The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-10-03
Trains Collide

Trains Collide
AKRON, o., Sept. 3O.-Freight train
No. 85 on the New York, Pennsylvania
& Ohio collided with a section of a pas.
senger train No. 2 lear Kent this morn
ing at 3 O'Clock, four persons we're
killed, including engineer and fireman.
and thirty injured. The passenger
train was occupied almost entirely by
members of the DIN family, going to
their reunion in Bennington, Vt. Road
Foreman of Engines W. W. Maxwell
and Fireman Glass we're killed outright,
and an old lady named Mrs. Dewey
from Richland, Mich, died soon after
wards from injuries. Twenty-Five pass
tiops e issued to the division super
intendents cautioning them to take ex-
ira care in handling these excur-
sion trains to insure absolute
safety and to block all trains
in both directions to avoid the POSSIBLE
ity of an accident, The crew of the
freight train were instructed not to leave
Ravenna until they had received orders.
Notwithstanding this and in violation of
these instructions they pulled out of
Ravenna against the last section of train
No. 4, which was the excursion train
The engineer of freight train No. IS had
twenty-five hours rest before leaving
Meadville and the balance of the crew
twenty-five hours rest. The freight
crew claim they saw no flag on the en-
CINE of the fifth section 10 intimate that
another section was to follow.
Mrs. A. M. johnson of Muskegan. was
the most seriously injured and cannot
live. Both legs are broken. The most
seriously injured are: Mrs. Allie NJ.
Sedgwick, Parma, Mich, right leg
fractured. right thigh and foot burned,
left hip %dislocated; Mrs. g. @. Thomp-
son, Montague. Mich, severe injury to
back and still unconscious from internal
injuries. Physicians say the injuries of
all three will prove fatal.
FURTHER ACCOUNT.
P1TTsBuRG, Sept. 3O.-Freight train
No. IS, west bound, had orders to stay al
Ravenna, eight miles beyond Kent, until
the excursion section of train No. 4 had
gone by. After the fifth section had
passed Ravenna the regular vestibule
train, No. s, also east bonnd, went
through, Conductor E. 81. Eigert. of
the freight train which should have
staid at Ravenna, claims there was no
light on the fifth section of theexcursion
train to show there was one following.
Whether this be true or he confused
train No. 8 with the sixth section, il
cannot be known until the inquest. At
all events he pulled out of Ravenna and
got within a mile of the Kent siding
when the dreadful, crash occurred. Mrs
I. @. Richard of Muskegon, Mich, who
was sitting with her two children in a
doble seat, describes the scene
AFTER THE CRASH.
"When I saw the front of the
car coming in, glass flying
and the seats piling up
1 jumped to my feet and in an instant
was caught by the timbers. I then
pulled and pulled on my little girl, aged
9, whose legs we're caught. but could
not move her. All the time screams
and groans of the injured driving me
mad. In a minute men from the out
side began working on the timbers and
soon they liberated my daughter. One
man caught me up and was
carrying, me away when !
screamed that my babe was still
in the wreck. I put my hand down be-
tween the timbers and felt the child's
body and thought she was dead. When
the child felt my hand and heard my
voice she began crying and in another
minute the brave man had freed my
baby almost unhurt. My mother-in.
law, Mrs. Thomas Richard, was down
by the seat Just in front Of me and was
terribly hurt,
BoTH LEGS BEING BROKEN
and her spine hurt. She never moaned
but set her lips and bore it.
just across the aisle from us Mrs. Sedg-
wick was bravely holding a blaziug
have been terrible scenes enacted ct the
Revarre House in this city, where all
the wounded were taken soon after the
wreck. Every physician and surgeon
available in the surrounding country
was called on and have been very busy
all day attending to the injured whose
condition is pitiable. Shocks of the
trains coming together must have
terrible, and it is feared that two or
three of those internally injured will
not survive. The scene of the wreck
has been crowded all day with humid
reds of curious. The cost Of the wreck
to the railroad company cannot be esti-
mated, but it is something enormous.
Coroner Sherman has been busy all day
looking into the cause Of the accident
and empanelling . jury.
Making Rain in Kansas.