The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-08-10
WRECKED on THE RAIL.
a Frightful Accident on the Rome, Wa.
tertown & Ogdensburg Raiiroad-Sixteen
People Killed.

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ALBION. N. Y, July 20.
Eleven mangled bodies lay around the
foor this afternoon of the little depot
of Carlton Station, upon the Rome, Water
town & Ogdensburg Railway, located eight
miles northwest of Albion, i'm Orleans
County. Last evening a fearful wind. rain
| and thunderstorm ragged in that section of
the State, doing considerable damage. At
| Carlton Station freight car was standing
upon side-track, and was blown by the
wind about 100 feet to a switch on the main
track. Here it remained. At $40 o'clock
last evening the express running between
Niagara Falls and Thousand Islands,
dashed into this freight car,
causing one of the most fright
full wrecks that has happened in this
portion of the State for many years. The
train was making about twenty miles an
hour, and as it passed the station the head
engineer saw the obstruction, blew for
brakes, and with his fireman jumped as
the train struck the car. The forward en-
CINE plowed off the track OH the south,
the second on the north, turning over on
their sides, where they were ground and
broken into pieces. The destruction which
followed beggars description. Besides the
engine, the two baggage cars, day coach
and four sleeping cars were ditched and
terribly wrecked Four cars remained
been well filled, and it is wonder how so
many as did escaped with their lives. The
passengers were thrown into a heap of
crushed timbers and a mass of bleeding
corpses. From the wreck, enveloped in
darkness and drenched in rain, means and
groans went up, mingled with pitiful APP
peals for help. Men, women and children
were plunged beneath the overturned cars
in an indescribable mass of mangled hui
lnanity, and from the wreck the white
hands of ladies and the limbs of chill
Gren protruded in such n manner
as to make most sickening sight.
The following are the names of those who
persisted in the wreck: Birnie Bostwick,
of Carlton; Thos. Hayne, Chicago, ILL.,;
Jane Z. Carl, Lansing, Mich; Prof. c. w.
Stone. Battle Creek Mich; Lutte j. Fran
ces, fireman, Oswego: James Mccarthy,
engineer, Oswego; VIM. Lafeure, Bay
City, Mich; Ashley Tyler, Camden, N. v;
Troop, Schoharie. N. Y; j. c. Schenck,
Cleveland, o. Mrs. ]. C. Wortley, Sa-
lima, Mich; Henry Mccormick, Benton,
Eaton County, Mich; Louis j. Boos and
wife, Philadelphia; Thos. Dixon, Cleve-
land, o.
It is impossible to give complete list of
the injured. The following are the names
Alice Jennison, Philadelphia; dislOca-
ton of the hip and ankle.
Mrs. Prof. c. NJ. Stone, Battle Creek,
Mich; fracture Of the forearm, and other.
wise bruised.
Mrs. Josephine Lefevre, Bay City, Mich;
left leg broken in two places, four ribs
broken and breast crushed in.
Mrs. r. C.. Munda, of Bay City, Mich;
badly injured internally.
Mrs. W. 7. Hall and daughter, of Lesley,
Mich; mother injured about the head and
daughter sustained severe spinal injuries.
Mary N. ThroOp. Schoharie Court House
n. "; legs bruised.
Alexander Lowar, Mendon, Mich; in
jured about the head.
Mrs. A. NJ. Mckaster, Ireland, arr
broken.
Mrs. Dudley Salisbury, Battle Greek,
Mich; arm dislocated, throat bruised,
lungs crushed, cash in head.
Rev. Z. d. Gould, Carthage, NO.; deep
cut in head and generally bruised.
Miss Briggs, of Battle Creek, Mich: gen.
orally bruised: removed to Lyndonville.