Iron County register., 1883-08-09
WRECKED ON THE RAIL.
A Frightful Accident on tho Rome, Wa
tertown & ogdensburg Railroad-Sixteen
People Killed.

a Frightfu1 Accident on tho Rome, Wa
tertown & ogdensburg Rai,road-Sixteen
People Killed.
ALBION, N. Y, July %.
Eleven mangled bodies lay around the
floor this afternoon of the little depot
of Carlton Station, upon the Rome, Water
town & Ogdensburg Railway, located eight
miles northwest of Albion, in Orleans
County. Last evening 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 switch on the main
track. Here it remained. At 9:40 o'clock
Nasara Fas e sna ssnd
causing one of the most fright
full wrecks that has happened in this
portion of the State for many years. The
hour, and as it passed the station the head
engineer the obstruction, blew for
brakes, and with his fireman jumped as
the train struck the car. The forward en-
gine plowed off the track on 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
upon the track; all of them said to have
been well filed, and it is a wonder how SO
many as did escaped with their lives. The
passengers were thrown into heap of
crushed tilnbers and mass of bleeding
corpses. From the wreck, enveloped in
darkness and drenched in rain, means and
groans went up, mingled with pltlful ap-
peals for help. Men, women and children
were plunged beneath the overturned cars
in an indescribable mass of mangled hui
,manty, and from the wreck the white
hands of ladies and the limbs of chill
dren protruded in such a manner
as to make most s1ckemng sight.
The following are the names of those who
pershed 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
ensneeT, ens eT"ap 0swego VIM "es haear Say
City, Mich; Ashley Tyler, Camden, n. Y;
Thos. StelIs, Watertown, N. Y: Q. B.
Troop, Schoharie, N. Y; j. c. Schenck,
Gleveland, Vi ennr mrs Mccornic Gr'ify, Fs,oa oa
Eaton County, Mich: Louis J. Boos and
wife. Philadelphia; Thos. Dixon, Cleve-
land, o.
It is impossible to give a complete list of
of those persons now lodged with farmers:
Alice Jennison, Philadelphia; disloca-
ton of the hip and ankle.
Mrs. Prof. c. M. 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. ". T. Hall and daughter, of Lesley,
Mich. mother injured about the head and
daughter sustained severe spinal injuries.
Mary NJ. Throop, Schoharie Court House,
N. Y: legs bruised.
Alexander Lowar, Mendon, Mich; in
jured about the head.
Mrs. A. NJ. McKsster, Ireland, arm
broken.
Mrs. Dudley Salisbury, Battle Creek,
Mich: arm dislocated, throat bruised,
lungs crushed, cash in head.
Rev. E. D. Gould, Carthage, Mo-; deep
cut in head and generally bruised.
Miss Briggs, of Battle Creek, Mich; gen.
orally bruised removed to Lyndonville.