The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-07-31

DAYTON, O., July s7.-While Cincin-
natl. Hamilton & Dayton excursion
train of fourteen cars were returning
from a picnic at WOodsdale park, =
freight train crashed into it at Middle
town at o'clock Saturday evening and
killed and wounded fifty persons.
The excursion train broke do gn and
pulled into a siding to repair. While
lying there it was run into by freight
train
The cars were packed full of people
and were plowed into a mass of broken
cars and dead and crippled humans
Some passengers who were on the train
came home at midnight by the Big
Four express and said that seven per
sons were killed and scores of Others
lost limbs and arms and were injured
otherwise.
News of the disaster spread over the
city like wild fire, and the depot was
filed with anxious persons who had
relatives on the train The city am bu-
lances and patrol wagons were all
ordered to the depot to transport the
injured to the hospital or their homes.
The Dayton Cash Register Co. gave
their employees and friends picnic ex-
cursion to WoOdsdale, a resort on the
Miami river about four miles north of
Hamilton and about thirty miles from
the cars on very long train and spent
the day at Woodsdale- They were
mostly young people, composed in
about equal numbers of men and
women with few children.
1t was after o'clock when the long
train with its load of happy occupants
started to return to Dayton. little
after 10 o'clock the train stopped at
MiddletowR to let Off excursionists who
stopped there. This was twenty miles
south of Dayton While the passenger
train was standing there freight at a
high speed ran into the rear end and
two cars full of people were overturned
and wrecked.
A boy aged II, named Patterson, was
cut in three pieces. A woman named
Fryer was killed and little girl died
soon after being taken from the debris
Nearly all the people in the two cars
were injured, some of them frightfuliy
mangled.
Three persons were killed outright:
William Mathews, aged Il; Miss Lydia
Erier, aged %; Frank Simoner, aged
II Four are in a critical condition at
st Elizabeth hospital: Joseph Il. Gle
val, mechanical draughtsmau, left arm
crushed off at the shoulder; Frank Pat
tersOn, aged 81, left arm amPutated
above the elbow; Joseph :. SweverIy,
aged %, of Pottsvilie, Pa, spinal in jury,
injured in the small of the back.
Miss Mary Reese, of Osborne, O., was
badly injured and also the following
named, from Dayton: Warren Thomp-
son, Fred Weidner, Mark Emericls
Edith futile, r. 5. futile, Kate Schliu,
Eden NJ. BeasOn, and wife, Frank Rel
ger, William Oman, Mary Gram, Annie
Verde, Samuel Lohr, Charles Myers,
Maggie FresG Annie Brennan, Pearl
ShOrthil1 and Ella Thomson Theirs
are as many more with bruises and
other slight injuries.
CALAMITY IN FRANCE
PARIS, July 27.-A collision between
excursion trains occurred at St Aande
last night in which scores of persons
were either killed outright or fright
fully injured and three carriages were
wrecked Both trains were returning
from a musical festival at FoDtenoy.
The second train crashed into the
preceding train before the latter had
left the St Mande station. The guards
van and the rear carriages of the first
train were wrecked and caught fire.
The other passengers hurriedly left
the train and assisted in eXtricating the
victims Soldiers aided the fire hrigade
in quenching the fire and rescuiney the
passengers The injured were cared
Tor by SOrch1ight.
A dispatch from St Mande dated
O'Clock in the morning says that sixty
persons We're injured and that fifteen
dead bodies have been recovered, in
Guiding those of two children who were
mangied beyond recognition Most of
the dead are legiess, their limbs having
been crushed of through the jamming
together of the seats
1t is now known that fOrty-nine have
been killed and 100 injured