Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1892-05-19
DEATH ON THE RAIL.
Collision on the Big -Four at Cloves,
Ohio.
FIVE PERSONS KNOWN TO Be DEAD,
While Five Arc Known to lie Fatally In
Jured and Three Tramps Are supposed
to De Under the wreck-A Wreck
on the Norfolk a Western.

CLEvEs, o., May 16.-In the midst of
n terrific storm of wind and rain two
Big Four trains crashed into each other
here yesterday morning with awful
effect, the full horrors Of which are not
yet known.
The following are known to be dead
Berry Edwards, engineer; William
Higgs, engineer; Hiram Bruce, fireman;
Philip Gibbons, baggagemaster; William
HARDWOOD.
Those known TO be fatally injured
are: Mrs. Moreland, passenger; Henry
Tyrrell, fireman; John Schrader, con-
ductor; George W. Huberr, commercial
traveller; Holton Terrell, passenger.
Three tramps are supposed TO be under
the wreck and scarcely n passenger es-
capped without injury
Yesterday morning the summer sched-
ule went into effect and orders had been
issued accordingly. Freight No. AZ,
through train northbound, had orders
TO stop at North Bend TO allow express
No. 80, n cannon ball special TO pass.
Under the old schedule the trains
passed at another point some miles
further on.
Instead of stopping the freight engin-
Ger pulled ahead and approached Cloves
running about twenty miles an hour
Why he did not stop ut North Bend
will never be known, as he is dead, but
II is thought that in his anxiety over
the storm, which might have washed
out the bridge he forgot the new sched-
ule and hurried on.
AS the train approached Cleves,
Charles Smith, the telegraph operator,
was shocked for he knew IL should have
side tracked at South Bend and that the
express, q few minutes overdue then,
was but short distance away running
forty-fve miles an hour to make up lost
time. Smith rushed TO the signal wires
and dashed out danger signals. Either
he was not seen in the binding rain or
the engineer could not control his en-
CINE, for it sped ON by without lessen
ing speed.
At that very moment the express
came into sight with the speed of the
wind. The iron monsters sprang at
and crashed into each other with roar
that rolled above the storm like clap
Of thunder. Both engines were battered
into shapeless masses and rolled off the
track.
The cars behind were smashed into
kindling wood and the track for 100
feet was torn up. Telegraph poles were
thrown down and it was two or three
hours after the wreck before word
reached this place and a special train
was sent TO the scene from Cincinnati.
Long before the people from the little
villages surrounding had gathered and
in the frightful storm were doing all
they could.
Many Of the wounded had been taken
away and the number could not last
night be definitely known. 1t is claimed
that some of those provided for are in q
dying condition. Notaperson on either
train escaped uninjured.
With the arrival of the special train
the work OF getting out the dead began
Up 20 o'clock five dead bodies hac
been recovered four of them shocking
ly mangled and mashed out of all hu
man shape
A wreckng party aided by citizens
arc working with might and main L
extricate the bodies that are supposed
10 be under the mass of debris. Their
has been all along faint hope that tn,
dying conductor was mistaken abou
men being in the smoker. There Is NJ
disposition TO fix the blame on any on
n,on IN advance ~ the official investiga
ton.
WRECK IN MAINLAND
U,orpsrowS Mn. Nav IO.-A seri
ous wreck occurred on the Nor
toll, q Western road at Mou
deI's switch about ten miles south q
Eatt,r,lau might In NNhiPl
Cant Uoyas ~ philndelnbio. the con
duntor - tbe train lost his life am
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