Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-11
A FATAL CRASH.

An Excursion Train Collidcs With an Emp
ty Car Near Carlton, n. Y.-Twenty-fve
Persons Killed and Over Thirty Others
Severely injured.
ROCHESTER, N. V, July 30.
r News was received here early Saturday
morning of a terrible disaster on the Rome,
Watertown & Ogdensburg Railroad, near
Carlton, Friday night. AS the Thousand
Island train, which was running at high
speed OH the main line, neared Carlton,
the engineer noticed a single car stand
ing on the track ahead of him.
He at once put on the air-brakes and
reversed the lever of his engine, but before
the speed of the train could be slackened
the engine dashed into the obstruction, and
in an instant all was a scene of wreck and
confusion, and the air was filled with the
groans of the dying and injured. The engi-
neer, who hcroically remained at his post,
was fatally injured when the crash came.
The fireman, who stood by him till the last,
was instantly killed.
The car which caused the disaster was
blown OH the main line by the high wind
which prevailed at the time Of the accident.
The leading engine was thrown in the ditch,
and was not much damaged, but the second
engine was thoroughly broken UP.
The party of tourists on board the i'll
fated train was a large and merry one, and
just before the accident We're laughing and
talking over the enjoyment they expected
to have in visiting the Thousand Islands,
The engine struck the freight car with a ter
rible crash. and inamoment cars and passen-
gers were plunged into an indiscriminate
heap, envelOped in darkness, and drenched
with rain. Means and piteOus cries for help
came from the wreck. Appeals for assist
ance were sent to Lewiston and Oswego,
and a relief train was instantly forwarded.
Then began the dreadful work of eXtricat-
ing from the ruins the mangled bodies of
the dead and wounded. The work was
necessarily slow. While carrying off the
dead the workmen's ears were pierced with
the agoniZing cries of those in whom life
hearts sickened as they met the supplicat-
ing gaze of those too faint to utter their APP
peals.
The following are the names of the dead
and wounded, so far as known:
KILLED.
Thomas Hoyne, Of Chicago; Jane Carl, of
Lansing; Prof. c. W. Stone, of Battle Creek,
Lcfevrc, of Bay City, Mich; Ashley Tyler, of
daughter, Miss Mary NJ. Troop, OF schoharie;
J. G. Schenck and Thomas Dixon, or Cieveland;
Louis J. Boos, of LOS Pine St, Philadelphia;
Mrs. Boos, the wife OF the above: Mrs. j. c.
WtorptIey, of Saline Mich; Henry Mccormick,
of a Mir. Booth. of Bay City, Mich; Burnham
Hostwick, of Toledo; Thomas Stalls, colored,
young lady Of Leslie, Mich; 0NCrombe, resi-
dence unknown; = Adams, OF Chicago;
Mrs. Dover, OF Lansing.
INJURED.
Jane Care, Lansing, Mich; Mrs. Jcnnison, of
Philadelphia, hip broken: two ladies named
Hall fatally hurt: Trail. master Chunccy, of
Qswcgo, Fatally hurt; William Rockefeller, Of
Bay City, Mich, leg broken twice and ribs
and chest crushed, can not recover: Mrs. Il. V.
Mazda, Bay City, Mich, danghtsr Of II Nine.
Leslie, Mich, left arm crushed; Miss Briggs,
H Haltl G Gr,aftc Mich h. badly %rE 5Euise q h MiTS
SPINE severely injured; Miss; Alice
hip and ankle; Mrs. Prof.. c. ' ": Stone, Bat at
tie Creek, Mich, fracture of forehead. Sc
riously bruised; AlexanderT Towers, Meridian,
Mich, injured about the head; Mrs. Anna Nc
Master and daughter, Of Ireland, each an arm
Mich, hip dislocated, throat bruised, lungs
crushed, badly cut in head; Rev. E. S. Gould.
Carthage, Mo-, badly cut in the head, bruised
generally.
In several cases of the wounded 10 hope
of recovery is entertained. The bodies Of
many killed are crushed beyond recognition,
and the work of Identification is necessarily
slow. The COroner's Jury did not finish III
vestigating, and adjourned till next week.
A man who had lived but a few rods from
the scene Of the disaster had driven his son
to L%yndonville, three miles away to take the
train. The father got home just in time to
find him a corpse. The station agent at
Carlton asserts that lie set the brakes on the
freight car in the evening. 1t is not GER
tainly known whether the car was blown
along the side track upon which it stood to
the junction with the main tracks, where it
was when the train came and struck it. or
whether it was run to that point by some
malicious persons.
CHICAGO, July 30.
The startling intelligence was received in
this city Saturday evening that among the
killed in the terrible railroad disaster at
Carlton, N. Y, was Hon. Thomas Hoyne,
one of the foremost men in this community,
as well as one of the pioneer settlers in this
part of the country. There would seem to
be no possibility of the news happily PROV
ing untrue.
MI. Hoyne left here Thursday afternoon
by the Michigan Central Road for Niagara.
1t was his intention to proceed from there
to Ogdensbmg, N. Y, where he would take
the boat for Montreal. From there Mr..
Hoyne expected to 60 to the White Mount
aims, and then to Saratoga. He expected
to remain away three weeks, and had his
rooms engaged at the United States Hotel
at Saratoga.
MI. Hoyne was sixty-six years of age,
having been born in New York in 1917. He
became a resident of Chicago in 1887. and
was prominently connected with the affairs
OF the city until the day of his death. In
1876 he was elected Mayor of Chicago, but
owing to some technicality in the law, the
courts decided that the term of the previous
Mayor had not expired and MI. Hoyne re-
linquished the Office. His violent death
causes universal. sorrow.
Daring Attempt at Daylight Robbery.
Homer j. Smith, cashier of the National
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