The historic times. [volume] (Lawrence, Kansas) 1891-1891, 1891-08-01
FATED EXCURSIONISTS.
Disastrous Wreck of Trains Filled
With Merry Excursionists.
Fifty Persons Killed and Injured BY Coll
nsion Near Dayton, O.-AwfuI Collision
Between Excursion Trains in France
Forty nine Killed.

DAYTON, O., July 27.-While a 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 vn and
pulled into siding to repair. While
lying there it was run into by freight
train.
The cars were packed full of people
and were plowed into 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 linn BIS and arms and were injured
otherwise.
News of the disaster spread over thu
city like wild fire, and the depot was
filled with anxious persons who had
relatives on the train. The city ambu-
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
Dayton. The excursionists filed all
the cars on very long train and spent
the day at Woodsdale. They were
mostly young people, composed in
q oil
women with few children.
1t was after o'clock when the long
train with its load of happy occupants
started to return to Dayton. A little
after 10 o'clock the train stopped at
to let off excursionists who
stopped there. This was twenty miles
south of Dayton. While the passenger
train was standing there a freight at a
high speed ran into the rear erd and
two cars full of people were overturned
and wrecked
A boy aged il, 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
we're injured, some of them frightfully ,
Three persons were killed outright: {
William Mathews, aged Is; Miss Lydia :
'rler, aged %; Frank Simoner, aged ;
Z. Four are in critical condition at :
It. Elizabeth hospital: Joseph B. Gle t
al, mechanical draughtsman, left arm /
rushed off at the shoulder; Frank Pat
erson, aged Fl, left arm amputated
bove the elbow; Joseph S. Sweverly,
ged %, of Pottsville, Pa, spinal injury, f
nd James Murphy, aged SO, terribly
lJured in the small of the back.
Miss Mary Reese, of Osborne, o., was o
ably injured and also the following lt
AIMED, from Dayton: Warren Thomp- q
On, Fred Weidner, Mark limerick. W
dlth Tuttle, r. S. Tuttle, Kate Schlin. .
lden NJ Beason, and wife, Frank Rel II
er, William Oman, Mary Gram, Annie IL
erde, Samuel Lohr, Charles Myers, C;
Laggie Frest, Annie Brennan, Pearl p'
horthill and Ella Thompson. There al
e as many more with bruises and til
her slight injuries. dc
CALAMITY IN FRANCE. fr
PARIS, July ga collision between to
Icurslon trains occurred at st. Mande fe
st night in which scores of persons m
ere either killed outright or fright m
lily injured and three carriages were ce
rocked. Both trains were returning in
ON musical festival at Fontenoy. tic
The second train crashed into the ce
ecedlng train before the latter had m:
It the st. Mande station The guards an
n and the rear carriages of the first no
lin were wrecked and caught fire. tut
The other passengers hurricdly left ca,
train and assisted in extricating the
Tins Soldiers aided the fire brigade
quenching the fire and rescuing the
ssengers The injured were cared
by torchlight ,
! dispatch from St Mande dated | D.
lock in the morning says that sixty ~;
sons were injured and that fifteen ~ ~
ID bodies have been recovered. in. - a.
ding those of two children who were "a
ngied beyond recognition. Most of oal
dead are legless, their limbs having 10 20
n crushed off through tbe-iammint I'd
ether of the seats. 70
is now known that fo1 ty- mine have uaI
n killed and 100 injured. .ldi