Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-07-04
DISASTROUS WRECK.
A Fast Freight Plunges Into an
Express Train.
TWENTY-FIVE PEOPLE KILLED
A Number Of the Injured Caught and Burned
Alive
WHERE LIES THE BLAME Z?
Heartrending Particulars OF One oil the
Most Awful scenes Since the
Horror at Ashtabuia.
TWENTY-FIVE PEOPLE KILLED
WHERE LIES THE BLAME ?
rRr telerrnnh % the plspaloh.l

o.
York. while standing az the depot await
ING orders was dashed into from the rear
Law a fre,rbt. The day coach Of the rear
wss completely tclescoped, nineteen pas
seneers were killed and tbirty-eight Sc
vercly wounded. The coach and two sleep
.rs forward took fire and were soon con-
sumed. burning many OF tho bodies so that
,hev were almost unacceptable. a specl"I
,ss,h surgeons and nurses has been sent from
Youngstown.
HaNY lsiEEF.
Many pe e-aeuccrs were asleep whom tho aWiui
crash came and anufnbet we're crusheo 10 ue'''"
,p their herihs. A terrible scene followed. There
were cries for help from all parts OF the Iain'
mingled with dying means q others whose lives
,rerc hcins crushed out steam was escaping
fro,, the monster freight engine md soqp tho
vrcrk caught fre and the flames crowded upon
thoso who were fast IN the a. bris. Inc rev pei-
ssns wLo oa,'a ped without injury worked win al
most sup orhuman power IN ther eHoi's t"IeSoN'
tho more unfortunate.
BURNED 70 DKATH.
In several Instances persons were slowly bifn-
81 10 death while pleading with thfir lhst bfoatn
for help which could not b. rendered. Dc Nrocs
was mos: con peto. Tue cars were piled on anu
prross each other almost iu D solid mass ihus
The small party 81 Tescuefs WORKED nj nlsho-
vantage. Asrapidly the injured were rescued
fl.y wore conveyed 70 The station, where physl-
clans from KavcnnR and other near points nfst
80 arfiyo rendered all the assistance possible:
Tro nfo was finely cXtinguhhed but not until
several persons hal persisted.
AEEIITF TRAIN.
IN a couple Of hours the company had respond
ctaud IA relief tram with corps Of physicians
nid nurses arrived from Cleveland and other
points ani the injured were given every atten-
fi.p Tb1Fo Rlle % be removed were sent 10
Cleveland and placed In hospital there. The
doqI were removed 70 Tho rooms OF uncertakers
in Eavtuna. whore they will await idontihcatlOh'
HARD TO IDENTIFY.
ssSrrro are ao badly burned and disAgured that
twill te q dlflcIlt task 10 identity them at once.
40 o'clock tho list ~ names had not been So
rcd Every one has been busy IN the cnorts
30 alleviate tte suicrings OF the injured nud 10
r,s flc the dead bodies from the great mass Of
wrecked and pariialiy-huned cars.
VINO Il REsrGSslBLg?
Who il responsible for the wreck Il n question
ns vet undetermined. Tho coroner viii begin
an inIucp; t'is afternoon. The company officials
now horc will render all assistance possible, ana
will. 90 soon a. possible, make most complete
inNesufat'n' u Wouih APPEAR lhAt tho ~noio 'Ii''
accident WAS due 70 the cafel"ssnefs ot some
one in leaving q switch open. The heavy iroight
train wa running thiriy-nye miles an hour and
II struck the passenger train with iun force.
HAsg-BALLlsrs RErcRrgD KILLED.
II Is rumoroI that three Of the members OF
The Fitt-burg baseball team we're killed In the
wreck. hut this IL not believed, a. they play
another game AZ Cincinnati today.
TIB DEAD AND ISJUEED.
PIrrsuURG. Pa. July IA Rnyenna (O) special
gives the following list Oi the dead and injured:
Dead David Kciihau, 4. HUI, j. Grliln. A. Dun
thorpe ". Zane, p. BIrus. !. kimbal, j. ID.
Mocn. j. toylc, q. Harding. j. Ryan ID. Cassidy,
W Newc1mbe, T. Nolan, a. Nurse. arl ono un-
known. All Of those wore taken Oui Of the wreck
dead, and all but three we're burned 10 crisp
Thomas Colyiilo w1s ink"u out oi tac .ioe1
alive. lie vas terribly crushnd ana burned ana
his ruIcrnrs were awful 20 behold.
~IoR gnps sAKr KILL NE'n
In aronizing voice he called 10 friend: " Billy,
Tor Gods sake get an axe and kill mel' lie died
coon after Henry Gildca was badly injured and
died soon after baine taken 90 a hotel
the rsJUREp.
Among tho injured wero: George Smith, John
Coiwccn. II. q. Dcgran, James McGll John
Heating. Jonah CLARK, A. T. Jones. Their inlu-
rics consist principally OF broken limbs ana none
are believed 10 be- fatally hurt. Thomas Hanley
and Jureph Morgan, two others, are In serious
condition, and, it Is feared, viii not recover.
GL,ss-woHKs EMFLOYEEs.
Tho dead and injured were employed In Rich
ardson- ela-s-works az Findlay, Ohio, which shut
down yesterday flr the summer and they wore
ou their way 90 Coming, y. ", their home. They
were al on nu cNua car attached 10 the tram,
aud the only one known 10 have been killed on a
sleeper Was nurse.
ANo1HER ACCoUST.
CiFvELANp. ONO, July "A special from
Youngstown, OHIO says: At NeVeuna the worst
railroad wreck which ever happened ON the
Tor, occurred this morning, resulting IN the death
CD. tWrnfy-nyo people aud tho serious, II not
fatal. injury ~ at lcAs six more. firo added ts
terror, to tnc already friehtiul scenes. and the
bruised and chsgred remains of the victims were
badly burned while one poor woman, pluioned |
in the wrocaGge. was Crcmated before the eyes
oi -po iator-. Who worked 70 secure her release
untl driven OF by tue namcs.
now 1T ALL OCCURRED.
The cas,-hound Erie yestibule No s, due at |
Youngstown a. %, A. NJ, was very late, and |
WAS running ON orders. When a stop was made |
at Eaycnna the engineer and fireman |
O., thc passenger tram went 20 work |
So elair the engine, and the train was |
aclin detained several minutes. flagman |
was sent b.ck but went only few ieet-at |
rnusi two ar lengths. suddenly around the |
curve west of tho city came Train No. S", com |
posed of SNift- moat-curs train, running twen- |
tg-hve miles an hour and coming down a heavy |
grade. The engineer supposod he had clear !
track and. u heing through train, he was not |
expected 10 -top al kayenna. lie called for |
brakes ana reversed his engine, but all 10 no |
purp.se. ON came he freight train with but /
slightly decreased speed, and no word Of warn
iag could be- given the people IN the doomed !
tsn.n. 4 few feet west Of the station the engi- |
neer ana fireman Jumped. alighting safely
TnE CRASH.
moment moro aud tho heavy freight crashed |
into tine passenger traiu. For a moment after /
thorc Was the silence Of doa,h Then CON-
mcnred the MOST trightful cries ever heard. The
uoana of the dying and piteOus cries for help |
from The helpless passengers, and the mutllated |
and bloody Remains OF She dead seen through the /
fragments % the debris formed a scene OF horror /
nO pen can picture. The freight engine had /
gone clear Though The day coach In the rear,
through one Sleeper, and buried Itself In the |
rc-ond sleeper, the tkrd car OF the train. There |
was nothing LEFT Oi The train but n mass OF |
0S'ys, ana tho sidcs " the thitd car stood about
the monster engine as Il 10 hold It prisoner and
prevent iur.her damage.
Tng FLAXKs.
This scene lasted but a moment when little
tongues Of name sprang up here and there. and
roou The whole wreck Was wrapped in nrc. IL
Was a sickening sight. TwO-scOre impris )ned
passengers were in the dsby.s, ana the flames
hghiius up tue place with lurid glare, served
only v intensity Tie horror without aiding the
roscucrs
TuE WORK OF RESCUE.
A. scon Rs tho 'dazod passengers in the
other cars recovered themselves they rush
oil 60 tho rescue o. their unfortunate
clnpanlonn. The ure department was i'm
moilatey telephouod for, ana every ono
iu that end ~ The ut;lo city rushed 10 the scene
81 the diaastor Hundreds soon surrounded the
wrrrk, but % little purpose. The awful ruin
had been wrought Gn1 little was left 10 do but TO
secure ana caro- iOe. the remains OF The dead
The lev passengers jsisily reached were prompt
" Rescued and soycfsl bodies OF dead and dying
carried up 20 the depot platform.
FfNpfAY AND CISCISNATI
CINCINNATI, o., July 3.~-1he Ravenus wreck
evidently caucht fudihy and Cincinnati passen-
ger- exclusively. The Chicago yestibuled train
\
York sleeper from Cincinnati, where the latter is
attached 20 the rear Of the train last night !
there was such an unusual number oi pasSen-
gers from here that two sleopers instead Oi one
were attached. They are evidently the two re-
ported destroyed In the wreck to-day. Tho day
coach Was IN the rear ana which was going from
finilay % youngstown would naturally be
paced In tho rear of the Cincinnati sleepers,
ana as tue special car would not be sent out with
les than ffty passengers, the probability is that
the casuAlties may al be limited 10 that car.
C4NcIsNAfIAss rshCEI.
Teieerafns have been received here from Mrs.
Martin. Of Cincinnati, who Was In one OF the Gin
cnHau aloe pers. and from Robert Mitchell. who
was in the other, that they bad escaped. There
has not beon 70 heavy a traiu-ioad sect from
here this summer az The one sent lasi night.
The Efie ofice 10 filled with inauiring friends.
NOT xucn oy A BLQcxlpk.
RAvkNsk, o.. duly 3.--lfhere was not much Of
a blockade owing 10 plenty u sldings and trains
being Immediately stopped on all points east
aDe west tramp who was stealing ride ON
the rear end u tho passenger train said 10 re-
porter that the nagnan cid not 70 back over