Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-10-17

Kice, wife and daughter, Phlladel
phia; Mrs. Garland and ten-years-o ole
daughter, Philadelphia; Louis Mon
geon, Buckingham, Canada, and al
infant daughter of Mrs. George A.
Jones, of Chalodo, Pa.
The following is list of the names
of the wounded, as far as can be ascer.
tanned: M. ID. Carlisle, express messen
ger, Detroit, collar bone broken; A. A
Bennett, baggage man, Detroit, badly
cut and bruised; William Buggy
Troy, VT, right leg and thigh crushed
Daniel Finn, Chicago, head cut and
bruised; S. M. Sparlin, Philadelphia,
cut on the head and hurt internally
Arthur Rogers, Philadelphia, cut and
bruised, not dangerous; Reuben Car.
ter, Gardner, ILL.,, hands cut and left
thigh broken; George Cunningham,
GAINESVILLE, Wis, left arm broken in
two places; Hor. Misdas, Canada, cut
and bruised; L. j. Parnell, st. Gather.
ines, Ont, left leg broken; Mrs. Z. j.
Parnell, ST. GATHERINGS, Ont, seriously
injured in head and knee; Mrs. j. K.
Parnell, Toronto, head cut; John jeff.
ries, Newark, head crushed, probably
fatal; Willie Rice, aged four, Phila-
delphia, leg broken, face cut, recovery
doubtful; father, mother and sister
all killed. Mrs. Laura A. Finley, Wal
worth, N. Y, bruised about the head
and face; Mrs. N. j. Warren, Ganges,
Mich. bruised about the back and shoul-
ders; ;HenryBurrows; Newfoundland, Pa.
cut in the head; Arandus Mosonnuve,
Frenchman, Buckingham, Can, severe
confusion on face and head; Palmas
Mosonnuve, Buckingham, Can, cut in
the head and leg; Delbert M. Benjamin,
Jersey Heights, n. j., hip, head and
lungs, slight; VIM. Brinney, Gait, Ont.
leg bruised; Mrs. A. M. Steel, Detroit,
leg sprained and body bruised; Mrs.
Thomas Clement, Lockport, N. Y, arm
and head badly cut, severely bruised in
back and head; Mrs. B. B. Hart, Clin-
ton, Ia, head cut severely; Robt. Neill,
Trenton, Can, injured in back and
body; Leopold Hoffman, Randolph,
Mass, cut head and foot; Mrs. Geo. A.
Jones, Chalodo, Pa, cuts and bruises
on head and left side, one of her chill
dren eighteen months old killed in
stantly, and another badly bruised in
the head. S. M. Sparklin, of Philadel-
phia, thinks his wife and two children,
aged four and six years, are among the
dead, but their bodies have not yet
been found. .
The engineer and fireman of the ex.
press train were literally torn to pieces,
but the engineer and fireman of the
switch engine escaped injury by jump
ing from the engine. The train was
made up of seven Wagner sleepers,
four passenger coaches and mail and
baggage cars. The tender of the
express engine was telescoped into the
baggage car about half its length This
car in turn forced its way into the mail
car and these crowded the first passen.
ger coach to the right onto an embank.
ment and crushed back through the two
following.
The passengers in the first coach
were comparatively unharmed, the har.
vest of death being reaped in the sec
ond and third coaches. The fourth
coach escaped with slight damage, anC
none of the Wagner coaches were in.
jured. As near as can be ascertaineC
the accident was caused by the switch.
man having charge of making uI
freight trains at jackson Junction, oc
cupying the main track with his switch
engine and caboose with the under.
standing that the Pacific Express wa:
considerably behind time. The expires:
train, however, had made up nearly al
its lost time.