The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-01
RAILS RED WITH BLOOD.
FIVE MEN LOSE THEIR LIVES IN A
CRASH IN PENNSYLVANIA.

The Accident Occurred Because the
Engineers ofa Double-He Headed Freight
Train Failed to Wait for Their Or
ders-Two Cannon Ball Trains Col
lide at Summit, KY.
MEADvILLE, PA, Dec. Sl.--rhe fast Chi
cago express on the New York, Pennsylva-
mia and OHIO railroad, consisting of two
sleepers and five day coaches, collided with
freight train No. 2S consisting of two en-
gines and sixty cars, three miles west of this
city at o'clock this morning Five per-
sons were killed outright, among whom was
one passenger. Thirteen others were
wounded, nine of them fatally. Following
are the names of the killed, so far as ascer-
tanned.
William George, engineer, and Humes,
fireman Of the leading freight engine.
Z. P. Swan and Arthur Irwin, engineer
and fireman of the Chicago express.
Both trains present a terrible scene of de-
struction When the collision occurred the
fast express was making up lost time and
going at top speed. The blame is said to rest
with the engineer and conductor sof the
freight train who were running on the eX-
press trains time.
THE DEDA PASSENGER.
The name of the passenger dead is Steven
son, a commercial traveller of Toledo. who
died shortly after being taken from the
wreck The injured passengers were all in
the smoker, which was literally ground to
kindling wood. The day coach and both
sleepers remained on the track and the pas
Sengers in them escaped uniniUred. The
Cincinnati sleeper had fourteen and the
CbicaUO Siyfpan Among the
wounded are:
Joseph Boynton, of Headville, express
agent, seriously hurt and is delrious.
Philip Faulk, of San Francisco, right arm
fractured.
S. A. Malone, of Salamanca, N. Y, right
leg broken.
Adolph Buser, of Cincinnati, both legs
cIrusced
The physicians think that none of the
injured will die The wreck was caused
by the freight engineers leaving Mead
Vile in advance of their orders. They
were ordered to leave the yard as soon as
train No. arrived They went in advance
of its arrival When Yardmaster Decker
saw that they had gone he boarded a switch
engine and under steam followed, but was
unable to overtake the freight before the
two trains met.
A HORRIBLE SCENE.
The scene of the wreck is horrible. The
three engines are in a sold jam on the track
and the baggage car and smoker are broken
into kindling wood. The express car, a
new Erie, is but slightly injured, though it
ground both the baggage and smoking car
to biUs. Its strength saved the day coach
from teescoping with the smoker. Fol
lowing are additional names of injured
H. F. Holden, of New York leg crushed.
Adolph Wyner, of Buffalo, leg broken.
A. Hazen, of Paterson, N. j., leg crushed
S. A. Malone, of Middlefield, o., leg
Michael O'Brien, boy from Buffalo,
slight bruises.
K. Newton, of Shingle House, Pa, leg
broken.
David r. Dealand, of Titusville, leg
broken.
Charles E. French, of Sterling, Mass, leg
broken.
The wounded we're brought here and all
are in the hospital. No blame can be at
tached to the railroad officials. The acci-
dent was purely the result of the freight
engineers disregard of orders. The paSsen-
ger train was running fifty miles an hour
The first news of the wreck came to Mead
vile by trainmen on the Meadvile and
Linesvile railroad, which runs parallel
with the New York, Pennsylvania and
Ohio.
CATTLE BURNED TO DEAF II.
KoUT, IND, Dec. 31.-To-day another
disastrous wreck occurred on the line of the
Chicago and Atlantic railroad, six miles
from this place, near the crossing of the
Louisville, New Albany and Chicago and
Chicago and Indiana coal railroads, at
Wilders, Ind, by the collision of
two sections of fast stock
train going east. The engineer
of the rear section was unable TO see the
first section on account of a binding snow
storm, and his engine went crashing into
the rear car, demolishing the engine and
caboose. One car of cattle was destroyed.
The cattle were burned. The rear brake
man was burned to a crisp The other
train hands had narrow escape.
CoLLIDED In A STORM.
CHICAGO, Dec 81 The night express for
Milwaukee that left Chicago at 1920
o'clock last night over the Chicago, Milwau-
kee and st. Paul railroad, smashed. into
freight train at Sheriuerville, ILL.,, Curing a
binding snow storm. The engine and mail
car of the pa senger train were derailed, to
gether with several freight cars. making a
bad wreck and giving the passengers a
severe shaking up. No lives were lost, but
Engineer Little was hurt seriously, and the
fireman, whose name is unknown, is prob
ably fatally injured.
A COLLISION IN MONTANA.
BUTTE, Mont, Dec 31.-A collision oc-
Cured yesterday on the Utah and North
ern railway near the city of Dillon, Mont,
which resulted in the killing of Fireman
Patrick and serious injury of Engineer
John Sweeny Many coal cars were COM
pletely wrecked.
TEN KILLED IN KENTUCKY.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec. IA special
to the Courier-Journdt from Junction City,
KY, says: Two fast mail trans, Nos |
and 2. met while running at full speed this
evening, about twelve miles below Somer-
set, and caused a frlghtful casualty. The
particulars are very meagre and cannot be
obtained with any accuracy from the rail
road officers but it is certain tnat
at least ten persons were killed,
number wounded and six or
eight coaches burned. A man named With
row an old Danville sstage-driver, was
among the killed. 1t is reported that both
engineers and the baggage and express mes
sengerS on both trains were killed. Three
coaches of each train were burned. The
accident is said TO be due to the engineer
and conductor of the north-bound train
misconstruing their orders relative 10 the
place of passing. The wires are down and
particulars are difficult TO obtain"
THE RAILROADS ACCOUNT.
The following account of the accident is
furnished by the authorities OF the Cincln-
matt Southern railroad:
An accident on the Cincinnati Southern
railroad occurred to-day. Limited trains
Nos. l and 2 collided about 10 o'clock to-
;,l,+ ,oa,. f.,.oou,vco1 The aqrident was