The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-06-20
A DEATH CRASH.

a Disregard for Orders Causes q Fatal
Railway Collision Near ashland, n. d.
A Train Loaded with Women and Chill
dren Run Into by an Accommodation.
Train Eight Employees Killed:
PHILADELPHIA, June 16.-There was 4
crash on the Camden & Atlantic Railroad
Saturday morning. Two trains came to-
gether with terrible force. Eight people
were killed, and of the nine wounded sew
eral will probably die. At $50 train of
three cars left Camden N. j., for Lakeside
Park with children from the Second Pres
byterian Church ON an excursion. At
seven o'clock an accommodation train of
Seven cars LEFT Atlantic City for Camden
and Philadelphia. The trains should have
passed at Ashland Station. Superintendent
Barnard sent a telegram to the operator at
Ashland to hold the accommodation on a
side track there until the excursion had
passed. Somehow the accommodation got
by Ashland, and about a mile this side
rushed headlong into the excursion train.
James Anderson, a resident of Atco,
reached Camden at noon, having come up
from the scene of the accident in carriage
He said; 4 was sitting in the forward part
Of the smoking car; When / heard the shrill
ysimilar signals from another locomotive
close by. l thought that something was
wrong, and | Immediately jumped to my feet
At that instant the air-brakes were applied.
foff fla ai11 oEno rod
suddenly with such force as to
throw me down on the floor of the car. I
quickly reg aimed my feet, and on CHANGING
around | found that all the other
passengers, Of whom there were about
twenty In the car, had also been thrown
out of their seats. This was all the work of
few seconds, and was followed by a terri
bic crash as the trains came together. The
smOking-car was the third from the loco.
motive, and was pretty well used up.
Both engines were completely wrecked.
The passengers got out of the VIM
dOws as best they could. After the
collision occurred we all scrambled
out OF the car, some escaping by the
windows Both locomotives were COM
bletely demolished By the collision, and the
escaping steam made it impossible for some
time to approach within fifty feet of the
wreck. Great excitement existed among
the people in the two trains, especially
among the women and children composing
the excursion train. The sight presented
after the accident occurred was terrible
one. The train-hands and the male passen-
gers were running to and fro so much ex-
cited that they were unable to render any
assistance to the injured and dying"
AS soon as partial quiet had been restored
the uninjured went to the assistance of the
wounded. Fireman Nicholas Barber was
taken out dead, with his entrails protruding.
Mail Agent Winfield IIiles was, with great
difficulty, gotten out. He was lying deep
Under the debris, and it was some timea be-
fore lie was discovered. He was heard to
call Here [ am" and was thus found.
When gotten out h5 could not give much
account of himself, as he was terribly ina
jured internally and died in a short time.
Frank Fenton. the surveyor of the road,
who was on the train, was taken out after
about two hours work, mangled in a terri-
Bile maniiei. Both engineers were killed.
Conductor Albert Smith and the brakeman,
Gustayus Edwards, of the Lakeside train,
were taken out dead. Smith was counting
his tickets in the front car 1t was nearly
an hour and a half after the accident
before medical attendance was gotten on
the ground. The most affecting thing
of the affair was the fact that the daughter
of Civil Engineer Fenton was Oh the ex-
cursion train. She looked for her father
and was told that he was safe and had gone
ahead to flag the trains. She then waited
and walked to Haddonfeld. In few min
utes after she had gone her father was
taken out of the ruins, his head almost
fattened where it had been crushed. Bag
gage-master Vaughn was also killed. The
wounded number nine, SO far as ascertained.