The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-10-13
The Most Horrible Rail-
road Accident on Rec.
ord.
Sixty.fi Persons Killed, and Forty.
Eight Fatally Injured.

| S1Xty.nvc feCsOns hfIleu. anu FOrty :
Eight Fatally Injured.
| WILKEsBARRE, Pa, Oct 11-At
ten o'clock last night a horrible
accident on the Lehigh Valley r.. r.
was rumored to have taken place,
and further report said the wreck
ed train was a section of the excur-
sion train returning from Hazelton
Nearly six thousand Luzerene and
Lackawanna people had gone there
and no one knew just who had re-
turned.
No information could be obtained
from the close mouthed officia as
to the extent of the disaster and
many persons after waiting during
the long weary hours from ten un-
til three in the morning took the
south-bound train which passed
here at 3:lO, and went to the scene.
1t was there learned that the third
section of the excursion train had
stood on the track @ few hundred
yards from Mud Run, waiting for
sections ahead to get out of the
way. A tiagman, some say, had
been sent back with Il lantern to
guard the train from the rear. Sud-
denly the passengers on the rear
platform saw a train approaching
at a high rate of speed. Several of
these passengers who saw the dam
ger jumped and escaped.
In an instant the flash of head
light illuminated the interior of
the rear car, there was a frightful
crash and the engine plunged her
full length into the crowded mass
of humanity.
The shock drove the rear car
through the next one for two-thirds
of it's length, and the second car
was forced into the third. Not a
single person escaped from the rear
ear. The second was crowded with
manned and bleeding bodies, and
the third car had but few passen-
gers who escaped. The uniniured
but terror stricken passengers of
both trains, made their way out of
the cars and going to the telescop-
ed engine and ears, the full extent
of the terrible disaster dawned up
on them.
The shattered engine was pour
ing forth streams of scalding
steam and water, which hid from
their eyes the fullest measure of
the horrible scene, while it's kissing
sound Geadened the shrieks and
groans of those imprisoned in the
wreck. CHASTITY white faces peer.
ed into the windows, to be greeted
by faces far more ghastly.
Some of the dead sat pinioned in
their seats, erect as in life, staring
open eyed as if aware of the hor.
rible surroundings.
AS the steam and smoke cleared
from the rear car. its awful sights
were revealed. The timbers were
crushed and wrenched, while on all
sides hung mangled bodies and
limbs. The few bodies which were
not mapgled We're burned and
scalded by the steam and little re.
mained in the car which bore hui
man resemblance. When the shock
of the first crash had in Il measure
subsidized, the uninjured began to dc
what could be done for their unfor-
tunate companions.
The few ligAt tools on the train
were called into requisition, but
proved feeble instruments indeed
The st Francis Pioneer Corps, who
were on the train, piled with zeal
the broad axes which were meant
for holiday occasions. They were
however little adaped to the work
and We're soon rendered useless. In
the meantime the windows of the
cars were smashed in, and brave
men entered and released those
least hurt or least entangled.
To free the bodies in the rear cal
the trainmen attached a locomotive
to the wrecked engine and started
to pull it from the wreck. The first
movement of the shattered wreck
brought from the wounded such
awful cries of distress that the
surrounding friends ordered the
engineer to desist on pain of his
life. They did not wish to see the
mangled forms still further mutt
lated.
The few houses about the spot
were thrown open to the suffering
and bonfires were lighted to aid the