St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-02
The Terrible Accident on the
Cincinnati Southern Near
Greenwood, KY.
Trains Meet on a Sixty-Foot
Embankment--The Killed
and Wounded.
The Contents of One of the
Fire Boxes Emptied on
a Fireman.
An Unexplained New York Ex-
plOSiOn--Sevepal Kinds
of Weather.

LEXINGTON, KY, Jan. 1.-The col
road took place one mile south of Green
wood, KY, on siXty-foot embankment
midway between Tunnels Z and 8. The
following are the killed:
LEE WITHROW, baggage master, Ludlow
KY, head crushed and throat cut with iron
bar.
JAMES SEVERANCE, postal clerk, STAN
ford, KY, conclusion of the brain; died to-
night
r. CANDEE, fireman, Chattanooga, Tenn,
thrown on top of the fire box of Train No. !,
and contents Of fire Dox of No. 2 emptied on
him, burning the body to a crisp.
LAWRENCE CALLAN. baggage master,
Ludlow, KY, body crushed under the
W. A. POWELL, ex-messenger Madison
vile, O., crushed under the wreck.
MISS JESSIE GREEN, Chattanooga, skull
crushed; died at Greenwood.
THE INJURED.
Mr.. AND Mrs. AvEY, Covington, KY,
scalded and inhaled steam; will both proba-
ably die; were taken to Covington tonight.
SAM SHRUMM, conductor, internally in
j. B. GIBSON, Cincinnati en- route home
from Florida. badly scalded on the face and
hands, will probably die.
JOE NoLAND, colored porter No. 2, lacera-
ton of the hip and hands.
WM. ID. MICHAELs, engineer No. 2, who
jumped from the engine and sprained his
ankle: hand scalded ana cheek gashed.
PAT TAYLOR, Somerset. KY. engineer Of
No. l., bruised and suffering from concus-
sion; badly hurt.
f. PAT MURPHY, Junction City, KY, fireman
of No. l, leg broken below the knee.
W. T. ReBERTs, Riceville, Tenn, mail ser
vice, leg and arm broken.
II I r1dfr II
senger. hand, head and back sprained and
bruised.
L. E. SAcKETT, No. All Richmond street,
Cincinnati, news agent, head, face, back and
legs bruised.
J. c. BURcH, Sidney, O., travelling passen-
head, face and hands cut.
JOE HEPP, Covmgton, KY, scalded and
bruised.
DICK. PATTON, Ludlow, KY, brakeman,
: cut and Scalded.
J. E. CAMPBELL, Hanoyerton, O., scalded
face, neck and hands.
AFTER THE ACCIDENT.
In addition to the above, train No. 2.
to Cincinnati five or six badly injured
passengers. These passengers were ia
the bOudOir car. and the railroad Off
icials refused to allow the Associated
press reporter access to them or to give
their names or injuries. DR.. Reddish,
of Frankfort, in charge of the Green
wood coal mines, left Greenwood with
the wounded and the body of Miss
Green for Cincinnati. 4 later train
followed, carrying all the bodies except
that of Miss Green, which was left at
Somerset. Very shortly after the col
lSiOn a Wrecking train left Somerset
in charge of Supt. w. W. Wells, carry
ing ID. j. l.. Owens and all the Somerset
10 nf ocfn
Two cars, the mail and baggage of No.
1, took fire and burned. AT the time of
the crash WithrOW and Jackson were
talking in the baggage car when the
car split open from end to end, the mail
car smoker shooting over them. The
other cars cut loose and dropped back
on a grade. 1t is reported that an un-
known passenger was
CRUSHED AND BURNED
in the water closet to train No. 2. Mr..
Aver, of COvington, threw his wife
through a window and jumped out after
: her, both rolling down the embank-
ment. The collision was caused by
Conductor Shrumm miSreading orders
delivered to him at Winfield. He mis-
took Summit for Somerset and hurried
his train down the grade at fifty miles
an hour to make that point, probably
running at that speed when the collis-
ion 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 orders, and, looking carefully,
threw up his hands, exclaiming: "Oh.
my God, | have made mistake"
Sharkey Withers, formerly of this city,
but now of Edwards, Miss, was OH the
train going south, and made this state
laf hal
late and were running about thirty
miles an hour, up grade. was in the
coach next in front of the sleeper, close
to the door, when shrill whistling
alarmed me. l ran out on the platform
and was pitched down an embankment
of fifty feet. jumped up and went to
work. We helped to extricate the vic
TINS. l helped take out three alive and
two dead, one of them Pat Murphy. L
helped to dig him out of the mud into
which he was jammed nearly to the arm
pits. The next man we got out was an
express messenger who was crushed
UNDER THE TRUCKS,
next a baggageman, who was under the
tender of No. /. We could hear his
groans, and dug him out. He died in
an hour. Then we got an unknown
man of the mail car of No. l train.
WithrOw died in few minutes after he
was put on the relief train. Postal
Agent James Severance, who was ap-
pointed one month ago, lay at one end
of his car. the blood streaming from his
mouth. We reached Somerset at 10 p.
m. Withrow's dead body was laid in
the baggage room and the injured on
our train were placed in the hotel"
The baggage car and smoker of No. 2
rolled down the embankment, and the
ladies' car of this train was thrown on
the engine, the inmates being scalded.
Joe Hepp stated that young couple
that had got OH in Chattanooga were
badly cut and scalded. The regular
passing point of Nos and 2 is Flat
rock, south of the wreck. The two en-
gineS cOllided with such force that they
were impacted together, the boilers
Shattering and discharging all their
contents in few minutes. An attempt
to pull the engines apart failed, and
they were rolled over the embankment
to clear the track.
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.
A special from Somerset, KY, to-
night, gives the following additional
particulars of the Smash-up on the Gin
cinnati Southern yesterday: There is
no doubt that several persons were
burned to death. A number of charred
bodies were found where the smoking
car of No. was burned. Innumerable
Itelegrams are passing over the wires
.inquiring for relatives or friends on
the fatal train, and number of passen-
gers inquired after cannot be found
Early this morning the charred remains
of what is supposed to be Fireman Con-
dec were dragged out of the debris.
The only thug left unburned was his
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