St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-29
Half a Dozen Persons Lose
Their Lives in a Collision
Of Trains.
A Mother and Two Children
Dead and Dying in the
Fated Car.
Escaping Steam Adds to the
Horror and Pain Of the
Injured.
The Oswegatehie Found, but
the Potter and Goodell'S
Crew Missing.

TOLEDO, O., Nov. %. - The Lake
Shore was the scene of disastrous run
in accident this evening. In the edge
of the city the road runs under the
Miami IL Erie canal through a tunnel
some seyenty-feet long. Some 2O0yards
east of the tunnel is a target. The
Lake Shore, as soon as it was stopped
by the target. sent back brakeman. He
ran about fifty feet to the mouth of
the tunnel, and waved his lantern
across the track. The tunnel was full
of smoke, but the engineer of the Flint
81 Pere Marquette train, which was al
ready in the tunnel, saw the signals and
also the rear lights of the doomed car.
He shut off steam. and he and his fire.
man threw themselves fiat on the floor
of the cab so as to be protected by the
boiler. Both escaped unhurt, except a
severe shaking up.
MANNED aud Scalded.
The Lake Shore train was vestibuled,
but an ordinary day coach for the &C
cOmmOdatiOn of way passengers was at
tached at the rear.and it was this which
suffered. The Flint & Pere Marquette
engine plowed its way through the car
until the pilot was more than midway
of the coach. The seats and floor were
torn up, and the unfOrtunate passen-
gers, bruised and manned, were badly
scalded by the escaping steam
from the broken pipes. The crash
is described by those who heard it as
terrific, and was followed by screams of
agony from the wounded. The time of
arrival of the Flint & Pere Marquette
hnf nf q
train 4:55-thuS giving but two minutes
between them. The former train seems
to have been couple of minutes behind
time. The engineer says that just
as he was coming to the tunnel.
running fast, he saw the rear
lights of the Lake Shore train, and be-
lived il to be in the tunnel. Knowing
a collision inevitable, he shut off steam
and both he and his fireman jumped,
escaping with a few bruises, knowing
that collision in the tunnel would
give them no chance for life. So far as
known, the following are
The Casualties:
Mrs. SUSAN MCCOY, Rawson, Ill, dead
MRS. MCDONALD, New York fatally burned.
HER INFANT, eighteen months old, killed
instantly
HER son, aged eight. badly scalded and
dying.
MISS ELLEN MYERS, Cleveland. badly in
jured, will probably die.
THOMAS MCQUEEN, Elkhart. Ind, probably
fatally hurt.
MRS. NELSON, Toledo, badly scalded.
Thirteen others were more or less
scalded and bruised. The severed hand
of labOring man. probably brake
man, was found in the wrecked car, but
so far the injured man has not been dis
covered. 1t is possible his body may be
found in the wreck. The car entirely
envelopes the engine as far as the cab,
the two being wedged closely together.
No one in either train was hurt save
those in the wrecked day coach and the
conductor of the Flint 6, Pere Marquette
train. The Lake Shore officials are in
clined to put the blame on the Flint q
Pere Marquette train. The engineer of
that train is a new man, and it was his
first run over the road.
Mrs. Mccoy, dead, had in her pocket
a card of DR.. Mccoy, Saginaw, Mich,
and two diamond rings.