Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1893-10-19
AN AWFUL DISASTER.
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Hart. Five of rh~n F~xtany-rhs PAIL
are of the Air Rr.k~ on . Wo~tars Fair
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JACKSON. Mich. Oct fA-The second
greatest accident In the history of the
Michigan Central railruad occurred
here yesterday morning within .
mile OF the place where almost four
teen years ago TO a day the Pacific ex-
press crashed into y freight train in
October. 1879. and eighteen people were
killed Yesterdays disaster has - far
. reeord 81 twelve dead. ave probably
fatally injured. and fifteen others more
or less seriously hurt
At sts o'clo~k yesterday morning an
excursion originating at watertown.N y.
v. which had h~~n turned ovvr BY the
Delaware. Lackawauna & Western to
the Michigan Central at Buffalo. vas
standing on the track at Jackson
laden with c~xeurSionists from the east.
crashed into IL from the rear and t~l-s-
COPIED the three last car~
The officers of the road give out the
following list OF the killed and in
iurcd:
Mrs Charles Starr. Elmira. y. Y.
n. Y.
Miss Harriet Brvcze. Pine City. y. Y.
George Hoffman. >aranac. y. \.
Mrs J. A. Bcardslce. Fast Canton.ra
Mrs J. N. kceler. IIammondsport
y. Y.
Mrs Lloyd Woodbury.. bath. y. Y.
James Woodbury.. Bath. n. Y
Mrs u J. Gibbs. Wheeler. y. V.
Infant child 81 Mrs Arson Hsrring-
ton. Elmira. y. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs Gilmore. Morris Run.
Pa
THE INJrRED.
Mrs J. A. Graham. New York.
Mrs J. II. Burlingame. East Spring
field. otsego county, y. v; inIurie.
not known.
Mrs & Kcyes. Canton. Pa; face
badly scratched
Mrs Allie Harris. Canton, Ia: In
jured internally. recovery doubtful
Mary H. Wakefield. Elmira. \. y;
faee eut badly. badly bruised.
Mr T. A. Dolmehant. Elmirs. y. Y;
att~htiy injured
Mrs J. VI. Anderson. Marsh Run.
cssyhoga county. Pa; badly cut about
head and face.
Mrs blanche Besrislc~. Canton. Pa.
badly cut and leg hurt. and doctor
thinks her skull fractured
Mrs Alfred SeariS Elmirs: injured
Internally.
NJ. A. ~ r. VII uA---
Miss Laura Fay. L.imira: slightly.
Mr. w. p. Humphrey. Ch~nango. y.
Y: left arm broken. right hand cut.
Miss Maud Batley. Canton. Pa: i'm
jured about back and internally. prob
ably fatally.
Miss Kate Healy. Morris Run. Pa.
bruised IN body. not seriously.
Johanna Iiealev. right arm badly
crushed and both legs broken
Mrs r. 0Donovsn. Morris Run, Pa,
chest bruised and hip injured
Mrs A.. A. Herrington. Eimira:
bruised. ankle and leg broken and in
jurcd internally.
Mrs Sarah A. ke.l~r. Hammonds
port. y. Y: leg broken. injured inter
nally
Frank Fraiey. Columbia Cross Roads,
Ia; badly scratched.
Mrs J. n. Gardner. Horsehead, ".
Y: head bruised.
In addition tn these Robert Walsh. .
trainman. was seriously bruised VIII
liam Phillips was hurt internally. l..
H. Ainsworth. of Elmirs. y. v. had
his leg hurt; John Beardslee. OF Can
ton, Pa. whose daughter Is - badly
hurt tha, she may die. crushed about
the body.
\ Detroit uewsboy named George
Sells was struck by the boiler of the
locomotive and slightly injured.
Engineer Whalen. Of the eolliding
train. had one of his legs broken. but
he will not die.
Many of the passengers of the first
section had been out To breakfast.
some had returned and were In the
coaches. others were at the station
platform Their train was about ready
tai pull out when the second section
came into the yards and in sight Of the
station under check. When within a
few hundred feet of the standing
train Engineer Whalen of the second
special put on the brakes, but found
10 his horror that they did not work.
The speed of the train did not dimin-
ish. and reversing his engine. il is said
Engineer whalen and his fireman. Jos.
kimling. jumped from the locomotive.
The train kept on. and in view OF the
several hundred people in and about
the station. dashed into the rear coach
of the first. passing nearly to the other
end
There were eight cars in the train.
nearly all Of them New York Central
cars The ears are much lighter than
those on the Michigan Central. and the
eventh and sixth from the first engine
were completely ~teleseoped, the one
being fitted into the other snugly.
The fifth ear was overturned and
thrown across a sidetrack about fifty
feet east of the depot The Michigan
Central car was next. and il was badly
smashed on both ends. the platform be-
ing carried away and the windows all
smashed The passengers on this car
were few. and none of them was Sc
riOusly injured IL was in the sixth,
seventh and eighth czrs where the
slaughter took place, and not a single
Occupant of either of these cars ap-
pears TO have escaped death or injury.
Trai.nsa's Day.
WORLDS FAIR GRouxDs. CHICAGO,