The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-05-16
DEATH IN A STREET-cAR.
erjghtful Accident At Kalamazoo, Mich.s
In which eix Women are killed-sDfhes
Fatal Railway Wrecks.

erightfu1 Accident at Kalamazoo, Michs
In which six Women Are killed-Dthes
Fatal Railway Wrecks.
KALAMAZOO, Mich. May "a terrible ac-
.ident occurred here Wednesday evening.
At about . p m. switch engine No. !, ON the
Michigan Central received orders to
proceed to Oshtcmo, the first sta
Jon west of here, to aid the New York
and Chicago limited, which had met
with an accident At West Main
street crossing city railway car was APP
orOaching. The driver, the gates not be-
ng lowered and seeing no signals, started
20 cross the track, when the car was struck
,quarely and carried fully block. There
we're dozen passengers on board ut the
lime, Of whom six were killed. They We're:
Mrs. Van Antwerp. Miss Gertic Tillottson,
Mrs. Alexander Hadl0ck. wife Of the professor
II mathematics at Kalamazoo College: Mrs.
NJ. L. Watties, wife OF the former division
superintendent OF the Lake Shore railroad;
Mrs. George Smiley, wife Of q prominent citi
zen: Mrs. Middleton.
The most severely injured ara Mrs. John
Barnes and Mrs. $. 4. Gibson. 4 number OF
others were slightly hurt. j. & lull, tho
iriycr, and q boy on the platform escaped
lnharmed All the dead were horribly
mangied. the car being dragged nearly 100
yards 1t is difficult to definitely locate the
blame. The engineer claims that he was
ordered to run faster than usual. Those
who saw the accident say that the rate
tar exceeded that allowed engines
TO run inside the city limits The gates at
the crossing where the accident occurred
are not used between 30 and 6..s j. III,
The gatekeeper going home at that time
The custom probably deceived the driver
of the street t-car. who was n new man, and
who probably supposed that the gates
would of course be down il ali engine were
coming.
FATAL WRECK IN CLEVELAND.
CLEVELAND. o.. May a.--The north bound
passenger train on the Valley railroad
which was due here at $50 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon entered the city
limits on time and was running along
ut the rate Of thirty miles an
hour when the smoker left the
track. II turned TO the right and colided
with a car loaded with coal on side track
There were fourteen passengers in the
smoker at the time. two OF whom were in
stantly killed and four OF whom were
painfully injured. A half dozen other
passengers were bruised and cut. hut
not seriously. The front end of the
smoker was demolished, the roof being
over the coal-car and the floor beneath it,
after it had settled. The dead and injured
We're provided for by the railway officials
The dead are:
T.. ID. Odberf. OF Akron, o., son af q wealthy
operator. % years old; George ]. kempt, al
No. - Erin avenue, travelling salesman, x
years old
Those injured were:
Lawrence O'Connel,. Akron. o.. lett leg
fractured: Mrs. Caroline Chiltscy. No. - Ohio
street. Cleveland, rib broken: W. NJ. Clark
Brooklyn, n. u, agent OF Missouri Pacific
railroad. left leg bruised: james c. Taylor
Cambridge. o.. accountant and raymaster oi
the Cleveland Mariette railroad, cut in the
face.
THE OPERATOR ERRED.
CHATTANOOGA. Tenn, May . -Informa.
tiCn of q collision on the Cincinnati South
ern railroad, near Glen Mary. has reached
here. Through a mistake OF orders by the
train dispatcher at Somerset passenger train
| No. q, from this city to Cincinnati, collided
with a freight The engines OF both trains
we're totally demolished and number oi
cars derailed. None Of the passengers were
hurt, but the baggage master. postal clerk,
fireman and negro porter on the passenger
train were badly injured The accident
delayed all trains Fireman Burchett, oi
the freight train. died OF his injuries