The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-12-29
FoRooT HIS ORDERS,

FoRooT HIS ORDERS.
A. Awful Disaster CAussd ~ : isailxn,
Omcial's Lapse Of Memory g Collision
Eetween Trains &C Cieve, Olive Per-
sons Killed and several Injured
CINCINNATI, May 10. Station Agent
Smith. who oficiates for the Big Four
railroad at Cleves, o., Is miles from
this city, made q mistake Sunday MORN
ing. He forgot change that had been
made in the running time Of q local
passenger train, and the result was that
i've men were killed. two fatally in
jured and six wounded more or less
seriously. The killed are: q
N. O. Edwards, Of Greensburgh, Ind engineer
Of the freight train; William Riggs, OF Law
renceburg, Ind, engineer Of the passenger
train; David Haywood, Of Indianapolis, conduc.
tor of the freight; Hiram Bruce, Of Greensburr.
Ind, extra fireman Of the passenger train:
Fhil1p Gribben, Of Lawrenceburg, baggage mas.
ter OF the passenger train.
The fatally injured are:
John Shrader, Of Lawrenceburg, conductor Of
the passenger train, injured internally and cut
on the head, causing conclusion Of the brain, he
cannot recover; Holton Tcrrill, q commuter of
Lawrenceburg. badly scalded and cannot live
The remote cause of the accident was
change of time which took effect Sun.
day. The Sunday morning Aurora
(lnd.) accommodation has been due
here at 9:16 and the change brought it to
Cincinnati at 8:16, one hour earlier. The
freight train crew who left Cincinnati
with a locomotive and twenty or
more freight cars at o'clock Sunday
morning had been notified of the
change of time and SO had Station
Agent Smith, of Cleves. Just before
the freight reached Cloves Engineer
Edwards whistled for orders from the
station. The block signal system is in
use on the road. and Agent Smith. for
getting for the time being the instruc-
tions he had received regarding
the change in the time of the
Aurora accommodation, adjusted the
block signal so as to notify the freight
engineer that the track, which is a
single one at that point, was clear for
him to the next station west. The
freight was running at least 20 miles
an hour, and Engineer Edwards, seeing
the signal, kept dashing on.
just as the engine was passing the
station Smith remembered the change
of time. 1t was too late. He changed
the signals, but the freight train
had Numbered by. 1t proceeded
only 300 feet beyond the sta
ton The Aurora accommodation
was coming east and the two
engines crashed into each other, pro-
ducing a frightful wreck. The passen-
ger and freight cars jammed into one
another in the widest confusion. The
two engines were so badly wrecked as
to permanently disable them both
The steam from the boilers escaped
and added to the terror endured by the
wounded aud dying -,
Local physicians were summoned and
as soon as word reached this city wreck
ing parties were sent out with surgeons.
The dead were taken from the debris
and all the bodies found to have been
badly scalded.
Station Agent Smith admits having
forgotten the change of time and says
that had he remembered one minute
sooner than he did the accident would
not have happened. It is probable that
he will be arrested and charged with
manslaughter. Fortunately there were
few passengers on the accommodation
train.
Honey" Keefe. freight brakeman,
had just reached the top of car when
the collision occurred. The crash was
SO terrible that he was thrown over a
telegraph wire 40 feet into stream of
water, which saved his life He thinks
there are at least three tramps under
the wreck of the freight train. The
property loss will be 100000. Both
engines are complete wrecks, and the
coaches OF the express train are ruined.
1t is said much valuable mail and ex-
press matter is lost. A dozen freight.
cars loaded with costly goods are 4
total loss.
HAGERsTowN, Md, May 16.-A train
on the Norfolk & Western road was
wrecked II miles from here at o'clock
Sunday morning. It was in charge of
Conductor William Hays and was
made up of Il sleeper, two coaches, a
smoker and a baggage car. Just
as the engine reached the switch it
jumped the track and dashed into
freight cars on a siding. Conductor
Hays was on the platform of a car and
was hurled headlong so feet against the
rocks and instantly killed. John
Hauke, a passenger hailing from Lew
iston, Pa, was dug out of the
wreck with a broken leg and suf-
fering internal injuries. He will
die HE fofhoy~
hurt. Another passenger, supposed to
be drummer, was taken out in dying
condition. A card in his pocket bore
the name John Boyle, Brooklyn, N. Y.
c. N. Wenner, travelling passenger
agent. and William Elslinger, of West
Fairview, Pa. were also severely hurt.
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT IN A MINE.