The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-06-28
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

Eight Persons Killed and Many Injured
The Victims Railway Employees.
PHILADELPHIA, June BY collision
with an excursion train on the Camden
road this morning, Engineers Palmer and
Baxter, Conductor Smith, Baggage-mas-
ter Vaughn, Mail Agent Wylie, and Fire
man Barber were killed. Many persons
were injured. The excursion party were
of the Camden Presbyterian Church.
PHILADELPHIA, June 14.-Frank Fen
ton, supervisor of the road and g.
Edwards were also killed on the At
lantic Road accident. The crash was
caused by the non reception of tele-
graphic dispatches. Both engines
smashed. The following were
injured: Henry Deets, scalded, hip
broken; Leonard Bausch, badly
scalded; Frank Mccormick, leg
broken and scalded; John Caskey,
slightly injured; VIM. Caskey, internal
ly injured, cannot live; Joseph Rosen-
baum, express agent, badly injured
about back and head; AL. Glen, con-
ductor, injured internally: Cora May
Lippincott and brother Eugene, were
slightly injured. They were placed
under immediate medical attend
ance and removed to Camden.
One passenger says: After the collision
all scrambled out of the car, some by
the windows. Both locomotives were
demolished and escaping steam made it
impossible for some time for any one to
approach within fifty feet of the wreck.
Great excitement existed among the
people in the two trains, especially
among the women and children.
PHILADELPHIA, June 14.-When the
news reached Camden, special train
was made up and dozen physicians
departed for Ashland. A wrecking train
was also sent.
Ashland, the point where the collision
occurred, III considered the worst on the
line. It is about two miles from Had
donfeld and one mile from Ashland,
with heavy down grade and curve in
both directions. In the middle of the
Cooper's Greek. There is only
with light embankment on either side.
The accommodation was running at the
rate of twenty-five miles an hour when
it entered the curve, and after the two
trains came together the utmost confus-
ion prevailed among the passengers.
The first man taken oat was John
ROsenbaum, express agent of the accom-
mediation train. He was terribly cut on
the head, face and hands. He was found
with lot of debris covering him, and
was extricated with difficulty.
The body of Fireman Nicholas Barber
was next discovered under the wrecked
tender, terribly mangled. Fireman
Louis McClain was conscious, but was
terribly scalded and his head swollen
twice its normal condition.
Brakeman J John Lager was hurled from
the baggage car into pool of water and
mud.
Mail Agent Wylie crawled out from
under the debris, saying, "Here l am"
He was found shockingly lacerated. His
death occurred in very short time.
Among the more seriously injured
passengers are John and Willie Caskey,
the former aged IL. Johns face is badly
cut; his brother Willie will die.
The supervisor of the road, Frank
Fepton, was taken out after laborious
work of two hours. He was terribly
mangled, and did not survive long.
At the moment of the collision Con-
ductor Smith was counting tickets at
the front of the car. At this instant,
also, Supervisor Dale, who was in the
third car, jumped to the platform and
assisted number of children and older
folks to escape through windows.
The work of clearing the road has not
yet been accomplished.