The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-19
NINE KILLED In A CRASH.
TWO FAST TRAINS COLLIDE AT a
SWITCH IN OHIO.

Owl LNH IN OHIO.
Two Engineers, Fireman and Six
Postal CLERKS Lose Their Lives-The
View Of One Of the Engineers OBJ
scured by g Limo OF Ere Rht Cars.
CLEVELAND, O., April 1s-A fTightfuI
wreck occurred on the Lake Shore railroad
at Kipton station, about forty miles west Of
Cleveland, early this evening, in which SIX
postal clerks aud two engineers we're killed.
The fast mail No. IA, bound ca t, oollided
with No. 81, the Toledo express. just as the
latter train was about to pull on a siding to
let the fast mail pass The fast nail was
running at full speed, and the force Of the
collision was so g,eat that both engines,
three mail cars aud one baggage car were
completely wrecked. The following is a LIST
Of the deadi
THE DEAD.
EDWARD BROWN, engineer Of No. 81,
Toledo.
CHARLES ToPLTFE. engineer of No. II.
Toledo.
f. J. NUGENr. postal clerk Toledo.
=, CHARLES HAMMILL. postal clerk,
F. F. CLEMENS. postal clerk, Cleveland,
o.
JOHN J, BowERTINE, postal clerk, Elyria,
o.
JAMES MCKINLEY, postal clerk, Con.
neaut, o.
c. Il. Mcdowell, postal clerk. Elyris,
0.
- SrALEY, fireman OF No. ii, shoulder
dislocated and leg broken.
THE INJURED. '--~-..
The injured are:
- Danseig, a son ofsth he section fore.
man, struck by the wreckage and badly
hurt.
None of the pa Ieuger cars left the track,
and none Of the passengers were seriously
injured.
THE REGULAR PASSING POINT.
1t was the custom for these trains 10 pass
at Kipton the Toledo express taking the
side-traok for the fast mail, which usually
went through Ripton without slackening
It's speed. The Toledo express was feY
minutes late this svening, aud had JUST
come to q stop at the switch when
the fast mail oame in sight. There
Is scarcely any curve at the
station, but on ono side Of the track was u
line OF freight cars and on the other the
station. These might have obstructed the
vision OF the engineer OF the fast mail lie
applied thu air brakes when he saw that a
collision was inevitable, but the speed Of the
train was not checked materially. The en-
gine OF the Toledo express was knocked
squarely across the track, and that Of tho
fast mail reared In the air, resting on top
OF the other.
MAKEUP or THE TRAINS.
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 cars were telescopet
and smashed 70 kindling wood, and the third
crashed into the first two and rolled over on
the station platform, breaking the windows
OF tho building. Two baggage cars of the
Toledo express wore knocked from the track
but did not turn over. The force of the
collision was 50 great that OF sixty-four re-
volving chairs In the two parlor cars only
four remained attached TO the floors, all the
others being broken and hurled about in
confusion. The passengers were hurled to
the floor and badly hurt, bus none wero
seriously hurt
THK WORK or RESCUE.
The passengers Of the two trains went TO
the work OF rescue, and = corps OF physi-
clans from the town ministered to the in
jured. All but one were beyond human
assistance as soon as the collision occurred.
The bodies were all horribly crushed and
mutilated, arms and legA being torn off,
and the corps0s were almost beyond recog-
milton. The engineer Of the fast mail
remained bravely at his post, and was fould
with his hand on the throttle, dead. His
hands and face were so badly scalded that
blackened flesh dropped from the bones
when his body was taken out. The poor
postal clerks had no chance to escape. They
were Gagged like rats, and the telescoping of
the cars crushed the life out of them With
out q moments warning.
WHAT THE PASSENGERS SAY.
The passengers who were on the fast mail
arrived here at 80 o'clock Tonight and
brought the first authentic news of the
wreck. These passengers say that the oars
and locomotives were piled in heap higher
than the station. 1t is difficult
to locate the blame for the accident, as both
engineers are dead 1t is said. however,
that No. 81 was ordered to stop at Oberlin.
but went on to Kipton, which is six miles
further west, and mad not sufficient time to
make the station.