The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-04
CRUSHED In A SLEEPER.
THIRTY LIVES LOST ON THE RAIL S
IN OHIO.

Wreck Catches Fire and the Unfor-
tunate Travellers Slowly Roasted TO
Death.
CLEVELAND. O.. July Sat 8 o'clock
this morning at Rsvenna, o., on the New
York, Lake Erie and Western railroad.
train No. 6, a fast express, bound for New
York, while standing at the depot awaiting
orders, was dashed into from the rear by a
freight train. The day coach in the rear
was completely telescoped, and nineteen
passengers were killed and thirty-eight
severely wounded. The coach aud two
seepers forward took fire and were soon
consumed, burning many of the bodies SO
that they we're almost unrecognizable.
A special train with surgeons and nurses
was sent from Youngstown. The wreck is
the most disastrous that ever occurred on
the Erie road. Many of the passengers
were asleep when the awful crash came
and a number were crushed to death in
their berths
A TERRIBLE SCENE.
A terrible scene followed. There were
cries for help from all parts of the train
mingled with the dyiCg moans of others
whose lives we're being crushed out. Steam
was escaping from the monster freight
engine and soon the wreck caught fire and
the flames crowded upon those who were
fast in the debris. The few persons who
escaped without injury worked with
almost superhuman power in their efforts
to rescue the more unfortunate ones. In
several instances persons were slowly
burned to death while pleading with their
last breath for help, which could not be
rendered The wreck was most complete
The cars were piled up and across each
other. As rapidly as injured per-
sons were rescued they were
conveyed 10 the station, where physicians
from Ravenna and other near points, first
to arrive, rendered all the assistance possi-
BILE. The fire was finally extinguished, but
not until several persons had persisted. In
a couple Of hours the company had re-
sponded and a relief train with a corps of
physicians and nurses arrived from Cleve-
land and other points, and the injured were
given every attention. Those able TO he re-
moved were sent to Cleveland and placed in
hospitals.
THE DEAD.
The dead were removed to the rooms of
undertakers ia Rabenna, where they will
await Identification. Some are so badly
burned and disfigured that it will be diff
cult to identify them. Every one helped in
the efforts to alleviate the sufferings Of the
injured and rescue the dead bodies from the
great mass of wrecked and partly burned
cars.
SOME ONE TO BLAME
II would appear that the whole accident
was due to the carelessneSs OF some one in
leaving a switch open. The heavy freight
train was running at tho rate Of thirty
miles an hour, and it struck the passenger
train with full force.
THE DEAD AND INJURED.
The following list Of dead and injured was
given out at noon:
i 1T TT..lc 7
4. Dunthorp, W. Kane |. Burns,J. Kimball,
Oh. Demeen, j. Coyle, o. Harding, D. Ryan.
D. Cassidy, w. Newcomb, 2. Nolan, and
n.rse whose name is unknown. All Of these
we're taken out of the wreck dead, and all
but three were burned TO a crisp.
Thomas Calwelle was taken out OF the
wreck alive He was terribly crushed aud
bl ned, and his suffering was awful to be-
hold. In an agodi2lng voice he called to a
friend: BILLY, for Gods sake, get an ak and
kill meln He died soon after.
Henry Glide was badly injured and died
soon after being taken to the hotel.
SOME OF THE INJURED.
Among the injured are: George Smith,
John Cadmeer, h. G. Degraff, James Nc
Gill; John Heating, Jonah Clark and A. 2.
Jones. Their injuries consist principally Of
broken limbs, and none of them are be-
lieved to be fatally hurt. Thomas Hanley
and James Morgan, two others, are il a
serious condition, and it il feared that they
viii not recover,
The dead and injured were employed in
Richardson's glass works at Findlay, o.,
which shut down yesterday for the summer,
and they were on their way to Corning, n.
Y, their homes. They we're all on an extra
car attached to the train and the only per-
son known to have been killed on the sleeper
was the nurse
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
A special from Youngstown, O.,
says: "At Ravenna the worst railroad
wreck which ever happened on the
western reserve, excepting the Ash
tabula horror, occurred this morning, re-
sulting in the death Of twenty-five people
and the serious, il not fatal, injury Of at
least six more. Fire added its terrors to
the already frightful scene, and the bruised
aud charred remains of the victims were
oadlv burned, while one poor
woman. pi,lioned In the wreck, was
cremated before the eyes of the spectators,
VINO work to secure her release until driven
or by the Games. The east bound Erie
vestbule No. =, due at Youngstown at 2:55
o'clock this morning was very late and run
nlng on orders. When stop was made at
kavenna the engineer and fireman of the
passenger train went to work TO repair the
engine, and the train was again detained
several minutes.
A FLAGMAN's CRIME.
A tagman was sent back, but went only
atew feet. Suddenly around a curve came
Iraln No. 50, composed of Swift's meat cars.
Inc train was running twenty-five miles an
hour and coming down a heavy grade. The
engineer supposed he had clear track, and,
IL being through train, he was not ex-
pected to stop at kavenna. He called for
urakes and reversed his engine, but all to
no purpose. On came the freight train
with but slightly decreased speed and no
word Ct warning could be given to tie
people in the doomed train. A few feet
WssG OF the station the engineer and fire.
"sa Jumped, alighting safely.
THE CRASH.
moment later and the heavy freight
crashed into the passenger train. For a
moment after there was the silence Of
ueath. Then commenced the most fright
!ul cries ever heard. The means Of the dy-
Lng and piteous cries for help from the i'm
pISoned and helpless passengers. and the
Inutiated n and bloody remains Of the dead
ss sen through the fragments of
Iue ueOrls formed scene Of horror no pen
can picture. The freight engine had gone
Sieah si through the day coach in the rear,
snlough the sleeper and buried itself in the
Sscohu Isu sleeper, the third car of the train.
1nere was nothing left of the train but a
% ntass Oh debris, and the sides Of car No.
:. ooG "out aoout the monster engine as If to hold