The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-01-15
A RAILROAD HORROR.
Fatal Collision Between a
Passenger and Freight.
AWFUL SCENES AT THE WRECK
The Cars Take Fire and Many Per-
soma are Burned to Death
A Little Waite.

1OUNGSiOMNt O.i JduudIy 4hO
passenger train for New York on the
New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Rail-
road, running fifty miles an hour, this
morning struck a freight train near
Tallmadge, .. Both engineers, both
tiremen and eight passengers were
killed. fourteen passengers were badly
injured. The freight train was trying
to make a siding, and had sent out a
dsgman, who failed to signal the pas
senger.
Reported kilIed-Engineer Hunting
ton, Fireman Walters, Brakeman Bash
ford, Express Messenger Landy, Mary
Lyon, 6-vesr-old child, OF Cherry
Tree, New York, and three Chinamen.
The names of the six injured are not
learned
A few minutes after the accident,
flames began to shoot out of the bag
gage car and smoker. Passengers and
train people Immediately began 70 work
REscUING THE INJURED
and dead. The coach in the req of the
smoker was badly damaged, and the end
of the baggage car was crushed far into
the SIN 0ker. As soon as the .pju1ed
and dead were removed from the :, conu
coach, which was also on fire, he two
sleepers were detached and pushed
back by hand out of reach Of the flames.
None of the passengers in the teepers
were injured. All persons who scaped
death were placed in the sleepers, and
the east-bound train was couI led to
them and proceeded to LavittsbU re. 1t
is reported that twelve persons ere in
jured.
LATER ACCOUNT.
CLEVELAND, o., January IA fright
full wreck occurred on the New York,
Pennsylvania q Ohio Railway near
Mage, Ohio, this morning. A pas
senge- train colliding with one lection
of freight which had broken in two.
Nine persons were killed and twelve
Injured. The list of the killed is as
follows: Robert Huntington, of Gallon,
o; Passenger Engineer William
Walters, of Gallon, o.; Passenge.' Fire
man J. +. Rushford. of Gallon, o..
Freight Brakeman William Lundv, of
Salamanca, OF n. Y. Express Mes
senger Fow Chinaman, Mary Ann
Lion, of Idaho, aged 6; ticketed second.
class to Cherry Greek, n. Y; four
of the injured are in a serious con
dition. The Leader in a specisl from
Akron gives the
FELLOWS PARTICULARS OF THE WRECK:
At LII, this morning, as train No s.,
east bound, was rounding a sharp
curve one and q half miles east of
Talmage, directly on the curve met
freight tram No. 10. There was dense
fog, and this conspired with other
things to make the accident beyond
human power to aid Engineer Hunt,
ington had Just time to reverse lis en-
CINE when the dreadful crash cana. He
was instantly killed. The freight vas a
heavy one, and while climbing the hill
q coupling parted about the mic ale of
the train. Il was decided to resort to
the common expedient of
DOUBLING UP
Flagmen were sent out, one cas- and
another west, to warn any approaching
train. Brakeman Bailey was sent ahead
to flag the westbound passenger, which
was about due. Meantime, the first
part of the broken freight train was
taken to tulmage station. The engine
was then taken to the second part. q
signal was given TO some men back of
the hagmen stationed at the east.
Flagman Bradley took it to be for him
also, and started back to the freight.
The engineer says no recall whistle was
sounded but, anyhow. Bradley heard it.
30 and went back, The fire. ghl had Just
got INTO motion when the eX press came
along and struck. The momentum of
the fast train was somewhat broken by
the reverse, but
THE CONTACT WAS TERRIBLE
The freight engineer and brakeman
jumped and escaped serious injury or
damage. The freight engine reared up
anGS stood almost on its end. The
engineer and fireman of the express
were terribly crushed. The brave
engineer was disembowled, his head
crushed and his limbs broken and
doubled up. The passenger train con-
sisted of a combination of baggage and
express car and smoker, a common
coach and two sleepers. The greatest
horror came when the baggage car and
smoker, which telescoped with the
common coach, took fire. Engineer
Jones. OF the Kent Yard engine. five
miles off began to be uneasy, and look
Ing QOWu IHS GTdCki saw Iu6r6, the
glare of the burning cars. The tiles
COPIED coaches appeared as one and rom
the shattered aud burning cars cana
THE ORGANS AND sHRIEKs
of the untortunates. Then came a
scene of terror; the strong strugg ing
to escape a horrible death by fire, the
weak and helpless praying for succor
from the flames that were fast envelop-
ing them. One man, George Shaw,
who was pinned in by the wreckage,
managed by superhuman efforts to re-
lease his lower limbs. and escaped cUt
and bruised. Ii the smoker were Ell ht
Cinnamon; five were pulled out a i've,
but half dead from fright, but the oaher
three were never seen after the crash,
and bones and bits of charred esh
gathered up in bag were all that was
found Of them. One of the most pa