The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-01-15
A RAILROAD CRASH
Eight People Killed at
Tallmadge. Ohio.
THE wkEcKEp cars TAKE ysRE


CxEyELASD. o., Jaza. JI--A freight wreck
occurred on the New York, Feagss lvaass
1 0Aso rssircra near TsiEaage. osiso. tAEs
morning. passenger train eoflisiiag with
one section G. sseiga; which had broker.
In two. Eight persaas were killed add 4
dozen injured. The list es killed Is as fol.
lows: Robert Huntington, osgssliua. ohio,
passenger engineer; Vim. Walters, eff Esl.
ion, Ohio, passenger fireman, J. y. Rush.
gorsi. OF Gallon, freight brakeman; VIM.
I.ancy 81 Salamanca. express Hessauser.
three Chinamen: Nary Ann LYON. Of I.sa.
10. aSed 8, tiekefed seeoac-elasS 70 Cherry
crssk, =. FenT OF the injured sre in q
A fezdsf special from Akron gfseS the
following particulars OF the wreck Al
i:If zAss morniaE traf7 No s scxst Bound
wnzeA was rounding a sharpe curve IL
miles east OF Iaimage. came sadaensy mp
or isa.z Of freight trasM No 81. fhero
was dense fog and fais eoaspiresl with
other thlngs 70 rnaSf thS accident beyand
human power 10 asosss. Engineer Haa-
tingtoa lad suss time 10 reverse the engine
when the dreadful crash came. lie uaS
Instantly killed. Tsaa freight wSs heavy
aisd while il vas climbing 3 grade the
coupling parties as0st the middle of the
train. Il was decided 10 resort 10 the cosn-
mon expesiieat oi doubling up. Flagsnen
were sent. oRe east aud another vest.
10 warn any approaching train {arakexsan
Bradley wss SEMI ahead 10 dag the east
Assiuss passenger, which was kanwa 10 be
aboas dl.s- Meantime the tirst part ot the
broken freigat train vsss taken "a Tai
maEe station. The engine then returned
70 the other part. 4 signal wss given
which Is said IN have been to summon
back the tiagman stationed at the east
Fiagsnaa Bradley took il 20 be for him. and
started back 70 the freight rhe engineer
os the freight eagine says no recall whsle
was sounded, bnt * any rate Bradley
heart IL so and went hack The freight
train had j1st got under motion 10 20 10
Talfflase when the express train struck
Il was somewhat checked By 3 reverse. hns
the impact wss terrific nevertheless. The
freight engineer And brakemen jnmncd
ger engine e=-s crushed into bits
and miagied with the wesekage
behind IL, The freight engine reared an
and stood almost ou on. end, Engineer
Huntington and Fireman Walters ei the
express train were terribly crushed. The
hraye engineer was disembsweless. his head
crushed and bis limbs broken and doubted
up. The passenger train consisted OF n
combination baggage aud express car and
a smoker, common coaches ana two sleep
erS.
The greatest horror came when the bag
SaA< tat a1t- 1Ef1tAtE. A14tn kG1S>t1nfI
with coinnon coach, took fire. Engineer
Jones OF the Kent yard engine, five miles
OF, began 70 be uneasy, and, looking down
the track, saw through the trees
the glare OF the burning ears. The
teiescoped coaches appeared as one. and
from the shattered and burning eays came
the grosfls aud shrieks OF the unfortunates
Then came scene OF terror, the strong
struggling 10 escape the horrible aeafh by
fire, and the weak and helpless pfaying for
suecor from the flames that We're fast en-
yeloplng them One man. George shaw,
pinned IN by wreckage. managed by super
human effcrs 10 release his lower Inns aud
escape, cut aud bruised.
In the smoker were eight Cinnamon.
Five were pulled out alive. half dead from
fright. Three were never reen after the
crash. and bones and bits OF eharfed flesh
gathered up in bag were all that was
found of them.
one OF the most pathetic OF e., the
scenes were those attending the death OF
little Mary Ann Lynn, an orphan who was
being sent through from Idaho on
seeond-class ticket TO relations in Cherry
Greek. n Y. Edward Peltzsr. a rassen-
ger going TO New York, tells this story OF
her death; IL noticed the iitsse girl She
happened 20 he all alone. learned she
had been tieketed threagh 10 New York
as second class passenger She was
sweetfaced child, aud every time
visited the smoker interested myself
in her. She said her parents were
dead and she was going 10 Cherry Greek 10
live with some relatives. When the crash
esme was In my berth in the sleeper and
received only slight shock Ny first
thought was OF little Mary, aud | rushed
out of the car aud 10 my horror saw the
smoker all In flames. | went outside ap.
Posite the part OF the car where the little
one had sat and found she had been
wedsed down by a seat which had fallen
upon her. The flames were already sur
rounding her, and finding she could not be
rescued tied from the spot
The passengers In the rear Pullman
siespers were hardly aroused by the con
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