Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-09-15
VETERANS KILLED.
A Grand Army Train Smashed
to Pieces.
Seven Persons Killed, Over Twenty
Wounded. Most Of the Sufferers
Injured After They Had Left
the Cars.

Near Rttmans, a station on the New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio road, twenty miles
west of Akron, Ohio, Grand army of the
Republic excursion train WAS run into by
freight. Seven persons were killed and
about twenty-five wounded, number of
them fatally. Tho names Of the unfortunates
are:
Dead.-Barney Dolingcr, Gallon, engineer
freight train.
Samuel Bryce, Youngstown.
VIM. Cochrane, Caledonia, brakeman.
Miss Mary Given, Garfield.
John Shook, Youngstown.
Miss Ina Tucker, Austentown
Unknown lady died on way to Youngs-
town, probably Mrs. Wilson.
lnjured.-b1rs j. L. Botsford, Youngs-
town; legs badly cut.
Mrs D. Callahan, Youngstown; injured in
breast.
Mrs J. D. Cessna; injured in legs and side.
Chris Dieble, Youngstown; injured about
head.
G. Cferhnrdt, Gallon fireman; face cut.
Chas. Hogle Youngstown; leg broken.
Mrs Hughes, Berlin Centre; injured in
side.
Mr.. Jones, Youngstown, injured in side
and foot crushed.
Mrs. VIM. Ludt, Youngstown; leg broken.
Mrs. Hugh Manchester, Garfield; both
legs broken.
internally.
Thos. Marvin, Youngstown; both legs
crushed.
Daniel McFadden, Youngstown; seriously
cut in back.
Mrs. Mcfarland, Cortsyille bruised and
cut.
Ed Neff, Austentown; head badly but
j. NeT, Austentown; injured about head.
L. Nichols, New Lisbon; cuts OIL legs head
aud breast.
J. P. Snyder, Austentown; serious internal
injuries.
Mrs. Wilson, Sharon, Pa; seriously hurt
on back and hips; will die.
Mrs. Alfred Wilt n, Youngstown; serious
internal injuries.
The excursion train was section OF train
No. s. west bound, On the New York, Penn
sylvania and Ohio road, filed with families
and members OF Todd Post, G.. A. r., Of
Youngstown, about seven hundred in all,
bound for the National Encampment at Co.
lumbus. just this side OF Rittman is steep
grade, which the train was descending when
Il COI1leCIlll5 IDQ lOhc
tho train was brought to standstill in u
narrow cut.
Following closely after the extursion train
was freight train No. 81, running at u high
rate Of speed.
A flagman was sent back to warn the
freight, but it had already started down the
grade and the engineer had only timo to
reverse his engine aud jump when his train
crashed into the rear coach of the passenger
train, never stopping till it had ploughed its
way through three coaches, throwing them
suuarely on top Of the engine and sendin;
their fragments in every direction.
Tho passengers in the last coach saw the
approaching freight and most Of them hai
time to jump. The engineer of the freight
jumped, as did his fireman. The latter es.
capped with but slight injuries, but the engi-
neer struck the embankment alongside the
track, bounded back under the wheels and
was crushed into shapeless mass Brakeman
W. e. Cochran, Of the freight, jumped like
wise, and he, too was hurled back and
ground under the wheels, his lifeless body
being soon after taken from tho debris. In
the third coach from the rear o. the passen-
ger train two Grand Army men, Samuel
Bryce and John Shook, were instantly killed,
their blood scattering over their comrades
seated near them, while the latter were
thrown in q heap, many of them with broken
limbs and cash d heads. The passengers in
the other coaches nearly all succeeded in
getting out of the cars before the crash came,
but as they hurried down the embankment
the wrecked coaches rolled down IL on them
injuring twenty-five others more or less
seriously.
The officers of the road were at nee noti-
fed and wrecking train was immediately
despatched with a railroad crew and physi-
clans, and other surgeons were hurried TO
help the wounded from Wadsworth, four
miles cast of the wreck, and Seville ond
Rittman. Some of the wounded were taken to
Wadsworth and others were cared for OH the
ground, cots being improvised from blankets
which the veterans had brought along, the
majority Of them having prepared to gointo
camp at Columbus.
Two lady passengers, Miss Ina Tucker, of
Austentown, q suburb of Youngstown, had
a leg cut of and died few minutes after
being taken out of the wreck. Mrs. Given,
of Garfield, another suburb, also died at nine
o'clock this evening