Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-01-23
FRIGHTFUL REAR-END CoLLIs-
ION ON THE CINCINNATI. HAM
ILTON & DAYTON ROAD
At Cincinnati-several Persons Killed
and Others Wounded.

CINCINNATI, Jan. 19.-At 7:10 city
time last evening as the Glendale ac-
commOdation bound for Cincinnati was
leaving the station near College Hill
Junction, the Chicago vestibuled train
ran into the rear part of it. There were
three passenger cars of the Glendale
train, containing about seventy-five
people. The locomotive of the Chicago
vestibuled train ran half way through
the rear car of the accommodation, pill
ing the passenger cars In a heap and
setting them on fire. The locomotive
of the accommodation was not derailed.
The fire department and patrol wag-
ons were called from Cincinnati and the
fire was extinguished.
G. Nelson, general superintendent of
the Cincinnati, Hamilton C. Dayton
railroad, says of the accident on the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton that it
happened just north of the College Hill
crossing. The Chicago vestibule train
81, drawn by the large Strong engine
No. l, and accommodation train n,
collided shortly after o'clock this
evening. The block system is in use
there, and it is supposed that No. II
was not out of her block when No. 81
entered it. When No. 81 struck the ac-
commodation train it smashed the two
rear coaches, killed Copeley, conductor,
and an unknown brakeman of the ves-
tibule train. Both engineer and fire.
man of No. 81 jumped, applying the air
brakes and reversing their engine.
Both were hurt, but are now resting
easy. -.....
THE DEAD AND INJURED.
| John Wilson, superintendent of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance company
In Cincinnati, residence, Winton place.
F.W. Witherbee, conductor of No. II,
residence Toledo.
| An unknown woman.
Two of the dead bodies are in the
morgue in this city. These were burned
to death, ...
William Planitz, plumber of Garth
age, and baggage master James STAN
ley, of Toledo, died after being taken to
the hospital.
William Coagley, engineer of No. 13,
and George Freeman, fireman of No. Is,
both hurt by jumping.
These two men are at Winton place,
receiving medical attention. Their in
juries are reported slight.
CHASTITY FINDS IN THE DEBRIS.
Aftef the mutiIated and charred bod.
| les of the three victims who died in the
wreck had been carried away in the pa.
troll wagons, the wrecking gang and the
police force began minute search OF
the debris for other remains. Armed
with picks and wrecking hooks the i'm.
mense piles of einders were attacked
and drawn out, a score of eyes scanning
the ruins for some indication that 6
body was concealed beneath. One
worker, shortly after midnight, fasten
ed his hook in what appeared to be 1
bundle of rags. Pulling it out he wal
shocked to find that it was the forearm
and left hand of a boy or young man
It had been severed midway between
the wrist and elbow, and the hand wa
slightly charred by contact with thu
blaze. The amputation was complete
even the cloth of the sleeve that cover
ed the limb being cleanly cut. 1t wa
at first thought that the hand was tina
of a woman, but closer examination de
veloped that this belief was wrong. II
whom this hand belongs is a vexint
question, and gives rise to the belle
that a fourth person had died in th'
flames, which had entirely consumed
the body. Within quarter Of an hou
dozen pieces of bone, fragments o
skulls; bits of thigh bones and Jumps o
charred flesh were raked out and care
fully deposited upon a large piece of til
plate, the covering of one of the burn
cars. To these ghastly things were add
ed letters. burnt shoes, buttons and 9th
er relics of the killed. The last contri
button was a human hand, from whicl
the flesh had been almost burned, leav
ing bare skeleton. These were place,
in waiting patrol wagon and taken t
the morgue. The road was finall,
cleared up about 2 o'clock.