The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-11-28
Terrible Railroad Accident.

COLLISION near Lockland. o., on the Cincinnati
| Hamilton a'gd Dayton RaRroad-Fsve Person
Roasted Alive-TaceEUe Seriously Injured
Heart-rending Scenes.
| Cincinnati, November 81.
A terrible calamity occurred yesterday
morning ON the Cincinnati, Hamilton aud
Dayton Railroad, which is used in common
! by several roads, short distance above
Lockland, at about quarter to o'clock
The darkness of early morning was made
| impenetrable by dense fog.
| 1t happened that an extra freight train
OF thirty six cars was obliged to halt or
aud lorth and south of the bridge above the
Lookland station owing to the breaking OF
the engineers pilot.
The engineer sent back man to flag
the express train, which was following-a
combined eastern and northern express,
made up of passenger coaches of the Allan.
tic and Great Western Railroad, through
from New York, and of the Dayton and
Michigan Roads, from Detroit, connected
Al Dayton. The hagman's lights fer this
tr.in were discovered in good time, and it
was promptly halted.
Here, then, behind the freight train, and
within a couple of rods of the caboose, stood
the engine and train of ten cars. The
Dayton and Michigan sleeping car was the
last of the second train, and next to it was
the Dayton and Michigan passenger coach.
All the cars save the last were we'll filled.
In the last Car sat four ladies and two gen.
tlemen. One Of these gentlemen was Mr..
Allison the car builder the other was
Charles Jackson, of Boston
AS soon as the train halted, its conduc-
tor, William Ii. Slater, sent the fagman,
Theodore Cress, back with light, TO 90
as fast as he could, and stop the Hamilton
accommodation and freight, mixed, which
was following rapidly, and would soon be
up with them
Soon this train was heard approaching
sixteen cars, two of them passenger, and
the others heavy freight. The signal of
danger was seen, and the brakes whistled
down repeatedly but the momentum of
that heavy train on steep down grade
was Irresistible, and the engine plunged
headlong half its length into the stationary
Dayton and Michigan car.
The crash was terrible. Nearly all the
passenger cars We're driven into each other,
and many persons were severely injured.
The passengers in the sleeping car, except
MIR. Allison, who escaped, were jammed
among broken timbers The car took fire
from the head light or Car stove and the
unfortunate women, already fearfully
bruised, were literally roasted alive, and
with them Mr. jackson, above referred to,
who sacrificed his own life in the vain at
tempt to save theirs.
The screams of those not instantly killed
by the collision were heart rending. One
OF them got her head out of the car window,
but her body was held fast in the crushed
timbers, and In that position she with the
Others was consumed The ladies were
Misses Harriet, Rebeccp, Sarah and Elizabeth
Morgan, wealthy residents of New Orleans,
on their way from St. GATHERINGS, Canada,
where they had been spending the summer.
From the sleeping Car the fire spread rap
idly and CONSUMED all the cars of the train.
AS soon as possible the wreck was cleared
away, and the charred remains of the sleep
ing car passengers were extricated. Que
of the bodies had been decaptated by the
collision, and from another the limbs torn
off The other three were only mutilated
by fire.
The wounded from the other cars were
brought to the city as soou as possible.
The following is list of them, as far as
attainabie: .t
Richard Carr, Toledo, right arm broken;
john Weller, Waupekoneta, right side ribs
broken; Charles Shives, same place, right
knee and elbow injured; David Brown,
Boston, Mass. Commissions Of arms hip and
head; Christopher Hoffman, severe con
tusions of face and BODY: E. Goscraft. Day
ton; G. w. Cowden, Van Vert, and Mrs.
Cubertson, of Troy, all slightly Bruised
G. Haynes No. 42S George street, bruises
If the head Mrs. Jones colored, New York,
slightly bruised; Peter Cotter, New Jersey,
slightly bruised Miss Wender, Cincinnati,
severely cut in hip.