The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-15
INTO ETERNITY.
A Railroad Train Dashed to Pieces,
Eight Persons Lose Their Lives
Outright in the Wreck.
Most of Them Consumed by the
Coaches Taking Fire.
The Pathetic Scenes That Take
Place in the Burning Oars.
A Little Girl Caught by tho Seats ID
Cremated In the Presence of
Strong Men who Could
Not Release Hor.

Ohio, this morning. \ passenger train
colided with one section OF freight,
which had broken in two. Eight persons
were killed and dozen injured. The list
is as follows:
KILLED.
Robert Huntington, Gallon, Ohio,
passenger engineer.
William Walters, Of Gallon, passenger
fireman.
j. X. Rushford, OF Gallon, freight brake
man.
William Lundy, oisalamanca, NcwYork,
Wells, Fargo & Co. express messenger.
Three Cinnamon.
Mary Ann Lyon, Of Idaho, aged six,
ticketcd second class 10 Cherry Creek, n.
Y.
INJURED.
David Thomas, OF Gallon, o.. baggage
master, badly injured, at first reported
killed.
Robert Owen, Of Kent, newsboy, shoul.
der dislocated and bad cuts and bruises.
sam Douglass, engineer, OF Gallon, leg
and head cut and bruised; burned about
the abdomen.
James Boyd, Of Paterson, n. j., passcn-
ger, severely hurt on head and back.
George shaw, Of Gallon, freight brake
man, cut and bruised.
Thomas Fairfax (colored), Of Clevc-
land, leg broken in two places below the
knees and bad cuts on head.
Other passengers, whose names were
not learned, received slight injuries but
none Of them are serious Those In the
two sloepcrs escaped practically unhurt.
TmE PARTICULARS.
| A LSddr special from Akron gives the
following particulars Of the wreck
At 2:27 O'Clock this morning the train
No. 4, east bound, rounding the sharp
curve one and half miles cast OF Tall.
mndgc, came suddenly upon a part of
freight train No. ~. There was a dense
iog and this conspircd, with other things,
10 make the accident beyond human
power 10 avert Engineer Robert Hunt
ington had lust time 10 reverse his engine
when tho dradful crash came. aud in the
instant ho yielded up his lie. The freight
was heavy and while Il WIS climbing the
grade q coupling parted about the middle
ol the train. II was decided TO Tsort Ia
the common cNpedrnt vi doubling up.
+Flngmcn were sent out, one east aud an
other west, 10 warn any approaching
trains. Brakeman James Bradley, nn old
aud experienced uilroadcr. WIS sent
ahead to ilag the oast.bound passenger,
which was known TO be about due. Mean.
time the iist part Of the broken freight
train wis taken 10 the Tallmadgr siding
The engine then returned to the second
part. a signal was then given, which is said
to have been 10 summon back tho hngmnn
1 L.. n.
took IL to be for him also. and started back
10 the freight. The engineer OF the freight
engine says that no rccall whistle was
sounded, but at any rate Bradley heard IL
NO and went back. The freight had Just
got under motion 10 20 10 Tallmadgc when
the express came along. The momentum
oi the last tmin WIS somewhat checked
by the reverse. but the impact was terri
tic, nevertheless. The freight engineer aud
brakeman jumped aud escaped serious in
Jury, the engineer receiving several cuts
The passenger engine was crushed into
bits and mingled with the wrcckagc he
hind II. The freight engine reared up and
stood almost ON cnd. Eig ne y Hunting.
ton aud Fireman Walters, Ul tho express,
were terribly crushed.
rnE BRAyE ESuiSEIR WAS DisrInowEtrD,
his head crushed and his limbs broken
and doubled up. The passenger train con.
sisted Of n combination baggage and cx
press car and smoker, common coach
and two slccpcr.
:. y. Barnes, rcsidingncat by hoard the
crash and the kissing steam, aud hastily
dressing ran over. lie SAYS "Ihc two
slccpcB had been pushed by tminmcn
aud passengers away from tie wreck, u
| Al Il II. 3D..
nation baggage aud express car and pIs.
scngcr coach were aiiru when ! reached
the ground. Tho passenger aud baggage
car had iclcscopcd, and the two engines
Wcrc thrown upon the cmbaukmrnt
helped to take out the body oi Engineer
Huntington"
The greatest horror came when the bag
gage car aud smoker, which, tclCscopci
with the common coach, took fire. l.u-
ginccr Jones, Of the Kent yard engine,
five miles of, began 10 bo uneasy, aud
looking down the tmck, saw through the
trees the glare Of the burning oi cars
After the accident the two tolcscopcd
coaches appeared as one, and from the
shattered and burning ears came tho
groans and shrieN u the uni0uunaics.
Then came the scene oi the horror, tho
strong struggling t0 escape tho horrible
death by fire, tho weak and hopclcssly
wounded praying ior succ0r from tlir
flames that were fast cnycloping them.
one man, George Shaw pinned IN by the
wrcckagc, managed by supcrhumin oi-
forts 10 release his lower limbs, and ~.
capped cut aud bruised. Tho last man "a
get out alive was able 10 grasp m aX han.
! die and retained his hold until hc va
drawn through u gap, half dead, but wa
quickly rcsusciiaied
! In the smoker were eight Chinamcn
I Five we're pulled Out alive. 1hrUH wcr
b mover seen after The crash. and bones ant
. bits ol char cd q ',li gathered up Ia bll
were nj. that was found NJ them.
, rIl HO.r rAturic srENE
( ono Of the most pathetic ul all sccnc
were those attending tl1 death 0i littll
Mary Ann Lyon, an orphan, Who wa
being sent ihrjugh irun Idaho on socon'
class tickot 10 relatives in Cherry Creek
y n. y. Edward prltler, passenger goin
. TO New York, tells this story Of her death
o IL noticed the little girl, Who appeared I
l. be all alone, anl learned that she had bccI