The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-08-22
ANOTHER RAILROAD HORROR.

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Cincinnati 4 Sc. louis Railroad
Others InjursA.
A Pittsburgh pa special Of the 7th
to the Chicago Tribune gives the fol-
lowing account of the recent terrible
railroad slaughter at Mingo Junction,
Ohio:
Mingo Junction, . struggling village of If
teen or twenty houses, Is situated on the Ohio
River, just below the mouth of Cross Creek,
and about four miles west from steubenville,
frightful railroad accident, in which j. N. Nc
Cullough, General Manager of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, and several others, lost their
lives. A year later another smash-up occur
red, within . few rods of the former one,
which sent half . dozen manglcd and bleeding
added to the list this morning, far surpassing
either OF the preceding in the number OF
killed and injured. Most of the victims were
English and German immigrants who were ON
their way to the West.
break. A dense fog prevailed at the time,
which obscured the view and added to the
misery of the situation. The cause OF the
calamity Is attributed to Sterling, conductor
OF the freight train, who acknowledges that
ms watch stopped twenty minutes before the
caused an error in his calculation of time, and
fifty or more mangled bodies, many of them
hle'ess, Is the horrible result. The details
are as follows:
The fast line going west on the Pan Handle
kailIoad, which left Pittsburgh about mid
and LETT there seven minutes behind time. It
was composed of two pOstal-cars-One for
Cincinnati and one for st. Louisa baggage
car, an emigrant car, two ordinary cars and a
sleeper; This train was in charge of Con-
ductor Edward Morrill,, of Columbus, and, be-
Ing behind time, was running unusually fast.
At Mtngo Junction, ut 1 80 q. M, just after
passing Cross Creek, where the road leaves
the Ohio River, aud while rounding q sharp
cure on the west bank of the creek, the
train dashed with fearful velocity into freight
train No. -, Conductor Sterling, which
was on her time, the conductors watch, it is
said, having stopped twenty minutes without
his knowledge. The trains rushed together,
and fearful wreck ensued. Both engines
were demolished and thrown down an en-
was completely wrecked, three of the four in
mates killed and the others leg broken. The
second pOstal-car was more fortunate, being
only thrown down the embankment, where it
stands on end. All the inmates escaped with
slight wounds. The baggage-car was total
items. The emigrant car, in which the great
molished.
A large crowd soon gathered from the
country for miles around, coming in buggies,
wagons, on horseback and afoot. The people
set to work with will to extricate the
wounded, dead and dying. Everything was
done that could be done to alleviate the SUIT
ferings of the injured, who we're placed on a
special train and taken to Steubenville.
Both of the engines were broken, twisted
and wrecked so completely as to resem-
bic mass Of old iron. Very few in the EN-
igrant car escaped death or injury. The scene
Is tpdescribablc. The means of the dying
and sobs and screams of the living rose above
were seen in all directions. and in every every
degree Of mutilation. The injured added their
cries to the dreadful din, which pierced the,
soul like prolonged wall from the region of
lost spirits. Up to this time (nine p. n.y. flf-
teen have died, and several more cannot sur
vive till morning.
Among the killed are the following: T. d.
Graham, Head Postal Clerk on the Fast Line,
Of Cincinnati; w. r. johnson, Assistant
Local Mail Agent on the postal car, Clarke
burg, w. Va; Mrs. Anna Cullen, of Bridge
port, Conn. cher son, daughter-in-law and
granddaughter weSe badly injured); Pat
rick Cannon, Barren Hill, Montgomery
County, Pa; Bernard Miller, an emf
grant from Bremen, Germany; an UNI
known woman, large, feshy and with
the appearance of being German; Fred
Gross, Mannheim, Germany; John Curry,
whom was found the address of Miss Flenken,
No. 1853 Sheridan street, Allegheny: an un-
known German, with ticket from New York
to Cincinnati; John Dugan, engineer of the
passenger train, Burgettstown; Mary McDOn-
aid, London, Eng.