Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-01
l NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. From All Quarters. A fRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT. Serious Railroad Smashup
 in Ohio.
 SUICIDE OF GENERAL BoULAnGER. The San Francisco Ordered
 @ to Chilli. DEATH OF MAJOR WILLIAM DUNN. The Civil Service Meeting
 at Buffalo.
DEATH OF MAJOR WILLIAM DUNN.


HORRIBLE RAILROAD WRECK. Three Persons Killed and Twenty four Injured-Fire Breaks Out and Adds to the Horror-Heroic Efforts of Mother to Save Her Babe.
 AKRON, Sept. 30.-Early this morning a | collision occurred one mile east of Kent,
 on the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio
 road, between freight and passenger
 train. Three persons were killed
 outright and twenty-four injured. The
 passenger was the Michigan section of theolin family excursion, members of which were going to the national reunion of their kindred at Bennington. Vt. Many other Michigan people took advantage of the low rates to visit friends in the east
 It was foggy night and the collision oc-
 cured on long fill 800 feet high, in the
 middle of which was bridge sixty feet
 long over the Pittsburg and Western
 tracks. Part of the passenger train was
 on the bridge when the crash came. The
 engines ploughed into each other and rear
 ed high in the air and the cars on each
 side crushed together like cardboard
 The passenger train consisted of five
 sleepers, five day coaches and baggage
 car. The latter and the first day coach
 were jammed into bits, and the occupants
 buried in the debris The second day
 coach was badly wrecked, seats and tim
 bers being heaped up almost to the ceiling
 in the center of the coach. The rear DOT
 tion was kept almost intact. The second
 day coach was occupied by woman and
 children. Mrs. Willoughby Deway of : Richland, Mich, who sat in the forward
 part of the coach, met instant death, the
 heavy timbers crushing her head. Other
 passengers were buried in the promiscuous pile of the seats and timbers. The stove
 was overturned and the timbers took fire,
 the flames bursting out in an in-
 stant. The shrieks of the women and children who were wedged in close
 to the burning timber summoned the
 workers to that part of the wreck. Mrs. Alice M. 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 beside her. The mothers clothing was burned off and one side of her body was roasted. Close to her lay Laura Van Inken, girl of eleven, who was also 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 drinking tanks and passed it to the inn prisoned women. In five minutes the woodwork was destroyed and the fire cheated out of it's prey. For a half hour more the men worked like Titans lifting out women and children, many of them with legs and arms dangling help lessly. As fast as taken out the injured were transferred to sleeping cars and taken back to Kent. The Revere ho- tel and several nearby houses were at once thrown open, and Doctors Sherman, Evans and Davis of Kent and Surgeon Lashell of Meadville began setting broken bones and binding up the wounds. Mrs. A. M. Johnson of Muskegon was the most seriously injured and cannot live. Both legs are broken.