The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-10-27
Ran Road Accident.

Rail ROad Accident.-We find the
following particulars of the Railroad
accident, below Carey a short account
Of which we gave last week in the
Cincinnati Gazette.
Mr.. William Wiltshire, a citizen Of
this city, and a Director of the above
road, has given US an account OF the
accident whereby two men lost their
lives. and a locomotive and several
cars were smashed TO pieces, on last
Wednesday midnight, on the Cincin-
natl. Sandusky & Cleveland Railroad.
He saws that at 11:45, Wednesday
night, the night express from san
dusky to Cincinnati, crossing a cattle
guard, on the south side Of a county
road, five miles this side Of Carey, in
the edge of Richland township,
WyandOt county, jumped the track
suddenly without warning whistle
from the locOmtive. The locomotive
was badly used up; the tender was a
complete wreck. Under it lay two
brothers, Kuhn Scheifier and Conrad
Scheifier, the only human victims Of
Of the disaster, horribly mutilated.-
Their bodies were extricated, dead,
but warm. The former was engineer,
and leaves . wife and seven children;
the latter was a firemen, and was not
married. Both made their homes in
Sandusky.
Next the tender were three express
cars. The first of these lay square
across the track, both trucks detach-
ed, and formed the only part Of the
wreck lying on the right hand side of
the track. The second and third ex-
press cars were off the track on the
left side-the foremost upset, the third
one careened. The first two were Ia
den with lake fish, and the last one
with grapes. Their contents We're
scattered. The baggage car, which
was fourth from the locomotive, was
but lust started from the track, and
into the rear of it the head of the first
passenger car was driven. Of the
other passenger car and sleeping car
not even the couplings were broken.
No one of the passengers-and all
three of the cars were full-was hurt.
How the accident happened the
ones who could tell were hushed in
death. Certain circumstances excite
the suspicion that most villainous
malice was at the bottom of it. There
were indications that tie was drop
ped into the cattle guard leaning to-
ward the coming train, and projecting
an inch or two above the track. The
plowed up earth at the bottom of the
guard where the end of the tie rested,
the much bent rail in front of the
guard, the tie itself cut with car
wheels, bruised and torn and thrown
several feet in front of the guard,
and the place in the pile of ties on
the side of the road from which
the fatal tie was taken, all point to
michievous design and indicate that
it was felonously placed in position to
throw the train off.
The train was moving slowly; the
road at this point is straight and well
ballasted, and the ties are good. No
reason can be given for the accident
other than the one suspected. No AK
les were broken. No machinery
about the locomotive was broken eX-
cept by the fall from the track.
The bodies of the men killed, were
taken to Sandusky for interment on
Thursday evening. When removed
from under the engine, they presented
a horrible sight. One was literally
bursted open and crushed in front,
and the other had a large hole in his
forehead, his face was severely cut
and in the left side of his abdomen,
was a hole larger than mans fist
OF course both met with instant
death. Foul play is suspected in this
case but nothing definite has been
found against any parties yet.
Sunday last, the wreck was taken
to Sandusky City; and the cars were
as badly smashed as it was possible for
them to be.