Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-15

! between Kent ana lalnldUS6. Inc ITOub
end of the freight was put on a side
track and a fa@man was left at Talmadge
| to flag passenger train No. 6, eastbound,
then nearly due The fagman
| imagined he heard whistle
signal from his engine to return to the
train and did not perform the duty re-
| CURED of him. The engines came to-
! gether with fatal results TO eight persons
and injuries to six others. Those reported
killed are:
| Engineer HUNTINGTON,
Fireman WALTERS,
| Brakeman BASHFoRD,
Express Messenger LANDY,
| MARY LYNN, little -year-old girl of
| CherIytree, n. Y, and three China
me4l.
The names Of the injured are not yet
! learned.
The collision took place at point about
| two miles from Talmadge. The tracks on
both sides were bound by heavy growth
Of trees and the country in the
vicinity is. but sparsely settled. A
| few minutes after the accident
occurred flames had begun to shoot out
of the baggage car and smoker. The
| passengers and train people Immediately
began the work of rescuing the injured
and dead from the wreck. The coach in
the rear of the smoker was badly dam
aged, and the end of the baggage car
had crushed far into the smoker. AS
soon as the injured and dead were re-
| moved from the second coach, which
was also on fire, the two sleepers were
detached and pushed back by hand out
of reach of the flames. None of the
| passengers in the sleepers were injured,
but all persons who escaped death were
placed in the sleepers and an extra en-
CINE conveyed them to a side track where
the next eastbound train coupled to them
and proceeded to Leavitsburg.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
CLEVELAND, OHIO, Jan. IA fright
full wreck occurred on the New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio railroad near
Talmadge, Ohio, this morning, passen-
ger colliding with one section of a 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, Gallon, Ohio, pas
senger fireman;
J. R. Rushford, Gallon, Ohio, freight
brakeman;
William Lundy, Salamanca, N. Y,
Wells, Fargo s. Co. express messenger;
Three Cinnamon;
Mary Ann Lyon of Idaho, aged l6,
ticketed second class to Cherry Creek,
Ny.
Injured-DavidT Thomas of Gallon, bag
gagemaster, badly injured, at first re-
ported killed; Robert Owne of Kent,
newsboy, shoulder dislocated and bad
cuts and bruises; Sam Douglass,
engineer, Gallon, leg and head cut
men; James Lloyd of Patterson, N. j.,
passenger, severely hurt on the head and
back; Geo Daw of Gallon freight brake
man, cut and bruised; Thos. Fairfield,
colored, of Cleveland, leg broken in two
places below the knee and bad cuts on the
head. Other passengers whose names
are not learned received slight injuries,
but none of them are serious Those in
the two sleepers escaped practically un-
hurt.
THE PARTICULARS.
Leader special from Gallon gives the
following particulars of the wreck:
At 2:27 CLOCK this morning train
northeastbound rounding "a sharp curve
one and a half miles east of Talmadge
came suddenly upon q freight train No.
81. There was a dense fog, and this con-
Spired with other things to make the ac-
cldent beyond human power to avoid.
Engineer Robert Huntington had just
time TO reverse the engine when the
d eadtuI crash came, and in an instant
he yielded up his life.
The freight was heavy, and while it
was climbing a grade the coupling parted
about the middle of the train. 1t was
decided to resort to the common expe-
dent of doubling up. Flagmen were
sent out, one east and one west, to warn
ANY APPROACHING TRAINS.
Brakeman James Bradley, an old and
experienced railroader, was sent ahead
TO flag the eaSt-bound passenger, which
was known to be about due. Meantime
the first part of the broken freight was
taken to Talmadge siding. The engine
then retureed to the second part. A signal
was then given which is said to have been
to summon the back fiagman stationed at
the east. Flagman Bradley thought it
to be for him also and started back to the
freight. The engineer of the freight
engine says that no recall whistle was
sounded, but at any rate Bradley heard
it and went back. The freight had just
got under Roadway to 90 to Talmadge
when the express came. The momentum
of the fast train was somewhat
checked by the reverse, but the impact
was terrible, nevertheless. The freight
engineer and brakeman jumped and
escaped serious injury, the engineer re-
ceiving several cuts. The passenger
engine was crushed into bits and mingled
with the wreckage behind 1t. The freight |
engine reared up and stood almost on |
end Engineer Huntington and Fireman |
Walters of the express were terribly |
crushed.
THE BRAKE ENGINEER
was disembowled, his head crushed and |
his limbs broken and doubled up. The |
passenger train. consisted of a combina- |
ton baggage and express car and smoker, |
a common coach and two sleepes.
s. Z. Barnes, residing near the scene, |
heard the crash and hissfne steam and |