Dodge City times., 1888-01-05
RAILROAD DISASTERS.
The Mistake Of a Conductor Leads
to q Terrible Disaster on
the
Cincinnati Southern Railroad in Ken.
tucky-List of Killed and In
jured.
An Equally Fatal Accident on the New
York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Near
4sadville, Pa.

| 4olk, 1ennsyiVanla q Unlo near
4sadville, Pa.
! LEXINGTON, KY, Jan. 2-The collision
on the Cincinnati Southern railroad, one
mile south of Greenwood, KY, Saturday,
occurred on u sixty foot mban nkment, mid
way between tunnels seven and eight, and
the following were the victims: Lee With
row, baggagemaster, Ludlow, KY, head
crushed and throat cut with an iron bar.
James Severance, postal clerk. Stanford,
KY. concussion OF the brain; died. 7.
Candee, fireman, Chattanooga, Tenn,
thrown on top of the fire box of train No. l
and the contents of the fire box of train No.
2 emptled on him, burning his body to a
crisp. Lawrence Callahan, baggage
master, Ludlow, KY, body crushed under
the smoker. W. h. Powell, express mes
senger, Madisonville, O., crushed under
the wreck. Miss Jessie Green, Cha,tan-
/ oOga, skull crushed: died ut Greenwood.
Among the injured are: Mr.. and Mrs.
Avery, Covington, KY, scalded and in
haled steam, will both probably die; Sam
Shrumm, conductor, internally injured; ].
B. McGibbOn, Cincinnati, badly scalded
about the face and hands, probably fatal;
Joe Noland, colorcd porter of No. 2, lacera-
tion of the hip and hands; William d.
Michaels, engineer of No. 2, who jumped
from the engine, sprained ankle, hand
scaded and cheek gashed; Pat Taylor,
| Somerset, KY, engineer of No !, bruised
and suffering from concussiOn badly hurt;
Pat Murphy, Junction City. KY, fireman of
No. l, leg broken below the knee: W. L.
Roberts, Riceville, Tenn, mail service, leg
and arm broken; w. E. jackson, Ludlow,
KY, express messenger, head, hand and
back sprained and bruised; L. E. Sackett,
news agent, head, face, back and legs
bruised; j. c. Burch, Sidney, o., travelling
/ passenger agent of the Chicago 6I Alton
railroad, badly scalded and head, face and
hands cut; Joe Hepp, Covington. KY,
scaded and bruised Dick Patton, Ludlow,
KY, brakeman, cut and scalded; J. Z.
Campbell, Hanoverton, o., scalded face,
neck and hands.
| In addition to the above. No. 2, which
went north last evening, carr ed to Cincin-
natl five or six badly injured passengers in
! the bOudolr car and the railroad officials
refused to allow access to them or to give
their names or injuries.
| Two cars, the mail and baggage of No.
caught fire and burned. AT the time of the
crash Withrow aud jackson were talking
| III Guc UsISSdSc Ctrs Wucu Iuc Car Spllt Opcu
from end to end the mail car and smoker
shooting over them and the other cars cut
ting loose and dropping back a grade. 1t
is reported that an unknown passenger
was crushed and burned in the water closet
of train No.
The collision was caused by Conductor
Shrumm, in the orders delivered to him at
Winfield, mistakiny Summit for Somerset
and hurrying his train down the grade at
fifty miles an hour TO make that point,
probably running at that speed when the
collision occurred. After the collision Con-
ductor Bennett ran up to Shrumm and
said: ''I'm not to blame for this; read your
orders and see." Shrumm took out HIS or
ders and, looking carefully, threw up his
hands, exclaiming: 20, my God, l have
made a mistake"
ANOTHER SHOCKING ACCIDENT.
MEADvILLE, Pa, Jan. 2.-The fast Chi
cBgo express on the New York, Pennsvl-
vania Il Ohio railroad, consisting of two
sleepers and five day coaches, collIded with
a freight train, consisting of two engines
and sixty cars, three miles west of this
city at eight o'clock Saturday morning,
and five persons were killed outright,
among them passenger, and thirteen
others were wounded, nine of them fatally.
The following are the names of the killed:
William George, engineer of the first
freight engine; - Humes, fireman of the
leading freight engine; A. p. Swan, en-
gineer of the Chicago express; Arthur
Irwi2, fireman Of the Chicago express;
William II. Stephenson q passenger, Of
Toledo
The colliding trains were the Thunder
bolt, a through train from Chicago to New
York, consisting of express, baggage,
smoker and ladies' cars and two sleepers,
due in this city at 30 a. m, and freight
train No. %, West-bound dOuble-header
Both trains were over two hours late
and the express, beng entitled to the right
of way, was running without orders. Simply
taking it for granted that the express was
in, Conductor Murray OF the freight train,
pulled out for Geneva, where he had or
ders against trains 2S and 81. Almost stimuli 4
taneously the trains swept by the last two
intervening statious-Geneva and Buch-
anan, only four miles apart-and as the
word was sent to the dispatcher's Office in
this city, the inevitable result was certain.
The two-the Thunderbolt running forty.
five and the freight train fifteen miles an
hour-met on long forest-hdden curve
with a crash that was terrible to witness.
Passenger engine No. 81 and freight en-
gine No. S4 seemed to rise bodily into the
air and in an instant they were standing on
their furnace ends, pilots pointed to the
sky and drivers locked. And so they stood
for hours, held firmly by the ruins of the
two trains on either side. Both engineers
and tiremen OF the two collidIng engines
were crushed between the iron drivers
Engineer Swan and Fireman Humes being
pinned TO death just IS they We're on he
r,or,, pf 10, h4t~
sight was sickenng, but was soOu covered
from view by friendly blankets
The complete list Of the injured IS as fol- |
lows: II. E. hoehn, New Yor6, leg crushed;
Adolph Wagner, Buffalo, n V, leg
broken; Adolph Horen, Paterson, N. j., leg |
crushed; H. Maxwell, Middietield, O., one !
leg crushed and tue other brokeu; Michael |
OBrien, boy, Buffalo, N. Y, leg broken;
+. H. Newton, Shinglehousc, Pa leg bruised |
slightly; David Beauland, TtusviIle leg |
broken; Charles E. French, Sterling, |
Mass, leg broken; Horace Graham, fire
nan, returning from Kent. o..
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