The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-07-27
GREAT DISASTERS.
Excursion Trains Collide With
Fatal Results.
A NUMBER KILLED AND INJURED.


Car, Bearing a Large Number of
Employees, Wrecked at Middle
town, o.-Many Persons Killed
in Railroad Accident in france.
DAYTON, O., July 27.-From II o'clock
Saturday night till yesterday morning
the Union depot was thronged with
anxious crowds of people. All were
impatiently waiting for tidings of rela-
tives or friends on the National Cash
Register excursion train, which had
been wrecked about o'clock by rear
end collision near Middletown. The
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Rail
road company, on whose road the acci-
dent occurred, controlled the only tele-
graph line to the scene of the wreck,
and it was impossible to get anything
like accurate information. The sus-
pense of the people was painful to wit
ness.
Three Killed. Seventeen Injured.
The first train arriving bearing a por-
tion of the excursionists came in about
A a, m. and two hours later another
bearing the dead and wounded. Then
it was learned that three people had
been killed outright and seventeen others
injured, some of them seriously. The
wrecked train consisted of fourteen
coaches and one baggage car and was
bearing about 800 employees of the Cash
Register works and their friends to this
city from Woodsdale Island park, near
Hamilton, where they had spent the
day in enjoyment. The train was be-
lated. A broken drawbar necessitated
stop on a siding near Middletown.
This trivial accident had been repaired
and the train was just getting under
way again when the engine of fast
freight crashed into the rear coach
Then ensued frightful scene. Three
coaches were completely demolished
and three others badly jammed up.
The following is an official list of the
killed and injured: Killed-Frank L.
Simonton, aged II years; William N.
Matthews, aged IA; Minnie Frier, aged
20. Injured Patterson, 10, left
arm amputated; Joseph p. Cleal, 81,
left arm amputated; Joseph l.. Swavely,
Pottstown, Pa, left leg badly lacerated;
Squire Murphy, internal injuries Frank
Rieger, compound fracture of left arm;
William Auman, left foot badly lac
Grated; Annie Yernard, confusion Of right
side and right hip; Katie Schlein, both
feet badly injured; Mary Graham, right
foot lacarated; Edwin Beason, left side
of body and leg bruised; Ella Beason,
left foot badly confused and abraded;
Marcus Emersck, left hip abraded and
back sprained; Edith Tuttle, right leg
bruised; May Reber, slightly bruised;
Gus Grau, hand cut; Effie Wolf, body
bruised Millie Fritz, cut on right
cheek, chin and forehead; Mary Reese,
Osborne, O., slightly injured.
Engineer and Fireman jump.
Engineer Schwind, of the freight
train, saw the passenger train in front
of him. He reversed his engine,
whistled for brakes and applied sand,
but it was to no purpose. The momen-
tum of the freight train was too great
to prevent collision. He and his fire.
man jumped in time to save themselves.
The excursion train was just pulling off
the side track when the collision oc-
CURED, and the engine struck the hind
coach at an angle, knocking it off the
track, 1t ripped the side out of the
next one and lifted the next one right
up on top of the steam dog. 1t was in
this car that three persons lost their
lives and most Of the injured were
seated.
Most of the bodies recovered are with
out legs, through the seats being iam-
med together and cutting off the limbs.
Twenty thousand people assembled at
the scene, including many relatives of
the injured and the dead The driver
and fireman of the second train were
burned alive. The station master, of
whose oversight the blame is now placed,
1t is reported gone mad and disappeared.
II "a let H.,