Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-19
EIGHT KILLED OUTRIGHT,
Terrible Wreck ON the n. r, p. q o. Road.
A Head to Head Collision.

Terrible Wreck ON h n. r, p. O. Road
A Head to Head Collision.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, January ia
frightful wreck occurred on the New York.
Pennsylvania q Ohio road near Talmadge,
Ohio, Monday morning, . passenger esrain
colliding with one section of freight which
hadbroken in two. Eightpersons were killed
and q dozen injured. The list OF killed is as
follows:
Robert Huntington OF Gallon, Ohio, pas
senger engineer.
William Walters Of Gallon. Ohio, passen-
ger fireman.
John T. R~ushford, Of Gallon, Ohio,
freight brakeman.
VIM. Lundy Of Salamanca, express mes
senger.
Three Chinamen.
Mary Ann Lyon OF Idaho, aged g., ticket
ed second class to Cherry Greek, New
York.
Four of the injured are in serious con-
dition.
PARTICULARS OF THE WRECK.
At lit Monday morning train No. 8
east-bound, was running on a sharp curve
two and a half miles east OF Talmadge,
| when it came suddenly upon part of freight
train No. 81. There was q dense fog and
| this c%onspired with other things to make
| the accident beyond hum an pow, to avoid.
Engineer Huntington had just time to re-
verse his engine when the dreadful crash
| came. He was instantly killed.
4 The froioht train waa q heavy one and
| while it was climbing the grade, a coupling
| parted at about the middle OF the train.
It was decided to resort to the common ex-
| pedient OF doubling UP. Flagmen were
| sent, one east and another west, to warn
any approaching train. Brakeman Brady
was sent ahead to flag the east-bound
passenger train which was known to be
| about due. Meantime the first part OF the
| broken freight train was taken to Talmadge
station. The engine then returned to the
second part.
A N WAS GIVEN
which is said to have been tosummon back
the 1agman stationed at the last end.
Flagman Bradley took it to be for himself,
and started pack to the freight. The en-.
gineer OF the freight engine says no recall
whistle was sounded, but at any rate Brad
ley understood it SO, and went back.
The freight had lust got under motion to
60 to Talmage when the express train came
along. The momentum OF the fast train
was somewhat checked by the reverse. but
the impetus was terrific. The freight en-
gineer and brakeman jumped and escaped
serious injury. The passenger engine wal
crushed into bits, aud mingled with the
wreckage behind it. The freight engine
reared up and stood almost on end. En-
gineer Huntington and fireman Walters, o
the express, were terribly crushed. Tht
brave engineer was disemboweled, his heaG
crushed, and his limbs broken and doubled
up.
The passenger train consisted of a com
bination baggage and express car ant
smoker, a common coach and two sleepers
THE GREATEST HORROR
came when the baggage car and smoker
which two escaped with the common coach
took fire. Engineer Jones of the Ken
yard.engine five miles off, began to be un
easy, and looking down the track saw
through the trees the glare OF the burnin
cars.
The teIescoped coaches appeared as one
and from the shattered and burning car
came the groans and shrieks OF the unfor
Inmates. Then came a scene OF terror, tn
strong struggling to soap d horrible dealt
by fire. the weak and helpless praying 70
succor from the flames that were fast en-
v~eloping them. One man, George Shaw
pinned in by wreckage, managed, by.almos
~superhuman efforts, to rel, ase his lowe
limbs and escape, cut and bruised.
In the smoker were eight Cinnamon, fiv
OF whom were pulled out alive, but wer
| n1lR J4oI En1., f.uLA %L-oo ro. -ao
after the crash, and bones and bits {
charred flesh gathered up in a bag were a
that was found OF them.
n MOST H IF L SCENE
were those attending the death of lit
Mary Ann Lyon, an orphan, who was b
ing sent through from Idaho on a secon,
, class ticket, to relatives in Cherry Cree
N. Y. Edward Peltzer. a passenger goir
. to New York, tells this story of her deaf
II noticed the little girl; she appeared t
be all alone, and learned she had bee
ticketed through to New York as a secon,
class passenger. She was a sweetface
child, and every time I visited the smok,
I interested myself in her. She said h,
= parents were dead and she was going t
% Cherry Greek to live with some relatives.
o When the crash came, l was in my bert
8 in the sleeper, and received only a sligt
@ shock, my first thought was OF little Mar,
:. and l rushed out Of the car and to m
- horror and saw the smoker all in flame
l went outside opposite the part OF I'll
n car where the little one had sat, and four
she had been wedged down by a seat whis
had fallen on her. Flames were alread
= surrounding her and finding she could NJ
u be rescued l fled from the spot"
q The passengers in the Pullman sleeper
d were hardly aroused by the conclusion.
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