Morning journal and courier., 1890-10-23
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Scrfous Accident on the Cincinnati
Southern-SfK Trainmen Reported
Killed and Two Injured-The wreck
Z In Flames - Several Passengers
KILLED In n Collision In Alabama.
i CINCINNATI, Oct. GA disastrous col
Asipn occurred at 4:4O, this morning on the
CINCINNATI Southern. railway in tunnel o
quarter of mile north of Sloans Valley,
station The trains involved were freight
No. %, north-beunds and passenger No.,5.
south-bound. No. a61o leaves Cincinnati at
8p. m. Another passenger train leaves
Cincinnati an hour earlier. Both these
were held at Somerset, KY, two hours or
more on account of a freight wreck which
occurred south, of that place last night.
When the track was clear the foremost
Cincinnati train started out from Somer-
set first, and met and passed safely
north-bound train. Then at safe dis
lance behind it the fated No. 5 started
out. Freight train No. 90, north-bound,
was side-tracked at Sloan's Valley.
When the first Cincinnati train passed
south, the crew of the freight appear to
have overlooked the fact that No. was to
follow, and they pulled out and started
northward Less than quarter of mile
away they entered tunnel, which is one
sixth of a mile long. In this place the
engines of the two trains dashed into each
other, and the cars following damned
into each other in mass. The wreck
then took fire, and only the bare results
have been telegraphed to the officials of
WEIGH, fremen, John E. Montgomery,
Fdrpord R,1ffpnr av,,rocc mac
senger, and a mail agent, were killed. Tay-
lor, engineer of the passenger train, and
PIN Lott, engineer Of the freight train,
were badly burned. The baggagemaster
was injured. No passengers were killed.
If any were injured, the names have not
yet been ascertained.
The burning of the trains in tunnel
renders it impossible to clear the track as
readily as it could be done on open
ground, the smoke and heat preventing
men from entering. Transfers will be
There were two mail agents on the train,
j. F. Gayle and G. F. Deegan. Which
one of them is killed is not yet known.
Edward Rufner, the messenger of the
United States Express company, who was
killed, was married man living at Bond
Hill, near this city.
Engineer John Pimlett died this after
noon, making six victims of the tunnel col
lision on the Cincinnati Southern railroad,
as follows: John Pimlett, engineer, De-
troit, Mich; Fireman Welsh, Somerset,
KY; Fireman Gould, Ludlow, KY; Brake
man John F. Montgomery, Albany, N. Y;
Express Messenger Ed P. Ruffner, Gin
cinnati The injured are: Engineer Pat
Taylor, Somerset, KY, severe; Postal
Clerk J. G. Gayle, Cincinnati, severe; Bag
Severe. Passengers: ". B. Wheeler,
New Orleans, in charge of museum freak
known as "Wild Rose" both slightly in
jured; Miss Ollie Getty, Dayton, Tenn,
slightly; Arch Murphy, Madison county,
Indiana, slight. The passengers were all
able to walk over the hill to the train to
resume their journey.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Oct. ga passen-
ger train on the Kansas City, Memphis and
Birmingham railroad, which left here at 8
leaving the sleeper and conductor in the
station. Discovering that fact some six
miles out of town the engineer began back
ing into Birmingham. At Thomas Furn-
ace, three miles out Of the city, the back
ing train met an outgoing freight and
there was a terrible collision. Several
passengers in the rear coach were killed
and a number wounded.
The wounded have been brought to Bir-
mingham, and are at various hotels. They
are Mrs. w. F. Wagner and two children
Station, Tenn. badly scalded; 1. o. Frank
lin, drummer from Nashville, dying; George
w. Davis, Shell Mound, Tenn, leg broken
and otherwise hurt; J. II. Finnel, New Or
leans, back hurt; j. A. Taylor, Magnolia,
Ark, head crushed and eye knocked out;
W. B. Flanagan Memphis, slightly hurt; w.
G. Burton, Cordova, Ala, scalded and badly
mashed; J. A. and j. M. Beard, Nauvoo,
Ala, internally hurt; E. P. Rose, Lima,
Ala, arm broken; the Rev. H. g. Smith,
Jasper, ribs broken and dangerously hurt;
DR.. Sanford, Hot Springs, Ark, slightly
injured; A. L. Hill, Birmingham, hurt
ankle; NJ D. Townlee and Walter Town
lee, Townlee, Ala, slightly injured.
Four or five dead are reported to be I'M
der the wreck, but the names are not yet
ascertained. The night was clustering
| and rainy.
KANSAS CITY, No., Oct. pa serious
wreck of two passenger trains is reported
at the crossing of the Union Pacific and
Rock Island, just west of Armourdale in
this city. The engineer is reported killed
and a number of passengers seriously in.
| jured.
ROME, Ga, Oct. pa passenger train
on the Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus
railroad ran into a wagon near Chickamau
ga this morning and killed j. w. Jenkins
his wife and baby and Mrs. James Bowman
all of Walker county.
MONTREAL, Oct. 22.-J. NJ. Poitras va.
fatally injured and Camilla Beadoise, hi
niece, was instantly killed by a train thi'
afternoon while attempting to cross tn,
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