The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-10-01
Collision Between Excursion and
Freight Trains.
Three Persons Killed and Twenty Others
Injured, Some Fatally.
Pitiable Suferings Of The YlGtlmS-The AG-
Cident Caused by the Violation
Of Instructions.
Special to THE MORNING CALL

AKRON (Ohio), Sept. 60 - Early this
Kent, on the New York, Pennsylvania and
Ohio Railroad, between freight and pas
senger trains. Three persons were killed
and twenty injured, several of them fatally.
The passenger train was occupied by the
Michigan section of the DIN family excur-
sion, the members of which and their many
friends were going to national reunion oil
their kindred at Bennington, VT. 1t was
foggy night, and the collision occurred on
a long film thirty feet high, in the middle
of which was bridge sixty feet 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 and reared high in the air, and
the cars on each side were crushed together
like cardboard. Engineer William d. Max
well, Fireman Glass and one passenger, an
old lady, Mrs. Deway of Riehland, Mich,
we're instantly killed. The freight-engine
crew escaped serious injury by jumping.
The baggage-car and the first and second
coaches were telescoped, the interior Of the
cars being only mass of wreckage IN
which the unfortunate passengers were en-
tangled.
The stove in the second coach was over
turned and the timber took fire. Mrs. Alice
Sedgwick, with both legs broken, lay close
to the red hot stove, pushing against 1t with
all her might to keep it from crushing and
burning her little daughter, who lay Just by
her. The mothers clothing was burned OIL,
and one side of her body roasted. Close to
her lay Laura Van Anken, a frail girl OF IL
years, who was doing like service for her
mother, who was lying almost under the
stove. her arms pinioned and broken. The
rescuers, however, soon succeeded in break
ing into the car and eXtingulshed the flames
with water from the tanks.
For half an hour the men worked lifting
out tile women and children, many OF them
with legs and arms dangling helplessly. AS
fast as taken out tie injured were trans
ferred to the seeping-cars and taken back to
Kent, where they received medical and sur
gical attention.
Conductor f. Regert OF the freight train
which should have stood at Ravenna, as
serts that there was no light on the fifth sec
ton of the excursion train to show that
there was one following. All day there nave
been terrible scenes enacted at the revere
House IN THIS city, where all lHe Nouuutu
were taken soon after the wreck. Every
physician and surgeon available in the sur
rounding country was called on at once. and
all have been very busy attending to the in
jured, whose condition is pitlable.
FATALLY INJURED.
The following were 50 badly injured that
they cannot recover:
JOHNSON, Miss a. NJ, MuskegOn, Mich.
SEDGwICK, Mrs. ALICE NJ, Parma, Mich.
THOMPSON, MRS. &. c.. Montague, Mich.
OTHERS INJURED.
The following were injured. several of
them painfully, although they Will all prob
ably recover:
BUELL., Mrs G. A., and daughter,
REED, Mrs, CAROLINE.
REGION, Mrs THOMAS.
VAN ANKEN, Mrs. l.. H., and daughter.
STANFORD, NELLIE.
RICHARDS. MARY.
HART j. ID.
MOODY. ED NJ.
CALDWELL, FRANK N.
MChINSLEY, CHARLES E.
SoMERs, Miss EDITH.
WEsTCoTT, MISS HULDA.
CLARK, Miss REBECCA
THOMPSON G. c.