The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-01-06
RAILROAD DISASTERS.
The Mistake Of q Conductor Leads
to a Terrible Disaster On
the

to a Terrible Disaster On
the
Cincinnati Southern Railroad In Ken
tucky-List of Killed and In-
jured.
An Equally Fatal Accident on the New
York, Pennsylvania L Ohio Near
Nsadville, Pa.
LEXINGTON, KY, Jan. 2.-The collision
on the Cincinnati Southern railroad, one
milo south Of Greenwood, KY, Saturday,
occurred on . sixty foot emban kment. mid
way between tunnels seven and eight, and
the following were the victims: Lee With
row, baggagemaster, Ludlow, KY, head
crushed and throat cut with an iron bar.
James Severance, postal clerk. Stanford,
KY. conclusion Of the brain; died. T.
Candee, fireman, Chattanooga, Tenn,
thrown on top Of tho fire box Of train No. l
and the contents OF the fire box Of train No.
emptied on him, burning his body to
crisp. Lawrence Callahan, baggage
master, Ludlow, KY. body crushed under
the smoker. w. b. Powell, express mes
senger, jacksonville, O., crushed under
the wreck Miss Jessie Green, Chattan-
ooga, ekull crushed: died at Greenwood.
Among the injured are: Mr. and Mrs.
Avery, CovingtOn, KY, scalded and in
hailed steam, will both probably die; Sam
Shrumm, conductor, internally injured; ].
b. McGibbon, Cincinnati, badly scalded
about the face and hands, probably fatal;
Joe holland, colorcd porter of No. 9, lacera-
ton Of the hip and hands; William ID.
Michaels, engineer Of No. 2, who jumped
from the engine. sprained ankle, hand
scalded and cheek gashed; Pat Taylor,
Somerset, KY, engineer Of No. l, bruised
and suffering from conclusion badly hurt;
Pat Murphy, Junction City, KY, fireman of
No. 1, leg broken below the Knce; W. L.
Roberts, Riceville, Tenn, mail service, leg
and arm broken; w. L. jackson, Ludlow,
KY, express messenger, head, hand aud
back sprafncd and bruised; L. E. Sackett,
news agent, head, face, back and legs
bruised: j. Z. Burch, Sidney, o., travelling
passenger agent of the Chicago & Alton
railroad, badly scalded and head, face aud
hands cut; Joe Hepp, Covington. KY,
KY, brakeman, cut and scalded; j. +.
Campbell, HanovertOn, o., scaldei face,
neck AMI hands.
In addition to the above. No. ., which
went north last evening, CARED to Cincin-
natl five or six badly injured passengers in
the boudor car and the railroad officials
refused to allow access to them or to give
their names or injuries.
Two cars, the mail and baggage of No.
ught fire and burned. At the time of the
crash Withrow aud jackson were talking
in the baggage car, when the car split open
from end to end, the mail car and smoker
shooting over them aud the other cars cut
ting loose and dropping back q grade. 1t
is reported that an unknown passenger
was crushed and burned in the water closet
of train No.
The collision was caused by Conductor
Shrumm, in the orders delivered to him at
Winfield, mistaking Summit for Somerset
and hurrying his train down the grade ut
fifty mile, an hour TO make that point,
probably running at that speed when the
collision occurred. After the collision Con-
ductor Bennett ran up to Shrumm and
said: "rm not to blame for this; read your
orders and see" Snrumm took out has Or
ders and, looking carefully, throw up his
hands, exclaiming: 10, my God, have
made mistake"
ANOTHER SHOCKING ACCIDENT.
MEANWHILE, Pa, Jan. Tine fast CHI
crgo express on the New York, Pennsvl-
vania d Ohio railroad, consisting Of two
sleepers and five day coaches, collided with
freight train, consisting of two engines
and sixty cars, three miles west of this
city at eight o'clock Saturday morning,
aud five persons We're killed outright,
among them u passenger, and thirteen
others were wounded, nine of them fatally.
The following are the names of the killed:
William George, engineer OF the first
freight engine; - Humes, fireman of the
leading freight engine; A. p. Swan. en-
gineer of the Chicago express; Arthur
Irwi:, fireman of the Chicago express;
William II. Stephenson, passenger, Of
Toledo.
The colliding trains were the Thunder.
bolt, q through train from Chicago 10 New
York, consisting Of express, baggage,
smoker and ladies' cars aud two sleepers.
due in this city ut $50 a. M, and freight
train No. q a west-bound double-he,de
Both trains were over two hours late
and the express, being entitled to tue right
Of way, was running without orders. Simply
taking it for granted that the express WAS
in, Conductor Murray Of the freight train,
pulled out for Geneva. where he had or
ders against trains % and B. Almost stimuli
taneously the trains swept by the last two
intervening stations-Geneva and Buch-
aucn, only four miles apart-and rs the
word was sent to the dispatchcr's Office in
this city, the inevitable result was certain.
The twO-thc Thnnderbolt running forty.
five and the freight train fifteen niles an
hOur-met on y long fOreSt-hidden curve
with crash That was terrible to wltnesa.
Passenger engine No. 81 and freight Gu
CINE No "a seemed to rise bodily into the
air and in an instant they were standing on
their furnace ends, pilots pointed to the
sky and drivers locaed. And so they stood
for hours, held firmly by the ruins OF the
two trains ON either side. Both engineers
and tircmen OF the two collidIng engines
were crushed between the iron drivers.
Engineer Swan and Fireman Humes being
pinned to death just as they were on he
point Of .eaping from their engines. The
sight WIS sickening, but was soOn covered
from view by friendly blankets.
The complete list Of the ihjared IS as fol-
lows: n E. hoehn, New YORK, leg crushed;
Adolph Wagner. Buffalo, n Y, leg
broken; Adolph HOren, Paterson, N. j., leg
crushed; H. Maxwell, Middlehcld, O., one
leg crushed and the other broken; Michael
O'Brien, boy, Buffalo, N. Y, leg broken;
F. II. Newton, Shinglehouse, Pa leg bruised
slightly; David Beaulaud, T.tusviile. leg
orOken; Charles L. French. Sterling,
Mass, leg broken; Horace Graham, fire.
nan, returning from Kent. o..
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