The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-02-05
WRECKED And BURNED.
A Frightful Railroad Accident
Near Cincinnati.
A Vestibule Express Plunges
Into Another Train.

Glendale, a suburb fifteen miles from Gin
cinnati, Ohio, is largely inhabited by leading
business men and prominent citizens. Aspeclal
accommodation train is run for the town by
the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton road,
stopping only OF Winton Place. 1t was at
this point that a shocking collision has oc-
Cured. The accommodation had just begun
to move away from the station when the
Chicago vestibule train, drawn by one of the
new strong engines and running from fifty
to sixty miles an hour, plunged into Its rear.
In making up the accommoda tion the bag
gage car had been put on the rear end. 10
this is due the comparatively small loss OF
life
The big engine plowed half way through
the baggage car, pushing 1t ana tne Two
coaches in front off the track into ditch.
The stove in the baggage car set fire to it "a and
the three cars were soon in a blaze while
number of helpless people, pinned in thu
debris, were screaming for relief, or In their
madness cursing their fate. The baggage
master, Bob Stevenson, and his assistant, as
well as both the fireman and engineer Of the
vestibule train, were gotten out by hard
work. All were terribly injured. Stevenson
has died while the others are fatally hurt.
The scene about the burning cars were inde-
scribable. The hundreds on the trains who
had escaped uninjured, reinforced by hun
dreds from the adjoining suburbs, stood al
most crazed with grief at their helplessness.
A score of wounded persons were gotten out
by heroic effort and laid in ghastly rows on
the station floor.
Inside the blazing cars could be seen here
and there forms caught by splintered TIM
bers. They writhed and twisted in their
awful agony, biting their flesh and tearing
their hair. The number at the time this re-
port was written had not been definitely told
because of the number missing and because
of the possibility that all the bodies were not
found.
Two fire companies from Cincinnati were
soon OH the scene, and with relay Of police,
began searching the ruins. The body Of John
b. Wilson, Superintendent of the New York
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, was
the first one found and identified
Two of those injured in the wreck were
taken to the hospital at Cincinnati. Their
names are James Staley, of Carthage, Ohio,
terribly burned about the face and arms;
ber, aged nineteen scalp wound and burned
hands and arms. Both have since died.
No. n was an accommodation train Of five
cars. No. 81 was the Chicago vestibule train
of baggage and three coaches, all the cars
extremely long.
No. II, the accommodation, had stopped at
Winton Place, and had just pulled out and
rounded curve, when No. 81 came thunder
ing past. Side tracks at that place obscured
the engineers view till he got within 200
yards or less of the train in front Here
versed the engine, turned on the air brakes
and jumped. His was the Strong engine No.
/. Mr.. Strong, the manufacturer, keeps all
engineer with that engine all the time, but
he never turns throttle. Picked engineers
in the employ of tho road do that This e1-
ira engineer did not jump. He sat like a
statue on his seat and was not hurt not even
scratched. Not passenger and not car on
No. 81 was hurt.
In Train No. n were thirty passengers,
nearly all in the front car. ALI who were
killed or injured were in the rear car, which
was combination baggage and smoker. The
blow of Train No. 81 smashed this car and
piled up the next two in front Of it in q
common wreck, and the two rear cars burned
up. The Cincinnati police and the Fire De-
partment from near stations rushed to the
scene and citizens poured in from the popu-
lous suburbs so that no one suffered or per-
ished from delay in rescuing.