Morning journal and courier., 1889-01-15
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. AN AWFUL COLLISION. Eight Persons Killed And
 Twelve Injured. DEATH OF LIEUTENANT MILES. Longer Sessions In The
 House. SECRECY REGARDING STANLEY. The TrentOn Ordered To
 Samoa.
FATAL RAILROAD DISASTER.

FATAL RAILHOAD D ASTEh. Freight and Passenaer CT Trains Collide
 Eight Persons Killed and a Dozen
 More IDjured-The Cars on F1re-ALl
 on Account of a Flagman,s Blunder
 Valuable Books Destroyed.
 CLEVELAND, Jan. 14.-A frightful wreck occurred on the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio railroad near Talmadge, Ohio, this morning, passenger train colliding with one section of a freight train, which had broken in two. Eight persons were killed and dozen injured.
 The list is as follows: Killed-Robert Huntington of Gallon, Ohio, passenger fire man; J. F. Rushford of Gallon, freight brakeman; Wm. Lundy of Salamanca, N. .Y., Wells Fargo messenger; three Chinamen; Mary Ann Leon of Idaho, aged six.
 Injured David Thomas Of Gallon, bag gage master, badly injured; Robert Owen, newsboy, shoulder dislocated and cuts and bruises; Sam Douglass of Gallon, engineer, leg and head cut and bruised, burned about abdomen, James Boyd of Paterson, N. J.. hurt on head and back; George Shaw of Gallon, freight brakeman, cut and bruised; Thomas Fairfax, colored, leg broken in two places and bad cuts on the head. Other pas sengers, whose names were not learned re- ceived slight but not serious injuries.
 A Leader special from Akron gives the following particulars of the wreck:
 At 2:27 o'clock this morning train No. 8, east bound, rounding the curve 11z miles east of Tallmadge came suddenly upon part of freight train No. S1. There was fog, and this with other things made the accident beyond human power to avert. Engineer Robert Huntington had just time to reverse his engine when the crash came and he was killed. The freight was heavy, and while it was climbing the grade coupling parted about the middle of the train.
 It was decided to resort to the common ex- pedient of doubling up. Flsgmen were sent out, one east, another to the west to warn any approaching train. Brakeman James Bradley was sent ahead to flag the east bound passenger, which was known to be about due. Meantime the first part of the broken freight train was taken to Tall madge siding.
 The engine then returned to the second part. A signal was then given, which is said to have been to summon back the fagman stationed at the east. Flagman Bradley took it to be for him also and started back to the freight. The freight had just got under mo- ton to go to Talmadge when the express came along. The momentum of the fast train was somewhat checked by the reverse, but the impact was terrible nevertheless. The freight engineer and brakeman jumped and escaped serious in jury. The passenger engine was crushed into bits and mingled with the wreckage behind it. The freight engine reared up and stood almost on end. Engineer Huntington and Fireman Walters of the ex. press were terribly brushed. The brave en- gineer was disembowelled, his head crushed and his limbs broken and doubled up. The passenger train consisted of a combination baggage and express car and smoker, com mon coach and two sleepers.
 The greatest horror came when the bag gage car and smoker, which Selescoped with -4l, Gra T6a+ tola seoped coaches appeared as one, and from the shattered and burning cars came the groans and shrieks of the unfortunates. One man, George Shaw, pinned in by the wreck age, managed by superhuman efforts to re lease his lower limbs and escape cut and bruised. The last man to get out alive wal able to grasp an axe handle and retain hii hold until drawn through gap half dead but was quickly resuscitated. In the smoker were eight ChinaInen. Five were pulled out alive, but half dead with fright. Three were never seen after the crash, and bones anG bits of charred flesh gathered up in bag were all that was found of them. The mos pathetic of all the scenes were those attend ing the death of little Mary Leon, an orphan who was being sent through from Idaho or a second-class ticket to relatives in Cherry \ Greek, N. Y.
 l Edward Peltzer, passenger going to New York, tells this story of her death: ''I noticed the lltllo SLEI, WuO dppSdTeu sO Us HI alOuc and learned that she had been tlcxeteo through to New York as 8 second class pass eDger. She was sweet faced child, anC every time visited the smoker I interested myself in her. She said her parents wer, dead, and she was going to Cherry Greek tt | live with relatives. When the crash came was in my berth in the sleeper and received | only slight shock. My first thought wa | little Mary, and I rushed out of the car ant 1 to my horror saw that the smoker was all il | flames"
 | went outside opposite the part of the ca ! where the little one had sat and found tha
 she had been wedged down by seat whiel | had fallen upon her. The flames were al | ready surrounding her, and finding sh could not be rescued fled from the spot | imagining that could see her pleading eye | and hear her dreadful shrieks. This so un
 nerved me that threw myself down upol the ground and sobbed."
 | Another eyewitness says that the listl | girl, whose shrieks were heart-rending, re leased herself just before the fire got to he | and for a moment groped wildly about in tn prison of a car, then fell over choked b. smoke, the flames quickly coming up to com plete the dreadful work.
 The two detached sleepers were pulle back to akron, and in them were brough | the wounded, whose names are given above The passengers in the rear Pullman sleeper
 were hardly aroused by the concussion of th
 accident; in fact, no one is said to hay
 apprehended danger until the officials in
 formed them of the casualty and bsde ther
 make nasty toilets.
 The express car carried large quantity c
 fine silver and base bullion and 8 treasur
 safe said to be filled with fine gold. Whil
 the express matter was burning, lawye
 from the West stood by, and pointing to
 flaming trunk said:
 "That trunk contains S25, 900 worth of le
 gal books and papers. The papers cannot b
 duplicated and suit involving $25, ,000 de
 pends upon the evidence they contain"
 The railroad company's loss is estimated { ! $15, 900 by the officials of the company.