The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1892-05-21
LIES LIGHT OUT.
Failure to Remember a New
Time Schedule Causes a
Calamity.
Two Trains Collide in Ohio.
Killing and Manning Many
People.

a terrific storm of wind and rain two Big
Four trains crashed into each other neal
Cleavcs this morning with awful effect.
This morning a new schedule went into
effect, and orders had been issued accord.
ingly. Freight No. 43. q through train
north-bound, had orders to'stop at North
Bend 'to allow Express No. 80. a Cannon
Ball special. to pass. Under the old
schedule the trains passed at a point some
miles further OH.
Instead OF stopping the freight engineer
pulled ahead and approached Cleaves,
running about twenty miles an hour: Why
he did not stop AZ North Bend will never
be known, as he is dead; but it is thought
that in his anxiety over the storm which
might have washed out bridges, he forgot
the new sche iule and hurried on. AS the
train approached Cleaves; Charles Smith.
the telegraph operator, who knew it should
ave side tracked at North Bend and that
the express, q few minute overdue then,
was but a hort distance away, running
torty-tve miles an hour to make up lost
time, rushed to the signal wires and
DASHED OUT THE DANGER
Either it was not seen in the bin ing rain
or the engineer could not control his en-
CINE, for it sped on by without lessening
speed. AT that very moment the express
came into sight with the speed OF the wind.
If any effort was made OF either engine to
slacken speed it was moi appreciable, and
the iron monsters sprang and crashed into
nunh nft,or with, n roo~ tlo} ,o1Io.1 n1>@~v~
the storm like q clap of thunder. Both en-
gines were battered into shapeless masses
and rolled off the track. The cars behind
were smashed into kindling and the track
for n hundred feet was torn up. Tele-
graph poles were thrown down and it was
Two or three hours after the wreck before
word reached this place and a special train
vas sent t." the scene from Cincinnati.
Many Of the wounded had been taken
away and the number cannot tonight be
definitely known. 1t is claimed that some
ofthose thus provided for are in a 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 6 o'clock five dead bodies
had been recovered. o u OF them mashed
out ofall human shape. Under the freight
engine, broken, Grnsheutunde sc1tdsd, were
found Engineer William Hidds and his
fireman, Hiram Bruce, both OF lndianapo-
lie. Under a mashed freight car further
back Philip Gibbon and David Harwood
were found. Nearly every bone in their
bodies was broken aud their faces horribly
%disfigured. The fifth dead body was that
Of Berry Edwards, engineer ofthe passenger
train. His fireman. Henry Tyrrel, had
jumped before the crash, but had been
caught under a mass of wreckage. His
chest was crushed in and his head cut. He
cannot survive the night. John Schroeder,
conductor Of the passenger train, was in.
Juret.i almost the same manner. and can
live but u Jew hours at most. George w.
Hudler, a commercial traveller from Miami
isburg, was crushed between two Seats be-
ing bent almost double. He cannot sur
vive. 1t is believed that there are from
FIVE TO Ten MORE DEAD
in the ruins. but the exact number cannot
be told tonight. "Boney" keete, a freight
brakeman, had just reached the top of a
car when the collision occurred. The
crash was so terrible that lie was thrown
over a telegraph wire forty feet into a
stream Of water, which saved his liSe. He
thinks there are at least three tramps
under the wreck of the ire. ght. Several
passengers i'll the express are positive that
several Of their number were also killed.
1t is certain that they are missing. The
property loss will be 500. OO0. Both
engines are complete wrecks and the
coaches OF the express train are ruined. It
is claimed that much valuable mail and
express matter is lost. A dozen freight
cars loaded with costly goods are a total
loss.
Following are the names of the killed
and injured:
K~illed-Engineer Edwards. OF the passenger
train: Acting B-aegagemaster Philip Gribbon, of
the passenger train; Engineer William Hisgs, Of
the freight train; Fireman Hiram Bruce. Of the
freight train; Conductor David II. Sherwood, OF
the freight.
Injured-J. Z. Hudler. passenger, Miamisburg,
Ohio, knee pan broken and head cut slightly;
Holtcn Terrell, passenger, aged eighteen, sou OF
DIR. Terrell OF Delti. Ohio. scalded all over. the
BODY aud cannot live: Conductor John Schro-
der. a passengerNon the train, crushed mortally
between the cars; Mrs. Moreland of North Bend,
slightly bruised.