Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-09-29
TRAINS COLLIDE.
4 Neglect of Orders Causes Frightfu
Railway Disaster - Thirteen PERSON.

4 Neglect OF Orders Causes q Frightful
Railway Disaster - Thirteen Persons
Killed Near shreve, O.
MANSFIELD, o., Sept. ga terrible
accident has occurred on the Pitts
burgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad.
The Pittsburgh and New York limited,
No. s, east-bound. which left this city
at IL. 10 a. NJ. Wednesday, collided with
west bound freighttr train miles west
of Shreve. Both trains were running
at a high rate Of speed and the
wreck is complete. The names of the
killed as far as learned are:
Charles Smith, Crestline, O., fireman express
train: w. f. Hammond Allegheny Pa, fire.
man freight train: George B. Mann. Column
biana, O., postal clerk; H. S. Allen, Column.
biana, O., postal clerk; D. e. Reese, Massillon,
O., postal clerk; j. Il. Patterson, Beaver Falls,
Pa, postal clerk; A. r. Glenn, Allegheny, Pa,
fireman freight train; two ladies from Espy-
vlle Pa: one lady and one child from Alliance.
o.; Samuel jackson, express messenger, Chi
cago; an unknown.
The following were injured:
A. Bradley, engineer; Frank Burt, engineers:
Joseph AIDE, postal clerk; G. Starker Pitts
burgh; D. B. Rhodes, Mahoningtown, Pa; w.
b. Brown, Huntingdon Ind. NJ. Armstrong,
No5lcaville, Ind; j. Ernst, Millville, N. j.;
j. KOCH, Massillon, o.
The colsiiing trains were section No.
OF the Pittsslrgh train No. Is and the
express train No. 8, due in Pittsburgh
from Chicago at 8 o'clock. The cause
was the neglect Of orders on the part
of the freight train crew. The express
was speeding past Shreve with sup
posed clear track. The freight had been
ordered to lay on siding at Wooster
to allow the express to pass For some
as yet unknown reason the order was
disregarded and the freight pulled out
and was under full Roadway when
the fash of the headlights was
the first warning received by the en-.
gineers, who simultaneously reversed
their engines. This was too late, and
the huge engines plunged into each
other almost at full speed. The crash
was terrible as the trains came togeth-
er. The engines reared high from the
track, while their momentum drove
them fairly through each other and
scalding water pouring from every
seam and rivet, they fell into
the ditch alongside the track. The
freight cars telescoped one another
until little but tumble of wood and
iron remained. The panic-stricken pas
sengers, bruised and stunned, were
thrown from their berths and seats.
With the first crash the lives of the
doomed went out.
Jacob Weltman, Of Shreve, who was
a passenger on the train, said that he
was half asleep when he was aroused
by the shock of the collision. There
was terrible rumbling noise, he said,
and almost instantly the air was filled
with cries and screams for
help. He was pinned to the
floor Of the car by wreckage,
but with great difficulty he finally
freed himself and went with others to
the aid Of a woman who with her child
was held by the heavy timbers. The y
worked with might and main to rescue
the two, but were finally driven back
by the flames and compelled to leave
the woman and child to their fate.
Mr.. Weltman said the cries that
came from the imprisoned people were
such as he can never forget. The fire
man on the freight train must have
had a horrible death, as he was caught
in the ca bs;nd his burned body dangled
in the air in view of the hundreds who
visited the scene, the wreckers being
unable to get at it because of the
heat. The poor postal clerks, impris-
oned in the mail cars which were
thrown upon the passenger engine,
had no chance to escape, and they were
doubtless all burned to death. All the
fatalities occurred in the two locomo-
tives, the postal and smoking cars and
the day coach The sleepers did not
leave the track, and the passengers,
beyond shaking, escaped injury.