Telegram-herald., 1890-12-20
MANY VICTIMS.
4 Couple Of S.FiOus Railway Acct
dents Reported.
q Train n Ohio Goes Through q
Trsslie. Killing SIX Persons-Great
loss OF Lite IN Canada

MAssuLoS, @. Dec IA terrible
disaster occurred I Bolivar, O., on tho
Wheeling & Lake Erie railroad, Thurs
day afternoon. only two OF the four
teen occupants of the rear car OF the
soath- bound mail train escaping serious
inlury The train. composed Of
two ooaches and baggage ear,
was approaching Boliver About a
mile north of town the front truck OF
tho last ear left the track Just as the en-
gine started across a long trestle,
thirty-ive feet from the ground. Al
most before the fact that any thing was
wrong could be known the locomotive
was dAahlng across the bridge, the
rear car bounding along on the
ties. When fairly on the bridge
l. swung around and toppled over,
falling 20 the ground bottom up
ward. The coupling connecting this
ear with the remainder Of the train
snapped like thread, and the air brake
thus suddenly put on sent the people in
the forward coach crashing against the
seats
The following persons were killed.
Unlznown woman, crushed beyond rec
ogniuon. Miss Ada Hall, of SherrOds-
vile. badly mangled; Henry Hill and
sister Carrie, OF shelby. H., burned 10 a
crisp.
The injured W. G. Graham. Of Nor
walk. crushed and back broken, will
die; Charles Conrad. OF Massillon. O,
internally injured, probably fatally;
Conductor Fred Lands, seriously;
Leonard Whitman, of Marietta, leg
broken. Mrs Louisa Piper, of Stark
County, O., internally; Ira Cowan, of
Norwalk. badly bruised: william Cor
inger. Of Ada, O.; William Hall, of
sherrodsville, back injured.
The scene in the ravine, the car a
eompiote wreck, It's trucks IN the air
and the flames bursting from the de
bris, IS described By those who saw il
a. something fTightfuL Robert Cowan.
q brakeman and one OF the two men
who escaped uninjured, best realized
the situation. After crawling from his
dangerous position he at once gathered
vp loose snow and began % pile It
about the stove. In this he was soon
assisted by W p Tingle, a travelling
man from ZaneSville. and between them
they sR9th red the aames
THE BILLIARD WORK.
ST. Jo5EPu or LgvIs. Que, Dec. 10
a terrible railway wreck occurred
here Thursday ou thc opposite side Of
the river from which the town is built.
The Halifax express No 83 going 90
Montreal by me Inter-Colonial railway
was dne 10 ff-t5 o'clock in the forenoon,
h1t was reported twenty minutes
late On approaching the town and
when q few yards from the bridge which
crosses the principal street near the
parish church The entire train with the
exception of the engine aud baggage
car vas prc-ipitated over the bridge
into the street below. carrying with 10
at - les occupants So Far as can be
ascersainsd the num her Of killed viii
exceedten.
The ears which went over the bridge
turned completely over on top of each
other and we're smashed - splinterS.
having faiien a distance II thirty-fvs
feet The real cause Of the accident
has noe been definitely ascertained. but
SO is generally thought that IL was
caused av the breaking of an axle on
fhe baTEags car and an endeavor 20
raalse up lost time.
Crowds Of people gathered round the
scene and at once set 20 work ~ clear
up ere wreck The piteous lamenta-
tious ~ the wounded and diving and
their feeble atter7u.fs - exfricate them
selves from ar.ang the debris
were sTectiax IN tae extreme Those
81 the passeu gers Who had nh
rscuiousiv sscape5 CALAMITY set
~ work - si5 their suffering fel-
iox travellers. special train from
Quebec vffh e sta ~ doctors soon A.
rfvrd. ami a. one hg one the injured aud
rnangIsd we're bronEht from che wrecS
thsv were sstsndcd - snd their wounds
sressed
The rntsr-Coionsai railway vas ~
rolv railway "a ths continent whica
mad sever been he scene Of really
serfous sceidaut in rs existence
wEzcx ox rrfs =. = .. ROAD.
ARpfsassuRe. Va Dee ~ - A
--~.s-k r,curras au sha Valley Branch
~ 80 Rale 11srrp a ohis road abous
t7~s -uiles nsrth 81 this plsee Wednes-
eav .~sninr The sovth- hound trai'.
3vs hs~s e. fe Q IA arsvu ~ three
snrin@s. rau i1to snow frift ard vas
aerziiesi Two engines vere thro~n
erosn taa ss-< eed demolished. q hile
fhe ~ "a ess shrcVu asros~ ERE t~ac x
six persers al railrosd employees. were
tufaref TIE passengers >~ssred '~i-h
aight shalring up The Names ~ the
i,i.rea ven as ~ lesrrea are. y.
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