The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-03-07
THE T. s. A. A. ACCIDENT.

TEG 4. o. a. a. kASV4OGNT.
We held our forms open this morning
later than usual in order to give sum-
mary of the testimony taken at the core.
ner's inquest held in Ithaca. For the re.
port we are under obligations to the Ithaca
Journal. The injured men are all doing
nicely and have been brought to their
homes In this city
The first witness sworn was e. L..
Kymes, who testified substantially as fol.
| lows:
| reside in North Star: was acting as
| fireman on II freight train on the morning
| Of Feb. 2Sth; understood the engineer to
say that he had orders 10 meet engine No
% at Ithaca; about two miles out of Itha.
ca the engineer told me he wanted to 60
slow into Ithaca station as there were, Jr
might be, cars on the track that he expect
ell To meet 90 there; the engineer got his
orders at Clare, believe; about o'clock
in the morning we pulled slowly into the
yard and stopped we LAID in the yard one
and a half or two hours; did what work
had to; then took seat in my box and
soon fell asleep; the first that | knew after
that was that had changed ends | said
to the engineer, What are you doing?'
he replied, II guess they have run into
u.s." the brakeman fell down over me and
the engineer said to him, you had bet
ter go back there and see if you can help
them any," did not see the deceased un
til some time after the collision; he was
then lying in the baggage room; / knew
the train that run into us was following,
but did not know how close.
Chas. Lonsby-I reside in Owosso: am
a brakeman by occupation; have been
| I,.o1, -, tI.n G. ID IL.
months; was braking on an extra going
south on the morning of Feb. %; think
the train | was on arrived in Ithaca about
| 4 O'Clock a. m; we laid there quite while,
| an hour or an hour and half; asked MIR.
Enrght, the deceased. if should not 90
back and flag the extra that was follow.
ing us; he said no, that we were inside the
switches. and that they had the same or
ders we had and would come OH slow, and
there would be no need of protecting the
hind end of our train more than with our
red lights. which were already out; that
was all that was said between us; | re-
NAMED in the Car with him; he lay down
on one side of the car and went to sleep,
and l dropped down on the other side; |
dozed but did not get sound asleep; | was
in the rear end of the train, on way car
No. / ; perhaps 20 minutes after we had
this conversation. heard an engine whistle
off brakes, and before ! could raise up off
my seat we were struck; the car was
smashed all to pieces; crawled ont and
met another brakeman off from the train
that struck us; | said to him, "Where is
JIM" meaning deceased; he answered, II
don't know" he then went looking for
him, going back toward the train; | went
toward engine on our train; / think some
one else found deceased first, as the first
saw of him he was lying under car; l
met two or three men and said to them,
For Gods sake take that man out from
under that car before he burns up" l
think they took him out; think the de-
ceased was asleep when the engine struck
our car.
Eugene Brown-Rcsides in Owosso; am
a brakeman on the Y. IL A. Il. r. ut pres
ent; have worked for the company since
last Thursday; this is the first braking
have done for years; know we run in
to train of cars here at Ithaca; l do not
know how it happened; asked the engin.
eer what our next stopping place was, and
he said Ashley: think we saw this train
last ut Shepherd; the engineer and conduc-
tor compared orders there; did not see the
orders; was on the first box car back or
train; our engineer whistled down brakes
jus: as we come over the grade about
three fourths of mile out; brakes were
set when they were called down; there
were two brakemen on the train; we were
running very slow when we came over the
grade, not more than five or six miles an
hour; l could have stepped of very easily;
don't think there was any possible chance
to have stopped the train l was on before
il run into the train ahead; he whistled of
brakes Just before we came around the
curve and put on steam at the same time;
the brakes were taken off when he wills.
tied for them off, my letting off the brakes
and the engineer putting on steam increas-
ed the speed almost Immediately; / could
not see the red lights; the smoke came in.
to my face so that l could not see any
thing; think we were 10 or IL rods from
the train run into when off brakes were
whistled; l was thrown off the train over
box car that was standing on q side track;
met Mr.. Lonsby; he asked me where Jim
was, meaning deceased; saw a man set
ting under car; he said, "For Gods sake
take me in for am going to die" / took
it to be the deceased; did not go to him;
he looked as If he was sitting outside of
the rail next 10 the track. John Day,
another brakeman, was the next witness to
testify, but as his evidence brought out
nothing new, we omit it.
A. l.. Remington-Resides at Owosso;
my occupation is that of an engineer; have
been an engineer since 1881 l was here at
Ithaca this mornings my train was loaded
with lumber and ice; had been here about
~ hours when the other train struck me;
had orders to stop at Ithaca; Mr.. Conner
! is superintendent of the road; l do not