Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-19
RAlLR DAD HORROR in OHIO.

#RAiLRoAD HORROR IN OHIO.
|A Train Loaded with Excursionists Re-
II turning from the Grand Army Encamp.
ment Colttdes with Freight Train
Two Persons Killed. and Ovor Thirty I'm
juretl.
MANsFlELD, o., Sept Is. Baltimore &
Ohio north bound passenger train No. 9,
aue IN this city at 5:55 a. m, jumped the
switch yesterday morning al Ankeney-
town siding, twenty five miles south Of this
City, and collided with freight train on
the siding. The mail car, followed by the
express, and two day coaches, struck the
engine and rolled over ON their sides badly
wrecked. Almost Immediately the freight
engine "a camel -back) exploded, throwing
,wreckage in oil directions. The two
coaches contained 10 passengers, nearly
all returning from the encampmcnt at
Columbus. The hot water and steam
from the boiler poured into the coaches,
and the passengers that had not
been hurt by broken timbers were
scalded. The engine on the passenger
train, which with two express cars had
safely passed the switch, was Immediately
taken to Independence and Belleville, ana
all the doctors in these places were taken
to the wreck. The passengers who were
mot held down by timbers crawled out of
the windows, and by the time the doctors
reached the spot all but four or five were
ont of the broken coaches. ,..
Mrs. Edward Valentine, Of Chicago, and
F. Luckens, the express agent, were Arm
~ pinned under the wrcckage. Henry
Tomlinson, the freight engineer, was
standing on the side-track next to the pas
songer train, and he was found between
the tender and boiler of his
engine with the front part of
his head blown of. He was unmarried
and resided at Newark, O., with his moth
er. David Wilson, the baggage master,
was found all doubled up alongside the
freight train with his neck broken and his
skull crushed He has u wife and two
children living at Sandusky. Mrs. Edward
Valentine of No. 684 West Madison street,
Chicago, and William Gransley, of
Shawnee, % brakeman on the
freight train, c2n not live. The dead men
wero laid on cots alongside the track, and
the wounded were taken to houses near
by. The wrecked train consisted OF en-
CINE, two express cars, mall car, baggage
car, two day coaches and TWO sleeping
cars. The only persons injured were in
the day coaches. The sleepers sid not
leave the track The injured number thir-
ty-two, three of whom are likely TO die.
They are as follows: "
A. K tchen, Dupont, O., hands, face and
breast scalded; A, c. Henry, Ayersville, o..
left hip, both feet and body badly bruised and
cut: j. G. Myers, Dupont o., kl. J hurt;
Aaron Dickson, Ayersville, O., hands badly
scalded, side bruised, and head cut; ]. H.
Myers. Defiance, O., shoulders and hands
sealded and back sprained; Jacob Dase, New
ark. O., passenger brakeman, cut on head
and body wrenched; George Daniels,
Sandusky, o., back hurt; L. ]. Myers,
North Baltimore, O., right arm broken
and bruised: c. E. Mcbride, O., bruised: John
Brechb II, Defiance, O., legs and head seriously
scalded; "A. T. Brechbill, Defiance, O., sealded
and hip dislocated: L. d. Blue, Ayersville, O.,
badly scalded: Peter Wentsell Ayersville, O.,
slightly scalded; j. D. Thomas, Commander
Burnside Post, No. ST, Shenandoah, a., left
clavicle broken and breast injured; Ed
ward Waldener Of Defiance, O., scalded and
bruised; Edward Valentine, Chicago, bruised
0nd cut about the face and shoulders: W. II.
Bridenbach, Bumersburg O.. head cut;
M chael Healy, Newark, o. foreman on FREE ht
train. scalded on face, hands and shoulders
bruised; Mrs. Sarah Vent Shelby, o.. cut on
foreh cad. and bruised; Henry Wen,z, Shelby,
O.. slightly bru sed; John Shelter Syracuse
Ind, back bruised; Crawford Porter.
Allen County, Ind, scalp wound: w liam
Pont:us, Circlevile, O.. hands hurt and
internally injured; J. F. Mckinley. Mansfield,
o., scalded on left side of face; J. II. Fan-
agan, Clinton, Ia. feet and arm hurt: Ernest
Waldencr, Defiance, O., hands and face scalded:
Arthur Wing, Defiance, O.. face cut and scalded:
r. Frazier. Baltimore, Md. leg bruised; Ed
ward Daily, Chicago, head and legs bruised:
w liam Or nsley, Saawnee.O., brakeman, fatal
~ scalded and injured; Sylvester Klrkendale.
O., leg hurt; John Brand, Fontana
Kan, sealded about face; Laura Boyce, Tren-
ton, Mo-, hands cut by glass.