River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-20
RAILROAD HORROR IN ONO,

a Train Loaded with ExcursIonistS Re
turning from the Grand Army Eneamp-
ment Collides with a Freight Train
Two Persons Killed and Over Thirty In
| Jured.
| MANSFIELD, o., Sept Is Baltimore &
ONO north bound passenger train No. 9,
/ due IN this city at 5:55 a. m, jumped the
switch yesterday morning at Ankeney-
town siding, twenty five miles south Of this
city, and collided with a freight train on
the siding Tue 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 all directions The two
coaches contained 10 passengers. nearly
all returning from the encampment 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 Bellevilie, 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 were
out of the broken coaches.
/ Mrs Edward Valentine, of Chicago, and
F. Luckens, the express agent were firm
ly pinned under the wreckage Henry
/ TomlinsOn, the freight engineer, was
standing on the sidetrack 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 off He was unmarried
I 4. n
/ 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 a 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
/
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. II.
Myers, Defiance, o., shoulders and hands
| scalded and back sprained Jacob Dase, 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: G. f. Mcbride o., bruised; John
/ Brechb.ll, Defiance o., legs and head seriously
/ scalded; A. T. Brechbill, Defiance, o., scalded
and hip dislocated L. D. Blue, Ayersville, o.,
| slightly scalded; j. ID. Thomas, Commander
| Burnside Post, No. SO, Shenandoah, L., left
/ clavicle 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;
Michael Healy, Newark, o., foreman on freight
train, scalded on face, hands and shoulders
bruised; Mrs. Sarah Wentz, Shelby, o., cut on
| forehe cad. and bruised; Henry WentZ, Shelby,
o.. slightly bruised; John Shelter Syracuse,
/ Ind, back bruised; Crawford Porter,
| Allen County, Ind, scalp wound; William
Pontius, Circleville, o., hands hurt and
/ internally injured; j. F. Mckinley, Mansfield,
/ o., scalded on left side of face; J. II. Flan-
agan, Clinton, Ia, feet and arm hurt; Ernest
Waldener, Defiance, o., hands and face scalded;
Arthur Wing, Defiance, o., face cut and scalded;
| r. Frazier, Baltimore, Nd, leg bruised Ed
ward Daily, Chicago head and legs bruised;
/ William Grnsley, Shawnee. o., brakeman, fatal
| y scalded and injured; Sylvester Kirkendale,
Plymouth, o., leg hurt; John Brand, Fontana,
Kan, scalded about face; Laura Boyce, Tren-
| ton, Mo, hands cut by glass.