The gale., 1888-01-13
IN DEATHS EMBRACE.
Fearful Railroad Disasters of the Past |
Wreck In several PlaccsI

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Greenwood, Ky. Limited express No. 2
ran into limited express No. 1, which left
On,ciniat between tunnels and 8, de
inoiishlnS both engines, throwing every
car from the track on train No ? except
.lie TWO sleepers, and killing the follow
my persons outright: Lee Withrow,
baggage master on No 1; /. CaIlan,
baggage master on No. .; NJ. Is. Powell,
baltimore u Ohio express messenger on
no. z. Engineer Michael, of train No
., tells story that would make the blood
run cold i'll the veins of the strongest
man. lie was running down grade at
rate OF sixty miles an hour and did not
see No. approaching his train until it
was about fifty feet away, and without
stopping t. reverse his engine or turn on
the air, he fell out of the cab window
ana landed in lot of bushes and finally
dropped In mud hole One of his an
kles was badly hurt by the fall. No. 1
was running up grade at the rate of thir-
ty-hve miles per hour. Sam Bennett was
the conductor on this train, and on meet
ing Conductor Schrum, said: ssW hat
does this means" Schrum replied. chad
orders to run to Somerset regardless of
NO. l, and here is my order" On taking
II from his pocket he discovered his mis-
take. for it ordered him to run to Summit.
The dreadful discovery was too much for
poor Schrum, and he has lost his mind.
Three different times he succeeded
In getting away from his friends,
who were watching him at Somerset. Ky,
and started for the woods. The accident
occurred between tunnels Z and s. one
hundred and seventy four miles from
Cincinnati. Both are curve tunnels, and
there IS q distance of 500 feet between
them. The greater portion of this is Il
fill, the valley being between sixty aud
one hundred teet deep eis. i nc sides Of the
I'LL are very steep. Had either trainbecn
two seconds sooner the crash would have
taken place in one of the tunnels. The
north bound train was light one owing
to delays on other roads entering Chatta-
nooga 1t was what train men call !;
pumped up' train, formed at Chat a
nooga. There was, at the time of the
accident, but one person in the smoker,
and that was the butcher boyn who
was badly hurt. The responsibility of |
the accident seems to rest with the con
ductor and engineer of the north bom |
train, and yet their mistake was one that
was quite natural under tie circum-
stances. A fast Chicago express on the |
New York, Pennsylvania & OH Railroad,
consisting of two sleepe's ant. five day
coaches, collided with freight train
of two engines and sixty cars,
three miles from Meadvi.le, Pa. Five
persons were killed outright, among
whom was one passenger; thirteen others
were wounded; nine of them
fatally. Following are names of
the killed, so far as ascertained:
William George, engineer, and Humes,
fireman, of the leading freight engine. E.
p. Swan and Arthur Irwin, engineer and
fireman of the Chicago express. Both
trains present terrible scene of destruc-
ton. When the collision occurred the
fast express was making up lost time and |
going at the top speed. The blafFe Us
said to rest with the freight train, who
were running on the express trains time.
and Chicago sixteen passengers. Among
the wounded are: Joseph Boynton, of
Meadville, express agent, seriously hurt
and is delirous; Phillip Faulk, of San
Francisco, right arm fractured; S. A.
Malone, of Salamanca, N. Y, right leg
broken; Adolph Buser, of Cincinnati,
both legs crushed. The wreck was caused
Dy the 1relgnC engineers leaving MEAD
vile in advance of their orders. The |
night express train for Milwaukee that /
leaves Chicago over the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul, smashed into a
freight train at Shermerville, Illinois,
during binding snow storm. The en-
gine and mail car Of the passenger train
were dera'led, together with several
freight cars, making wreck and giving
passengers a severe shaking up. No
lives were lost, but Engineer Little was
hurt seriously. and fireman, name un-
known, probably fatally. Another dis
astrous and fatal wreck occurred on
the line of the Chicago & Atlantic rail
road, six miles from Kontz, Indiana, near
the crossing of the Louisville, New Al
bany s. Chicago, and the Chicago &
Indiana coal railroads, at Wildors, Ind,
by the collision of two sections of the
fast stock trains going east. The engin-
eer of the rear section was unable to see
the first section on account of snow
storm and his engine went crashing into
the rear car, demolishing the engine and
caboose The rear brcakman was b,rned
tO n crisD