The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1889-04-11
Made 10 Wreck the IT, Wayne
limited Yestibule Train
Al the Town of Louisville, siA
Miles East OF Canton,
Fish Bars are Wedged With Unusual
Tlghtnrsa
And tho Result Would Have End
Cd in n Horror
hat Eor Timely Warning by = FralRhb
IlnaineaF-A MN huralAFiasd and
Canton Parties BuHpested,

Late Wednesday afternoon the intel
! lgenGe reached this OiilG6 that m
attempt had been made ~ wreck q m,
Wayne train nv Louisville NJ midnight
| Tuesday,
Owing 10 the latenesa Of Tho hour II
wah inpOaalhG ~ reach tho public,
almost the entiro edition being fun OF,
The Information was that tho train
was thG limited yeatlDule passenger
train and had IL not been for Hlpefnu
man work by tho operator and M assist
ant the train
WOULD IfAyn nHEN WllEOKhD,
and handleds 0f lives lost
Shortly before the hour f0f tho limit,
| Cd section No. 70 of tho eaat bound
freight pissed LoniSyille
4 rRRMRNDOuA NOmn
WnR mndn 10y tho cars passing over the
track near tho bridge over The Mimi
ahIlltn,
Tho trouble WAS investigated and the
trHlum6n found thrt tho track had
boon wtdged NJ the switch 10 catch the
west bound train,
The operator waA notified, lie knew
not what 10 do, Tho limited had left
the last station pnd no Could not warA
II OF thG impending danger, ll6 So
cured an assistant and with u hammer
went 10 work on the track, He found
WEDOED INTO TuR swlron
eight pieces Of Iron known ~ Ash bafa
IL took hnrd work 10 remove any, but
at the moment hG heard tbs whistle Of
the limited no succeeded partially inhia
! work
Enough OF the fish bara were re-
moved 10 permit the train % pass
In safety which " did and
came 10 u gJ0p q short distance away,
The bars had been placed In the
aWilGh with The east end raised, aud
such was tho force with which they
were driven that a iOrCG OF men has
| been unable ~ remove them all,
Had thH discovery uOt be0n made
when 10 had the Tram with ila load nf
humanity would have been prcGlpltNled
over the blull NJ that point and
nuRLFp 70 INsTANT DEATH
The depth 10 tho nyer was Niteen
feet and thU waters were unusually
high. This would have mad0 tho de-
struotion complete.
AFFAIR EErT QuEr
The alIair was kept unusually quiet
but leaked out In Loul5yille Wednes'
day That village "a ono person shook
IN with the palsy over the thought OF
what might have been,
When II was learned that Gib6S MIL,
just east OF tho l't, Wayne depot, had
been broken into during tho night, the
excitement Increased. IL was found
that tho money drawer had been broken
open but not n large sum Of money
was secured. The safe In which the
money was kept had been tampered
with but was
NOT BLOWN OrRH,
10 ~ thought the parties who bur
glarized the mill are the sam0 who
made tho lendish attempt " wreck
tho train. What Ia more, the parties
afe thought TO live In this city,
During the day strangers were seen
In tho village and they are thought 70
have been residents OF Canton, Tho
case is being investigated
II In understood that q big
REWARD WILL BE OFrEnED
by tho Pennsylvania company Tor In.
formation leading TO the arrest Of the
right parties aud that u still larger rG-
ward will DO offered for their conylc'
tiUn, Some good work Will DO done on