The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-07-15
OVER TWO SCORE LIVES
LOST IN OHIO AND WEST VIR-
GINA WRECKS.
Many Excursionists Suddenly Meet Death
I'm Awful Form, One Party by Coliision
and tho Other bv "a Crashing Trestie-
Fire Adds Its Horrors.


and tho Other by Crashing Trestie-
Fire Adds Its Horrors.
In quick succession two frightful rail
way accidents have Mortified the coun-
try. Two score Of victims instantly
killed, several fatally hurt, and nearly
a hundred more or less seriously injured,
Is the awful result.
The first occurred at an early morning
hour, at Ravenna, Ohio. Just as dawn
was mingling with the darkness, pas
senger No. 8, east bound, on the New
York, Lake Erie and Western, pulled
into the station few minutes late. The
train consisted OF an express and bag
gage car, three day coaches, two Pull
mans, and special, the latter occupied
by forty glass-blowers from Corning,
n. ", returning from an excur-
sion at Findlay Trouble with
and hagman was sent back to
warn fast freight which was following
close. Before he had gone two car
lengths past the special car the heavy
freight came laundering down a long
grade, and in the next instant twenty
one dead and over thirty wounded vic
tins were buried In the ruins. Fire
quickly started, and the scene that fol-
lowed beggars description. Ravenna's
fire department was summoned and but
for its ass stance the list of fatalities
must have been greatly augmented The
rear special car the freight engine, and
the sleeper "Warsaw" were totally de-
stroyed, entailing a property loss OF over
500, 200. The sleeper "Warsaw" had no
passengers. In the sleeper "Ascoli,"
next in front. Mrs. Jas. Gasser and
child, OF Chicago, and three men from
Brooklyn, n. Y, were killed. OF the forty
glass blowers, seventeen were instantly
killed, and all the rest injured, two
fatally. Several of those fatally hurt
suffered such agony from wounds and
fire that they begged the rescuers to kill
them. The wrecked passenger train was
the famous "Thunderbolt, the favorite
east-bound train on the Erie route.
1t is one of the new solid vestibuled
trains, Chicago TO New York. There
were many Chicago passengers on the
train besides Mrs Gasser, and before
the news of the accident had reached
that city they had wired their friends of
their safety. Gen. Nelson A. Miles and
Captain K. l. Higgins were of the num-
Der. The killed and wounded were all
from Brooklyn andeCorning, n. " The
second accident, following before the
public had fully realized the awful ex-
tent OF the first, was none the less ter
rible and but slightly less fatal.
The list Of wounded is much larger,
while the dead and fatally hurt
number nineteen. 1t was the worst
accident In the history OF West Virginia,
and occurred eight miles west OF Charles
ton, on the Kanawha and Michigan
Railway. The passenger train for Co.
lumbus. Ohio, was pulling two carloads
OF excursionists-the Charleston Lodge
OF United American Mechanics The
sleepers OF high trestle had been weak
ened by fire, presumably caused by
passing engine the night before. All
the train except the excursion cars
passed the trestle safely. but the latter
were derailed by spreading rails.