Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-10-01
Three Persons KILLED aud Twenty IN.
jurcd In Railroad
Collision.
Hraoism OF a MOTHER AND 4
DAUGHTER.
By Telegraph 10 he SrWsi
ANOTHER iioaRon.
a rstai Collision ono aiis Fast Of
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AKRON, o., sept. s0.--Early this
morning collision occurred one mile
east Of Kent, on the Now York, Penn.
sylvanla a Ohio, between freight aud
passenger train. Three persons were
killed aud twenty injured. several
fatally. The Passenger wns lhc Michl-
gan section OF the Olin family excur-
siou, the mumbrra Of which and many
friends were going 10 n national
reunion OF their kindred Ut Benbing.
ton, VI.
Il was a foggy night, and tho col
lisiun occurred ON long hill thirty
feet high, tn tho middle o. which was
bridge Of sixty feet over the Pittsburg
and Western tracks. Part OF the pas.
senger tmin was on the bridge when
the crash came. rhoonglnca ploughvd
Into each other, reared high ia the air
and the cars on each slide crashed 10.
gother like cardboard.
William u. Maxwell, n travelling en-.
queer, Fireman Grass aud one pas.
seuger, an old lady named Mrs. Dewey,
Of lllshlnnd, Mich, were instantly
killed.
Tho others OF the engine crews re-
cppod serious injury by jumping. The
baggage car and fiIst and second
coaches tcloscopcd, the Interior OF the
cars being only "a mnss Of wreckAge, In
which the unfortunate passengers were
entanglcd.
TiiE STOVE ~ THE SECOND COACH
was overturned aud the timber took
fire. Mre. Alice Sedgewlok, with both
| legs broken, lay close 10 the red hot
stove, pushing against II with all her
mi ght 10 keep u from crushing aud
burning her little daughter, who lay
Just by her. The mothers clothing
was burned OH aud one slde Of her
body roasted. Close 10 her lay Laura
Van Ankon, a frail girl Of II yearp,
who was doing like service for
her mother, laying almost under the
stove, her arms plnloned and broken.
| kofcuCrs, however, soon succeeded In
breaking Into tue car,and oxtinguishcd
the flames with water from the tank.
Fut half an hour the men worked,
| lifting cut women aud children, many
| OF them with legs and arms dangling
helploAfly. IA fast as taken out the
injured were transferred 10 the sleep.
Ing cars aud taken back 10 Kent, where
they received medical and surgical
attention.
Miss A. NJ. johnson, Of Muskogan,
Mich; Mrs. Alice NJ. Seigwlck, OF
Parma, Mich, and Mrs. q. G. Thomp-
son, Of Montague, Nlich,, will die.
Tm OTHERS INJURED ARK.
Mrs. q. A. Buell. aud daughter, Mrs.
Caroline Reed, Mrs. Thomas Reichon,
Mrs. l.. ". VanAnken aud daughter,
| Nellie stanford, u. q. Thompson, Mary
Richards, J. d. Hart, I'D. ". Moody,
Frank NJ. Caldwell, Charles T.. Nc.
Kinsley, Mias Edith 5omors, Miss HUI.
da Wosicott, Mics Rebocca CLARK.
None Of these will die. although sew
oral are very painfully hurt.
Conductor y. Beigeri, Of thu freight,
which should have stood Mt Ravonna,
asserts that
THERE WAS 80 LIGHT
on the nth section Of tue excursion
train 10 show that there was one
following. Whether this DO true OF
that they confused train No. with the
section cannot be known until tho In.
quest. All day thuIo have boen ter.
rible scenes enacted ut the Revere
House la this city, where all the
wounded were taken soon after the
wreck. Every physician and surgeon
available IN the surrounding country
whs called on ut once and have been
very busy attending TO the Injured,
whose condition Is 20 pitlable.
VIOLATION on ORDERS.
CLryELAsD, Sept. 80. - General
Manager Tucker, In a dispatch 10 tho
official Of tho New York, Lake Erie
4 Western Railway says especial
instruction were Issued 10 supcrin.
tendrnts September 18th, regarding
the excursion, directing them to take
extra care, block all trains In both
directions, 10 insure absolute safety,
and 10 have inspectors ut Junction
points examine the equipment. THIS
train dispatcher instructed the crew Of
the freight train not to leave Ravenna
until they received orders, but not.
withs.anding this ami In violation OF
aid instructions, they pulled out
against the right.of.wsy Of No. Z.