St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-15
MANGLEDAND BURNED
Nine Persons Lose Their Lives
in a Collision on the
Nypano.
A Dozen Others Crushed and
Partially Incinerated in
the Wreck.
The Life Of a Negro Depends
Upon a WOman's
Memory.
Fly Cops Discover a Baby
Farm in the Heart of
st. Louis.

Special to the Globe.
CLEVELAND, o., Jan. IA frightful
wreck occurred on the New York.
Pennsylvania & Ohio railroad, near
Tallmadge. O., this morning, passen-
ger train colliding with one section of a
freight, which had broken in two. Nine
persons were killed and dozen injured.
The list is as follows:
THE KILLED.
ROBERT HUNTINGTON, of Gallon, o.,
WILLIAM WALTERS, of Gallon, passen-
ger fireman.
j. F. RUSHFORD, OF Gallon, freight brake
man.
WILLIAM LUNDY, of Salamanca. N. Y,
Wells. Fargo & Co.'S express messenger.
Three Cinnamon.
MARY ANN LYON, of Idaho, ticketed
second-class to Cherry Creek, N. Y.
THE INJURED.
DAVID THOMAS, of Gallon, baggage
master, badly injured; at first reported killed.
ROBERT OWEN, of Kent. newsboy, one
shoulder dislocated and bad cuts and bruises.
SAM DOUGLAS, engineer, of Gallon, leg
and head cut and bruised; burned about the
abdomen. Travelling in passenger coach.
JAMES BOYD, of Paterson, N. j.. severely
hurt on head and back.
GEORGE SHAW. OF Gallon, freight brake
man, cut and brused
land. leg broken in two places below the
knee and bad cuts on head.
Other passengers, whose names were
not learned, received slight injuries,
bat none of them are serious. Those
i'll the two Sleepers escaped practically
unhurt. A special from Akron gives
the following particulars of the wreck:
At 2:27 O'Clock this morning, Train No.
g., east-bound, rounding the sharp curve
one and half miles east of Tallmadge,
came suddenly upon part of Freight
Train No. 81. There was a dense fog,
and this conSpired with other things to
make the accident beyo human power
to avert. Engineer Robert Huntington
had just time to reverse his engine
when the dreadful crash came, and in
the instant
HE YIELDED UP HIS LIFE.
The freight was heavy, and while it
was climbing the grade coupling
parted about the middle of the train. Il
was decided to resort to the common eX-
pedient of doubling up. Flagmen were
sent out, one east and another to the
west, to warn any approaching train.
Brakeman James Bradley, an old and
experienced railrOader. was sent ahead
to flag the east-bound passenger, Which
was known to he about due. Meantime
the first part of the broken freight train
was taken 10 Tallmadge siding. the
engine then returned to the second
part. A signal was then given, which
is said to have been to summon
back the fiagman stationed at
the east. Flagman Bradley took 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 so, aid went back. The freight had
just got under motion to go to Tall
madge when the express came along.
The momentum of the fast train was
somewhat checked by the reverse. but
the impetus was terrific nevertheless.
The freight engineer and brakeman
jumped and escaped serious injury, the
engineer receiving several cuts. The
passenger engine was crushed into bits
and mingled with the wreckage behind
it. The freight engine reared up and
STOOD ALMOST ON END.
Engineer Huntington and Fireman
Walters, of the express, were terribly
crushed. The brave engineer was dis
emboweled. his head crushed and his
limbs broken and doubled up. The
passenger train consisted of a combina-
ton baggage and express car and
smoker, common coach and two
sleeperS. S. E. Barnes. residing near
by, neard the crash and the Kissing
steam, and hastily dressing ran over.
He says:
The two sleepers had been pushed by
trainmen and passengers away from the
wreck distance of about six rods. The
combination baggage and express cars and
passenger coach were afire when | reached
the ground; The passenger and baggage
car had telescoped, and the two engines
were thrown upon the enbankment. helped
to take out the body of Engineer Hunting
ton.
The greatest horror came when the
baggage car and smoker, which tele-
ScOped with the common coach. took
fire. Engineer Jones. of the Kent yard
engine, five miles off. began to be un-
easy. and, looking down the track. saw
through the trees the glare of the burn
ing cars. After the accident the two
telescoped coaches appeared as one, and
from the shattered and burning cars
came the groans and shrieks of the u1i-
fortunates. Then came the scene of
terror, the strong struggling to escape
the horrible death by fire, the weak and
hOpelessly wounded praying for succor
ing them. One man, George Shaw.
pinned in by the wreckage, managed by
efforts to release his lower
limbs and escaped cut and bruised. The
last man to get out alive was able to
grasp an ak handle and retain his hold
until he was drawn through gap, half
dead, but was quickly resuscitated. In
one smoker were eight Cinnamon. Five
were pulled out alive, but half dead
with fright. Three were never seen
alive after the crash, and bones and
BITS OF CHARRED FLESH
gathered up in bag were all that were
found of them. One OF the most pa
thetlc of all scenes were those attend
ing the death of little Mary Ann Lyon,
an orphan, who was being sent through
from Idaho on a Second-cass ticket to |
relatives in Cherry Creek, N. Y. Ed |
ward Peltzer, a passenger going to New |
York, tells this story of her death:
noticed the little girl, who appeared to be |
all alone. and learned that she had been tick
eted through to New York as secoRd-eiass |
passenger. She was sweet-faced child. and 1
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 Il
came was in my berth in the sleeper, and i
was OF tile Mary, and rushed eut of the:
car. and to my horror saw that the smoKerL
was all in flames, l went outside oppositeit
the part of the ear where the little one hadg
sat and found that she had been wedged5I
down by a seat which had fallen upon her,
The flames were already surrounding her;a
and, finding she could not be rescued, I f1edsl
from the spot imagining that could see hersI
pleading eyes, and hear her dreadful shriekssJ
This so unnerved. me that / threw myself +
down upon the ground and sobbed. =
Another eye witness says that the |
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