Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-04
DEATH ON the RAIL,
Frightfnl Accident on the Nypano Near
MeadvllIe, IA.
rifty-Three Passengers All More or
Less Injured.
The Crash Heard for q Great Distance
Around.
Engineers and Firemen Of Both Trains
Caught in the Wreck.
A Sickening Sight Presented on Sepa.
rating the Engines.

MEADVILLE, TA., december 0l.-D0C0ll
OF a wreck which occurred on the New York
Pennsylvania 4 Ohio railroad, five mile
west OF this city this morning, prove tn
disaster to have been the most horrible
that has occurred in this vicinity. The col
lding trains were the through New York ex
press from Chicago and a doubls-headel
west-bound freight train. Both trains
were over two hours late, and the express
being entitled to the right OF way, wal
running without orders. Conductor Muir
ray, OF the freight train, taking it for grant
ed that the express was in, pulled out fol
Geneva. The two trains, the express run
ming forty five and the freight fifteen miles
an hour, met on long, forest-hidden curve
with terrible crash. The engine OF the ex.
press train and the first engine Of the freight
were raised bodily into the air and stood
on their furnace ends, the pilots pointed
upwards and the driving wheels locked.
Both engineers and fiTemen were pressed
between the iron ruins. The
SIGHT WAS SICKENING
but was soon covered from view by friendly
blankets. The baggage car, express car,
hHu b"ohoA VI lAO P00SOuSCA VOL Q
completely wrecked. The baggage was tel
escoped into the smoker, splitting it open
and sweeping every seat from the floor.
The total number OF passengers on the
train was fifty-three, fifteen of whom were
in the smoker, ind all these were more or
less injured, and William Stephenson. of
Toledo, died shortly after being taken from
the ruins. The crash was heard for q
great distance and soon the neighbOrhood
was aroused and people living in the vicin
ity came to the scene. The passengers who
we're not injured seemed dazed, aad for a
few minutes every body stood speechless.
The groans and cries that came from the
ruins soon brought them to realization
OF the trouble OF the situation and in a
short time large force OF men we're at
work systematically doing all they could.
Two wrecking trains soon arrived, followed
by passenger train on which to transfer
the passengers and bring the wounded and
dead to Msadville. The wrecking crews
WORKED WITH WILL,
mains OF Fireman Hume we're taken from
the wreck. The almost unrecognizable
form presenting sickeniDg sight, the
limbs and lower part OF the body having
been ground to a pulp. Hume's< aged
father had arrived, and his cries and
means, when he gaIed upon the mapgled
body, were heartrending. The bodv Of
Engineer Swan was exposed but it was so
tightly weds. d the -wrsck--that no at
tempt was then made to move it. A por-
ton of the body Of Engineer Googe and
also an arm and shoulder OF Fireman Ir-
win could h seen. The ~Ork cf clearing
the wreck was prosecuted in the face OF a
driving storm and sleet that lasted the
entire afternoon. Those of the passengers
who were not injured were transferred and
sent forward, while the dead and
wounded were brought tn this city. Rail-
road otfcials did evrrvt h:Ig in their power
fnr the comfort uf the I'M II d. The fol-
lowing is Il
LIST OF CASUALTIES
Killed-Engineer Swan, Meadville; Engi-
neer Googe. Meadville; Fireman Irwin
Fireman Hume, Cambridge.
Ohio; VIM. H. Stephenson, Toled"
Ipjured-H. E. Holm, New York, leg
crushed.
AdoIph Wagner, Buffalo. :eg broken.
Adolph Hosen, Patterson, n. J., leg
crushed.
H. Malvlle, Middlefell, Ohio; one leg
crushed and the other broken.
Michael O'Brien, Buffalo, leg broken.
T. N. Newton, S ingehouse, p; leg
crush. d..
David Beauland. Titusville, leg broken.
Charles E. French, Sterling, Mass; leg
broken.
Forest Graham, Kent, Ohio; hips crushed.
M. T. Wyman, brakeman, feet crushed.
Joseph Boconon, baggagem.. n, leg cut and
body and face badly injured.
Philip Foulk. San Francisco, arm in
ured.
]. M. Woods, Greenville, Pa: badly |
bruised.
T. A. Malone, Salamanca. leg broken.
Adolph Busser, Cincinnati, legs crushed.
Fireman Cha rles Crumb, bruised about |
head and shoulders.
WRECK ON THE CINCINNATI SOUTHERN.
The limited trains north and southb'und |
IN the Cincinnati Southern collid' this |
afternoon near Greenwood, KY. Officials
,f the Cincinnati Southern road here say |
he accident was caused by the conductor |
md engineer misreadiDg their orders.
None OF the passengers we're injured. On
jhe southbound train the baggage master |
md mail agent we're killed. On the north
POUND train the baggage mas 'er was Killed
md the fireman badly Injured. The nail
nd ha ugay "a ca RS were deStrO yed.