The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-05-16


CLEVELAND, o., May ia dispatch
to tho Plaindcaltr from Gloves, Ohio,
says: In the midst OF n terrific storm
Of wind and rain, two Dig Four trains
crashed into each other near Cloves,
Ohio, this morning, with awful eflect
the full horrors OF which arc not yet
known. This morning tho summer
schedule went into effect and orders
had been issued accordingly. Freight
No. 43, through train north bound,
had orders to stop at North Bend to
allow express No. so, cannon ball
special, to pass. Under tho old sched-
ue the trains passed at another point
some miles further OH. Instead OF
stopping the freight engineer pulled
ahead and approached Cleves, running
about twenty miles an hour.
Why hc did not stop ut North Bend
will never be known, as hc is dead,
but it is thought that in his anxiety
over the storm, which might have
washed out bridges, he forgot the new
schedule and hurried on. As tho train
approached Cleves, Charles Smith. the
telegraph operator, was shocked, for he
knew it should have sidc.tracked at
North Bend and that the express, q
few minutes overdue then, was but
short distance away, running forty-fye
miles an hour, to make up los. time.
THE CRASH COMES.
Smith rushed to the signal wires and
dashed out the danger signal. Either
it was no. seen in tho binding rain or
the engineer could not control his
engine, for it sped on without lessening
speed. AT that very moment tho ex-
press came into sight with the speed OF
tho wind. s
II any effort was made on either
engine to slacken speed it was not
appreclakle, and the iron monsters
sprang at and crashed into each other
with roar that rolled above the storm
like q clap OF thunder. Both engines
were battered into shapeless masses
and rolled off the track. The cars be-
hind were mashed into kindling and
the track Tor one hundred feet was torn
up. Telegraph poles were thrown
Gown and it was two or three hours
alter the wreck before word reached
ms place and special train was sent
10 the scene from Cincinnati.
Long before the people from the little
village and from the surrounding coun-
Try had gathered and in the frishtful
Storm were doing all they could. Many
ol the wounded had been taken away
ana tho number cannot tonight be
ucfnltelv known. 1t is claimed that
some OF those thus provided for arc in a
DYING condition. Not a person on either
train escaped uninjurcd. '
TIE DEAD AND WOUNDED.
With the arrival OF tho special train
lhework OF getting out tho dead began.
Up to 6 o'clock five dead bodies had
been recovered, fourof them shocking
iymangled and mashed out Of all hu-
man shape. Under the freight engine,
oroken, crushed and scalded, we're
found Engineer William Hidds and his
apolis. -, A
Under dc a mashed freight car farther
Dack Philip Gibbon and David Har-
%9od .,F, were found. Near every bone in
ticlf bodies was broken and their faces
horIlb4y disfgurcd. Tho fifth dead
pedy was that OF Berry Edwards, on.
sIheer Of the passcngertrain. His fire.
man, Henry Tyrrel, had jumped before
Inc crash, but had been caught under a
o1 mass OF wreckage. Ills chest was
crushed in and his head cut. He was
v;' ,$heh TO l.awrenccburg, but cannot sur.
wye the night. 20
Sohn Schroeder, conductor OF tho
passenger train, was injured in almos t
; ;ns same manner and can live but q
,eM hours at most. George W. Hualor,
commercial traveller from NIiamis.
ioaie, was crushed between two seats.
,sls uglns bent almost double. IIo was
cans raneh 10 the Cincinnati hospital. Ho
"itub survive.
SuIias Webber, the chief clerk OF
ESoanty Coroner Bangc, OF CINCINNATI,
mas lust returned from the wreck, an d
says Inc scene is ono Of tho worst he
ever ever saw. He thinks there arc from
.Se Nv. 10 ten more dead in the eruins, but
night. e.1''oS 90. W W .o1u '.''a to' ~
J., iboney" kcri, n freight brakeman,
,IS Isa lISt reached the top OF a car when
.le collision occurred. Tho crash was
10 terrible that hc was thrown over a
0ti'rstaph wire lorty feet into a stream
:; P;o water, ,,i, which alone saved his Lie,
mo thinks thoro arc at least three
sonp aahps under the wreck. Several pa !.
,SinSefs on tho express arc posi.
Me mat several OF their number
,"i stre also killed. 1t is cor.
a. ma ihey arc missing, but thcv
nhy ay oe among the wounded scattered
"vou.. ";, Owing to. the distance from the
r. IVY and the prostration Of tho tele.
,ainp ,ssiGpu Wires by tho accident and the
br'sphonc wires by the storm, details
nv moFe been very slow in coming in and
";,s cU complete list Of the wounded can be
mSt. SnS Inc property loss is very aeye re
CON- CON- rSa Ml!l be 100000. Both engines are
sva'plete wrecks and the coaches Of tho
.Aptess train are ruined. 1T is claim I'd