The Lamar register., 1892-05-21
AN AWFUL TRAIN WRECK.
During n Heavy storm a Passenger Eh-
press Ran Into n Freight ON
the Rig Four Road.

In the midst of a terrific storm Of wind and
rain, two Big Four trains crashed into each
other near gleyes, Ohio, Sunday morning,
with awful effect, the full horrors OF which
are not yet known.
The summer schedule went into effect sun
day morning. Freight No. sS, through
north-bound train, had orders to stop at
North Bend to allow express No. 80, a cannon
ban special to pass Under the other schedule
the trains passed at another point some miles
further on Instead Of stopping the freight,
Engineer Hicgs pulled ahead and approached
Cleves running at the rate OF twenty miles an
hour. Why he did not stop at North Bend
Will never be known, as he Z dead, but II :
thought that in his anxiety over the siorni'
which might have washed out bridges, he for
got the new schedule and hurried on.
As the train approached Cleves, Charles
Smith, the telegraph operator, was astouished
for he knew that It should have sideiraeked
at North Bend, and that the express, few
minutes overdue, was but a short distance
away, running forty-fiye miles an hour to
make up for lost time Smith rushed TO the
signal wires and dashed of the danger sig
nal Either It was not seen in the binding
rain or the engineer could not control his Gu
CINE for 1t sped on by without lesscnine iIs
speed.
At that very moment the express came Into
sight with the speed Of the wind, II any ef-
fort was made on either engine to slacken
speed ii was not appreciate and the iron
monsters spranE at and crashed into each
other with roar that rolled above the storm
like a clap Of thunder. Both engines were
battered into shapcless masses and rolled Oh
the track.
The cars behind we're smashed into kind
ling and the track for 100 feet was torn up.
Telegraph poles were thrown down, and II
was two or three hours after the wreck before
word WAS sent out, and special train
was sent to the scene from Cincinnati Long
before, however, the people from the little
village and from the surrounding country had
gathered, and in the friEhtful storm, were
doing all they could for the victims.
The wrcckage caught FIRE A messenger
ran TO CIeyes. The fire bell rang. People
rushed to the scene and prevented the wreck
from burning up. The wounded were remov-
ed TO Clcyes under the care Of DR.. Hughes Of
that place DR.. Muscroft Of Cincinnati, was
soon there with two aids and gave the hest
care possible to the injured
One Of the neyer-to-be-forgoJten scenes was
the death Of Brakeman Grlbbens. He linscr-
ed until after noon, conscious all the time.
He had a young wife that he had Kissed
good bye but an hour before. All bis grief
and all his talk was about that wife. In the
aronies Of death TN his tongue was stilled
forever, he spoke Of her Again and again
he begged some one to pray. Al last, In re
sponse to his pleadings, an old colonel min
istcr stepped tlmldly to his bedside. he
dying man beckoncJ the sable man 20 20 on
Then and there as the fcryid petition arose
from the trembling lips Of the eolorc,l divine
there was a scene OF solcmnity that none
. present will soon forget or ever experienced
before. The words went TO the listeners ss
though they were Inspired
Honey Kecfe, a freight brakeman had
just reached the top Of a car when the coils
ion occurred. The crash was 30 terrible that
he was thrown over n telegraph wire forty
feet into stream, which saved his life
The killed were the engineer, fireman aud
conductor Of the freight train, and the enEin-
Ger and baggaseman on the passenger, and
three passengers were fatally injured.