Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-10-01
THREE KILLED
BY Collision on the Rail Between
Passenger and Freight Trains.

AKRON. Ohio. Sept, 80. - Esrly this
morning . collision occurred . mile east OF
Kent on the Ne~ York. Pennsylvania 4
Ohio Railroad between freight and pas
seneer train. Three persons we're killed
outright, "a injured. several fatally. The
passenger train was Michigan section Of
the DIN family excursion, the members
going to national reunion Of their kiadred
at Bennington, VI. Many other Michigan
people took advantage Of the low rates to
visit friends in the East. II vas . fcgsy
night aud the collision occurred on = lors
fiji so feet high in the middle Of which w,s
bridge sixty feet long over the Pinsbu,g 3
and Western tracis. Part Of the passenger
train was on the bridge when the crash
csms. The engines plowed into each other
and reared high In the air. the cars on each
side crushed together like cardboard.
William Maxwell Of Meadville, travelirg
engineer OF the second division vas iiiirg
in the passenger erg gine, and had start, d
back over the tender just before the collis
ion. He was caught between the tsnde,
and baggage car and ground to . Jelly.
The engineers jumped and saved their
lives. Fireman stephens Of the passepge'
train jumped and was badly hurt In tumb.
ling down an emoapkment. Firem>o
Clayton Glass Of Mesdvills. WAS caught il
the wreck and crushed to death.
The passenger train consisted Of Ave
s'eepsrs, fse day coaches and q baggage
car. Tie latter and first day coach were
Ammed into bits and the occupants buried
IN the debris. The second day coach wss
badly wrecked, seats and timber beins
heaped up almost to the ceiling in the center
Of the coach. The rear portion kept aimosi
intact and j4mmed into toe forward portion
of the third day cosch. which was lifted OF
the ,he tracks aud pushed skyward.
The second dsy coach was occupied by
women and children. Mrs. Wilioughby
DeWsy Of Richlsnd, Mich was in the
forward part Of the coach and met instant
death, the heavy timbers cfusbi'g her
head. The other passengers were buried
in promiscuous Iile Of seats and timbers.
The stove was overturned ard the timhefs
took fire, the flames bursting on, in an in
slant. The shrieks of the women and
wedged in close to the burning
timber. summoned the workers to that part
of the week, and . score Of men were
loon cutting q way through the debris.
Mrs. Alice M. Sedgwick, with both leg,
broken. lay close to red hot stove, push
ug against 1t with all her might, tn keep 1t
from crushing and burriog her little daugh
er, who lay jast beside her. The moth
,r's clothing was burned of, and oue side
II he- body roasle,. Close to her laJ
LAURA Van Ankep, aged IL, who was doing
ike service for her mother, lying almost
inder the stove, with both arms pinioned
md broken. Breaking into the car from
he rear, men brought water from tn
thinking tanks, and passed i. to the impris
,ned women. In Ave minu es the wood
york was destroy ed aud the lre cheated Of
to prey,
For hall an hour more the men worked
ike Titans lifting out women and children,
many with legs and arms dangling help
essly. As fast as they were taken out ths
blurred were transferred to the sleeping
,ars and taken to Kent. Revere Hotel and
eversl nearby houses were st once thrown
,pen, and doctors began attending to the
vouuded. Mrs. A. M. johnson. Muske.
ron, cannot live. Mrs. Alice M. Sedgwick,
'arma, Mich, and Mrs. G. c. Thompson
Montague, Mich, are both probably fatally
piurad