The times., 1888-01-27
TWO DEADLY COLLISIONS
LOCOMOTIVES m ONE CAS-: THROWN
Up cN THEIR GNos,

with Their Driving Wheels Locked = Ten
or Twelve Victims Sent to Eternity and
Score ar Mors Wounded Roth Disas-
ters the Result Of Carelessness Selected
MisSaps Years Record.
MEANWHILE, la, Jan "A collision oc-
Cured on tho New York, Pennsylvania q
Ohio railroad, five miles west OF this city, at
9:3) o'clock Saturday morning, between the
"Thunderbolt," a through train from Chicago
to New York, consisting of an express, bag
gnge, smoker, ladies' cur. and two Pullman
sleepers, due in this city at 5:3o a. ni., ane
freight train M 2a wcst-bouri double
header. Both trains were over two hours
late, and the express being entitled Co the
right of way, was running without orders
Simply taking it for granted that the express
was in. Conductor Murray, Of the freight,
pulled out for Geneva, where no had orders
against train 2S and SO. Almost simultaneously
the trains swept by the last two intervening
stations, Geneva ard Buchanan. only four
miles apart, and as the word was sent to the
dispatcher's Office in this city, the inevitable
result was certain. The two trains, the
sThunderbolt" running forty-ive miles and
the freight train fifteen miles an hour, met
on q long IOreSC-nluuen curve Win CRUSH
that was terrible to witness.
Passenger engine No. 81 and freight engine
No. S4 seemed to rise bodily in tho air, and
in an instant they were standing on their
furnace ends, pilots pointed to the sky, and
their drivers locked as in an embrace OF
death. And so they stood for hours, held
firmly by the ruins Of the two trains on
either side Both the engineers and firemen
had ha-
tween the iron ruins The baggage-car, ex-
press-car, and smoker Of the passenger train
were completely wrecked Tho baggage-car
was telescoped into the smoker, like a wedge
splitting it open, and sweeping every seat
from the floor The total number of pas
sengers on the train was fifty-three, fifteen
of whom were in the smoker.
The groans and cries that soon came from
the ruins brought people to a realization OF
the terrible situation, and in very short
time q large force of men were at work sys-
smatically doing all they could for the
wounded and dying. The railroad company,
after dispatching two wrecking crews to the
scene of the disaster, soon sent a passenger
train on which to transfer the passengers OF
the wrecked train and bring the wounded and
such of the dead as had been recovered to
Neadv lille. The body of Fireman Humes OF
the freight train, was almost unrecogniZable.
The limbs and bower part OF the body were
ground to pulp The aged father OF Humes
had arrived, and his walings when he gazed
upon the mangled body of his sor were heart
rending. The body of Engineer Swan, Of
the Chicago express, was wedged in the
wreck so tightly that no attempt was made
to remove it A portion of the body OF En-
gineer Googe, OF the freight train, and also
the arm and shoulder of Fireman Irwin
could be seen. Tho work of clearing the
wreck was prosecuted in the face OF driv-
ing storm of sleet that lasted the entire after
noon, yet the horrible scenes possessed pc
culiar fascination for men and even women,
who fingered about the spot until the work
of the wreckers was completed
The following is a list OF killed: Engineer
L. p. Swan, Meadville; Engineer William
Googe, Meadville; Fireman Arthur Irwin.
Meadville; Fireman Edward Humes Cam.
bridge, o.; William II. Stephenson Toledo,
O., passenger On train.
Injured: Ii. l. Holm, New York, leg
crushed; Adolph Wagner, Buffalo, N. Y, leg
broken; Adolph Hosen, Paterson, N. j., leg
crushed; H. Maxwell, Middlefield, G., one leg
crushed and the other broken; Michael
OBrien, n boy, No. 424 Thirteenth street,
Buffalo, N. Y. leg broken; +. N. Newton,
Shinglshouse, Pa, leg bruised slightly;
David Beauland, Titusville, leg broken;
Charles f. French, Sterling, Mass, leg
broken Horace Graham, fireman, returning
from Kent, o., badly hurt across hip; M. +.
Wyman, brakeman. returning from Kent,
D., foot crushed; Joseph Boconon, baggage
man, leg cut, hand hurt, and bruised about
face and head; Philip Fouik, San Francisco.
Cal, arm hurt; J. NJ. Woods, Salamanca.
leg broken; Adolph Buser, Cincinnati, legs
crushed; Fireman Charles Crumb, bruised
about the bead and shoulders