Mary Daugherty, Bluffton; Daniel Debach, Petroleum, Ind.; J.E. Swartz, Bluffton;
Joseph Sawyer, Bluffton; John Smith and wife, Montpelier; Joe.......(no name inserted)
piano polisher, Bluffton; John Reed, Battery E., Fifth Artillery, New York; Two
unidentified men; Unidentified woman.
Most of the victims were pleasure seekers from Bluffton and Warren, Ind., en route to the
Fort Wayne fair. Twenty-five of them were dead before the dust and splinters of the
wrecked cars had settled. Others died in the wreck before they could be released and three
expired during the late afternoon on the operating tables in St. Joseph Hospital in Fort
Wayne.
Have not noticed any further mention in this paper about further deaths or more about this
accident.
There is more in this article about how the accident happened, but since your request is
about the passengers who died, I will stop here. The main reason this article caught my
attention was because it happened in Indiana, many of my ancestors were in and around
Wells, Henry, Wayne and Hamilton Counties in the 1800's and early 1900's, whose
surnames were Eilar/Laudig/Raber/Weaver/Miller/Jacobs among others. I usually stop to read
anything with Indiana headings in any paper. There is as you notice one person surnamed
"Reber," in this list and our line often sees that spelling too.
Hope this helps
Mary Gilmore