The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-05-20
DEATH ON THE RAIL.
Collision on the Big Four at
Cleves o.
at Least Five Persons known to Have
Been Killed and Many Others In
jured-9yreck on the Norfolk
& Western.

| western.
CLEvEs, O.. May 1e.-In the midst OF
a 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 aggagemaster; William
| HARDWOOD
Those known to be fatally injured
are: Mrs. Moreland. passenger; Henry
Tyrrell, fireman: John Schrader. con-
ductor; George W. HUBER, commercial
traveller: HoltOn Terrell, passenger.
Three tramps are supposed to be under
the wreck and scarcely passenger es-
capped without injury.
Yesterday morning the summer sched-
ule went into effect and orders had been
issued accordingly. Freight No. 4S. a
through train northbound. had orders
to stop at North Bend to allow express
No. 50, 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-
eer pulled ahead and approached Cloves
running about twenty miles an hour.
Why he did not stop at North Bend
viii never be known, as he is dead, but
il 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 it should have
side tracked at South Bend and that the
express. a few minutes overdue then.
was but short distance away running
fOrty-fve miles an hour to make up lost
time. Smith rushed 10 the signal wires
and dashed ont 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 a roar
that rolled above the storm like a clap
OF thunder. Both engines We're battered
into shapeless masses and rolled off the
track.
The cars behind were smashed into
lindling wood ard 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 We're 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 a
dying condition. Nota person on either
train escaped uninjured.
With the arrival OF the special train
the work of getting out the dead began
Up to o clock FIVE dead bodies had
been recovered.
\ wreclling party aided by citizens
are working with might and main to
extricate the bodies that are supposed
TO be under the mass OF debris. There
has been all along faint hope that the
DYING conductor was mistaken about
men being in the smoker There is no
disposition to fix the blame on any one
man in advance'of the official iuvestiga-
ton.
A WRECK ~ MARYLAND.
HAGERSTowN. MD. May "a scri-
Gus wreck occurred or the Nor
folk & Western road at Mou-
del's switch. about ten miles south OF
Hagerstown. Saturday night. in which
Capt. Hayes. of Philadelphia. the con-
ductor of the train. lost his life and
several others were seriously if not
fatally injured. All of the train except
one coach and the sleeper passed the
switch safely. when in some way that
can not be explained the switch was
opened and the rest OF the train ran off
on TO the siding and the smoking car
was completely demolished.
Capt. Hayes was thrown against the
rocks along the road and killed instant
u.
The other persons injured are: John
T. Hanuke. OF Lewiston. Pa. skull
fractured. One of his legs was broken
and he was internally injured. His re-
covery is doubtful.
Another young man whose name can
not he learned. skull fractured and in
jured internally: has been unconscious
since the occurrence.
Others injured We're: B. ). CLANCY.
cut and bruised about the head: Charles
W. Wenner. head cut and legs bruised;
!. Z. Hauuke. Os Lewiston. severely in
iured about head and face; ". E. Sting
er. West Fairvievv. Pa. slight injuries.
Joplin stiRcs Seriously Flooded.
JoPLIS. May I6.-The heavy rains OF
the past few weeks have seriously in
terrupted mining operations and the
output this week has been greatly re-
dueed by heavy storms. Rain fell in
torrents for hours Thursday night and