The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-09-28
DEATHS HARVEST.
Frightful Accident on the Pitts
burgh, Ft Wayne g Chicago
Railroad.
A Passenger and Freight Train Meet
in Collision Near Shreve, O..
With Horrible Results.
Twelve People Killed and Several Injured
Robbers Ditch Train on the Santa
Fe Road, Killing Four Trainmen
and IpJurlng Many Passengers.

PITTsBURGH, Sept. 22.-Eleven people
were killed and eight injured; five pas
senger cars burned up, two engines and
five freight cars demolished in q terri
BILE head-end collision near Shreve, o.,
on the Pittsburgh Ft, Wayne & Chica-
go railway about 8 o'clock yesterday
morning. The colliding trains were
section No Of freight train No. Is and
express No s, due in Pittsburgh from
Chicago at s o'clock The cause of the
accident was the neglect to obey orders
on the part of the freight train crew.
The limited mail No was speeding
past Shreve with supposed clear track
The freighthad been ordered to lay on
a siding at Wooster to allow the express
to pass For some unknown reason the
order was disregarded and the freight
pulled out and was under full headway
when the flash of the headlights was
the first warning received by the engi-
neers, who simultaneously reversed
their engines. This was too late and
the huge engines plunged into each
other almost at full speed.
The crash was terrible as the trains
came together. The engines reared
high from the track, while their mo-
mentum drove them fairly through
each other, and with kissing steam and
scalding water escaping from every
seam and rivet, they fell into the ditch
alongside the track The freight cars
telescoped one another until little but
jumble of wood and iron remained
The panic-striclen passengers, bruised
and stunned were thrown from their
berths and seats With the first crash
the lives of the doomed went out. The
passenger engineer, fireman, two pos.
tai clerks and two passengers from the
express, and the fireman and front
brakeman on the freight train were in
stantly killed. The engineer of the
freight train jumped from his engine
and was seriously injured.
The postal car caught fire and spread
rapidly to the two express cars, baggage
car, smoker and first coach. The night
was pitch dark but the horrible specta-
Gle was illumined with the brilliant
glare from the rapidly burning cars.
The accident occurred about two miles
from the village of Shreve, but the coun-
try folks, trainmen and passengers at
once set about the work Of rescuing
those imprisoned in the wrecked
coaches. The names Of the killed as far
as learned are:
A. d. Glenn Allegheny brakeman.
u. Smith, Crestline, o., fireman.
n. Hammond, Allegheny, Pa, fireman.
j. d. Patterson, Beaver Falls, Pa, postal
clerk
j. p Mann, Columbia, Pa
H. S Allen, Coumbiana, O., postal clerk
Mlssing-Two ladies from Espyville, Pn
One lady and child from Alliance, o.
Iniured-Frank Burt, engineer, lives at Crest
line.
James AIDE, Upper sanduskS o,
!. Stockmcr. Pittsburg, Pa.
ID. Rhodes Mahoningtown, Pa
W. II. Brown, Huntington, Ind.
- Laukocli, Massillon, o.
NJ. Armstrong, Noblesville, Ind
J. Ernish Millvllie, y. J.
TOPEKA, Kan, Sept GA frightful
wreck occurred on the Santa Fe road
few miles west of Usage City, at o'clock
yesterday morning. The train was
ditched by train robbers and four of the
train crew were killed and about TWEEN
tv-fve passengers seriously injured.
The train was the Missouri river ex-
press, eastbound, and consisted of
baggage and express car, four coaches
and three Pullman sleeping cars. The
coaches and sleeping cars were well
filed with passengers, nearly all of
whom were asleep when the accident
occurred. The train was ditched by ob-
structions placed on the rails and rolled
down a steep embankment The day
coaches in the forward part of the train
wers telescoped and It was in these
coaches that most of the injured pass
engers were located.
Following are the names of those who
were killed:
Engineer Edward Meyer,
Fireman Thomas Chaddlcks both OF Topeka;
- B.omenihal, express guard;
Frank Baxter express messenger Kansas
City
In the express car there was about
$1,000, 900 which was being shipped by
the Mexican Central Railroad Company
through its general offices in Boston.
The object OF the wreckers was not ac-
complished owing TO the manner In
which the express car was buried by
the coaches that were piled upon 1t in
general confusion. So high was the
wreckage heaped that II was literally
impossible TO find the location let alone
the treasure box The place selected
for the wreck lies between Barclay and
Usage City.
LANCASTER, Pa, Sept 22.-A collision
occurred on the Mount Joy branch Of
the Pennsylvania railroad near Florin
at $3.50 o'clock yesterday morning be-
tween the Philadelphia express east
bound and the Pacific express west
bound, resulting in the death OF Fire
man William Colwell, aged 8S years, Of
Philadelphia, and the injuring Of sew.
eral others The trains were ordered
TO pass at Kuhnz's siding and Engineer
Jacob Michael, Of the Philadelphia ex-
press, mistook the westbound freight
train on the siding for the Pacific ex.
press He kept on and crashed into the
westbound express
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RavaRea OF Cattle Thieves.