Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-05-19
DEATH ON THE RAIL.
Collision on the Big Four at
Cloves, O.
At Least Five Persons Known to Have
Been Killed and Many Others In
jured-Treck on the Norfolk
& Western.

CLEvEs, O., May 16.-In the midst of
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, bagga gemaster; William
HARDWOOD.
Those known to be fatally injured
are: Mrs. Morelar1d, passenger; Henry
TyrreQ, 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. 43, a
through train northbound, had orders
to stop at North Bend to allow express
No so, a 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 Cleves
running about twenty miles an hour.
Why he did not stop at North Bend
will never be known, as he is dead. but
it is thought that in his anxiety over
the storm, which might have washed
out the bridge he forgot the new SEIZED
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. q few minutes overdue then,
was but short distance away running
forty-five 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 a 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. It is claimed
that some Of those provided for are in a
dying condition. Not a 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.
A wrecking 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 anyone
man in advance of the official investiCa-
ton.
WRECK IN MARYLAND.
HAGERsTowN. Md, May ga seri-
Gus wreck occurred on 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
on to the siding and the smoking ca,
was completely demolished.
Capt. Hayes was thrown against the
rocks along the road and killed instant
~.
The other persons injured are: Johr
r. Hanuke, of Lewiston. Pa, skull
fractured. One of his legs was broker
and he was internally injured. His re
covery is doubtful.
Another young man whose name can.
not be learned, skull fractured and in
! jured internally: has been unconscious
! since the occurrence.
| Others injured were: B. S. CLANCY
cut and bruised about the head; Charles
w. Wenner. head cut and legs bruised
J. f. Hanuke, OF Lewiston, severely in
jured about head and face; w. E. Sting
er, West Fairview, Pa, slight injuries