Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-01-31
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. A Especial
accommodation train is run for the town by
the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton road
stopping only at Winton Place. 1t was at
this point that 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 nfty
to sixty miles an hour, plunged into It's rear.
In making up the accommoda ton 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 and the two
coaches in front off the track into a ditch.
The stove in the baggage car set fire to 1T and
the three cars were soon in blaze, while
number of helpless people, pinned in the
debris, were screaming for relief, or in their
madness cursing their fate. The baggage
master, Bob Stevenson, and his assistant, as
veil 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 indie
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 CHASTITY 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
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 on the scene, and, with a relay of police,
began searching the ruins The body Of John
II. 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;
William KIamitz, also of Carthage, plum
Der, aged Nineteen scalp wound and burned
hands and arms. Both have since died.
No. II 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
7ersed the engine, turned on the air brakes
and jumped. His was the Strong engine No.
l. Mr.. Strong, the manufacturer keeps an
engineer with that engine all the time, but
he never turns a throttle. Picked engineers
in the employ of the road do that This ex-
ira engineer did not jump. He sat like
statue on his seat and was not hurt, not even
scratched. Not passenger and not car on
No 81 was hurt
In Train No. II were thirty passengers,
nearly all in the front car All 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 a
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 reScuino.