The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-16
OHIO RAILROAD WRECK
Terrible Collision of Trains in
a Storm at CleveS.
SIX MANGLED CoRPsEs FOUND.
Three Others Dying and More Bodies
Supposed to Be i'm Debris.
SIX MANGLED CORPsEs FOUND.
The Missouri River Still Rising and
Flooding Surrounding Country-Ten
Miles Wide and Filled With Float
ing Wreckage.

terTiiIc storm OF WIND and rain two Big
-Four trains crashed into each other at
Cleves this morning with awful effect, the
fuli horror of which is not yet known
Following is a list of the dead and
wounded as completely as could be OBJ
tanned up to late hour:
WILLIAM HIDDs of indianapolis
HIRAM BRUCE. Of indianapolis.
PHILLIP GIBBONS
DAVID HARDWOOD
BERRY EDWARDS
DAVID NJ. SHERWOOD, of Indianapolis.
Those fatally injured and dying are:
HALToN TERRAL. Delta, o.
JOHN sCHRoDER.
GEORGE ". HUDDLER, OF Miamisburg.
The awful wreck was due to careless
ness. Freight No. Al. north bound, was
ordered to stop at North Bend to allow
express No. 80, the cannon bail" special.
TO pass. The summer schedule went into
effect today, and under the old schedule
the trains passed some miles further on.
Instead of stopping at North Bend, the
engineer pulled ahead and approached
Cieves, running at the rate of twenty miles
an hoar. AS the train appeared Charles
smith, the telegraph operator, rushed
TO the signal wires and put up the danger
signal. Either it was not seen, or the en-
gineer could not control the engine, for
the train sped on. At the same moment
the express came into sight, and the iron
monsters crashed into each other with q
roar that sounded above the storm.
Both engines were battered into a shape
less mass and rolled off the track.
The cars behind were smashed into
kindling, and the track for hundred
feet was torn up, telegraph poles broken,
and 1t was two or three hours before no.
tlce of the wreck could be sent out and
special train sent to the scene from
Cincinnati. The people from the village
and surrounding country gathered and
did all they could to rescue the wounded,
many of whom were taken away, and the
number cannot be definitely stated to-
night. 1t is claimed that some of the
wounded were in a dying condition. Not
person on either train escaped unin-
jured.
0)With the arrival of the special train the
work OF getting out the dead began. Up
to 6 p. m. five bodies had been recovered,
four shockingly mangled and crushed out
OF human shape. Under the freight
wreck were found the crushed and scalded
bodies of William Hidds, the engineer, and
Fireman Hiram Bruce, both of Indianap-
oils. Philip Gibbons and David Har-
wood were found under splin-
tered freight car, nearly every bone
of their bodies being broken and
their faces horribly disfigured. The fifth
dead body was that of Berry Edwards, en-
glneer OF the passenger train. Fireman
Henry Tyrell jumped before the crash, but
was caught under a mass of wreckage
and SO badly crushed that he can
not survive the night. John Schro-
der conductor the passenger
train, was injured in like manner, and can
live but few hours. George W. Hud-
dier, a commercial traveller of Miamis-
burg, was crushed between two seats, be-
ing bent almost double. He cannot sur
vive.
"Bony' keefe, freight brakeman, who
Just reached the top Of the car when the
collision occurred, was thrown ever a
telegraph wire, distance of forty feet,
into stream of water, which saved
his lie. He thinks there are
three tramps under the wrecked
freight, Several passengers on the ex-
press are positive that several of their
number are also killed. 1t is certain they
are missing. but may possibly be among
the wounded scattered around town.
Holton Terral, of Delta, O., was so badly
scalded that he cannot survive. and Con-
ductor David NJ. Sherwood, of Indian
apolis, of the freight, was killed. Mrs.
Moreland, of North Bend. was slightly
injured. Five to eight passengers, who
are supposed to be in the smoker, which is
buried In the wreck, are missing and
nothing Is known as to their identity.
,yr al 4
the passenger accommodation train was
going TO Cincinnati from Lawrenceburg,
with about thirty passengers. Fire started
in the wreck but the people rushed to the
scene and prevented holocaust
Fortunately relief was prompt and every
thing possible was done for the wounded.
\ wrecking party, aided by citizens, is
working with might and main to extricate
the bodies OF those persons who were in
the smoking car and are supposed TO be
under the mass OF debris There is faint
hope that the supposition that eight or
nine persons were killed is erroneous.
A pathetic incident was the death of
Brakeman Gibbons. He fingered till this
afternoon, conscious all the time. He left
a young wife an hour before the accident,
and all his grief and talk was about her.
In the agonies of death, till his tongue
was stilled, he spoke only of her.
Again and again ne begged some
one 10 pray. and an old colored minister
responded to his pleadings and knelt at
his bedside. There was a scene of solem-
nifty that will not soon be for
gotten by those who witnessed it,
and tears moistened every eye.
The superintendent of the Big Four"
railway telegraped from Cleves ct 80
o'clock tonight that it had ascertained be-
yond all doubt, by the removal Of the
wreck, that there are no bodies buried
under it. The list of casualties as already
given may therefore be regarded as com
plete and correct.
C1HcINyATI, May 15.-Julius Webber,
chief clerk of the county co-oner's court,
has Just returned from the wreck az CIeves
and says that he thinks there are from five
to ten more dead in the ruins,
but the exact number cannot
De learned tonight, owing 10 the
nrostration Of the telegraph wires by the
storm. The details OF the wreck are slow
in coming IN and no complete list Of the
wounded can be given. The prop
erty loss is very severe and
will reach 10000. Both engines
are complete wrecks. and the coaches OF
the express train ruined. II is claimed
that much valuable mail and express mat
ter and dozen cars loaded with costly
goods have also been lost.
HAGEEsTowY. I'd, May la passen-