The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-05-02
FOOD FOR FLAMES,
a. Railway Wreck in Canada In Whic
Two Persons Are Killed Instantly, and

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a. Railway Wreck in Canada in which
Two Perzons Are Killed Instantly. and.
the Debris Taking Fire, Eighteen Others
Are Burned to a Crisp.
=, HAMILTON, Ont, April 29-The east bound
limited express on the Grand Trunk rail.
way which left Chioago at z o'clock Satnr-
day evening was wrecked about mile west
OF this city shortly before 7o'clock Sunday
morning. Twenty passengers were either
killed instantly or burned to death. while
as many more received injuries more or less
serious
The accident occurred at the junction
cut. The train, which consisted Of two
baggage cars, one smoker, three passenger
coaches ahd FOUL Pullman sieep6rs. Was
gully over 100 feet deep, when ro,1nd-
Ing a sharp eurve tic locomotive i5ft Tia
track, followed BY the remainder Of
the cars except the two sleene r.
at the rear OF the train. The front baggage
car 1u,npea clean over the locomotive and
seniainad on the track about thirty feet
from the wreck. The smoker and the pas
senger coach following it We're jumbled to-
gether in shapeless mass while the other
cars were scattered along the tr ack and
We're completely demolished. Immediately
after the accident the fire from the loco
motive spread to the smoker and before
long the wreck was in q blaze. Most of the
100 passengers ON the train had either
crawled from the wreck or had pulled out
before the fire reached the cars. The onlv
two bodies recognizable had also been
recovered, together with fourteen in
Jured 1t was not known how
many victims were left in the
wreck till the fire had been extinguished
when the work Of clearing away laid bare
the charred and undergraduate remains OF
eighteen human beings 1t Is possible that
there MAY be other victims still remaining
In the debris The list Of Recognized dead
and the injured follows:
kILLED-Rudolph j. Ederer supposed to be
from Chicago; his head was severed from the
body: E. S. Quincy; traveller for Fred S. Gu-.
ney, Importer of cutlery; ZIG Chambers street,
New York, head CT usheti in and legs broken:
decentralization Clark, 146 West Ohio
street, Chicago, double fracture Of the right
leg, bruised badly, head cut and probably in
ternally injured, but will probably recover;
Anthony Maaz, Of Martz an Italian on his way
from Wisconsin to Italy. head cut but not seri
cusly; Edwin Chapman, fireman, head badly
cut over ght eye, not seriously hurt; Enoch
Kenyon, OF London, Eng, mining engineer,
ribs broken, not seriously injured; C. C. AZ
bell, Edwardsport, Ind, slight injuries; Will
lam L'-ipsey, 60 North Sangamon street, Chi
cago Ill., ankle badly sprained; A. L. Doney,
Danvi,le, ILL.,, cut about head, not seriously;
George White German, on his way from ui
nois to Union Hill, right ear cut off and scalp
wound, not serious: Andrew J. Carpenter
Yanktcn. D. r., injured about the head, but
not seriously; S. E. Young 284 North avenue,
Chicago, very seriously injured; Joseph Morris,
East Sioux Falls, D. r., on his way to Clark s
Island. Maine, scalp wounds, bruised leg and
shoulders, not serious; A. Palmer, Ilion, N
Y, cut about the head: Baggageman Walsh
Niagara Falls, collar. bone fractured; Brake.
man Beckham, Niagara Falls, leg supposed to
be broken and badly cut about face and head.
There were ID passengers on the train,
most Of Them on their way to New York to
attend the centennial celebration Many
OF them escaped from the broken cars be-
fore they caught fire. 1t was not thought
That the disaster was a rious one at that
time. Twelve injured passengers were
taken from the wreck, and after physi-
clans had attended to them they were
sent to the hospital. The body of
Rudolph J. Eberer was found near
the foot of the embankment The
head was severed from the body and was
Simultaneous. 1t looked as if he had tried
to escape by jumping from the smoker:
The next body recovered was that of L. s.
Quincy, of New York It was near the sec
ond baggage car. His head was crushed in
and his legs were fractured.
The horror of the disaster was increased
when the work of clearing away the wreck
was well under way. The men were ap-
palled when body after body was taken out
from under the debris. They were burned
90 crisp, and not one OF the eighteen
recovered could he recognized The
charred remains OF three ladies were
among the number. Only one Of the bodies
had head and its features were burned so
frightfully that even it could not be identi-
fed. It was impossible to ascertain the
names OF the uafortunates who were i'm
pri~onod in the and were rnasta,l alive
The sight was a horrible one as the work.
men gathered what there was left OF the
bodies from the ruins and packed them
away in shells.
Up to the time this dispatch was sent
twenty dead bodies have been taken from
eighteen of those who were burned beyond
recognition will be known for several days
1t is certain that all were through passen-
gers, as only few tickets were collected
for Canadian points
Horrible scenes were witnessed by the
occupants of the smoker and first passen-
ger car who were fortunate enough to es-
cape. An unknown man who was appar-
emily uninjured was burned to death He
was SO inextricably wedged in that he
could not be released before the flames
reached the rescuers, who had
to leave him to his fate. Seven
cars were destroyed by fire, two
OF them sleeping cars. The water tank
which stood at this place was struck and
destroyed by the engine, and it was impos-
sibe to extinguish or mitigate the confia-
grafton. Two OF the sleeping cars in the
rear were uncoupled and drawn out of
reach Of the fire Gallant efforts were
made by all present to rescue the vic
Tins and alleviate their pains. Several la
dies We're conspicuous by their skillful a ID
energetic labors In binding up gashes
and wounds. James Welsh, the baggage
man, who resides at Niagara Fails, Ont,
was the hero of tic occasion, working like
Trojan in spite OF the pain he endured
from his dislocated shoulder
FORTY HOUSES IN ASHES.
Destructive Fire i'll Jonesboro, Ark.-The
Loss from $l5O,OOO to 100000.