Los Angeles herald., 1891-10-01
DISREGARD OF ORDERS
THE CAUSE OF A HORRIBLE RAIL-
WAY DISASTER. ~
A Family Excursion Train Run Into by
Freight-Three Persons Killed Instant
ly and Score Frightfully Injured.
Terrible Scenes Enacted.

AKRON, Ohio, Sert. so. EARLY this
morning collision occurred mile east
of Kent, on the New York, Penneylr
vania and Ohio, between freight and
passenger trains. Three persons were
killed and twenty injured, several fa-
tally. The passenger was the Michigan
section of the Olin family excursion, the
members of which, and many friends,
were going to the national reunion of
their kindred at Bennington, Vermont.
1t was foggy night, and the collision
occurred on long fill, thirty feet high,
in the middle of which there was a
bridge sixty feet high over the Pittsburg
aud Western tracks. Part OF the pas
senger train was on the bridge when the
crash came. The engines ploughed into
each other, reared high in the air, and
the cars on each side crushed together
like cardboard.
INSTANTLY KILLED.
! The passenger engineer, William 2.
Maxwell, Fireman Glass and one pas
senger, an old lady, Mrs. Dewey, of
Richland, Mich, were instantly killed.
The other engines crew escaped serious
injury by jumping.
The baggage Car and the first and Sec
ond coaches telescoped, the interior of
! the cars being only mass of wreckage,
in which the unfortunate passengers
were entangled. The stove in the sec
ond coach WAS overturned and the tim
ber took fire.
HEROIC SUFFERERS.
Mrs. Alice Sedgwick, with both legs
broken, lay close TO the red hot stove,
pushing against it with all her might to
to keep it from crushing and burn.
ing her little daughter, who
lay just by her. The mothers
clothing was burned off and one side Of
her body roasted. Close to her ley
Laura Van Anken, a frail girl of IL years,
who was doing lise service for her
| mother, laying almost under the store,
her arms pinioned and broken. The res
cuers, however, soon succeeded in break
| ing into the car and extinguished the
| flames with water from the tanks.
! For half al hour the men worked, lift
ing out women and children, many OF
them with legs and arms dangling help
lessly. AS fast as taken out the injured
were transferred to the sleeping cars and
taken back to Kent, where they received
medical and surgical attention.
NAMES OF THE INJURED.
Miss A. NJ. Johnson, of Muskegon,
Mich. Mrs. Alice M. Sedgwick, OF
Parma, Mich, and Mrs. q G. rhomp-
son, OF Montague, Mich, will die.
Others injured are; Mrs. G. A. Buell.
and daughter, Mrs Caroline Reed, yrs.
Thomas Reckon. Mrs.sL, Ii. Van Anken
| and daughter, Nellie Stanford, G G.
Thompson, Mary Richards. j. D. Hart,
Ed. NJ. Moody, Frank M. Caldwell,
Charles E.. McKinsley, Miss Edith
| Somers, Miss Hulda Westcott and Miss
Rebecca Clark.
None of these will die, although sew
eral are very painfully injured.
CAUSE OF THE DISASTER.
Conductor F. Beigert, OF the
freight, which should have stood
at Ravenna, asserts that there was no
light on the fifth section of the excur-
| sion train to show that there was one
following. Whether this be true, or
! they confused train s with the section,
cannot be known until the inquest.
| TERRIBLE SCENES.
All day there have been terrible
scenes enacted at the Revere house in
this city, where all the wounded were
taken soon after the wreck. Every ply
siclan and surgeon available in the sur
rounding country was called on at once,
and has been very busy attending to
the injured, whose condition is pitiable
DISREGARD OF ORDERS.
CLEVELAND, Sept. 30.-General Man
ager Tucker. in dispatch to an official
OF the New York, Lake Erie and West
ern railway, says: especial instructions
were issued perintendents September
25th regarding this excursion, directing
them to take extra care. block all trains
IN both directions to insure absolute
safety, and to have inspectors at juno
ton points to examine the equipment.
The train dispatcher instructed the crew
OF the freight train not to leave Ravenna
until they received orders. but notwith-
standing this, and in violation OF said
instructions, they pulled out against the
last section Of No. q