Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-01-18
WRECKED AND BURNED
A Passenger and Freight Train Crash
Together in Darkness and Fog.
Eight Persons killed-A Dozen In
jured-S me Terribly Mangled.
The Debris BurnS--Seyeral Bodies
Cremated ed-Horrible Scenes.
Apprehension of Trouble on the 18th
muS-Nayal Vessels 10 be Sent.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. IA A frightful
wreck uccurreu on the New YurS, Penn
sNivanla 4 OhiOrsurosd, near Tslmadge,
pnlo, this morning, passenger train
colilding with one section of freig hit
which mad broken III TWO. E'ght persons
were killed and a dE IN iurvd. The list
of killed Is rs follows:
Robert Huntingdon, of Gallon. Ohio,
passenger engineer; Nm. Walters, GAllon,
passenger engineer; j. +. RushfOrd, of
Gallon, freight brakeman; Wm. Luudy, of
Salamauce, ky- express messenger;
three Cnlnameu; Mary Ann Lyon, of
Idaho, aged s. fIcketed second GLASS to
Cherry Greek, n. Y.
Four of the injured are in a serious
condition.
Leader special from Akron gives the
following particulars OF the wreck: At
2:2I this morning, train No. 5, east
bound, IN rounding the curve one aud a
half miles east OF rsllmage, came sud
denly upon part of freight train No
81. There was a dense fog, and
this coupled with other things
made the accident be:ond human
power TO avert. Engineer Huntington
had jGSt time 80 reverse the engine when
the dreadful crash came. He was in
stantly killed. The freight was heavy.
and while the train WAS climbiuE the
grade the coupling parted AT abrur the
middle of the tram. 1t was decided To
resort To the common expedteut of
doubling up. F.aSmen were sent out
one east and another west, tn warn
any approaching train. Brakeman Brad
Icy was sent ahead to flag the east bound
passenger. which was known to be about
Due. In the meantime, the first part OF
the broken train was taken to Tallmadge
station. The engine then returned for
the second part. A signal was given,
which Is said 10 have been to summon
back the eastern Il agmsn. Fla1man Brady
took 1t to be TOR him, also, and started
back To the freight tram. The engineer
OF the freight engine says no recall
whistle was sounded, buU at any rate
Bradley heard it and so went back. The
treiget had just got under motion to go
to Talmadge, when the express came
along. The momentum of she fnst tram
was somewha5 checked bv the reverse,
but the impact was terrific nevertheless.
The engineer and brakeman jumped and
escaped serious injury. The passenger
engine was crushed into bits and ming ted
with the wreckage behind 1t. The freig hit
engine reared up and stood almost on
ends Engineer Huntington and fire
man Waters of the express train, were
terribly crushed. The brave engineer
was disembuwelled, his head orueh he'd
and his limbs broken and doubled up.
The passenger train consisted of a com
blnation baggage and express car, aud a
smoker, common coach and two alec purs.
The greatest horror came when the bag
gage car and smoker, which telescoped
with the common coach, took
fire. EIgneer Jones, of the
Kent yard engine, five miles distant,
began to be uneasy, and looking
down the track saw through the trees the
glare of the burning oars. After the ac
cide1t the two telescoped COACHES appear
ed as one, and from the shattered and
burning cars came the grOans and
shriek- of the unforuunates. Then came
the scene of terror, the strong
struggling to escape horrible
death by fire, the weak and
the helpless and the wounded praying
for succOr from the flames that were fast
rnvelopirg them. One man, q -orge
Shaw, piuned in by. the wreckage, man
aged by superhuman Efforts, to release
his lower limbs, and escaped GU and
bruised. In the smoker were sight chi
nnmen. FIVE were pulled out all e,
but half dead from fright. Three were
not seen after rhe crash, and the bones an d
hits of charred flesh gathered up III a bag
vas all that was found of them. One of
the most pathetic scenes was that attend
ing the death of little Orph-n, Mary
Ann Lyon, who was being
sent from Idaho on second
class ticket to relatives in New York.
The friends whom she made on the train
were compelled 20 stand IDLY by while
the unfortunate child burned, pinned
down by the wreck of the seats in the
smoking car. The passengers in the
rear sleeper were hardly aroused by the
conclusion.