The Monon Collision

Friday's Ledger gave brief details of the fatal collision between North bound passenger train No. 6, and a freight engine two miles north of Mitchell on the 14th, at 10:05 in the forenoon. The killed and injured are as follows:. W. H. Dillard, New Albany, engineer of the passenger train, instantly killed, his body being horribly crushed and cut. His residence was on Pearl street hill, where he leaves a wife and three children. The body was brought to his home at 1:30 Friday night.. J. Benjamin Goedeker, of New Albany, fireman on the passenger train, crushed into an almost unrecognizable mass under his locomotive, and it was several hours before he could be gotten out from under the wreck. He leaves a wife and one daughter, a pupil at the High School. His residence was on East Sixth, bet. Spring and Market streets.. Charles Wright, mail agent, Orleans, Orange county, died in three hours from a fracture of the skull, which rendered him unconscious from the moment he received the injury.. The injured are as follows: Edward Fite, New Albany, engineer of the freight engine. He jumped from his engine but, falling into a ditch alongside the track, the wrecked and derailed cars, which turned over, caught him, holding his feet and leg so tightly that it was some time before he was released. It is thought he received internal injuries; it was at first though he was fatally hurt and his wife was telegraphed for and went to him at Mitchell, where he had been taken. He was, however, able to be removed to his home on East Elm stree, this city, last night. He has a wife and two children.. Lawrence B. Huckeby, Jr., fireman on Engineer Fite's engine, and who was the first to discover the oncoming passenger train, also jumped from the engine, landing over a wire fence in a field and received no other injury that a severe jolt....