Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-05-16
SUNDAY RAILWAY WRECKS.
An Engineers Forgetfulness Causes o Dis
aster in Ohio.

Il
| aster In Ohio.
Two railway trains on the "Big Four col.
lided near Cleves, Ohio, yesterday morning dur.
| ing rain and wind storm. Those killed are
Engineer Newberry Edwards of Greensburg
Ind, of the passenger train; Acting Baggage
Master Philip Gribben OF Lawrenceburg, Ind.
of the passenger train; Engineer VIM. Higgs Of
indianapolis. Of the freight train; Fireman
Hiram Bruce Of the freight train, OF Greens
burg, Ind; Conductor David Haywood of In
dianapolis, Of the freight train. The injured
are j. C. Huber, passenger, Miamisburg, Ohio,
knee pan broken, head cut, slight; Holten Ter
rell, passenger. aged eighteen, son Of DIR. Ter
rell Of Delhi, Ohio, scalded all over body, can
not live; Conductor John Schroeder, a passen-
ger on the train, crushed MORALLY between the
cars; Mrs. Moreland Of North Bend, slightly
| bruised.
Five to eight passengers were supposed to be
| in the smoker, which is buried in the wreck. II
il matter Of rumor that there were five to
| eight in that car. No one il able to conceive
how any Of them can escape death under that
| mass Of wreckage.
NEW SCHEDULE.
Yesterday morning the new summer schedule
went into effect and orders had been issued ac-
cordingly. Freight No. As, a through train
north bound, had orders to stop at North Bend
to allow express No. so, u cannon ball express.
to pass. The trains usually passed at another
point some miles further on
Instead OF stopping the freight engineer
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 ont
bridges, he forgot the new schedule and hur-
ried on. As the train approached Cleves Chas.
Cv.nstI h. IL 4
for be knew 1t should have side-tracked ut
North Bend, and that the express, a few min
utes 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 the danger signal.
THE ENGINEER FORGOT.
Either &c was not seen in the binding rain or
the engineer could not control his engine. for it
sped on by without checking speed At that
moment the express came in sight Mt the speed
OF the wind If any effort was made on either
engine to sacken speed it was not appreciable,
and the engines dashed into each other with
crash above the storm like clap of thunder.
Both engines were battered into shapeless
masses and rolled off the tracks. The cars be-
hind were smashed into kindling and the track
for 100 feet was torn up. The telegraph poles
were thrown down and it two or three
hours after the wreck before the wo:d reached
Cleves and special train was sent to the scene
from Cincinnati.
ANOTHER DISASTER.
A wreck occurred on the Shenandoah Valley
division of the Norfolk and Western railroad Mt
Mondells station, fourteen miles south of
Hagerstown, yesterday morning. The New Or
leans express. comprising engine, baggage. ex-
press, smoker, ladies' and sleeping cars was
running at fifty-five miles hour. The train
was In charge Of ID. NJ. Swink, engineer, and
William S. Hays. conductor.
At Mondells station is a switch and on this
stood three loaded freight cars. The express en-
CINE and three cars passed safely over the frog
The iron bolt holding together the plates flew
out and ran the ladies' coach and sleeper on the
switch. The ladies' coach crashed into the
standing freight cars and was wrecked
Twenty people were in the sleeper. but all
escaped injury. The conductor. William s.
Hays, aged bout ffty-seyen years. was passing
from one car to another, and was thrown a dis
lance of twenty feet against a rock pile His
skull was crushed in and he died instantly. He
is from Philadelphia. and his remains were sent
home to 1903 Regent street, West Philadelphia
The injured are: John Hawke n young miner
from Lewistown, Pa. one leg broken and
bruised on the body; his injuries are fatal; j.
Z. Hawke, his father, on the way to the coal
mines at Wytheville, Va, cut on the head and
body; c. n. Wenner, travelling freight agent of
the Norfolk and Western railroad, head badly
cut. arms and legs sprained; William Elslinger
OF West Fairview, Pa, going to Salem. Va.
where he Is foreman in the machine shops
badly bruised on hips and hands and lower lip
cut off, b. V. l.. CLANCY. passenger conductor.
OF Hagerstown. cut on the temple; Ephraim
Clancy OF Hagerstown, brakeman, escaped with
bruises.