Daily Republican., 1890-01-18
A RAILROAD SMASH.
ONE PASSENGER TRAIN RUNS
INTO ANOTHER.
Ton Killed and Many Injured-Fearfui
Disaster on the Cincinnati, Hamilton
and Day ton Railroad Bodies
Awfully burned.

Cured on the Cincinnati, Hamilton ard
Dayton Railroad within lew yards OF
the depot at Winion Place, a suburb Of
Cincinnati, this evening. The Glendale
accommodation going out with q load OF
suburban residents. had just passed the
station when the Chicago vestibule train
running sixty miles all hour dashed into
sight aud plunged into the rear Of the
accommodation train.
II 10 the habit oi those who make up
the accommodation train to put the bag
gage Car on the rear, and this alone saw
ed most frIghtful loss OF life. The big
last line thrust itself half way through
the baggage car, upsetting stove which
set fire 10 the car.
IL is thought that ten people were ki,l-
cd aud thirty-fivo injured, NEST of them
dangerously. -Four bodies have bacn re.
moved from the embsrs, but owing to
their Disagreement hy flames idept,lica.
tiou Is difficult. The extent OF the fatal.
ties will not be- known until q list of the
missing eau be procured.
THE WRECKED CARS ON FIRE.
Ahead OF the burning sggage car were
five coaches crowded with nearly 400
people. The force Of the collision threw
every one out OF their seats, and In the
two cars just in front Of tho baggage car
number were wedged In BY broken
seals and crashed timbers. The flames
fairly jumped from car to car. At once
tue fire department at Cincinnati was
summoned and several patrol wagons
quickly responded to a call. Tho man
and engineer of the fast line and the bag
gage master and his assistant, all OF
whom, dangerously wounded aud
scalded were held In the blazing baggage
+, car, were with the utmost difficulty re-
moved from the fiery wreck.
BY tile time two fire companies arrived
the two coaches were almost IN ashes,
and little could be done except cool the
smoking embers, so that the search iol
dead might begin.
PIsIoNBD IN THE WRECK.
Hurriedly physicians IRON the sur
rounding suburbs examined the wcund
ed who lay IN the frozen ground. A bout
each sufferer wac a group OF friends OF
relatives, while all around pressed tn,
curious throngs. As the flames gnawef
their way Into the two smashed coaches
agonizing shr!eks from the helpless vic
tins pierced the atmosphere, and man,
women tainted az they heard the awful
cries for help.
The sight presented In the blazing car
WAS one never TO be forgotten by tbos
who saw it. Here aud tht re human form
wrlthlng In the most intense agony. On
man in his frenzy of pain tore handful
OF hair from Is head.
The passengers on the vestlbule train
many of whom were badly bruised BY tb
shock, did all In tier power to aid thos
d. In the accommodation irain who had sul
fered more than they. The drug store
were soon emptied Of lInment and stinu
lants, ard the people living BY did all /
; their power 20 assist the sufferers.
CROWDS HASTEN TO TUE SCENE.
4 SPECIAL train, with surgeons. wu
sent out from here, and another specis
brought the most seriously wounded /
the hospital In this city. As soon as th
!. news rcachtd Glendale, six miles furthe
out, every conveyance was pressed int
service, and p ople In crowds, al moe
crazed with anxiety. hastened to th
: scene. Their advent added to the eA
cltcment MS they searched among th
living az well as the wounded for friend
aud relatives.
Glendale is fifteen miles from Ginclu
natl, and one of the most arstocratic O
its many suburbs. The bulk of those Oh
the accommodation train were lsadin,
merchants, bankers and brokers of th
ciyt ihouHn ihapy VI tHphe VINO kOl oil
at Winton Place were clerks.
sAow-BoUND.
DENVER, Col, Jan. II. Until to-da,
no trains passed between Alamosa an,
Durango owing to snow bloc ckade sine,
last Friday. The passenger train which
left Alamosa on Friday pulled by thre,
cngit es has been snow bound three milel
this aide OF Cumberland, and all the en-
gines are oil the track.
Snow piows have been at w.ik and th,
engines were removed from the track
The blockade came to an end this after
noon. A passenger train arrived at Ala
mosa from Durango. The passengers sa,
1t was one OF the seyerest storms OF tht
season. The snow drilled In many place,
twenty feet high, and In tho cut where
the trains were stalled the snow was siS
feet atoye the tops of the cars.
None OF the passengers on the snow.
bound train suffered, as they were near g
section house. aud had plenty OF food
aud fuel.
COAL TRAINS WRECKED.
NEwBURG, Jan. IA bad wreck oi
two coal trains occur cd this afternoon
on the curve at Blooming Grove Station,
on the Newburg branch of tbs Erie
Railroad. The forward train stopped to
cool hot journal, when the other train
ran into it. Tho engineer and fireman
saved themselves by jumping. Edwaid d
Harkell, of Westown, N. y, was killed.
The rear engine and the caboo o OF the
forward train, us well as several cars,