The record-union., 1891-10-01
specIal 10 the Rrcopn.uN1or-

AKRON (O.), Sept, 30.-Early this MORN
ing collision occurred one mile east of
Kent, on the New York, Pennsylvania
and Ohio Road, between a freight and
passenger train. Three persons were
killed, and twenty injured, several IA
tally. The passenger was the Michigan
section of the Olin family excursion, tho
members of which and many friends
were going to national reunion of their
kindred at Bennington, Vt.
1t was foggy night, and the collision
occurred on long fill thirty 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 plowed into each other, reared
high in the air, and the ears ON each side
crushed together like cardboard.
travelling Engineer William ID. Max
well, Fireman Glass, and one passenger,
an old lady, Mrs. Deway of Richland,
Mich, were instantly killed. The other
engines crew escaped serious injury by
jumping.
The baggage-car and the first and
second coaches Were telescoped, the in
terror OF the ears being only mass OF
WrecGage, in which the unfortunate
passengers We're entangled. A stove in
the second coach was overturned and the
timber took fire.
Mrs. Alice Sedgwick, with both legs
broken, lay close to the red hot stove,
pushing against it with all her might to
keep II from crushing and burning her
little daughter, who lay just by her. The
mothers clothing was burned off, and
one SIDE Of her body roasted: Close 10
hef lay Laura Van Anken, a frail girl of
II years, who was doing like service for
her mother, lying almost under the
stove, her arms pinioned and broken
The rescuers, however, soon succeeded
IN breaking into the car and extinguished
the flames with water from the tanks.
For half an hour the men worked, lifting.
out women and children, many of them
with their legs and arms dangling help
leSSly. AS fast as taken out the injured
were transferred TO the sleeping-cars and
! taken back to Kent, where they received
medical and surgical attention.
Miss y. NJ. Johnson of MuSkegOn
Mich; Mrs. Alice Nj. Sedgwick of Par
ma, Mich, and Mrs. G. c. Thompson of
| Montague, Mich, Will die.
The others injured are: Mrs. c. A.
| Buell. and daughter, Mrs. Caroline Reed.
Mrs. Thomas Reckon, Mrs. l.. II. Van
Anken and daughter, Nellie Stanford. G..
c. Thompson, Mary Richards, j. ID. Hart,
Ed Nj. Moody, Frank NJ. Caldwell, Chas.
Mckinley, Miss Edith Somers, Miss
Hulda Westcott and Miss Rebecca Clark.
None of these will die, although several
are very painfully hurt.
Conductor L. Biegert of the freight
train, which should have stood at Ra-
VIENNA, asserts that there was no light on
the fifth section of the excursion train to
show that there was one following,
Whether this be true or that he confused
. train 8 with the section cannot be known
until the inquest.
All day there has been terrible scenes
enacted at the Revere House in this city,
where all the wounded were taken soon
after the wreck. Every physician and
surgeon available i'll the surrounding
country was called on at once, and have
been very busy attending to the injured.
whose condition is pitiable.
General Manager Tucker, in dispatch
to an official of the New y York, Lake Erie
and Western Railway, says: Especial
instructions We're issued Superintend-
ents on September 25th regarding this
excursion, directing them to take extra
care, block all trains in both directions to
insure absolute safety, and to have in
spectors at the junction points examine
the equipment. The train dispatcher in
structed the crew of the freight train not
to leave Rayenna until they received or
ders, but notwithstanding this, and in
violation of said instructions, they pulled
out against the last section of No. H."
ANOTHER ACCIDENT.
NEW YORK, Sept. 30.-Early this morn
ing at One Hundred and Fifty-sixth
street, on the New York Central Rail-
road, a fast stock train ran into a local
freight, causing a bad wreck. The fire.
man Of the fast stock train was killed
and the engineer and one other man seri-
ously injured.