The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-01
A RAILROAD WRECK
Three Persons Killed and Twenty
Injured.
1T OCCURRED AT KENT, OHIO
1t Was the Michigan Section Of the Ohio Family
GOing to Reunion at Bennington, VT,
that Was Run into by a Freight

AKRON, O., Sept. 30.-Early this morn
Ing collision occurred mile east of Kent.
on the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio.
between freight and passenger train.
Ihree persons were killed and twenty in
lured, several fatally
The passenger train was the Michigan
section of the Olin family excursion. tina
members of which and many friends. were
going to national reunion OF their kin
dred at bennington, Vermont. 1t was a
foggy night, and the collision occurred on
long NIL thirty feet high, in the middle
o. which was bridge sixty feet over the
Plttsourg & Western tracks. Part of the
passenger train was on the bridge when
the crash came. The engines pIoughed into
eacn otner, reared nigh in the air and the
cars on each side crashed together like card
Doard. travelling Engineer William ID
Maxwell, Fireman Glass and one passen-
ger, an ola lady, Mrs. Dewey, of Richland,
Mich, were instantly killed. Others of the
engine crew escaped serious fpiurv nv
jumping. W
The baggage car and first and second
coaches teIesooped, the interior Of the cars
oslng only mass of wreckage, in which
the unfortunate passengers were en-
tangled. Inc stove in the second coach
Mrs. Alice Sedgwick, with both legs broken
lay close to the red hot stove, pushing
against 1t with all her might to keep IL
from crushing and burning her little
daughter, who lay just by her. The
nothers clothing was burned of, and one
sloe OF ner badly roasted. Close TO her Law
laura Van Anken, frail girl of eleven
notner, lying almost under the stove. her
arms plnloned and broken. Rescuers.
however, soon succeeded in break
Ing into the car and exiting
ulshed the flames with water from tanks
For nall an hour men worked, lifting ONT
women and children, many of them with
their legs and arms dangling helnlessIv
AS fast as taken out, the Injured weya
transferred to sleeping cars and taken back
TO Kent, where they received medical and
surgical attention. Miss A M ,Johnson
Muskegon, Mich: Mrs. Alice M. Sedr,
WICK, Parma, Mich, and Mrs. G.. o.
thompson, Montague, Mich, will die.
Inc others injured are; Mrs. g. A. Buell.
and daughter, Mrs Caroline Reed. Mrs
Thomas Reichon. Mrs. L. H. VsnAnken
and daughter, Nellie Stanford, G. 9.
Thompson, Mary Richards, j. ID. Hart IA
M. Moody, Frank NJ. Caldwell, Charles r.
Mchlnsley, Miss Edith Somers. MISS
Hulds Westcott, Miss Rebecca Clark.
None Oh THESE Will die, although several
are very painfully hurt
Conductor f. Beigert of the freight
which should nave stood at Rayenna as
serts there was no light on the fifth sec
ton OF the excursion train to show there
was one following. Whether this be trne
or they confused train with the section
cannot De known until the inquest
All day there have been terrible scenes
enacted at the Revere house in this citV
where all the wounded were taken soon
after the wreck. Every physician and
surgeon available in the surrounding conn
try was called on at once and they have
been very busy attending the injured.
whose condition is pitiable.
General Manager Tucker. in a dispatch
to the officials of the New York, Lake Erie
q Western railway, says: Special in
structions were issued to superintendents
September % regarding this excursion
directing them to take extra care, block ali
trains ia both directions to insure absolute
safety and and to have inspectors at iunc-
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 Notwithstanding
this, and in violation of said instructions.
they pulled out against orders"