Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-09-22
RAILROAD HORROR IN OHIO.

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a Train Loaded with Excursionists Re-
turning from the Grand Army Encamf-s
/ ment COliides with Freight Train
i TWO Persons Killed and Over Thirty In
jured.
MANSFIELD, o., Sept 15.-Baltimore &
Ohio north bound passenger train No 9,
due in this city at 5 55 a. m, jumped the
switch yesterday morning at An!Seney-
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 "a camel back) exploded, throwing
wreckage in all directions The two
coaches contained 10 passengers, nearly
all 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 were
scalded. The engine on the passenger
train, which with two express cars4had
safely passed the switch, was Immediately
taken TO independence and BelleyilIe, and
all the doctors in these places were taken
to the wreck. The passengers who were
cot held down by timbers crawled 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. Luclens, the express agent, We're firm
| ~ pinned under the wreckage. Henry
Tomlinson, the freight engineer was
standing on the sde-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 Off He was unmarried
and resided at Newark, O., with his moth
er David Wilson, the baggage MASTER.
was found all doubled up alongside the
| freight train with his neck broken and his
skull crushed. He has a wife and two
! children living at Sandusky. Mrs. Edward
Valentine, Of No. 6S4 West Madison street,
Chicago, and William Gransley, of
Shawnee, a 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-
| CINE, 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-
They are as follows:
~ II Lcnen, dupont, ", nanQS, lace ana
breast scalded; A. c. Henry, Ayersyilie, O.,
| left hip both feet and body badly bruised and
cut: J. G. Myers, Dupont, O., knee hurt:
Aaron Dickson, Ayersville, O., hands badly
scalded, side bruised, and head cut;J H.
| Myers, Defiance, O., shoulders and bands
| SCALED 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 bruised: c. f. Mcbride. O., bruised: John
scalded A. It. Brechbill, Defiance, o. scalded
and hip dislocated; L. D. Blue, Ayersville, O.,
badly scalded: Peter Wentsell Ayersville, O.,
slightly scalded; J. D. Thomas, Commander
Burnside Post, No. 56, Shenandoah, Ia, left
clavicle broken and breast injured; Ed.
| ward Waldener of Defiance, O., scalded and
bruised; Edward Valentine, Chicago bruised
and cut about the face and shoulders; W. II.
Bridenbach, Bumersburg, O.. head cut;
M chael Healy, Newark, O., foreman on freight
train. scalded on face, hands and shoulders
bruised; Mrs. Sarah Wentz. Shelby O., cut on
foreh cad. and bruised; Henry Wentz Shelby,
O.. slightly bruised; John Shelter Syracuse
Ind, back bruised; Crawford e Porter,
Allen County, Ind, scalp wound; William
Pontus, Circlevllle, O., hands hurt and
internally injured; j. T. Mckinley, Mansfield,
O., scalded on left side of face; J. H. Flan-
agan, Clinton, Ia, feet and arm hurt; Ernest
WadeEer, Defiance, O., hands and face scalded;
Arthur Wing, Defiance, O.. face cut and scalded;
r. Frazier, Baltimore, Md, leg bruised; Ed
ward DAILY, Chicago, head and legs bruised;
William CIR nsley, Shawnee. O., brakeman, fatal
ly scalded and injured; Sylvester krkendale,
Plymouth, O., leg hurt; John Brand, Fontana
Kan secluded about face Laura Boyce, Tren-
ton, Mo-, hands cut by glass