The record-union., 1891-07-27
Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.


Cured on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton road at Middletown station, near
here, last night, at least three, and per-
haps more, being killed, while the num-
ber of wounded is estimated at twenty.
Employees of the National Cash Register
Company were given a picnic at Woods
dale Park by that company. They were
returning on a special of fourteen cars,
and the train was being run onto side
track at Middleton when freight train
crashed into the next to the rear car. This
car was full of people, and, with two
others, also crowded, was totally wrecked.
a boy named Patterson was cut in three
pieces. A woman named Fryer was
killed, and little girl, name unknown,
died shortly after being taken from the
debris. The names Of the other injured
cannot be learned until the relief train
reaches here. Nearly all the people in
the two ears were injured, some being
frightfully mangled.
It appears that the excursion train
broke a draw-bar while pulling on to the
switch and during the delay of re-coup-
ling the freight train came up The cars
into which the freight train ran were
plowed into mass of debris and dead and
crippled humanity. 1t is said the wounded
number fifty. y number had their legs or
arms broken and otherwise terribly in
juTed.
News of the disaster spread over the
city like wildfire, and the depot was
soon filed with anxious families, whose
relatives were on the unfortunate train.
The city ambulance and patrol wagons
have all been ordered to the depot to
transport the injured to their homes At
midnight passengers were being trans
terred at Middleton to the relief train.
General Passenger Agent w. O. Nc
Cormick of the Cincinnati and Hamilton
Railway, as soon as he was notified of the
accident came down from his Walnut
street residence to the depot, and dis
patched a special with surgeons to Mid
dletOn. Through Mccormick it has been
learned that after leaving WoodsdaIe
Island the coupling Of some of the cars
became damaged, and that the train was
delayed in order to patch UP again. At
Middleton the train was stopped to fur
ther repair the damage. There is curve
at Middleton which hides train stand
ing at the depot from the view of a train
approaching from the south. A flagman
was sent back TO stop the on-coming
freight, which wassmoving at high rate
OF speed and was heavily loaded The
engineer Of the freight saw the flagman.
He put on the brakes, reversed his en-
gine. and apparently did all in his power
great, and moment later the awful
crash sounded.
The list of killed as given by the Off
Gals of the railroad, is as follows: Frank
Simonton of Dayton, Lille Trice of Day.
ton and young Patterson, boy 13 years
old. These three are the only ones of
whom they have any definite account as
being killed. The injured include many,
but these seriously hurt are eleven.
THE DEAD AND INJURED.
DAYTON Ohio, July 26. = This has
been day of gloom in this city, caused
by the awful disaster to the Cincinnati.
Hamilton and Dayton excursion train at
Middleton last night. Three persons
were killed outright-Wm. Matthews.
aged l3; Lydia Freier, aged %, and Frank
Simoner, aged II. Four of the injured
are in critical condition.
The following were seriously, but it is
thought not fatally, hurt: Warren
Thompson, Mary Reese, Fred Weidner,
Mark Limerick, Edith Tuttle, r. S. Tut
tie. Kate Schlein, Elden NJ. Ieason and
wife, Frank Reiger, VIM. Oman. Mary
Charles Myers, Maggie Frost, Annie
Brennan, Pearl Shorthill. About twenty
more received painful bruises and cuts.
CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT.
William c. Douglass, one of the COM
mltteemen in charge of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton excursion to
Woodsdale, tells this story of Saturday
nights wreck: draw-bar about the
middle of the excursion train broke. and
they stopped at Middleton half an hour
10 patch it up. Red lights were not
promptly placed on the car, and Just as
the train was pulling out heavy freight
came in at high rate of speed
Engineer Schwind saw the fagman
waving the danger signal, and immedi-
afflNr II fSRr- ], L II.
and, with the fireman, jumped. It was
too late TO stop the freight An instant
later the crash came. Two rear cars of
the excursion train were hurled into the
ditch. The next coach was struck fairly
in the end, and the locomotive, pushing
under, elevated it to an angle Of forty
five degrees. and there it stood. filled
with the shrieking people. This car
caught fire, but engineer Schwind and
the fireman were able to extinguish the
blaze by the use of hose from the loco
motives.
Two cars lay crushed in the ditch, with
mass of mangled people moaning in
agony, pleading for help. The rescuers
set to work at once TO extricate them.
Legs, arms and heads could be seen
through the broken windows or pinned
under the wreck. The means of the
helpless sufferers mingled with the fran
tic cries of women seeking their husbands
etiiO SilltiICil, Manly u lucln uau DGell
cut by glass and timbers in their rush to
escape, and their bloody faces and hands
bore CHASTITY testimony the great number
injured. The physicians and citizens of
Mlddletown were soon at the scene to
join in rescuing the unfortunates. The
terror-stricken excursionists were made
comfortable in the houses. The three
dead persons were promptly cared for.
and the injured received all necessary
attention.
FATAL ACCIDENT IN TENNESSEE.
CHATTANOOGA (Tenn.), July ga
suburban train on the Chattanooga, Rome
and Columbus road struck a COW near
Mission Ridge last night. The engine
was derailed, Fireman Lewis Potts killed
and Engineer Burchell badly injured.
TWO MORE.
DAYTON (O.), July GA rear-end col
lision of Big Four freight trains oc-
CURED near Caliot, o., this morning.
wrecking number of ears and scatter
ing goods all around. The engineer and
fireman of the rear train escaped by
jumping, but were seriously injured.
A rear-end collision occurred on the
Erie Railway near Red Kay, n. Y, last
night, but the extent of the damage is
not known.
TWO INDIANS RUN OVER AND KILLED,
ST. PAUL, July 26.-A Pioneer Press
special from Billings, Mont, says:
Early this morning the eastbound train
of the Northern Pacific passenger train
ran over two men lying on the track