St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-07
Frightful Accident at q Rail-
road Crossing In the For
est City.
A Locomotive Runs Down q
Motor Train Crowded
With Passengers.
Thirteen Persons Manned and
Mangled. One Dying of
Her Injuries.
Railroad Nayvies Killed and
Crushed in q Collision
in q Cut.

CLEVELAND, O.. Sept. Ga frightfuI
accident occurred at the Wilson avenue
crossing Of the New York, Chicago &
st. Louis railroad, in this city, about
7:30 o'clock tonight. by which at least
a dozen persons were terribly injured,
some of them fatally. The crossing is
on steep grade, down which runs an
electric street railroad line. At
the time the accident occurred
a freight train was standing
close to the crossing on the
south track. An electric motor draw
ing one car was approaching from the
south. The safety gates were up and
the road apparently clear. Just as the
motor had crossed the railroad track
locomotive running about twenty miles
an hour dashed out from behind the
freight train. The pilot of the engine
struck the electric train between
the motor and trail car, tearing
them apart and hurting one
to each side Of the track.
At least score of persons were on the
trail car, and they were tumbled about
in all directions, some being hurled a
dozen feet away, and others pinned un-
der the car. which was demolished.
The street railroad barns were close to
the scene of the accident, and rescu-
ing party was soon on hand. The vic
Tins were taken from the wreck and
hurried away in ambulances to hospi-
tails within short space Of time. All
Of them were so badly injured that they
had to be
Carried From the Wreck.
An eye witness of the accident de-
scribes the scenes that followed as ter
rible. He says the locomotive was run
ming at the rate of twenty-five miles an
hour. There was no warning whistle
and the bell was not rung. The engine
ploughed right through the street ars,
and the screams of the frightened pas
sengers rose above the crashing of the
framework Of the cars. The engine
was stopped as quickly as pos
sible, but not until it had tumbled
the motor against the bank on one side
and the open trail car over the edge of
an embankment Oh the other. The in
agony. Two sisters, Louisa and Min
ME Merk, were in the car. They both
lay under the wreck. They were lifted
tenderly and carried into a neighboring
saloon. Both were unconscious, but
stimulants revived them SO that they
were able to tell their names. Minnie's
body was terribly crushed and
blood trickled from an ugly wound in
the head. She was taken to st. Alexis
hospital and died in half an hour. Her
sister, Louisa, was badly hurt about the
head and arms, the muscles Of the right
forearm being torn away from the bone.
She will doubtless recover. The
rescuers, who responded promptly,
did noble work, several of the un-
fortunate victims being carried in the
arms of men hundred rods to the near
est house The wrecked cars were be-
spattered with blood, and the hands,
faces and clothing Of the rescuers were
covered with the crimson fluid. Fol-
lowing is list of the injured, as OBJ
tanned from the various hospitals:
MINNIE Merck, sykora street, crushed;
J. A. MOORE, SO Hamlet street. thirty-two
years, right arm crushed, left leg lacerated.
ANNIE NIEMAN, Sykora street. collar
bone broken. face cut
LOUISA Merck, Sykora street. cut on
EDWARD WATSON. Kent O.. right foot
crushed.
bruised.
sEosseEE soMERs, q Il; leg cut;
severely bruised.
LIZZIE CABLE, D street, badly bruised.
LIZZIE and ELIZA BRAGG, 1S4 Petrie
street. cut on head and bruised.
MRS. MOONEY, 142 Petrie street, leg
sprained.
FRANK ROSE, Kent Ohio, bruised about
LEONA HOWELL, Kent, Ohio, cut about
legs and head,