The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-07-11
OHIO RAILWAY HORROR.
An Erie Fast Freight Crashes Into
Nesi ln Train

An Erie Fast Freight Crashes Into
festibule Train.
RtyENSA, o., July 3.-At ) O'Clock
this morning passenger train No. $, east
bound, was lying quietly at the station
at this point. Something was wrong with
the coupling Of the special car, and the
train crew gathered in g little knot about
the end of the ear, while the regular
yardman whlstled cheerfully as he
tapped each smoking wheel to be sure
heavily laden with precious human
freight, was forever beyond his con
troll Meanwhile there was one upon
whom all their lives depended, flag
man Boynton, idling lazily toward
the rear end of the car, and thence
back into the night, with flag and
lantern to ward of danger from that
point. He was not long walking TO the
end of the car, not longer than anyone
might take when there was no danger,
and surely there was no death in the
peaceful, quiet darkness that stretched
away to the rear of the train. No,
Bovnton was not long in starting, and he
surely was not long III reaching point
distant enough from the train he was
bound to protect. No matter how long
far back he walked, it was not far
enough. There was some dreadful mis-
take or Carclessncss, or fate. There
was Il sudden dazzling flash
from II locomotive light in the
bewildcred ewes of the rear tl&gman, a
cry of warning when it was tcO late, a
whirl Of wheels, an awful crash, and
deep silence, but only for moment.
Nineteen precious human lives lost III a
moment. and twelve manned and in
iured. 4 terrible rear-end collision had
occurred, and the tiagman, throwing
away his useless lantern, could only
help to save.
The passenger train consisted OF an
express and baggage car, three day
coaches, two Pullman cars, and a spe-
cial ear, and was about ten minutes late,
owing 10 the trouble with one of the
cars The train at the time of the acci
dent lay on the Nypano maiE track,
Just at the bottom Of a steep grade,
and though the train men knew
they were followed by No. 50
fast freight filed with Chicago fresh
meat, no one seemed to think the
freight was on their very heels, and
that, once on the down grade coming
into the station, it would be hard to
stop, especially as the freight did not in
tend to make Ravenna a stopping-place.
What might have been expected has
actually happened. The freight was
making time and came down the hill
with Il rush, engine and tender being
fairly hurled through the rear ears OF the
passenger.
ELMIRA, \. y, July 5.-The neighbor-
ing city Of Corning presented aspectacle
to-day, as indeed it has ever since the
news Of the railroad disaster was tclc-
graphed from Ohio. On the through
trains Saturday and Saturday night
eighteen Of the men from Corning, in
iured in that wreck, arrived and We're
met by crowds OF people number
ing thousands. They were tenderly
taken to their homes and cared for III
the best possible manner. Seventeen
bodies of the killed alo arrived, all but
one being from Corning. Five were
identified, but twelve were unrecogniza-
bic, although it is known that they rep
resent the remains of young men whose
names have already been published.
The funeral of the identified took place
al r4nT, to-day