Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1892-08-20
SIX KILLED.
terrible Results of Carelessness
In Opening a Switch
IN the Toledo, Walhounding and Ohio
Railroad Near Coshocton.
"r"Vei-pit Workmen Dashed Into a Big
Lou OF Empty Railroad Cars and Six
OF Them Ground to Death-Four.
teon lnJured-Two WIN Die,

'oshocroN, O., Aug. 16.-The Toledo,
"aihonding Valley and Ohio railway,
branch of the Pennsylvania system
no" IN course of construction, axperi-
chced It's first horrible mishap Monday
evening, six miles north of here, at a
point known as Richeson's gravel pit.
DIX human beings were crushed to
death and fifteen others horribly In.
jurcd
The list Of killed is as follows: Frank
Cali, ~ Italian aged A wears, head
crushed; William Rafferty,, aged SO,
head crushed; John Barry, of Newburg,
", aged 80 head crushed; Joseph BY
croft, of Burlington, Vt, aged 2S, throat
torn and body crushcd John Iialliger,
head crushed and disembowcled, aged
5o' John Flynn, aged %, back broken.
The following are the injured: Frank
hughes, aged 50, head crushed, will
die; VIM. o. Toole, Portsmouth, Ohio,
aged 20, injured in abdomen; John
liagans, Charleston, S. G., aged 33, in.
cured in head and legs crushed; Pat
oonnors, Canton, Ohio, %, injured in
mead, and breast and collar bone broken:
Martin Ward, Pittsburgh Pa, aged Is.
injured in the hip and back; John
Ieiglcr, aged 2S, hurt in the head
and side; James Riley, aged 80,
confusion Of hip has been
track layer for the past sixteen
years; Patrick O'Brien, aged "A, of
Akron, o., skull fractured, will die:
Hugh Morrison, Altoona. Pa, aged 4G.
hurt in the head and back; Patrick
Costello, aged So, left foot crushed:
Morris Collins, aged As, of Allegheny
City, Pa, terribly bruised on head:
John Erickson, a Swcde, aged 3S, feet
crushed; Patrick Roach, aged 81,
crushed arm and shoulder; Michael
Mulahhy, OF Red Darlington, Mass,
aged %, confusion of shoulder and side;
Henry Long, aged 40, leg wrenched.
The cause of the horrible mishap is
briefly as follows: A construction train
in charge OF Conductor Humphrey and
Engineer Clyde White has beon en-
gagged in hauling gravel from the pit
The killed and injured were engaged
in ballasting the roadway at a point
three miles north of the pit. Mon.
| day evening, after the last train had
| been unloaded, the men boarded the
cars that were being pushed ahead Of
| the engine to come to their boarding
| nl. =, ,,f
the gravel pit.
The train was running at hazardous
speed, and when it arrived at the gravel
| pit, which was to bc passed without
stopping, the switch was open and the
train entered the siding and collidcd
with some empty cars standing in the
| pit The greater number of the work
men We're seated on the first and second
cars, and when the long train turned in
upon the spur had no opportunity to
jump. Ten of the cars were piled in
mass of debris, and beneath this the
poor mortals We're crushed
1t required two hours to extricate
some of the dead and injured. A num-
bcr Of Italians employed on the work
were attending services at the Catholic
church Monday in this city, otherwise
the list OF fatalities would have been
largely increased.
The men were in the employ of Me-
| Arthur Bros, contractors, and when
Superintendent Wells was asked for
the cause of the accident he said some
body left the switch open. The camp to
which the dead and injured were
brought Monday night presents
the scene of battlefield Under
one tent the six bodies taken from the
wreck are lying side by side, and from
| the adjoining tents the means of the
wounded and dying could be heard.
Rev. Father j. NJ. Iacquett, of this city
was summoned, and he administered
the last sacraments of the Catholic
church to Frank Hughes and Patrick
OBricn, who are in a dying condition,
All the physicians of the city and
neighboring villages are upon the
ground, rendering aid to the suffers.
Coroner Miller began an inquest to
determine the cause by which the un-
fortnnates came to their death Monday
night