Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-08
A FEARFUL CRASH.

Two Trains. Each Isunning Thirty Miles
an Hour, Collide Oh the New York, Penn
syIvania s. Ohio Near Kent, o. with
Terrible Results-Three Persons Killed
Outright. Others Fatally and More Seri.
ousIy Injured in the Wreck.
AKRON, o., Oct. 1.-Early yesterday
morning collision occurred one mile
east of Kent on the New York, Penn.
sylvania & Ohio railroad. The second
division of freight train No SIS, going
I 80 miles an hour, ran into the sixth Sec
ton of passenger train No. 8, which
was makingthe same time. The pas
senger train was the Michigan section
of the DIN family excursion, membe
OF which were going to the national re-
union of their kindred at Bennington,
| VT Many other Michigan people took
advantage of the low rate to visit
friends in the east 1t was a foggy
| night and the collision occurred on a
| long fill thirty feet high in the middle
| of which was bridge sixty feet long
over the Pittsburgh & Western tracks.
| Part of the passenger train was on the
bridge when the crash came. The en-
| glnes plOwed into each other and
reared high in the air, and the cars on
| each side crushed together like card
board.
VIM. Maxwell. of Meadville, travel
ing engineer of the second DIVISION
who was riding in the passenger engine
| had started back over the tender Just
| before the collision. He was caught
between the tender and the baggage
car and was ground into a jelly, one
| leg being torn off and thrown down the
| bank.
Engineer C. E. Brown, of Meadville,
who was on the freight, and Passenger
Engineer f. III. Nichols, of the same
| place, jumped and saved their lives.
Fireman Stephens, of the passenger
| train, followed suit and was badly hurt
| in tum bling down the mbanl1ment
Fireman Clayton Glass, of Meadville,
was caught in the wreck and crushed
| to death.
The passenger train consisted of five
sleepers, five day coaches and a bag
gage car. The latter and first day
coach were damned into bits and the
| occupants were buried in the debris.
The stove was overturned and the
tim bers took fire, the flames bursting
out in an instant Shrieks of women
| and children, who were wedged in close
W biAN Dii mug cars, summoned work
ers to that part of the wreck. and a
score of men We're soon cutting a way
though the debris.
Mrs. Alice NJ. Sedgwick, with both
legs broken lay close to the 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 off, and one side of her
body was roasted. Close to her lay
Laura Van Anken, frail girl of II,
who was doing like service for her
mother, laying almost under the stove,
her arms pinioned and broken.
Breaking into the car from the rear,
the men brought water from the drink
ing tanks and passed it to the impris-
oned women. In five minutes the
woodwork was drenched, and the fire
was cheated of it's prey. For half
hour more the men worked like Tro-
jams, lifting out 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 Kent. The Revere hotel and
several nearby houses We're at once
thrown open, and Drs. Sherman,
Evans and Davis, of Kent, and Rail-
road Surgeon Lashell, of Meadville, be-
gan setting broken bones and binding
up wounds.
Following is a complete list of the ;n-
jured:
Mrs. A. NJ. johnson, of Muskegon,
Mich, was the most seriously injured,
and cannot live; both legs are broken.
Mrs. Alice Sedgwick, Parma, Mich,
right leg fractured, right thigh and fc OF
burned, left hip dislocated. Mrs. G. C.
Tompl<ins, Montague, Mich, severe
injury to back; still unconscious from
internal injuries. Physicians say the
injuries of all three will prove fatal.
Mrs G. A. Buell., compound fracture
of left leg, lacerated hip and inter- al
injuries.
Lucille Buell., aged S, bruised hip and |
back.
Mrs. Caroline Reed, Richland, Mich,
leg broken.
Mrs. Thomas Rechor, Muskegon, |
Mich, spine and hips injured.
Mrs. l.. H. Van Anken, Mcdonald, |
Mich, right arm broken.
Miss Laura Van Anken, aged II, |
lacerated and wounded on both feet.
Nellie Stanford, Galesburg, Mich, |
back and right hip injured.
G. c. Thompson, Montague, Mich, !
wounded on scalp, left shoulder, breast |
and right arm.
Mary Richard, Muskegon, leg bruised. !
j. d. Hart Rockford, ILL.,, right thigh !
bruised, left ankle and right shoulder /
sprained.
Edward NJ. Moody, Shelby, Mich,
left hip and both legs bruised.
Frank NJ. Caldwell, second division
passenger agent of the New York,
& Ohio, scalp wound cut
over left eye, and left foot injured.
Charles E. McKinsley, badly bruised
by falling through the trestle top to
to the track; no bones broken.
Miss Edith Summers, Grand Rapids,
Mich, left leg fractured.
Miss Hilda Westcott, Bangor, Mich,
bruised back
Miss Rebecca Clark, Bangor, hip and
back hurt.
The remains of the three dead We're
taken to Kent, and Mrs. Deway was
sent to her home.
Coroner Sherman will hold an in
quest this morning.
Superintendent J. S. Matson, who
went from Meadville to investigate the
accident, says that the blame rests
with the crew of the freight train.
They had instructions to wait at RAJ
VIENNA until the sixth section of the eX-