Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-07-04
HORROR!
Ike q DemOniac Beast Fam
iShsd by a Long Fast
Nd EAGER FOR QUARRY
/ Freight Train Hurls Itself
Into a Passenger
IT THE RAVENNA, O., DEPOT
|Eorry Laughter Of Passengers Turned
n M..o
Merry Laughter Of Passengers Turned
to Dying Means,
AND SMILING FACES BLACKENED
b. the Cruel Flames That Mock the Dying
Misery Of the Doomed, and Shed a
CHASTITY LightOn aSituahOn Worse
Than the Horrors Of
the Inferno.

RAvENNA, OHIO, July 3.-At tnree
o'clock this morning, passenger train
No. S. east bound, was lying quietly at
the station at this point. Something
was wrong with the coupling OF the
spccial car and the train crew gathered
m a little knot about the end of the car
while the regular yard man whiStled
cheerfully as he tapped each smoking
wheel to be sure that all was right be-
fore the train was beyond his control.
Meantime there was one upon whom all
the lives on the train depended, Flagman
Bovuton, idling laziIy toward the rear
end Of the car, and thence back into the
night with flag and lantern, TO ward off
danger from that point. He was not
long walking TO the end Of the car, not
longer than any one might take when
there was no danger, and surely
there was no death in the
peceful, quiet darkness that stretched
away to the rear Of the train. No,
ROyntOn was not long in starting, and
he surely was not long In reaching
pQiatu aitsteSntts as a6Cnlr.;tf tty -gJr0tet I:
i0ng; no matter how far back he walked
it was not far enough. There was some
dreadful mistake, or carelessnesS or fate.
There was sudden dazzling flash Of
locomotive light in the bewildered eyes
OF the rear lagman, cry of warning,
when 10 was too late, whirl of wheels,
an awful crash, and deep silence, but
only for moment. Nineteen precious
human lives were lost in a moment, and
twelve manned and injured. A terrible
rear end collision had occurred, and
the flagman, throwing away his useless
dntern, could only help TO save.
THE DEAD.
Following is full list of the dead and
injured, who but moment before had
been sleeping and dreaming of the NOR
row, or waking and specializing as to
how long the present delay would last {:
4 HENRY GILDEA.
4 JOHN MCAvoY.
4 PATRICK RYAN.
4. HAUF.
Il. BURNS.
J. KIMBALL.
OWEN HARDEMAN.
THOMAS NOLAN.
THOMAS CoyILLE.
GEORGE GOLDEA.
DAVID RELEHAN.
J. CoYLE.
W. NEwCoMB.
ID. RYAN.
ID. CASSIDY.
HENRY McGILL.
All glassblowers OF Findlay, Ohio
and Corning, New York.
G. GRIFFIN, Brooklyn, n. Y.
A. GUNTHRoP, Brooklyn, n. Y.
W. KAN, Brooklyn, n. Y.
UNKNOWN NURSE GIRL and infant
hid. Passengers I'm the Pullman car.
The Injured were: Joseph Morgan,
|COrnin g, n. Y, cut on the face, badly
burned about legs and back, very seri-
Gus.
Thomas Hanley, Corning, n. Y,
severely injured about the face, head
.and shoulders:
George Smith, OF Corning, crushed
.hnd burned. James Dwycken, Corning,
crushed and burned. Dennis Ryan, of
Corning, crushed and burned. James
Smith, leg broken. II. G. DcGraff,
head, neck and shoulders cut and
bruised. John Cadwean, hip, back
bud shoulders injured James McGill,
|brdly squeezed about the body. John
Kea ing, cut on the head. A. P. Jones,
head cut. Jonas Clark, head cut.
The passenger train consisted Of an
express and baggage car, three day
eoaches, two Pullman cars and spe-
eial car, and was about ten minutes late
owing to the trouble with one of the
ears. The train at the time OF the ac-
eident lay on the "NYpano" main track,
lust at the bottom of q steep grade, and
Ahough the train men knew they were
followed by freight train filed with
chicago fresh meat, no enc seemed to
think the freight was at their very
heels, and once on the down grade COM
ing into the station it would be hard
natter to stop, especially as the freight
Hid not intend TO make Ravenna q stop
Ding place.
PIrEoUs CRIES FOR HELP.
What might have been expected act
ally happened. The freight was max
u time, and came down the hill with a
lnsh. the engine and tender being fairly
turled through the rear end Of the pas
Henger. Piteous cries for help arose
rom the wreckage, and willing hands
Fere already tearing at the heap OF
~oken and twisted timbers and iron.
hen scream Of horror arose from
eneath the ruins that sent 3 thrill
rough the hearts of the crowd that
Ashered about. Then here and there |
b darkness became radnally liz With |