Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-15
Horror Upon Horror.
A Locomotive Explodes Be-
 side a Derailed Train.
FIVE KILLED, MANY WOUNDED.

People Blown to Pieces or Pinned Down by Debris and Scalded by Escaping steam-Most of the Victims Returning c. \. R. Veterans.
 MANSFIELD, O., Sept. 15-Baltimore and Ohio north bound passenger train No. 9, due | in this city at 5:55 a. m., jumped the switch l at Ankeneytown siding, twenty-five miles | south of this city, and co.lided with freight | train on the siding. The mail car, fol lowed by the express car and two day | coaches, struck the engine and rolled over on their sides badly wrecked. Almost i'm mediately the freight engine Ia camel back exploded, throwing wreclage in all dlrec- tions. The two coaches contained ll0 pas sengers, nearly all returning from the en- campment at Columbus. The hot water and steam from the boiler poured into the coaches, and those passengers that had not been hurt by broken timbers were scalded. The engine on the passenger train, which with two ex- press cars had safely passed the switch, was immediately taken to Independence and Belle vile, and all the doctors in those places were taken to the wreck. The passengers who were not held down by timbers 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 firmly pinned under tn wreckage Harry Tomlin- son, tNe 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 head blown off. He was unmarried, and re- sided at Newark, O., with his mother. David Wilson, the baggage master, was found all doubled alongside the freight train with his nerk broken and his skull crushed. He has a wife and two children living at Sandusky. Mrs Edward Valentine, of 64 Madison street, Chicago, an William Grinsley, of Shawnee, 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 cars. The only persons injured were in the day coaches. The sleepers did not leave the track.
 The injured number thirty-two, three of whom are likely to die
 The injured are:
 A. Kitchen, Dupont O., hands, face and breast scalded
 A. c. Cheney, Ayersville, O., left hip, both feet and body badly bruised and cut
 J. c. Myers, Dupont, knee hurt.
 Aaron Dickson, Ayersville, O., hands badly scalded, side bruised and head cut.
 J. H. Myers, Defiance, shoulders and hands scalded and back sprained
 Jacob Dase, passenger brakeman, cut on head and body wrenched.
 George Daniels, Sanduslzy, back hurt. L. J. Myers, North Baltimore right arm broken and bruised.
 c. E. Mcbride, Mansfield, bruised
 John Brechtsill Defiance leg and head seriously scalded.
 A. T. BrechtsilI Defiance, scalded and hip dislocated.
 L. D. Blue, Ayersville, badly scalded.
 Peter Wentsell, Ayersville slightly scalded. J. D. Thomas, commander Burnside Post No. 56, Shenandoah, 1a. left clavice broken and breast injured.
 Edward Waldener, Defiance, scalded and bruised
 Mrs. Edward Valentine Chicago, scalded left shoulder dislocated, right arm crushed cannot live.
 Edward Valentine Chicago, bruised and cut about the face and shoulders
 W. H. Bridenbach Bumersberg, O., head cut.
 Michael Healy, Newark, foreman on freight train, alded on face, hands and shoulders bruise l.
 Mrs. Sarah Wentz, Shelby cut on forehea and bruised.
 Henry Wentz, Shelby, slightly bruised
 John Shelter, Syracuse, Ind, back bruised. Crawford Porter, Allen county, Ind, scalp wound.
 William Pontius, Cireleville, O., hands hurt and internally injured.
 J. F. Mckinley, Mansfield O., scalded on left side of face.
 J. H. Flanagan, Clinton, la. feet and arm hurt.
 F. Luckens, Newark, express messenger scalp wounds and bruises.
 Ernest N-aldener, Defiance hands and face scald, l.
 Arthur Wing, Defiance, face cut and scalded
 J. c. Myers Dupont, leg cut.
 R. Frazier Baltimore, Md, leg bruised.
 Edward Daly, Chicago, head and leg bruised.
 William Grinsley, Shawnee, O., brakeman fatally scalded and injured.
 Sylvester Kirkendall, Plymouth, O., lef hurt
 John Brand, Fontana, Kan, scalded abou face.
 Laura Boyce, Trenton, Mo, hands cut b, glass.
 The majority of the injured are member of the G. A. R. Some of them were pu in the sleeping cars and taken to their homes Those who could not be moved were takel care of at neighboring houses.
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