The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-12-05
An Engine Pinws Half Way Tir ugh
a Passenger Coach ON the Lake
Shore Railroad.
the Unfortunate Passengers Scattered
in All Directions by the Huge
Iron Monster.
A List of the Bruised, Named and
Sct,lded PersOns-A Number of
Whom VIII Die.
serious Kun-in Accident.

serious Kun-in Accident.
TOLEDO, d.. Nov. %. The Lake Shore
was the scene of a serious run-in acct
dent ON the Boston and Chicago special
going cast. which left Chicago at 1880
a. m. IN the edge OF the city the road
runs under the Miami and Erie canal
through a tunnel some - feet long:
POO yards east of the tunnel is the tar
get. The Lake Shore train passed
through the tunnel, but not getting a
signal at the target to come ahead put
IN brakes and slowed M. The south
bound cypress on the Flint 4 Pcrc Mar
qucttc road. which goes over the Lake
Shore tracks to the union depot, came
through the tunnel Immediately after
tie Lake Shore train and plunged into
the rear coach. The Lake Shore tram
was vcstibuled, but the ordinary day
coach for the accommodation of way
passengers wac attached at the rear and
il was this which suffered. The Flint d
Pcre Marquette engine plowed its a
through the car until its pilot was
more than midway of the coach.
The seats and floor were torn
up and the unfortunate passengers
bruised and MANNED were badly scalded
by escaping steam from the broken pines,
The crash is described by those who
heard It az terrific and was followed by
the screams of agony from the wounded.
The time of the arrival of the Flint IL
Pere Marquct train is l:J3, that of the
Lake Shore train 100. thus giving but
two Minutes between them. The former
train seems to have been Il couple
minutes behind time.
The engineer of the formnr train caNe
that just rs ne was coming TO The funnel
running fast he saw the rear lights of the
Lake Shore train and believed if 70 be
in The tunnel. In owing a collision iney-
liable he shut of steam and both he and
his fireman iumped. cscapinp with a few
bruises. knowing 2 collision in the tup-
mel would give them no chance for life.
The list OF casualties as reported at
this hour Is is as follows: Mrs. Susan
Mccoy. RaWson. ills, dead. Fer in
FAINT u months old. killed instantly. her
son aged 3, badly ecaidcd and divine.
Mrs. Ellen Myers. 1856 Prospect street,
Cleveland. badly injured will n,obablv
die. Mrs. Nelson, Toledo, badly scaIdci
-. l.. W dlKhr, Goshen, Ind. injured INT
left on the next train for home. G. j.
Anderson. Riverside. Ills. bruised and
scaldcd. y. Taylor Hyde Park. Boston.
not fatally. Joseph Ludwig. PcOriu. Ills.
inquired in the abdomen. Warren h.
Potter. scalde1. II. Vaughn. Auburn,
y. y. en- route for Cambridge. Mass.
bruised and scalded. Thomas UcOuppn
Ilkhart, Ind. badly hurt probably fatal.
~. John CONWAY bruised. Mies' Dollic
Fisher. Toledo. severely scaldrd ON thc
arm. Miss GaIIaway' Toledo envarnIy |
bruised.
The severed hand or q lahorino man
probably the hraknman was forni IN th"
wrecked car. INF so far thn ;ni,,rni nan
has not been Giscoynrcd II is noss;IIn
his body NAV he founJ in Tho w,rocL
The car entirely cnynInnes the nng;nc nc
as the cab thn twn Leing waJ,od
closely together, The Iakc Shore .rain
as O ms if was stonncd Inv The 5ar"of
sent back a brakeman, Hc ran ah65nt
ffty feet to the mouth of the tunnel and
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