Evening journal., 1888-09-15
Horror Upon Horror.
A Locomotive Explodes Be-
side Derailed Train.
FIVE KILLED, MANY WOUNDED.


by Debris and scaided by Escaping
steam-A-sIost of tho victims Returning
c. A. r.. Veterans.
/ MANSFIELD, o., Sept. 15.-Baltimore and
4 Ohio north bound passenger train No. Q, due
II this city at 5:55 a. m, jumped the switch
4 at Ankeneytown siding, twenty-five miles
south Of this city, and collided with a freight
train on the sidiag The mail car, fol-
lowed by the express car and two day
coaches, struck the engine and rolled over
on their sides badly wrecked. Almost im-
mediately the freight engine IA camel backl
exploded, throwing wrscllage IN all direc-
tions The two coaches contained ITO pas
sengers, nearly all returning from the en-
campmeut at Columbus The hot water and
steam from the boiler poured into the coaches,
and those passengers that had not been hurt
by broken timbers were scalded The engine
on the passenger train, which with two ex-
press cars had safely passed the switch, was
Immediately taken to Independence and Belle
vile, and all the doctors in those places were
taken to the wreck The passengers who were
not held down by timbers crawed 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
+. Luckens, the express agent, were firmly
pinned under thu wreckage. Harry Tomlin-
son, tie freight engineer, was standing on
the side track next to the passenger train,
and he was found batwesn the tender and
boiler Of his engine with tho front part Of his
head blown off He was unmarried, and re
4 sided at Newark, o., with his mother David
Wilson, the baggage master, was found all
doubled alongside tho freight train, with his
neek broken and his skull crushed. He has
wife and two children living at sanduslty.
4 ! Mrs Edward Valentine. Of 6s4 Madison
street, Chicago, ana William Grinsey, Of
Shawnee, a brakeman on the freight train,
cannot 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 engine, two express cars, mail
car, baggage car, two day coaches and two
sleeping cars. The only parsons injured were
ia the day coaehes The sleepers did not
leave the track
The injured numbar thirty-two three Of
whom are likely to dse.
/ The injured are
A. Kitchen, Dupmt, o., hands, face and
breast scalded
A. G. Cheney AyerSTile o.. left hip. both
feet and body badly bruised and cut
J. e. Myers Dupont knee hurt.
Aaron Dickson, Ayelsville, O., hands badly
scstlded side bruised and head cut
i J. H. Myers, Defiance, shoulders and hands
scalded and back spTained
/ Jacob Dase, passenger brakeman, cut on
head and body lgranched.
George Daniels, Sanduslzy, back hurt.
l. }. Myers, North Baltimore, right arm
broken and bruised
G, E. Mcbride, Mansfield, bruised.
John Brechtsil, Defiance lee and head
seriously scaldel
A. 7 BrechtsiIl, Defiance, scalded and hip
dislocated
l.. d. Blue Ayersviile, badly sealded
Peter Wentsell, Ayarsyille slightly scalded
}. D. Thomas commander Burnside Post
No. 50, Shenandoah, Ia, left clayicle broken
and breast injured
Edward Waldener, Defiance, scalded and
bruised
Mrs. Edward Valentine, Chicago. scalded.
left shoulder dislocated, right arm crushed;
cannot live
Edward Valentino. Chicago. bruised and
cut about the face and shoulders
W. H. Bridenbach, Bumersberg. O.. head
cut
Michael Healy, Newark, foreman Oh freight
train scalded on face, hands and shoulders
bruised.
Mrs Sarah Wentz, Shelby, cut on forehea
and bruised
Henry Wentg, Shelby, slightly bruised.
John Shelter, Syracuse, Ind, hack bruised
Crawford Porter, Allen county, Ind, scalp
wound
William Pontius, Circleville, o., hands
hurt and internally injured
J. + Mckinley, Mansfield, o., scalded on
left side Of face
J H. Flanagan, Clinton, Ia, feet and arm
hurt
+. Luckens, Newark, express messenger
scalp wounds and bruises
Ernest Waldener, Defiance, hands and faoe
scalded.
Arthur Wing, Defiance, facs eut and
Ecalded
J. g Myers, Dupont, leg cut
r Frazier, Baltimore, Nd, leg bruised.
Edward DAILY, Chicago, head and legs
bruised.
William Grinsley, Shawnee, o., brakeman.
fatally scalded and injured
Sylvester kiTkeudall, Plymouth, o.. leg
hurt.
John Brand FontAna, Kan, scalded about
face
Laura Boyce, Trenton, No, hands cut by
glass.
The majority Of the injured are members
Of the G.. A. r. Some of them were mt
in the sleeping cars and taken to their homes.
Those who could not be moved we're taken
care Of at neighboring houses.