The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-01-04


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CLEVELAND, December 20. "A terrible
accident occurred at Ashtabula. Train
No 5, having"eleven cars, went Through
on an iron bridge down seventy FIVE feet,
to the river. The scene of the accident
is a few rods east Of the depot The iron
bridge spans Ashtabula creek, seventy
FIVE feet above the water On both sides
are high banks. Snow has been falling
almost constantly for forty eight hours,
and now driving snow storm is raging,
making it very difficult to get news from
the wrecked and burning train. Train
No, s, conductor Hem, left Erie for
Cleveland one hour late and neared the
bridge at Ashtabula about o'clock
Following is partial list ofthe wound
ed: Geo. w. Waite, Wife and son, of
Ashtabula, badly hurt; J. w. Martin,
wife and mother, thought to be from East
Avon, Livingstone county N. Y, fatally:
J. M. Mury, Of Hartford, Conn, iniur-
ed; w. H. Vasburg, Buffalo, N. Y, in
jured; H, w, Sheppard. Of Brooklyn, N.
Y, leg broken; Barnard Sawyer, of White
Hall, slightly bruised; Thos. c. Wright,
Nashville, Tenn, slightly; H. T. Brew
ster, Rochester, N. Y slightly; Robert
Monroe, Rutland Mass. badly hurt; Ed
ward Trueworthy, Oakland, Cal, badly
hurt; it is feared Mr.. Trustworthy's wife
and daughter are both killed. R. Austin,
Chicago, bruised slightly; the Mrs. Lees
mentioned as from Rochester New York
is now thought is from Delaware.
1922 P, M.-The storm at Ashtabula
has somewhat abated. The weather is
fast growing colder. 1t seems the falling
train aud bridge mashed the ice in the
creek and those not killed by the fall or
burned up by burning cars were held
down by the wreck and drowned before
they could be extrcated. Many too will
be or have been frozen. All the large
hearted citizens Of Ashtabula are at the
wreck and as many as can are working
to rescue those not already claimed by
death, while hundreds of strong arms
and steady brains stand ready to relieve
those who become exhausted with the
toll. The work goes on very slowly.
Many liken the scene and the difficulties
tn rescuing the bruised and mangled
ones to the Angola horrors of a few
years ago. at this time we are una
BILE to learn the name of a single one of
the killed except the little babe of Mrs.
Bradley. 1t is known that there were a
large number of eastern people on the
| illfated train. 1t is said that eleven
coaches were all we'll filled. The ex-
press messenger ofthe American Express
Company is missing. The local agent
at Ashtabula fears he is smong the kill
ed.
lip. MA special train with physi-
clans, nurses and everything for the COM
fort ofthe wounded at the wreck left the
Union Depot at ten o'clock.
1t is estimated that there were one hun
dred and seventy five on the illfated train
AT least one third of those were killed,
burned to death or frozen. The train
was drawn by two engines, One engine
remained on the bridge. Everything
else went down. The engineer and fire.
man on the engine that went down were
badly but not seriously injured. The
work of removing the dead still goes on
very slowly.
I2:4o A. Mas near as can be ascer-
tained fifty two persons were wounded.
How many escaped unhurt is impossible
to find out. At this hour it is reported
that the fire is still burning but going
down fast
/ AsHTABULA, 0, December 3o,-Only
as the friends Of those on the ill fated
train began to arrive here and prosecute
the search the extent of the calamity be-
gins to be known. The sum total ofthose
lost will not possibly be known for some
time. The entire train, baggage, mail
and passenger cnrs have been burnt up
Those who have been killed are now
classed among the missing, and there is
positively nothing by which large num-
Der can be identified except by here and
there leg and perhaps Charred trunk.
Seventy bodies have been taken out of
the river already, With strange like fa-
tallty was the Buffalo sleeping car, and
as in the Angola accident, this car and
all its inmates were destroyed, 1t is i'm
possible now to give an accurate list of
the killed and wounded, but the follow
ing are among the unfortunate:
A daughter of DR.. Mexen, Mr.. Mar
vim, travelling agent for Brine, sons and
Co., J. Barnard, D. J. Pickerna, tele-
graph operator, and his child, and Mrs.
Childs. Up to 3P. M IS bodies had
been removed from the wreck, including
20 trunks with no limbs on them, and no
way to recognize them. No one could
suspect they had ever been human be-
ings.