The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-01
TRAINS MEET IN FOG.
Michigan Members of the Olin
Family Shaken Up.
THREE KILLED. MANY INJURED.
Both the Iron Horses Stood on Their
Hind Legs and snorted-Oue Train
Ran in Violation OF Orders.

AKRON, o., Sept 3o-Early this morning
collision occurred few miles east of Kent, on
the New York, Pennsylvania d Ohio between
freight and passenger trains. Three persons
were killed and twenty injured, several fatally.
The passenger train was the Michigan section of
the Olin family excursion, the members of
which and many friends were going to ma
Bennington, VT. 1t was a foggy
night and the collision occurred on a long
hill thirty feet high. in the middle of which was
bridge sixty feet over the Pittsburg and West
ern track. Part of the passenger train was on
the bridge when the crash came. The engines
plowed into each other and reared high in the
air. while the ears on each side crashed together
like cardboard.
Travelling Engineer William D. Maxwell, Fire.
man Glass aud one passenger, an old lady-Mrs
Devay, of Richmond, Mich, were instantly
killed, but all the others OF the crew escaped by
jumping. The baggage car and the first and
second coaches were telescoped, the interior of
the cars being only mass OF wreckage in which
the unfortunate passengers were entangled. A
stove in the second coach was overturned and
the timber took fire.
Mrs. Alice Sedgwick, with both legs broken,
lay close to a red-hot stove, pushing against it
with all her might to keep it from crushing and
burning her little daughter, who lay just by
her. The mothers clothing was burned of,
and one side of her body roasted. Close to her
lay Laura Van AIKEN, a frail girl of IL years, who
was doing service for her mother, lying almost
under the stove, her arms pnioned and
broken The rescuers, however, soon succeeded
IN breaking into the car and extinguishing the
flames with water from the tanks.
For half an hour the men worked lifting
women and children, many of them with legs
and arms dangling helplessly. AS fast as taken
out the injured were transferred TO sleeping cars
and taken back to Kenton, where they received
medical and surgical attention OF the injured
Mrs. A. NJ. Johnson, of Muskegon, Mich; Mrs.
Alice NJ. Sedgwick, of Parma; N. Coleman and
Mrs. G. C. Thomson, of Montague, Mich,
Will die. The others injured are: Mrs.
G. A. Buff and daughter, Mrs. Caroline Rex,
Mrs. Thomas Reichan, Mrs. l. II. Van Anken
and daughter, Nellie Stanford, @. C. Thomson,
Mary Richards, ]. d. Hart, E. D. Moody. Frank
NJ. Caldwell, Charles Z. McKinsley, Miss Edith
Smith and Mrs. Hulda Roberts. None of these
will die, although several are very painfully
hurt
Conductor r. Brigert, of the freight train,
which should have stopped at Ravenna, re-
ported that there was no light on the
fifth section of the excursion train to
warn any train following. Whether this
be true, or If they confused train No. with that
section, cannot be known until the inquest. All
day there have been terrible scenes enacted at
the Raw house in this city, where all the
wounded were taken soon after the wreck.
Every physician and surgeon in the surround
ing country was called in at once, and all have
been very busy attending the injured, whose
condition is pitiable.
General Manager Tucker, in q dispatch to an
official OF the New York, Lake Erie & Western
railway, says:
Special instructions were issued to superin-
tendeDts September Is, regarding this excursion,
directing. them to take extra care to
block all trains in both directions to in
sure absolute safety, and to have inspectors at
junction points examine the equipment. The
train dispatcher instructed the crew of the
freight train not to leave Ravenna until they
received orders, but Notwithstanding this, and
in violation of said instructions they pulled out
against No. T.