St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-15
Veterans Escape Bullets Only
to Be Mangled by Collid-
ing Trains.
Frightful Wreck on the Bal
timore & Ohio Near Ank-
neytown, o.
Two Persons Killed Outright
and Thirty-Six Injured,
Three Fatally.
All Were Returning Home
From the National En-
campment, G. A. R.
Speci0l TO the Globe

Special to the Globe.
MANSFIELD, o., Sept. 14.-The Balti-
more & Ohio north-bound passenger
train No. 9, due in this city at 5:55 a. m,
jumped the switch this morning at
Ankeneytown siding. twenty-five miles
south of this city. and collided with a
freight train on the siding. The. mail
car, followed by the express car and
two day coaches, struck the Ell gne
and rolled over on their sides
badly wrecked. Almost immedi-
ately the freight engine ex-
plOded, throwing wreckage in all
directions. The two coaches contained
Ito passengers, nearly all returning
from the encampment at Columbus.
The hot water and steam from the
boiler poured into the coaches, and the
passengers that had not been hurt by
broken timbers were scalded. The en-
gine on the passenger train, which,
with two express cars, had safely passed
the switch, was Immediately taken to
Independence and Bellevue, and all
the doctors in these places were taken
to the wreck. The passengers who
were not
HELD DOWN. BY TINBERS
crawled out of the windows, and by the
time the doctors reached the spot, all
but four or five were out of the broken
coaches. Mrs. Edward Valentine, of
Chicago, and F. Luckens, the express
agent, were fairly pinned under the
wreckage. Harry Tomlinson, the
freight engineer, was standing on the
side track next to the passenger train,
and he was found between the
tender and boiler of his engine,
with the front part of his
bead blown. off. He was
unmarried, and resided at Newark, o.,
with his mother. David Wilson. the
baggage master, was found doubled up
alongside the freight train, with his
neck broken and his skull crushed. He
has wife and two children living at
Sandusky. Mrs. Edward Valentine, of
6s4 Madison street, Chicago, and Will
lam Grinsley, of Shawnee, a brakeman
on the freight train, cannot live.
The dead men were laid on
cots alongside the track, and the
wounded were taken to houses near by.
The wrecked train consisted of engine,
two express cars, mail car, baggage
car, two day coaches and two sleeping
ears. The ony persons injured were in
the daY coaches. The SleeperS did not
leave the track. Following is list of
the killed and wounded: so
KILLED.
HENRY TOMLINSON, Newark, o.
DAVID WILSON, Sandusky, o.
FATALLY INJURED.
WILLIAM GORNSLEY, Shawnee, o.
AARON DICKSON, Ayersville, o.
Mrs. EDWARD VALENTINE, Chicago, Ill
INJURED.
A KITCHEN. Dupont, o.; face and breast
A. 6. HENRY, Ayersville, O.: left hip,
both feet and body badly bruised and cut.
j. c. MYERS, Dupont knee hurt:
.. II. MYERS, Defiance. shoulders and
hands scalded and back sprained.
JACOB DASE, Newark, passenger brake
man, cut OH head and body wrenched.
GEORGE DANIELS, Sandusky, back hurt
L. j. MYERS, North Baltimore, right arm
broken and bruised.
G. Z. MCBRIDE, Mansfield, bruised.
JOHN BRECHBILL, Defiance, legs and
head seriously scalded.
A. T. BRECHBILL, Defiance, scalded and
hip dislocated.
t. b. BLUE, Ayersville, badly scalded.
PETER WENTSELL, Ayersville, slightly
scalded.
j. d. THOMAS, commander Burnside Post
No. Sc, Shenandoah, To-, left clav;cle broken
EDWARD WALDENER Defiance, scalded
EDWARD VALENTINE, Chicago bruised
and cut about the face and shoulder.
w. Ii. BRIDENBACH, Bumersburg, o.,
head cut.
MICHAEL HEALY, Newark, foreman on
freight train, scalded on face; hands and
shoulders bruised.
Mrs. SARAH WENZ, Shelby, cut on fore
head and bruised.
HENRY WENTZ, Shelby, slightly bruised
JOHN SHELTER, Syracuse, Ind; back
bruised.
scalp wound.
burned and internally injured.
. j. f. MCKINLEY. Mansneld Ohio; scalded
OH left side of the face.
J.H. FLANAGAN, Clinton, Iowa; feet and
arm hurt.
F. LUCKENS, Newark, express messenger;
scalp wound and bruises.
ERNEST WALDENER, Defiance, hands
ARTHUR WING, Defiance, face cut and
scalded.
j. c. Myers, Dupont, leg cut.
r. FRAZIER, Baltimore, Md, leg bruised.
EDWARD DAILY, Chicago, head and legs
bruised.
SYLVESTER KIRKENDALE, Plymouth,
O., leg hurt.
Join BRAND, Fontana, Kan, scalded
about face.
LAURA BoYCE, Trenton, Mo-, hands cut
The majority of the injured men are
members of the G.. A. r. Some of them
were put in sleeping cars and taken to
their homes this afternoon. Those who
could not be moved were taken care of
at neighbOring houses. The loss to the
cOfnDaDV is estimated at S15000