St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-01
A FEARFUL BLUNDER.
Trains in Deadly Collision
Through a Conductors
Mistake.
Three People Dead, Several
Others Cannot Possibly
Survive.
Over a Score Manned and
Observation-Disclosures Of the
Wreck.
Bold Bandits Cleverly Rob an
Express Car Near Utica,
New York.

AKRON, o., Sept. 9O.-Early this morn
ing collision occurred one mile east of
Kent on the New York, Pennsylvania
IL Ohio road, between a freight and
passenger train. Three persons were
killed outright and twenty-four injured,
several fatally. The passenger train
was the Michigan section OF the DIN
family excursion, members of which
were going to the national reunion of
their kindred at Bennington, VT. Many
other Michigan people took advantage
of the low rates to visit friends in the
east. 1t was q foggy night, and the
collision occurred on long fill thirty
feet high, in the middle of which was
bridge sixty feet long over the Pitts
burg 4 Western tracks.
Part of the passenger train was on
the bridge when the crash came. The
engines plowed into each other and
reared high in the air and the cars on
each side crushed together like card
board. William Maxwell, of Mead
vile, engineer of the second division,
who was riding in the passenger en-
CINE, had started back over the tender
just before the collision. He was caught
between the tender and baggage car
and was
Ground TO a Jelly,
one leg being torn off and thrown down
the bank. Engineer C.. +. Brown, OF
Meadyille, who was on the freight, and
Engineer Nichols, of the same place,
jumped and saved their lives. Fireman
Larkins, of the passenger train, followed
suit. and was badly hurt in tumbling
down the embankment. Fireman Clay
ton Glass, Of Meadville, was caught i'll
the wreck and crushed to death.
The passenger train consisted of five
sleepers, five day coaches and bag
gage car. The latter and the first day
coach were damned into bits, and the
occupants buried in the debris. The
second day coach was badly wrecked,
seats and timbers being heaped UP al
most to the ceiling in the center Of the
coach. The rear portion was kept al
most intact, but damned into the for
ward portion of the third day coach,
which was lifted off the tracks and
pushed skyward at an angle Of 40 de-
grees.
The second day coach was occupied
by women and children. Mrs. VIII
loughby Deway, of Richland, Mich,
OF the car, met instant death, the heavy
timbers crushing her head. Other pas
sengers were buried in the promlscuous
pile of seats and timberS. The stove
was overturned and timber took fire,
flames bursting out in an instant.
Shrieks of women and children who
were wedged in close to the burning
timbers summoned workers to the part
of the wreck and score of men were
soon cutting a way through the debris.
Manned HerOines.
Mrs. Alice NJ. Sedgwick, with both
legs broken, lay close to the red hot
stove, pushing against it with all her
might to keep 1t from crushing and
burning her little daughter, who lay
just by her. The mothers clothing was
burnd off, and one side of her body was
roasted. Close to her lay Flora Van
doing 4 like service for her mother,
lying almost under the stove, her arms
pinioned and broken.
Breaking into the car from the rear,
the men brought water from the drink
ing tank, and passed 1t to the impris-
oned women. In five minutes the wood
work was drenched, and the fire cheat
ed out of its prey. For half-hour more
the men worked like Titans, lifting out
women and children, many with legs
and arms dangling helplessly. AS fast
as taken out the injured were trans
ferred to sleeping cars and taken to
Kent. The Revere hotel and several
near by houses were at once thrown
open and doctors began setting broken
bones and binding up the wounded.
Mrs. A. M. Johnson, OF MuSkegon,
was the most seriously injured, and
cannot live. Both legs are broken.
Following is complete
List of the Injured:
Mrs. Alice NJ. Sedgwick Parma, Mich,
right leg fractured. right thigh and foot
burned, left hip dislocated.
Mrs. G. G. Thompson, Montague, Mich,
severe injury to back, still unconscious from
internal injuries. Physicians say the in
juries of all three will probably prove fatal.
Mrs. Rev. G A. Buell., compound fracture
of left leg, lacerated hip and internal in
juries.
Lucille Buell., aged eight, bruised hip and
Mrs. Caroline Reed, Richland, Mich, leg
broken.
Mrs. L. H. Van Anken. Mcdonald, Mich,
right arm broken.
Miss Laura Van AIKEN, aged eleven, LAGER
ated and wounded on both feet.
Nellie Stanford, Galesburg, Mich, back
and right hip injured.
&C Thompson Montague. Mich, wounded
on scalp, left shoulder, breast and right
arm.
Mary Richard. Muskegon, legs bruised.
j. d. Hart, Rockford. H., right thigh
broken, left ankle and right shoulder
sprained.
Edward NJ. Moody. Shelby, Mich, left hip
and both legs bruised.
Frank NJ. Caldwell, second division passen-
ger agent of the n. ". P. d o., scalp wound,
cut over left eye and left foot injured.
Charles E. McKinsley, badly bruised by
falling through the trestle TO the track, thirty
feet; no bones broken.
Miss Edith Somers, Grand Rapids, left leg
fractured.
Miss nilda westcott, Bangor. Mich, bruised
back.
Miss Rebecca Clark, Bangor, hip and back
hurt
A Brave WOInan's Story.
Mrs. L. c. Richar, of Muskegon, Mich.
who was sitting with her two children
in double seat, describes the scene
after the crash when | saw the front
of the car coming in, glass flying, and
seats piling up to the ceiling, / jumped
to my feet. and in an instant was
caught by the timbers. then pulled
and pulled at my little girl. aged nine,
whose legs were caught, but could not
move her, all the time the screams and
groans of the injured driving me mad.
In minute, the men from the outside
began working on the timbers, and
soon they liberated my daughter.
zone man caught me up and was car
rying me away when | screamed that
my babe was still in the wreck I put
my hand down between the timbers and
felt the child's body, and thought she