The McCook tribune., 1891-04-24
nailroad wreck In Ohio

| CLEVELAND, O., April 20.-A fright.
full wreck occurred on the Lake Shore
railroad at Kippon station, about forty
miles west, Saturday evening, in which
six postal clerks and two engineers
were killed.
The fast mail, No. IA, bound east
collided with No. y, the Toledo ex-
press, just as the latter train was
about to pull on u siding TO let the fast
mail pass.
The fast mail was running at full
speed and the force of the collision
was so great that both engines, three
mail cars and one baggage car were
completely wrecked.
The following is list of the dead:
Edward Brown, engineer; Charles
Topliff, engineer; Fireman Staley; F.
j. Nugent Charles Hammill, F. F.
Clemens, John j. Bowertine. James
M'Kinley, and C. H. M'Dowell. postal
clerks. John Danzig son of a section
foreman, was injured. None of the
passenger cars left the track and none
of the passengers received serious in
juries.
1t was the custom for these two
trains to pass at kipton, the Toledo
express taking the side track for the
fast mail, which usually went through
without slackening. The express was
a few minutes late Saturday evening
and had just come to stop at the
switch when the fast mail came in
sight The engineer OF the fast mail
applied the air brakes when he saw
that collision was inevitable, but the
speed of the train was not checked ma
terially. The engine of the Toledo
express was knocked squarely across
the track and that OF the fast mail
reared in the air, resting on the top of
the other. The first and second mail
cars were telescoped and smashed to
kindling wood and the third crashed
into the first two and rolled over on
the station platform. The two bag
gage cars of the Toledo express were
knocked from the track, but did not
turn over.
| The passengers were thrown to the
floors and badly shaken, but none were
seriously injured. The passengers at
once began the work of rescue and
With corps of physicians from the
town ministered to the few who were
injured. All but one of the dead were
beyond human assistance as soon as
the collision occurred. The bodies
were all horribly crushed and multi
ated. arms and legs being torn off and
the corpses almost beyond recogni-
ton. The postal clerks were Gagged
like rats and the telescoping of the
cars crushed the life out of them with
out a moments warning.
1t Is difficult to locate the blame for
the accident. but it is said that the
express was ordered to stop at Ober-
lin, but went on to Kipton and had not
sufficient time to make the side track.
| The Census and Statistics.
WASHINGTON, April 2O.-Secretary
Noble of the interior department was
directed by the last congress to inquire
into and report upon to the next con-
gress as to the desirability of making
the census bureau a permanent depart
ment. Mr.. Noble has given the mat
ter considerable thought, although he
has not been able to reach final con-
clusion.
The suggestion has been made that
If such permanent bureau is estab-
! lished here, whose duty it will be to
furnish statistics of the industries and
manufactures of this country from
month to month and year to year, it
! would be well to consolidate into one
bureau all the statistics now provided
for. The treasury department now
| maintains such bureau, of course con-
fines itself entirely to the exports and
imports Of this country. The depart
ment of labor confines itself to the
statistics of work and wages. though it
has made several very successful side
issues into social and railroad ques-
tions. The department of agriculture
publishes monthly reports of the move
ments OF grain and live stock; and the
new bureau of immigration will devote
much attention to the statistics of its
work.
1t has been therefore suggested that
it would be d wise and judicious move
to consolidate all these bureaus into
one department, for it is now difficult
to see how the work of each of these
independent bureaus can be readily
made to fit into the work of all the
other bureaus, like the cogs of a series
of wheels. At the same time there is
the well known indisposition to yield
up even the slightest jot or title of
bureau authority, and Secretary Noble
is therefore unable to say at present
just what he will recommend in that
line. 1t is the general opinion that
there ought to be a permanent census
bureau to furnish all statistics.
Texas Cattle Quarantine.
WASHINGTON, April 20.-An earnest
effort is making on the part of cattle
men from the far west to have the
Texas fever cattle quarantine line es-
tapiished by the agricultural depart
msnt for the great cattle raising states
of Wyoming, Montana and Colorado
moved farther south and made to con-
form to the quaran inc line fixed upon
by those state for their own protection