The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-09-20
RAILROAD HORROR IN OHIO.

A Train Loaded with ExcursionIsts Re-
turning from the Grand Army Encamp
ment Collides with . Freight Train
Two Persons Killed and Over Thirty In
Jured.
MANSFIELD, O., Sept 15.-fsaltimore Il
Ohio north bound passenger train No. q,
due in this city at 5:55 o. 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 Ia camel -back) exploded. throwing
wreckage in all directions. The two
coaches contained 10 passengers, nearly
oil 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 we're
scalded. The engine on the passenger
train, which with two express cars had
safely passed the switch, was Immediately
taken to Independence and Bclleville, and
all the doctors in these places were taken
to the wreck. The passengers who were
not held down by timbers crawlcd 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 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
cr. David Wilson. the baggage master,
was found all doubled up alongside the
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-.
gine, 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, Ayersyille, o.,
left hip, both feet and body badly bruised and
cut: J. G. Myers, Dupont, o.. knee hurt;
Aaron Dickson, Ayersvillc. O., hands badly
scalded side bruised, and head cut; j. III.
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 bruscd G. T.. Mcbride. o., bruised: John
Brechbll, Defiance, O., legs and head seriously
| scalded; A. T. Brechbill, Defiance, O., scalded
| and hip dislocated; L. d. Blue, Ayersviile, o..
! badly scalded: Peter WentselL Ayersyille, O..
! slight, scaldei; J. D. Thomas. Commander
Burnside Post, No. Sd Shenandoah. Ia, left
| clavicle broken and breast injured; Ed.
| ward Waldencr. OF Defiance, O., scaldcd and
| bruised Edward Valentine, Chicago, bruised
and cut abou: the facs and shoulders; w. IL
| Bridenbach, Bumersburg, O.. head cut
/ Michael Healy. Newark, O., foreman on fre gh,
train. scalded on face, hands and shoulders
bruised; Mrs. Sarah Wcntz, Shelby, O.. cut or
forehead. and bruised; Henry Wentz, Shelby
| O.. slightly bru sed; John Shelter Syracuse,
Ind, back bruised; Crawford Porter
| Allen County, Ind, scalp wound; w llian
| Pont.us, Circleyille, O., hands hurt ant
| internally injured: j. r. Mckinley, Mansfield
O., scalded on left side OF face; J. H. Fian
| agan, Clinton, Ia. feet and arm hurt Ernes,
| Waldener, Defiance, O., hands and face scalded
1 Arthur Wing, Defiance, O.. face cut and scllded
| r.. Frazier. Baltimore, Md. leg bruised; Ed
ward Daily, Chicago, head and legs bruised
| William CIR nsiey, s Slawner.O., brakeman, fatal
ly scalded and injured; Sylvester kirkendale
Plymouth, O., leg hurt: John Brand, Fontlna
Kan. scalded asout face; Laura Boycc, Tren
| tom Mo- handS cut by glass