The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-04-20
EIGHT LIVES
Sig Postal Clerks and Two Trimmed Killed
In n Wreck.

CLEyEIAsD, o., April 19.-A frightful
wreck occurred on the Lake Shore Rail.
road at Kipton Station, about forty
mileswest Of Cleveland, early last even
ing, in which ak postal clerks and two
engineers were Ikilled. The fast mail
No. IA, bound east, collided with No. 81,
the Toledo express, just as the latter
train was about TO pull on the siding TO
| let the fast mail pass. The mail was
running at full speed, and the force Of
the collision wss SO great that both en-
gines, three mail cars aRd one baggage
car were completely wrecked. None Of
the passengers were seriously injured.
It was the custom for these two trains
to pass at Kipton, the Toledo express
taking the sidetrack for the fast mail,
which usually went through Kipton
without slackening It's speed. The To.
ledo express was q few minutes late this
evening, and had Just come TO stop Of
the switch when the fast mail came In
sight. There 10 scarcely any curve at
the station, but on one side Of the track
was line Of freight cars and on the
other the station. These might have
obstructed the vision Of the engineer Of
the fast mail. He applied the airbrakes
when he saw the collision wasinevltable,
but the speed OF the train was not check.
ed materially.
The engine oil the Toledo express was
knocked souarely across the track, and
that OF the fast mail reared in the air,
resting on top Of the other. The fast
mail consisted Of three natl cars and two
parlor cars, and the Toledo express OF
Eve coaches and two baggage cars.
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, breaking the windows OF the
building. The two baggage cars OF the
Toledo express were Knocked from the
track, but did not turn over.
The passengers Of the two trains at
once began the work OF rescue, and with
a corps OF physicians from the town,
ininistered 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 mutilated, arms and legs |
being torn of, and the corpses were
almost beyond recognition.
Charles Topllg, the engineer Of the
fast mail, remained brayely at his post,
and was found with his hand on the
throttle, dead. His hands and face were
so badly scalded that the blackened
flesh dropped from the bones when his
body was taken out. Fireman Staley,
OF the fast mail, jumped from the train
and sustained q broken leg and dislo.
Gated shoulder. The doctors said he
would recover, but he died soon alter
ward.
The poor postal clerks had not a
chance to escape. They were Gagged like
rats, and the telescoping Of the cars
crushed the life out Of them without
moments warding.
The following is list Of the dead:
Edward Brown, engineer Of No. q,
Toledo, o.
0harles Toplia, engineer of No. II,
Toledo, o.
Mr.. staisy, fireman of No. II.
F. J. Nugent, postal clerk, Toledo, o.
Charles Hammil, Elyria, o.
F. F. Clemens, postal clerk, oleve-
John ]. Bower, postal clerk, Ely
James Mckinley, postal clerk, Come
q q. i il. Mcdowell, postal clerk, Ely.
I fhe injured are:
Mr.. Darzig, son Of section foreman,
struck by wreckage and badly hurt.