The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-09-20
RAILROAD HORROR N OHIO.

u TRAIN LO00Od with EXCursl0nIDt8 Re-
turning from the Grand Army Encamp.
mont COlitdes with . Freight Train
Two Persons Killed and Over Thirty I'm.
juroil.
Mansfield, O., Sept 15-Baltimore &
Ohio north bound passenger train No. 8,
due in this city at 5:55 q. 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 fire. Rht
|'engine "a camel back) exploded, throwing
wreckage in all directions. The two
coaches contained ITO passengers, nearly
all returning from tho 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, and
all the doctors in these 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 wcrc
out Of the broken coaches.
Mrs. Edward Valentine, of Chicago, and
F. Luckens, the express agent, were firm
" pinned under the wreckage. Henry
Tomlinson, the freight engineer, was
standing on the side-track next to the pas
senger 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
or. David Wilson, the baggage master,
was found all doubled up alongside tho
freight train with his neck broken and his
skull crushed. He has wife and two
children living at Sandusky. Mrs. Edward
Valentine, OF No. 6S4 West Madison street,
Chicago, and William Gransley, of
Shawnee, brakeman on the
freight train, can not 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 en-
CINE, 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 thir-
ty-two, three of whom are likely to die.
They are as follows:
A. X tchen, Dupont, O., hands, face and
breast scalded; A, C. Henry, Ayersvlle, o.,
left hip, both feet and body badly bruised and
cut: j. c. Myers, Dupont O., knee hurt;
Aaron Dickson, Ayersvlle, o., hands badly
scalded, side bruised, and head cut; J. H.
Myers, Defiance, O., shoulders and hands
scalded and back sprained; Jacob Dasc, New
ark. O., passenger brakeman, cut on head
and body wrenched; George Daniels,
Sandusky, O., back hurt; L. j. Myers,
North Baltimore, O., right arm broken
and bruised: C. f. Mcbride, O., bruised: John
Brechb H. Defiance O., legs and head seriously
scalded; A. T. Brechbill, Defiance, O., scalded
and hip dislocated; L. D. Blue, Ayersville, O.,
badly scalded; Peter Wontsell Aycrsvllc, O.,
slightly scalded; j. D. Thomas, Commander
Burnside Post, No. Sc. Shenandoah, Ia, left
c!avicle broken and breast injured: Ed
ward Waldener, OF Defiance O., scalded and
bruised; Edward Valentine, Chicago, bruised
and cut about the face and shoulders; w. II.
Bridenbach, Bumersburg, O.. head cut;
M chael Healy, Newark, O., foreman on fro ght
tain, scalded on face hands and shoulders
forehead and bruised; Henry Wentz, Shelby,
O., slightly bru sed; John Shelter Syracuse,
Ind, back Bruised Crawford Porter.
Allen County, Ind, scalp wound; w liam
Pont:us, Crclevllle, O.. hands hurt and
internally injured; j. F. Mckinley, Mansfield,
O., scalded on left side of face; j. H. Flnn-
agan, Clinton, a., feet and arm hurt; Ernest
Waldener, Defiance, O., hands and face scalded:
Arthur Wing, Defiance, O., face cut and scalded:
X. Frazier Baltimore. Nd. leg bruised; Ed
ward Daily, Chicago, head and legs bruised;
w liam CIR nsley, S lawnee.O O., brakeman, fatal
~ scalded and injured; Sylvester K,rkendale,
Plymouth, O., leg hurt; John Brand, Fontlna,
Kan, scalded about face; Laura Royce, Tren-