Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-10-01
SEVEN LOSE THEIR LIVES.
Passenger and Freight Collide at Full
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Passenger and Freight Collide at Full
Speed.
MANSFIELD, O., Sept ga terrible
accident is reported on the Pittsburg,
Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad.
The Pittsburg and New York linn
tied, No 8, east bound, which left this
city at 1919 a IN. yesterday. collided
with a west bound freight train two
miles east of Shreve about 3 o'clock
Wednesday morning. Seven people were
killed and two injured, five passenger
cars burned up and W. engines and
FIVE freight cars demolished. The col
liding trains were section / of the
north train, No. rs, and express train
No. 8, due in Pittsburg from Chicago
at s o'clock.
The cause of the accident was the
neglect to obey orders on the pact of
the freight train. The details of the
accident are meaQre and the local Off
GERS of the railroad can only give out a
general statement From the latter
source it was learned that tho limited
mail No. 8 was speeding past Shreve
with a supposed clear track. The
freight had been ordered to lay on a
siding at Wooster to allow the express
to pass. For some as vet unknown
reason the order was disregarded and
the freight pulled out and was under
full Roadway when the flash of the
headlights WIS the first warning
received by the engineers, who sue
fully 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
two trains came together. The
engines reared high from the track
fairly through each other and
then. with the kissing steam and
scalding water pouring from every
seam and rivet. they fell
into the ditch along side the
track The freight cars telescoped one
another until little but q tumble OF
wood and iron remained.
The panic-stricken passengers,
bruised and stunned, were thrown
from their berths and seatA With the
first crash the lives Of the doomed
went out The passenger engineer.
fireman. two postal clerks and two
passengers from the express. and the
fireman and front brakeman on the
freight train were instantly killed.
The engineer Of the freight
train jumped from his engine
and escaped instant death. but
was seriously injured The postal
car caught Are and II spread
rapidly to the two express cars bag
gage car, smoker and first coach.
The accident occurred about two
miles from the village of Shreve. The
country folks, trainmen and passen-
gers at once set about the work of res.
cuing those imprisoned Ina the wrecked
coaches A messenger was dispatched
to Shreve for assistance. and from
that point word was sent the railway
officials
The names Of the killed as far as
learned are:
FIREMAN CHARLES SMITH.
BRAKEMAN NICK HAMLIN.
BRAKEMAN A. K GLENN.
-Four unknown women and one baby.
The bodies were consumed by the fire.
As soon as the remainder OF the dead
were carried out and the injured and
imprisoned passengers were In places
Of safety attention was given to prs
venting the flames from spreading Ia
the remaining coaches aud sleep.
ing cara. By this time a
wrecking train had arrived
aud everything possible for
the comfort of the victims OF tho ac-
cident was promptly done by thu CON-
panv oficiala The track was cleared
and traffic resumed within three hours