The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-09-21
RAILROAD HORROR in. OHIO.

Il Train Loaded with IcxcurSlOniStS Re
turning from the Grand Army Encanp-
meat Coliides with Freight Train
Two Persons Killed and Over Thirty In
jured:
+ MANSFIELD, o., Sept 15 Baltimore q
Ohio north bound passenger train No. .,
due in this city at 5:55 a. M, jumped the
switch yesterday morning at Ankeney-
town siding, twenty-five miles south of this
city, and collided with freight train on
the siding. The mail car, followed by the
express, and two day coaches, struck the
engine and rolled over on their sides badly
wrecked. Almost Immediately the freight
engine Ga camel back) exploded, 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 engine on the passenger
train, which with two express cars had
safely passed the switch, was immediatels
taken to Independence and Belleville, an [
all the doctors in these places were take
to the wreck. The passengers who were
not held down by timbers crawled Quiet
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, an
F. Luckens, the express ageilt were tirbi-
ly pinned Under the wreckage. Henry
Tomlinson, the freight engineer, was
standing on the side track next to the pas
senger train, and he was found between
the tender and boiler of his
engine with the front part sef
his head blown off. He was unmarried
and resided at Newark, o., with his moth
er. David Wilson, the baggage master,
was found all 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 No. 6S4 West Madison. street,
Chicago, and William Gransley, OF
Shawnee, brakeman on the
freight train, can not live. The deadrmen
were laid on cots alongside the track, and
the wounded were taken to houses neal
by. The wrecked train consisted cot en-
CINE, two express cars, mail car, baggage
car, two day coaches and two sleeping
cars. The only persons injured were in
the day coaches. The sleepers did not
leave the track. The injured number thir-
They are as follows:
A. Kitchen, Dupont O., hands, face and
breast scalded; A, c. Henry, Ayersville o..
left hip, both feet and body badly bruised and
cut: J. c. Myers, Dupont O., knee hurt;
Aaron Dickson, Ayersville, O., hands badly
scalded, side bruised, and head cut; J. III.
Myers, Defiance, O., shoulders and hands
sca1ded and back sprained; Jacob Dase, New
ark, o., passenger brakeman, cut on head
and body wrenehed; George Daniels,
sandusky, o., back hurt; L. ]. Myers,
and Bruised G. E. Mcbride, o., bruised; John
Breehbll, Defiance, O., legs and head seriously
scalded; A. It. Brechbil, Defiance, O., scalded
and hip dislocated; l.. D.. Blue, Ayersville, o.,
| badly scalded; Peter Wentsell,. Ayersville, o..
| slightly scalded; ]. D.. Thomas Commander
Burnside Post, No. S. Shenandoah, Ia, left
| clavcle broken and breast Injured; Ed
| ward Waldener, of Defiance, O., scalded and
| bruised; Edward Valentine, Chicago, bruised
! and cut about the face and shoulders; w. H.
| Bridenbach, Bumersburg O., head cut;
| Michael Healy, Newark, O., foreman on freight
| train, sca1ded on face, hands and shoulders
bruised; Mrs. Sarah Wentz Shelby, O., cut on
| foreh cad. and bruised Henry Wentz, Shelby,
| O., slightly bruised; John Shleter Syracuse,
| Ind, back bruised; Crawford Porter,
Allen County, Ind, scalp wound; William
| Pontius, Circleville, o., hands hurt and
internally injured; j. F. Mckinley, Mansfield,
| O., scalded on left side of face; j. H. Flan-
| agan, Clinton Ia, feet and armF hurt; Ernest
| Waldener, Defiance. O., hands and face scalded
| Arthur Wing Defiance, O., face cutand scalded
| r. Frazier, Baltimore, Md, leg bruised; Ed
ward Daily, Chicago head and legs bruised;
| William Grnsley, Shawnee.O., brakeman, fatal
ly scalded and injured; Sylvester Kirkendale
| Plymouth, O., leg hurt; John Brand, Fontana,
Kan, scalded about face; Laura Boyce, Tren
| ton Mo hands cut nv plaas