Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-07-18
DREADFUL TRAGEDY.


Saturday evening a gay company Of
young people was gathered at Glencoe,
over on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
The day had been very warm one, and
even after the sun had sunk out of sight
the temperature was torrid, driving peo-
pie into the open air. All was life and
hilarity in the little company, no one even
dreaming of the awful tragedy that was
soon after enacted in their very midst.
About two hundred yards West of the
station house the railroad track crosses
the County road, thence through bridge
over the creek, thence through very deep
cut, on a curve, about 125 yards, to an
other crossing of the County road. The
hill is bluff on either side, and at its East
ern base is the st. Clairsville road, cross
ing the railroad track.
MIR J. IL Denham, the milkman, had
driven down to the station in a road cart,
and while waiting some of the young peo-
pie amused themselves driving. Charles
Fulton and Maggie Ault got into the cart
South of the lower crossing, with the
horse headed toward the track. There
was gay laugh as the young man start
ed the horse, and a guying and calling
whoa" In an instant the whistle OF
locomotive reached the ears of some OF
them, when they uttered frantic cries,
"StOp." But apparently young Fulton
did not hear the whistle, and miSunder-
stood the frantic yells of those who did.
In an instant locomotive drawing
freight train, and running at very high
speed, shot through the cut like it had
been driven from a catapult, and was on
them. The horse and cart were fairly on
the track Fulton was seen to strike him
with the whip and his brother to spring
at the bride bit, and simultaneously the
crash came. The horse was thrown thirty
feet and instantly killed, the young man
at his head severely hurt, and Miss Ault
pitched backward out of the cart, and it
was first thought dangerously hurt. But
Charles Fulton was not found The train
did not stop, and not until it got into the
Bellaire yards, nine miles from the scene
of the disaster, was he found-deGd, on
the pilot.
The people who witnessed the tragedy
they were helpless to avert were sudden
ly transformed from gay company to
one dumb with horror and with nerves un-
strung. Quickly recovering themselves,
word was sent to the homes of the injur-
ed people, and Drs. Piper and Clark sum-
moned and Miss Ault and the younger
Fulton cared for.
Charles Fulton, who was killed and so
brutally carried away, was a son of Wal
ker Fulton, and Miss Ault daughter of
Isaiah Ault, both well known families of
Glencoe neighborhood.
The horse killed was fine animal, and
the loss to Mr.. Denham is a severe one.
Coroner Boyd was at Glencoe Monday
taking testimony, and expressed himself
determined to fix the responsibility for
this shocking disaster, and in strong Ian
guage his adherence of the inhuman con-
duct of the engineer. Bystanders assert
the bell was not rung, and that the whis-
tie was not blown for the crossing where
the collision occurred. The lowest eSti-
mate of the speed of the train is thirty
five miles per hour.
Mr. Fulton was an excellent young man,
and his tragic death cast deep gloom
over the eneighborhood. His remains were
buried at o'clock Monday morning, un-
dertaker B. R. johnson having charge Of
the funeral.
Mrs. Fulton, the mother of the unfor-
tunate young man, was Frustrated when
the news of the tragedy was broken to
her, and much anxiety about her condi-
ton was felt for a time.
Miss Ault and the brother who tried to
rescue the young people are getting along
comfortably.
This is the most shocking disaster of
the kind which ever occurred in this part
of the County. 1t must not pass without
the most searching judicial scrutiny
Coroner Boyd deserves the thanks of hu-
name people for his prompt recognition
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