The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-05-16
Special to the RECoRD-UNToN-


Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
CLEYES (O.) May l5.-In the midst of a
terrific storm Of wind and rain, two Big
-Four trains crashed into each other at
CleVes this morning with awful effect, the
tuIl horrors ofWhich are not yet known.
Freight No. A, north-bound, was or
dered to stop at North Bend to allow No.
50, cannon-Uall special, to pass. The sum-
mer schedule went into effect to-day, and
under the old schedule the trains passed
some miles further on.
Instead ofstopping at North Bend, the
engineer pulled ahead and approached
Cloves, running at a rate Of twenty miles
an hour. AS the train appeared Charles
Smith, telegraph operator, rushed to the
signal wires and put UP the danger signal.
ElLAer 1t was not seen or the engineer
could not control the engine, for the train
sped on.
At the same moment the express came
into sight, and the iron monsters crashed
into each other with roar that sounded
above the storm. Both engines were bat
tered into u shapeless mass and rolled off
the track. The cars behind were smashed
into kIndling, and the track for 100 feet
was torn up. Telegraph poles were
broken, and 1t was two or three hours
before notice Of the wreck was sent. and
special train was sent to the scene from
Cincinnati.
People from the village and surround
ing country gathered, and did all they
could to rescue the wounded, many of
whom We're taken away, and the number
cannot be definitely stated tonight. IL
IS claimed that some of the wounded We're
IN dying condition. Not a person on
either train escaped uninjured.
With the arrival of the special train the
WORK OF getting out the dead began. Up
TO O'Clock tive bodies were recovered,
four shockingly Inangled and crushed out
OF human shape.
Under the freight engine was found
broken, crushed and sCalded William
uidds, engineer, and Fireman Hiram
Bruce, both of indianapolis.
Phillip GibbOn and David HarwoOd
We're found under a splintered freight car;
nearly every bone in their bodies We're
broken, and their faces horribly distig-
ured.
The fifth body was that of Berry Ed
wards, engineer Of the passenger train.
Fireman TyrrelI jumped before the
crash, bat was caught under the mass Of
Wreckage and so badly crushed that he
cannot survive through the night.
Johu Schroeder, conductor OF the pas
Senger train, was injured in like man
ner, and can live but few hours.
George w. HGdler commercial tray
eier OF Malnsburg, was crushed between
two seats, being bent almost double. lie
cannot survive.
'bony" Keel, a freight brakeman, who
had just reached the top of car when
the collision occurred, was thrown over a
telegraph wire forty feet, into stream of
water, which saved his life. He thinks
there are at least three tramps under the
wrecked freight.
Several passengers on the express are
positive that several of their number were
also killed. 1t is certain they are missing,
but possibly among the wounded scat
Tered around the town.
FIFTEEN THOUGHT To HAVE BEEN
KILLED.
CINCINNATI, May 15.-Julius Weber,
Chief Clerk OF the County COroner's
Court, has just returned from the wreck
at CleVeS, and says he thinks there are
from five to ten more dead in the ruins,
but the exact number cannot be told to-
night. Owing to the prostration of tele-
graph wires by the accident, and tele-
phone wires by the storm, details of the
wreck are slow in coming in, and no
complete list OF the wounded can be
given. The property loss will be very
gines We're complete wrecks, and the
coaches Of the express train ruined. 1t is
claimed that much valuable mail and ex-
press matter was lost. A dozen freight
cars, loaded with costly goods, were also
lost.
Holton Terrau of Della, Ohio, was
badly Scaided and cannot survive. Con-
ductor David ii. Sherwood of Indianap-
Oils, OF the freight, was killed. Mrs.
MOreland OF North Bend was slightly in
jured. Five 10 eight passengers, who
were supposed TO lie III the smoker,
which was buried in the wreck, are miss
ing and nothing is known as to their
Identity.
The wrecked freight was going west
and the passenger train going to Cincin-
natl from Lawrenceburg with about
thirty passengers.
Fire started in the wreck, but people
rushed TO the scene and prevented a hoI-
ocaust. Fortunately the relief was
prompt and everything possible was
done Tor the wounded.
A pathetic incident was the death of
Brakeman Gibbons. lie fingered till
this afternoon, conscious all the time.
lie lett his young wife an hour before the
accident and ali his grief and talk was
ABOUT her. In the agonies ofdeath till his
tongue was stilled he spoke only of her.
Again and again he begged some one to
pray and an old colored minister re-
Sponded to lis pleading and knet at his
bedside. There was a scene OF sUlemnity
that will not soon be forgotten by those
who Witnessed it, and silent tears moist
ened every eye.
ONE KILLED AND SEVERAL INJURED.
HAGERsTowE, May IA passenger
train on the Norfolk and Western Road
jumped the track at Moudle's switch last
night, and Conductor Hayes of Philadel-
phia was killed and several others
seriously, il not fatally injured, among
them John Haneke Of Lewiston, Pa,
whose injuries are regarded as fatal.
Another young man, name unknown,
received internal injuries, and has been
unconscious since the occurrence. b. V.
s. Chimney, Charles w. Wanner and VIM.
Il. Singer al received slight injuries.
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Fatal Accident to Boating Party.
MONTREAL (QUe.), May IA drown
ing accident occurred to-day at Ste. Cum
egonde. Three young men named St.
Cyr went out boating and the boat cap
sized, precipitatirg them into the river.
Before assistance could be given them
they were drowned.