The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-08-04
HORRORS! u }
Horrible Railroad Collision
in New York. ..
Fearful Destruction Of Life from
an Earthquake in Italy.

Ilsio9 occurred about 9 O'Clock last Satur
day evening on the Rome, WATERFOWL an'
Ogdensburg Railroad, near small station
> called Carlton or CMlyon, IN Orleans Coun
ty, n. Y, about teusmiles northwest Of Al
biOn There was II thunderstorm ragln-
l AT the time, with the wind blowing gal,
and the night intensely dark. The tran
was behind time and running at the rat,
of forty miles an hour, and consisted d
eight Pullman cars, one ordinary coach
and two baggage cars drawn by two loco
motives The collision was caused, ii il
lsnpposed, by the wind having blown q
freight car upon The track. Carlton is a
very out Of the way station and the pas
senger train did not stop there, but ran
through at II high rate OF speed. The
freight car was struck nj point thirty
rods cast Of the station, which is q small
and unprctentious structure. The locomO,
tive struck the freight car with terrible
force, and the crash was so terrific that
death and destruction were scattered broad.
cast without word of warning. The pas.
sengers were thrown INTO heap Of crushed
tlmbcrs and a mass Of bleeding COrpses
that begears description. AS soon as the
engineer Cf the first locomotive saw the
brakes" aud he and his fireman jumped,
thus saving themselves from serious inju-
ry. Their engine jumped the track and
remained in the ditch The second engine
turned complete somersault; the engi-
necr WAS so badly scalded that the hair fell
from his head and his finger mails dropped
off. He died at II o'clock next forenoon
The foreman, Louis France, was instantly
killed, and Archie Taylor, the baggageman
was also instantly killed. W. II. Cham
cy, the tram dispatcher, was badly bruised,
and that includes all the railroad men who
were killed or injured.
But the havoc among the passengers was
fearful The passenger coach was com
pletely crushed, and four OF the eight
sleepcrs were demolished 1t was dark, aa
already mentioned, and raining at the time,
and the nearest house to the place is four
miles, 80 that no help in the way of relicv.
ing those buried and imprisoned in the
debris or recovering the bodies OF the dead
could hc done Gn,i! IL "rccking train from
Lewiston and O>wcgo arrived al + O'Clock
IN the morning. The scene The day duvu
revealed was indcscr.bably hidcous The
wOrkmen would come to hand or foot
and continue to cNcayatc for hours before
reaching the trunk. The bodies were
taken to the station, and were laid in a
warehouse on the floor In double rows.
The sleeping blankets were used to
cover their disliguied forms. At evening
clcycn Of the dead bodies were still lying
on the spot where they were first placed,
and the undertakers procured caskets from
Rochester IN which the corpses were
placed This dead house, made of rough
boards and in which the dead bodies were
scattered around among agricultural i'm
PIGMENTS and stock of general merchan-
disc, was visited during the day, and as
long as 1t was light in the evening, by a
gang of country people, who seemed to
have no other motive than TO satisfy their
curiosity. Everything was done for the
injured that medical aid and careful nurs-
ing could do, but in many cases there was
no hope OF recovery. The bodies of many
of the killed were crushed beyond reCog-
milton, and the work of Identification was
slow.
The number of killed outright, accord
ing to latest accounts, ioots up nineteen,
and the badly injured about thirty.
The following are the more prominent
names that occur IN the list of the killed:
Hon, Thomas lIoyne, Chicago
Jane Carl, Lansing, Mich.
Prof c. W. Stone, Battle Creek, Mich.
Lhute j. Frances, Oswcgo, n. Y.
Willie Lafcver, Bay City, Mich.
Ashley lylcr, camden, n. !.
Thomas Stalls, WATERFOWL, n. Y.
O. b. Troop and granddaughter Mary
Troop, Schoharic, n. Y.
j. G. Schenck, Cleveland, OHIO.
Thomas Dixon, 2i9 Pearl street, Clcyc-
land, Ohio.
Two ladies with rings marked Cornclla
to Louisa and III. b. to c. VI. y, thought
to be Mrs. Booth, Bay City, Mich.
Mr.. J Worlley, Saline Mich
Henry Mccormick, Benton, Mich.
An unknown body, thought 10 he Mr.
Booth, Of Bay City.
IN Earthquake Horror.
About nine O'clock last Sunday evening
an earthquake occurred on the island Of
lschla, about seventeen miles southwest OF
Naples, Italy, by which II il estimated
over , GOO ppOnlp lost Their lives The I