Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-15
DEATH IN A STREET-CAR, j

Frightful Accident at Kalamazoo. Mich.
In Which Six Women Are Kuled-Other
Fatal Railway Wrecks.
KALAMAZOO, Mich, May "a terrible ac-
cldent occurred here Wednesday evening.
AT about p. m. switch engine No. 5 on the
Michigan Central received orders to
proceed to Oshtemo, the first sta
ton west of here, to aid the New York
and Chicago limited which had met
with an accident At West Main
street crossing city railway car was ap-
preaching. The driver, the gates not be-
Ing lowered and seeing no signals, started
TO cross the track, when the car was struck
squarely and carried fully block. There
were dozen passengers on board at the
time, OF whom six were killed They were:
Mrs. Van Antwerp Miss Gertie Tilottson,
Mrs. Alexander Hadlocz, wife of the professor
OF mathematics at Kalamazoo College; Mrs.
M. E. WattleS, wife Of the former division
superintendent Of the Lake Shore railroad;
Mrs. George Smiley, wife Of prominent citi.
zen; Mrs. Middleton.
The most severely injured are Mrs. John
Barnes and Mrs. s. A. Gibson. A number of
others were slightly hurt. L. G. Lull, the
driver, and boy on the platform escaped
unframed All the dead were horribly
mangled, tho car being dragged nearly 100
yards 1t is difficult to definitely locate the
blame. The engineer claims that he was
ordered to run faster than usual Those
who saw the accident say that the rate
far exceeded that allowed engines
to run inside the city limits. The gates at
the crossing where the accident occurred
are not used between $50 and 6:5S D. M.
the gatekeeper going home at that time
The custom probably deceived the driver
of the street-car, who was new man, and
who probably supposed that the gates
would Of course be down if an engine were
coming.
FATAL WRECK IN CLEVELAND.
CLEVELAND, O., May 9.-The north bound
passenger train on the Valley railroad
which was due here at 2:30 O'Clock
Wednesday afternoon entered the city
limits on time and was running along
at the rate of thirty miles an
hour when the smoker left the
track 1t turned to the right and collided
with car loaded with coal on side track.
There were fourteen passengers in the
smoker at the time, two Of whom were in
stantly killed and four of whom were
painfully injured A half-dozen other
passengers were bruised and cut, but
not seriously. The front end of the
smoker was demolished, the roof being
over the coa[car and the floor beneath it
after it had settled The dead and injured
were provided for by the railway officials
The dead are:
E. D. Odbert, of Akron, O., son OF wealthy
operator. % years old; George ]. Kempf, OF
No. "a Erin avenue, travelling salesman, e
years old.
Those injured were:
Lawrence O'Connell Akron o. left leg
Fractured; Mrs. Caroline Chiltsey, No. % Ohio
street. Cleveland, rib broken; w. NJ Clark.
Brooklyn, N. Y, agent of Missouri Pacific
railroad, left leg bruised; James C. TAYLOR.
Cambridge, o., accountant and paymaster OF
the Cleveland s. Marietta railroad, cut in the
face.
THE OPERATOR ERRED.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, May 9-Informa-
lion of a collision on the Cincinnati South
ern railroad, near Glen Mary, has reached
here. Through a mistake of orders by the
train dispatcher at Somerset, passenger train
No. Il, from this city to Cincinnati, collided
with freight. The engines of both trains
were totally demolished and a number of
cars derailed None of the passengers were
hurt, but the baggage master, postal clerk,
fireman and negro porter on the passenger
train were badly injured. The accident
delayed all trains. Fireman Burchett. OF
the freight train, died of his injuriea