The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-01-05
RAILROAD DISASTERS.
Tho Mistake Of 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
Msadville, Pa.

| LEXINGTON, KY, Jan. 2.-The collision
on the Cincinnati Southern railroad, one
mile south of Greenwood, KY, Saturday,
occurred on a sixty foot embankment 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, conclusion 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.
emptled on HIM, burning his body to .
crisp. Lawrence Callahan, baggage
master, Ludlow, KY, body crushed under
the smoker. W. b. Powell, express mes
senger, Madisouville, O., crushed under
the wreck. Miss Jessie Green, Chattan-
ooga, skull crushed; died at Greenwood.
Among the injured are: Mr.. and Mrs.
Avery, Covington, KY, scalded and in
hailed steam, will both probably die; Sam
Shrumm, conductor, internally injured; j.
B. McGibbon, Cincinnati, badly scalded
about the face and hands, probably fatal;
Joe holland, colOred 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
scaided and cheek gashed; Pat Taylor,
Somerset, KY. engineer Of No. l, bruised
and suffering from conclusion. badly hurt;
Pat Murphy, Junction City, KY, fireman of
No. 1, leg broken below the knee; W. T.
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 & Alton
railroad, badly scalded and head, face aud
hands cut; Joe Hepp, Covington, KY,
scaIded and bruised; Dick Patton, Ludlow,
KY, brakeman, cut and scalded; j. E.
Campbell, Hanoverton, o., scalded face,
neck and hands.
In addition to the above. No 2, which
went north last evening, CARED to Cincin-
natl five or six badly injured passengers in
the boudoir 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 and jackson were talking
in the baggage ca, when the car split open
from end to end, the mail car and smoker
shooting over them and the other cars cut
ting loose and dropping back grade. 1t
is reported that an unknown passenger
was crushed and burned in the water closet
of train No. 2.
The collision was caused by Conductor
Shrumm, in the orders delivered to him at
Winfield. mistakiny Summit for Somerset
and hurrying his tram down the grade at
fifty miles an hour 10 make that point,
hI ri,,fv Of hat l,,,k1
collision occurred. After the collision Con-
ductor Bennett ran up to Shrumm and
said: Pm not to blame for this read your
orders and see" Shrumm took out HI. or
ders and looking carefully, throw up his
hands, exclaiming: 80. my God, 1 have
made a mistake"
ANOTHER SHOCKING ACCIDENT.
MELDvILLR, Pa, Jan. 2.-The fast Chi
cBgo express on the New York, Pennsyl-
vania &, 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 a 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 |
Irwin, fireman Of the Chicago express;
William H. Stephenson, a passenger, Of |
Toledo.
The colliding trains were the Thunder |
bolt, through train from Chicago to New |
7 ork, consisting Of express, baggage, |
smoker aud ladies' cars and two sleepers, |
due in this city at $50 a. m, and freight |
train No. @, west-bound double-header.
Both trains were over two hours late
and the express, being 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
1ers against trains % and 81. Almost stimuli
.sneously the trains swept by the last two
Intervening statioIs-Geneva and Buch-
anan, only four miles apart-and as the
word was sent to the dispatcher's Office in
his city, the inevitable result was certain.
The two-the Thunderbolt running forty
i've and the freight train fifteen miles an
lOur-met on long forest-hidden curve
vi b crash taat was terrible to witness.
Passenger engine No. 81 and freight en-
zine No 81 seemed to rise bodily into the
lir AMI in an instant they were standing on
heir furnace ends, pilots pointed to the
ky and drivers locked. And so they stood
or hours, held firmly by the ruins of the
wo trains on either side. Both engineers
md fremen of the two collidlng engines
we're crushed between the iron drivers,
Engineer Swan and Fireman Humes being
pinned to death just as they were on the
Joint Of leaping from their engines. Tho
light was sickening, but was soon covered
rom view by friendly blankets.
The complete list Of the injured IS as fol-
ows: h E. Hoehn, New YORK leg crushed;
Adolph Wagner, Buffalo, N Y, leg
broken; AdOlph Horen, Paterson, N. J., leg
rushed; II. Maxwell, Middlefeld, O., one
eg crushed and the other broken; Michael
)'Brien, boy, Buffalo, n. Y, leg broken;
J. h. Newton, Shinglehouse, Pa, leg bruised
lightly; David Beauland, Titusville, leg
'roken; Charles E. French, Sterling,
lass, leg broken; Horace Graham, fire.
nan. returning from Kent, o., badly hurt
cross the hips; II. F. Wyman, brakeman, .
eturning from Kent o., foot crushed; Jo-
eph BoyntOn, baggagemaster, leg cut,
and hurt and bruised about the face and I
cad; Philip Fouk San Francisco. arm
urt; J. NJ. Woods, Greenvile, hurt while !
citing out Of the smoker; F. A. Malone,
salamanca, n. Y. leg broken; Adolph
5Cser, CINCINNATI legs crushed; Fireman
'hsrles Crumb, bruised about the head and
houlders.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Jan. 2-Yesterday