Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-07-03
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ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
Terrible Railroad Accident.

ALLIANCE, O1to, July 90 . v o'"oN
this morning irightful railroad wreck &C.
CURED at Ravenna. on the New York, Lake
Et!e & Western Railway. The fast express
bound for New York, while standing at the
depot, was crashed into from the rear by q
freight train. The rear coach was complete
ly teIeaooped and 10 passengers killed and
| 50 badly injured. The day coach and two
aleepsrs forward took fire, burning many OF
tha bodies 80 that they were almost unre'
c,gnzabe. Many of the passengers on the
train were asleep when the awful crash
o,rna and 9 numbsr were crushed to death
| 10 their osrths terrible scene followed.
Taevs we're cries for help from all part, Of
tae train, mingled with dying m'aus OF 9TH
ers whose lives wsre being crushed OUT.
The few persons who escaped with
cut itinry worked with almost euperhuman
ooyar TO reecue the more unfortunate ones.
Ia several instances persons slowly burned
10 deah while pleading with their laet
breath for help, which could not be reoder.
ed. a relief train with corps OF physic'ars
and ru-ses soon arrived, and the III ired
| we're ssnt to Cleveland and placed In the
i hospital th9re. The dead are 80 badly
burned and di.fgured that 1t will be dill
cult task to identify them. 1t would appear
that this whole accident was due to the care
lessnegs OF some one leaving switch open.
/ The heavy freight train was running at the
1 on nd
passenger train with full force. The acc-
dent. 10 the loss OF life and property, Ia the
m ost extensive eyer suffered by the E7ie
railway.
| ST. PAUL, MIMI, July ga freight train
came In collision with work train
near MENDOZA yesterday afternoon. The
freight was deraiIed and the engine and
thirty cars destroyed by fire. 1t was report
ed that three tramps we're burned to death.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
CLEVELAND. o., July 3.-A special from
Youngstown. Ooio, says: at Ravenna the
worst railroad wreck which ever happened
on the western reserve, excepting the bs1.
tabula horror, occurred this morning, re-
sultipg In the death OF 25 people and the
serious, II not fatal injury OF at least si1
M ore. Fire added its terrors to the already
frightful scenes, and the bruised and charred
remains OF the victims were badly burned
while one poor woman, pinioned in the
wreokage, was cremated before the eyes oil
the spectators who worked to secure her re
lease until driven OF by the flames. Toe
ess bound Ellie vestibule was very late and
WAS running on orders. When the stop wae
made at Rsvepna the engineer and fireman
Of the passenger train went to work to re-
pair he engine, and the train wac again de-
taced several minutes. a Higman YVES
sent back, but went only a few feet, as most
.wo oar-lengths. Suddenly arourd the
carve, weat of the city, came train COM
posed of meat cars. The train was running
% miles sn hour, end coming down 3 heavy
grade. The engineer supposed he had a
clear track and it being through train be
wss not expected 10 sop at Ravenna. He
called for brakes and reversed his engine,
bur all 10 no lu pose.
On came the freight train with but slight
| IL decreased speed, AID no word o. warn
ing could be given the people 10 the
doomed train. Anew feet west OF the stu
ton the engineer and fireman jumped.
sIightiog safely. q moment more aud the
heavy freight crashed nto the passenger
traio. The freight engine plunged clear
through day coach In the rear, through the
sleener and buried itself In the second sleep
or, the third CIR OF the train. There was no.
thing left Of the train bat mass of debris.
This scene lasted bat moment when little
tongues of q amss sprang up here and there
aud soon the whole wreck was wrapped in
| FIRE.
| l. was ackeulDg sight. Two scores of i'm
prlsoned passengers in the debris; the
flames lighting up the place with lurid
glare, eerved only to intensity the horror
| without aiding the rescuers. AS soon as
the dazod passengers in the other cars re-
covered hamselves they ru. he'd to the rescue
of their unfortunate companions. The Are
department. Hhs tCiCpbOuoo
for aud every one 10 that end Of the little
city rushed TO ths seems OF the disaster and
hundreds soon surrounded the wreck but to
little purpose. The awful ruin had been
wrought. and little was left to do but to Sc
cure and care for the remains OF the dead. A
few passengers easily reached were prompt
iy rescued, and several bodies OF the dead
aud dying we're carried up to the depot
platform. Oae man was taken out of the
wreck alive. Hs was terribly crushed and
burned and his sufferings we're awful to
behold. In az sgonizing voice, he called to
friend: BILLY, for Gods sake, get an aye
and kill ms." He died soon after.
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