The rustler., 1891-08-07


DkrroN. O.. July q. While Cincin-
natl Hamilton a Dayton excursion
train Of fourteen cars were returning
from n picnic n woodsdaie park. .
freight train crashed into Il at Middle
town at o'clock saturday e-ening and
killed and wounded fifty persons.
The excursion train broke do vn aud
pulled into a siding 20 repair. While
lying there IL was run into by freight
train.
The cars were packed full OF people
and were plowed into n 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 ambu-
lanees and patrol wagons were all
ordered 10 the depot 10 transport the
injured to the hospital or their homes.
The Dayton Cash Register Co. gave
their employees and friends picnic ex-
cursion TO Woodsdale, n resort on the
Miami river about four miles north OF
Hamilton and about thirty miles from
Dayton. The excursionists filed all
the cars on a 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.
II was after 0 o'clock when the long
train with It's load of happy occupants
started to return 20 Dayton. A little
after 10 o'clock the train stopped ut
Middletown TO let off excursionists who
stopped there. This was twenty miles
south Of Dayton. While the passenger
train was standing there freight ut .
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 n little girl died
soon after being taken from the debris
Nearly all the people in the two cars
were injured, some OF them frightfully
mangled.
Three persons were killed outright:
William Mathews, aged lS; Miss Lydia
Frier. aged %; Frank Simoner, aged
II. Four are in critical condition ut
St Elizabeth hospital: Joseph Il. Gle
val, mechanical draughtsman, left arm
crushed off at the shoulder; Frank Pat
terson, aged 81, left arm amputated
above the elbow; Joseph S. Swcverly,
aged 25, OF Pottsville, Pa, spinal injury,
aud James Murphy, aged 80, terribly
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 EmcriclS
Edith Tuttle, Il. S. Tuttle, Kate Schlin
Elden NJ. Beason, and wife, Frank Rel.
ger, William Oman, Mary Gram, Ami,
Verde Samuel Lohr, Charles Myers
Maggie Frcst. Annie Brennan, Pear
Shorthiil and Ella Thompson. There
are as many more with bruises anC
otutT nllbht iuIuEiths
CALAMITY IL FRANCE.
PARIS, July 27.-A collision between
excursion trains occurred at St Mand,
last night in which scores of persons
were either killed outright or fright
fully injured and three carriages wer,
wrecked Both trains were returning
from "a musical festival at Fontenoy.
The second train crashed into tn,
preceding train before the latter haC
left the St Mande station. The guard
van and the rear carriages of the frs
train were wrecked and caught fire
The other passengers hurriedly lef
the train and assisted in extricating th'
victims Soldiers aided the fire brigade
in quenching the fire and rescuing tn
passengers. The injured were caret
for by torchlight
A dispatch from St Mande dated
o'clock in the morning says that sixty
persons were injured and that fifteel
dead bodies have been recovered, in
cluding those of two children who wer
\ mangled beyond recognition. Most o
the dead are legless, their limbs having
been crushed off through the jamminI
together of the seats.
1t is now known that forty mine hav
been killed and 100 injured.
INDIANA HAS a CHILL.