The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-01-15
DEATH ON THE IRON ROAD.
Eight Killed in an Ohio Railroad
Horror.
A Fast Train Crashes Into a Broken
Freight.
The Deadly Car Stove Adds to the
Wreck and Havoc.
Three Cinnamon Burned to Death in
the Debris.
Pifful Fate Of a Six Year Old
Traveller.


occurred on the New York, Pennsylvania q
Ohio railroad near Tallmadge. Ohio, at 2.27
this morning, passenger train collldiDg
with one section of freight which was
broken in two Eight persons were killed
and dozen injured, as follows:
KILLED.
Robert Huntington, Gallon, Ohio.
Passenger fireman, William Walters, Cali
on.
Freight brakeman, william Lundy, sala-
The Wells. Fargo & Co. express messsn-
ger.
Three Cinnamon.
Mary Ann Lyon of Idaho. aged 6.
INJURED.
David Thomas, Gallon, baggage master,
badly injured
Robert Owen of Kent, newsboy, shoulder
dislocated and bad scuts and bruises.
Sam Douglass, Gallon, engineer, leg and
head cut and bruised, bur ned about the alb
domen.
James Boyd. Paterson, N. j., severely
hurt on head and neck.
George Shaw, Gallon. freight brakeman,
cut and bruised.
Thomas Fairfax, (colored). Cleveland. leg
broken in two places below the knee, bad
cuts on head.
Other passengers who names were not
learned. received but slight injuries.
A dense fog conspired with other things 10
make the accident beyond human pewer to
avert. Engineer Robert Huntington had
Just time TO reverse his engine when the
crash came. He was killed. The freight
was heavy and while climbing grade
coupling parted about In the middle of the
train. 1t was decided to resort to the
common expedient of doubling up. Flag
men were sent, one east and the other west,
TO warn approaching trains. Brakeman
James Bradley an old and experienced rail-
r0ader, was sent ahead to flag the east bound
passenger which was known to be about
due. In the meantime, the first
taken to Tallmadge siding. The engine then
returned to the second part and the signal
was then given, it is said to summon back
the fagman stationed at the East. Flagman
Bradley took it to be for him also. and start
ed back to the freight.
The freight had Just got under motion to
go to Tallmadge when the express came
along. The momentum of the fast train was
somewhat checked by reverse, but the i'm
pact was terrific nevertheless. The passen-
ger engine was crushed into bits. Fireman
and the engineer was disembowelled, his
head crushed and limbs broken and doubled
up. The baggage-car and smoker, which teles-
COPIED with a common coach, took fire, and
| from the shattered and burning cars came
the groans and shrieks of the unfortunates.
George Shaw, pinned In by the wreckage,
managed by superhuman efforts to rele ise
his lower limbs, and escaped cut and bruised
| The last man to get out alive was able to
| grasp an axe handle and retain his hold un-
| Gil drawn through the gap, half dead.
| In the smoker were eight Cinnamon. Five
| were pulled out alive, though half dead
| from fright, but three were never seen after
the crash. Bones and bits Of charred flesh,
| gathered up In bag, were all that were
| found of them.
| Little Mary Ann Lyon, an orphan, was be-
| ing sent through from Idaho on second
| class ticket to relations in Cherry Creek, n
7. Edward Peltzer, a passenger, going to
| New York, tells this story of her death: Il
| noticed little girl who appeared all alone
| and learned she had been ticketed through
| to New York as second class passenger
| She was sweet faced child and every time
| / visited the smoker interested myself in
| her. She said her parents were dead and
| she was going to Cherry Creek to live with
| some relatives. When the crash came, was
| In my berth in the sleeper and received only
a slight shock. My first thought was Of
| little Mary and / rushed out and, to my
horror, saw that the smoker was all in
| flames. l went outside to the opposite part
| of the car where the little one had sat and
| found she had been wedged down
by the seat which had fallen upon
| her. Flames were already surrounding
her and finding she could not be rescued
| fled from the spot, imagining could see her
| pleading eyes and hear her dreadful shrieks.
| This so unnerved me l threw myself down
| upon the ground and sobbed."
Another eye witness says the little girl
| whose shrieks were heard released herself
| just before the fire got to her, and for mo-
| ment CROPPED wildly about in the prison of
| the car, and then fell over choked by the
smoke, the flames quickly coming to complete
| the dreadful work
The two detached sleepers were
| pulled back to Akron, and in them
were brought the wounded. The passengers
| in the rear Pullman and sleepers were hard
| Iy aroused by the concussion of the accident.
In fact, no one, it is said, apprehended dan
| ger until the officials informed them of the
| calamity and bade them make hasty toilets
| The express carried large quantity of fine
| silver, base bullion and treasure and the
| safe was said to be filled with fine gold.
| While the express matter was burning, a
| lawyer from the West stood by and pointing
| to a flaming trunk said THAT trunk con-
| tains $4,000 worth of legal books and pa
| pers The papers cannot be duplicated. A
suit involving $4,000 depends on the evil
dence they contain" The railroad CON-
pany's loss is estimated at $4,000 by the
/ officials.