Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-15
A RAILROAD HORROR.
Passenger Coaches Collide
with a Freight Train.
CRUSHED AND CREMATED.
Terrible Scenes in the Burning
Wreck-An Orphan Girls De-
plOrable Fate.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD
CLEVELAND, o., January IA "A fright
full wreck occurred on the New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad near
Tallmage, Ohio, this morning, passen-
ger train colliding with one section Of
freight which had broken in two. Eight
persons were killed and dozen injured.
The list of killed is as follows: Robert
Huntington, of Gallon, Ohio, passenger
engineer William Walters, OF Gallon,
passenger fireman. ]. F. Rushford, of
Gallon, freight brakeman VIM. Lundy,
OF Salamanca. N. Y, express messenger;
four Chinamen; Mary Ann Lyon, of
Idaho, aged 6, ticketed second class to
Cherry Greek, N. Y. Four of the in
! jured are in serious condition.
A Leader special from Akron gives the
following particulars of the wreck: At
2:27 this morning, train No. s, east
bound, rounding sharp curve, one and
a half miles east of Tallmage, came sud-
denly upon part Of freight train No. 81.
There was a dense fog and this con-
spired with other things to make the
accident beyond human power to avoid.
Engineer Huntington had just time to
reverse his engine when dreadful crash
came. He was instantly killed. The
freight was heavy and while it was climb
ing the grade a coupling parted. The
brave engineer was disemboweled, his
head crushed and his limbs broken and
doubled up. The passenger train con-
sisted of baggage and express car and
smoker, common coach and two sleepers.
The greatest horror came when the bag
gage car and smoker, which had tele-
scoped with the common coach, took fire.
Engineer Jones of the Kent yard engine,
when FIVE miles off began to be uneasy
trees the glare of the burning cars. After
the accident the two telescoped coaches
appeared as one, and from the burning
) cars came the groans and shrieks of the
unfortunates. Then came scene of
terror, the strong struggling to escape a
horrible death by fire, the weak and
) helpless and wounded praying for
, succor from the flames that
were fast enveloping them. One
man George Shaw pinned in by the
wreckage, managed by superhuman
efforts to release his two lower limbs
) and escaped cut and bruised. In the
smoker were several Cinnamon. Five
were pulled out alive but half dead from
) fright. Three were never seen after the
crash, and bones and bits of charred
flesh gathered up in a bag were all that
: were found of them.
> One OF the most pathetic OF all the
scenes were those attending the death of
little Mary Ann Lyon, an orphan, who
was being sent through from Idaho on a
; second-class ticket to relatives in Cherry
Creek, N. Y. Edward Peltzer, a pas
; senger going to New York, tells this story
) of her death: 81 noticed a little girl
who appeared to be all alone and learned
she had been ticketed through to New
York second-class passenger. She was
a sweet-faced child, and every time
visited the smoker interested myself in
her. She said her parents were dead,
) and she was going to Cherry Creek to
live with some relatives. When the
> crash came 1 was in my berth in the
. sleeper and received only slight shock.
My first thonght was of little Mary, and
. l rushed out Of the car and to my horror
saw the smoker all in flames. l went
! outside the opposite part Of the car where
the little one had sat and found she had
been wedged down by the seat, which
had fallen upon her. The flames were
already surrounding her, and finding
she could not be rescued, fled from the
L spot"
The passengers in the rear Pullman
sleepers were hardly aroused by the con-
cussion.