Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-04-23
MANG LED MORTALs.

MAAeLIp 81. MORALS,
Two Lake Shore 1rains Couids Near
u, Norwalk. OF and Nine Lives Are Iost-
several Psre6ps Badly Hurt.
), CLEVELAND, o., April 90 fright
'hnl wreck occurred on the Lake Shore
railroad = Kipton station, % miles
west Of Cleveland, early Saturday
evening, In which six postal clerks,
TWO engineers and fireman were
Killed. The fast mail, No u.
bound east, collided With No: 81; the
Toledo express, just as the latter trail
was about to pull on the siding to let
the last mail pass The fast mail was
running e full speed, and the force Of
the collision was SO great that both
engines, three mail cars and one baps
gage car were completely wrecked.
Following is the list Of the dead:
Edward Brown, engineer OF No 81, Of Toledo.
Charles Toplin, engineer Of No. IL, Of To.
}eao, q; Z; q lNngent, postal elerk. Of Toledo
O.; :. 3. clsasfi tostai 6efki 81 Glexeiatd
O.; John J. Bovernne, yposttl clerk, Isl Elyria
O.; James Mckinley, postal clerk, Of Conneaut
O.; G. II. Mcdowell postal clerk, Of Elyria, O.;
staley, fireman No. II.
The injured are: Abram Dereamer,
passenger; Charles Dazey, railroad
employe, Klinefelder, express mes
sehgef: B
Abram Dereamer, d farmer living
near Kipton; was the. only passenger
hurt: He was standing oh the plat=:
form when the collision occurred, and
his skull was fractured. He may recover.
Charles Darcy, son of the section
bass, was standing on the depot plat
ferm and was badly hurt about
the head, His skull is supposed to be
Eactured Express Messenger Kline.
fielder, Of Cleveland, o., was badly hurt
about the legs and may die. The loss
to the railroad company will not fall
short Of 500, 900. None of the passen-
ger cars 1eft the truck and but one pas
senger received serious INJURIES.
It was the custom for these two trains
to pass at Kipton, the Toledo express
taking the side track for the fast mail,
which usually went through Kipton
without slaclsening its speed The
Toledo express, was q few min
sutes late and had just toifie %
20 stop at the switch when the fast mail
came in sight. There is scarcely any
curve at the station, but on one side OF
the track was line of freight cars and
on The other the station. These might
have INSTRUCTED the Vision of the
engineer Of the fast mail. He ap.
piled the air brakes when he saw that
collision was inevitable, but the
speed of the train was not checked ma
terially. sl.
The engine Of the Toledo express was
knocked squarely across the track, and
that of the fast mail feared ID the air,
resting on top OF the other. The fast
mail consisted Of three mail cars
and two parlor cars, and the Toledo
express of five coaches and two
baggage cars. The first and second
mail oars were telescoped and smashed
to kindling wood, and the third crashed
into the first two and rolled over on
the station platform, breaking the win.
dows Of the building. The two bag
gage cars on the Toledo express
were knocked from the track,
but did not turn over. The force
of the collision was so great that
Of the sixty-four revolving chairs in the
two par1or cars only fotr remained at:
tached to the floors, all the others be.
ing broken and hurled about in confu-
sion The passengers were thrown to
the floor and badly shaken, but none
were seriously injured.
The passengers of the two trains at
once began the work of rescue, and,
with q corps Of physicians from the
town, ministered to the few who were
injured. The bodies Of the dead were
all horribly crushed and mutilated
arms and legs being torn off, and the
corpses were almost beyond recogni
ton.
Charles Topif, the engineer Of the
fast mail, remained bravely at his pos1
and was found with his hand on the
throttle, dead. His hands and face
were 50 badly scalded that the black
ened flesh dropped from the bone.
when his body was taken out. Fireman
Stanley, of the fast mail, jumped from
the train and escaped with broker
leg and dislocated shoulder. The doc
tors say he will recover.
The poor postal clerks had not
chance to escape. They were cage.
like rats and the telcscoping of the car
crushed the life out of them without
moments notice.
It Is difficult to locate the blame 70
the accident, as both the engineers ar
dead. Il is said, however, that No. Q
was ordered to stop at Oberlin bu
went on to Kipton, which is mile
further west, and had not snficien
time to make the side track.