The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-08-20
A TERRIBLE WRECK.
A Train Goes Down into the
River in the Night.
Three Men Injured and a
Tramp Supposed to be
Killed,

crossing the long trussel bridge at
Bates about two and half miles
below Logan, the bridge gave way
and II or Is cars went down in IL
wreck in the river. The engine
was left standing on the abutment
on this side and the caboose and a
few cars on the other side.
The fireman, Fred Moorehead
and the engineer, Uriah Brown,
jumped from the engine. Moore
head had his arm broken and
Brown was severely injured about
the head. The brakeman, Walt
Norris, received a cut in the side of
the forehead, but is not seriously
hurt. Brown is seriously hurt and
the extent of his injuries is not yet
known. He was conscious when
brought home last night but was
unable to talk.
1t was rumored that a tramp
was on the train and went down
with the wreck into the river.
On account of darkness, and sud-
denness of the accident none of
the boys seem to know how it hap
pened. DR.. Campbell looked after
each case promptly.
The above was written and pub
lished in part of our issue of last
week, and comprised about all that
was known of the accident at the
time.
Many people of Logan and the
neighborhood gathered at the
wreck Friday night in short time
and search was made through the
wreck.
About half past eleven o'clock
that night Clem Woodruff and L.
A. Bates discovered Il dead body
in one Of the box cars in the wreck.
The car was near the south bank
of the river and lay slanting into
the water, and the lower end of the
car had two and a half or three feet
of water in it. In the lower end of
this car the body was found, and
Woodruff and Bates took it out.
Coroner Heft was notified, but
was not well enough to attend and
requested G. w. Brehm, j. p, to
attend and hold an inquest, which
he did early Saturday morning.
The result of the inquest was that
the man came to his death by
drowning, having been struck
on the head and stunned by
the precipitation of the train
through the bridge, so that he be-
came unconscious and unable to
get out of the water.
The deceased had several letters,
purporting to be from his mother,
M. Guest, "a Conklin Avenue,
Binghampton, N. Y, which show
ed her to be an intelligent lady
and abounding in good motherly
advice. He also had in his pocket
an Alternate's ticket of admission
to the National Republican Con-
vention at Minneapolis, June 1892
and permission to Geo. H. Guest,
which his name was ascertained to
be, to sell badges on the street of
that city during the Convention,
signed by the Chief of Police.
He had Blaine badge inscribed
"The Peoples Choice for Presi-
dent" and a number of hotel cards
of that city, and of Chicago, where
he seemed to have been at the
Democratic Convention IL few days
later, also hotel cards and eXcur-
sions about Cincinnati and other
places.
From his associate who was on
the train with him, who gave his
name as Mike Maher, who also
was considerably hurt in the
wreck but made his escape, it was
learned that the dead mans name
was Guest and his home at Bing-
hampton, N. Y.
Maher stated that he met Guest
at Garfield Place in Cincinnati on
the previous Sunday morning. He
said that he was well acquainted
with Guest and that his home was
in Binghampton, N. Y, and that
his father was foreman in a large
harness shop in Rossville, a suburb
of that city. He had not seen
Guest, he said, for over n year,
when he met him in Cincinnati.
He said Guest was cigar maker,
and told him that he had just quit
work at a restaurant in Cincinnati.
They in company with a man
named Patrick Tobin came to Chill
licothe and from there to McArth-
ur Junction, at which place they
tried to board an earlier train on
Friday, but Guest failed to get on
the moving train and Maher got
off and stayed with him. Then