Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-12-28
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

CINCINNATI, Dec ia collision occurred
yesterday morning few minutes after 9
o'clock on the Little Miami railroad, near
Kings Station, thirty miles northeast of Gin
cinnal The fast express known as No. 4 left
here at 8 o'clock, expecting to pass the west
here and Fosters Crossing. The instruc-
tons to the engineer were, in the event he
did not meet No. on the double track,
which ends at Fosters Crossing, to wait there
tw 3nty minutes. No 5 should have been here
before No. left, but she was two and half
hours behind time. The orders to the engin-
eer of No. f. whose name was Peters, seem to
have been misunderstood. Instead of waiting
at Foster's for the down express for tw enty min
utes and hen three minutes more, accord
ing to the rule of the road, to allow for varia-
ton Of watches, he inquired for orders at Fos-
ter's, and, finding there were none, pulled out
upon the single track and started towards
Kings Station at the rate of thirty miles an
hour. When within less than two miles Of
Kings Station, and while rounding smoky
Curve" the down express was seen coming
under full heaawaya few hundred feet distant
The fremen both jumped from the engines
and escaped without serious injury Engineer
Peters, upon whom the blame of the collision
falls, stuck to his engine and was instantly
killed. The up-train, No. 4, had one postal
car with a crew Of four men, and No. 5. was
drawing two postal-cars with a combined
crew of ten. Of these three cars there is
nothing left but some kindling- wood
w. Il. Wharton, who was i'll the up-car, was
killed. timber struck him on the lead split
ting it completely in two. H. H. Hanover and
Adam Goekel, postal clerks in the same car,
received severe INJURIES Hanover was bruised
on the head and body, and badly scalded.
Goekel was scalded and had one leg crushed
He was sub, and was out on his first trip
J: 9. McIahon, Mr.. Hollingshead, Harry
Madison noSfal plarlE In,
injured. W. W. Kicker, William Lowe, j. W.
Lingo and G. G. Kendell, postal clerks, escaped
without a scratch. None of the passengers
were hurt The engines were both
new, and are both total wrecks. The
baggage and express cars were tele-
singularly enough, none of the coaches left the
track or were telescoped- The force of the
collision was expended on the engines and
postal, baggage and express cars. The news
that such was the case relieved much anxiety
here, many well-known people in Cincinnati
being among the passengers. Among them
was MIR. Edmund II. Pendeton, president Of
the May Festival association, and d brother of
Senator Pendleton. The Kiralfy Brothers ele-
plant was In the baggage-ear, and was re-
ported to have been killed, but su h was not
the case. The car assuming a position after
the accident that made him uncomfortable, he
began to burst out one end of it, and soon had
the whole end of the car out, when he walked
out of the wreck, and after going upon the
track, turned round to look at the ruins out of
which he had emerged. The dead body of the
postal clerk, Wharton, was sent to Columbus,
and thence to his home in Urbana, this state
The dead engineer and all the injured wsre
brought to this city. Carriages We're in wait
ing at the depot, and they were all taken at
once to their homes and medical attendance
secured. 1t is not thought that any of the
clerks mentioned as hurt will die OF their in
juries, but it is too early to say positive
ly. The remains of Engineer Peters were
taken from the depot to his home in Columbus
on an accommodation train. He WAS single
man. As soon as he received news Of tho ac-
cident the dispatcher and Train Master
Skinner proceeded from Xena to the scene of
the wreck. They place the responsibility for
Peters