The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-08-02
THE LIMITED WRECKED
On the Ft. Wayne Early This
Morning,
On the Curve at the Aultman Works.
Engine Ruined But No One In
Observation-Disclosures Eseape-Hun-
dreds View the Wreck.

With a jolt, a jump, a whirl and a
roar which awOke the residents in that
vicinity, the engine Of the limited ex-
press at 2:30 O'clock this morning jump
ed the track at the curve on the Fit.
Wayne at the G. Aultman & Co, works,
pulling with it two passenger coaches.
The train was made up of five coaches
well filled with passengers, and in the
cab of the engine were Engineer Pat
Morgan and Fireman James Butler.
In a thrice after the jolt the air
brakes were put on and the men thought
of jumping, but the escaping steam and
the roar occasioned by the jolting over
the ties blinded and bewildered them,
and without a word they sank on the
seats in the cab and went with the
engine to what they consider certain
death. Upon leaving the track the
pressure from behind was so great that
the huge engine was lifted from the
ties. whirled about and thrown with
q deadening thud across the track. by
this time people in the vicinity hurried
to the scene and found the engine on its
side and so broken as to be almost un-
recognizable. The feeling began to
grow that the destruction of the in
mates of the cab was as great as that
of the engine, but the glad cry was
soon raised that the men were safe,
Owing to the condition of things this
was beyond probability for the cab of
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various rods about the machine
were bent about where the cab
formerly was in such a man
ner as to almost render
pgress from the wreck an impossiblllty.
But the men escaped, miraculous as 1t
may appear, and only had a few skin
bruises to show.
The company's physician, DR.. Post,
was on the ground and attended to a
two inch cut on the engineers forehead
and slight cut on the o 5 of the fire
man. He looked about for other
patients but found that NJ one else had
been injured, and strange as it may
appefr, there were many in The sleepers
who kn W nothing of their narrow
escape fr on death until the blowing OF
the shop whistles awakened them from
their 81 und slumber. Many a cheek
blanchea wnen the wreck was viewed,
for it was a bad one. The excited talk
of the hundreds gathered about the
wreck, combined with the Kissing OF
the escaping steam, made such a thrill
ing scene as would have brought a for.
tune could it have been reproduced
upon canvas.
1t was not long after the occurrence
of the wreck that the wrecking train
arrived and a large force of men put to
work clearing away the debris. AT
$50 o'clock the track was cleared, the
work being witnessed by a gathering
of hundreds of people. Young
and old of both sexes eagerly,
but good naturally, pushed and jostled
each other about, all having in view the
one point of honor, just within the huge
circle of surging humanity. All morn;
ing the wrecked engine was the point
OF interest with hundreds and v e up
until evening persons would stop and
carefully examine the frog of the switch
where the Jump was made. With a
wise look and a shake of the head they
would pas away after their examina-
ton, soon to be followed by others who
would go through the same perform
ance.
In an interview with an official on
the road it was learned that the switch,
which was misplaced, has been tam
pered with before. The parties who
lid it are unknown, but some one may,
out of spite, have been concerned in it.
The switch was only slightly misplaced,
but sufficient to turn the engine on the
siding, while the coaches and tender
broke loose from the locomotive and
continued on the main track.