The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-07-08
TELEsCoPED.
Fr,ahtful Disaster on the Erie Rail
way at Ravenna, Q.
N,n.toen Persons killed and Twenty-three
Others More or Less Seriously IN
Iured-The Dead and tho Dy-
ing Piled Up in Burning
Cars-An Awful
Fate.

occurred here at the Erie depot Train
No fast express, bound for New York,
while standing at the depot waiting for
orders was crashed into from the rear
hv n freight train. A day coach on the
rear Of the train was completely tele-
scoped and two sleepers forward took
Are and were burned up. Nineteen pas
senpers were killed and thirty-eight
badly injured. Many Of the victims
we're so badly burned that they are al
most unacceptable,
The freight train that telescoped the
express is the dressed meat express
from Chicago and was running about
thirty miles an hour when 1t struck the
passenger train.
The passenger train, which was the
yestibule express with eight coacnes
from Cincinnati to New York, on the
New York, Pennsylvania q Ohio rail-
road was forty-six minutes late and
the engineer was trying to remedy the
fault in the engine when the fast freight
was sighted in the rear. A brakeman
was sent back, but the heavy freight
train of twenty-fou' cars could not De
stopped on the down grade ip time ana
' n crashed into the rear Of the passen-
, ger train. The rear coach contained
forty-six passengers, all glass workers
, recently employed at the Richardson
= plass works in Findlay, who were on
: the wav to their homes in New York
: state The car was completely demol-
? isbed and terrible slaughter occurred
% Marr of the dead and injured were
y caught in the debris and the fire which
" immediately resulted from the scatter
ing of the locomotives cinders com
70 nlsted the work of destruction and
death. The dead and the wounded as
!, fast as they could be taken out were
taken to the Etna house and cared for'
- Following is the list of the dead: John
o Covle. David Relihan, Fred Burns,
;" y. John Griffin, Fred Duff, Owen Hardi'
y, man. Dennis RYAN, Patrick Ryan, Den
!" ~ mis- Cassidy, Albert Gunthrup' John
~ Dennen, Henry Gildea, T. Nolan
% %. Thomas Kievelle and William New
'Se ,"' comb. all of Corning, N. Y, and unmar.
A. A. ried; William Kane, aged fourteen, Oh
A. A. Brooklyn: John Kimball, OF Findlay,
W. and a woman and child who have not
y" vet been identified =.
-, OF the twenty-three injured, all LEFT
~ for their homes in Corning, N. T., dur
"a O inc the day with the exception Of
w. Joseph Mangan and Thomas Honley
ror who are very severely hurt and are un
ala der the physicians care at the Etn'
the house. :, A.,
. w George Holman, the engineer OF IN
.he freight said to reporter: II canno
~ ~ see that am to blame 0, my God !
.ny could have got sand could nav
s .n stopped the train; but the rails wer
Wv. 'ne wet and the sand would not take. wa
oA ,.s not warned in time and could not Sc
'Vou the lights on the rear Of the passenger
car owing TO the darkness and fog. re
T, a versed the lever as quickly as possibl
., i and with the fireman jumped from tn
.S s train, sustaining severe fracture Q
80 the right hand"
car, The FIRE department Of Ravenna WI
70 soon ON the scene and extinguished u
""N flames, but not before the terrible nav.
had been wrought Besides the vi
.ns' tins in the rear coach four passenger
iinA' in the Pullman car next forward we
he"- Lillsd. Two men and one woman we
hu' burned TO death in this car while the
mus, bodies were partly out Of the window
s'' their attempts TO escape having pe'
fruitless. One woman was heard screai
ing horribly while being burned, .
Th. sbe could not be reached. Two hea
the less bodies OF men couiu ve eeon us
alta in the outrigging Of the locomotive
two side the telescoped car and another de
q 10 body was suspended from the co
men catcher.
, ,ho The brakeman who was sent ba
yeous got only about fifteen rods before
essed met the freight train.
obra. The coroner's inquest was held y
, tbe terday afternoon and ]. r. Hindba
nardi middle brakeman on the freight; L.
Woodwork, fagman on the same IRA
John Poppenfus fireman, and W.
or. Rowley, brakeman, were placed "
-, - the stand. Their statements corrot
~, ated those given earlier In the day
w U all essential details. They laid
~ blame for everything upon the bra
We. man and conductor OF the express,
aiding. declared .hss sn,y " .he hrslraman
those placed on the rear coach u
within few rods OF the train.
ELMRA, N. Y, July 5.-The ne
led. boring city Of Corning presented q
: John spectacle to-day, as indeed 1t has
own Of since the news Of the railroad disa
wagon was telegraphed from Ohio. On
ch was through trains Saturday and satui
ith his night eighteen Of the men from Y
fright ing injured in that wreck arrived
upants were met by crowds OF people :
Miss herring thousands. They were tend
ijuries. taken TO their homes and cared 10
or.. the best possible manner. Seven
,nrv n bodies Of the killed also arrived, al
4 com. one being from Corning. Five
oseland identified, but twelve bodies were
orth Of recognizable, although 1t is known
Denew. they represent the remains OF y
: sena. men whose names have ALREADY