The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-08-02
DISASTERS OF A DAY.
Fatal Wrecks Occur on Number
Of Railroads.
Three Coaches Go Down an Embankment
Near Akron, o., Injuring Twenty
three Persons-Serious Collisions
In Kentucky, Missouri, Penn
sylvania and Rhode
Island.

accident occurred on the p. & w. rail.
way,et Monroe Falls, about seven miles
NORTH of here, at $3.50 o'clock yesterday
morning. The second section of B.
Il 0. excursion train, loaded with ex'
cursionists from New York state bound
to the worlds fair, was thrown from
the track by the spreading of the rails
and three of the day coaches loaded
with excursionists rolled down fif.
teen-foot embankment and the two
other cars were derailed.
Twenty-one persons wore seriously
injured, three of them fatally. A mum.
Der Of doctors from here went to the
scene of the wreck and did all in their
power to allay the suffering of the in
jured. AS speedily as possible they
were conveyed to Akron and all are be-
ing cared for at the city hospital.
If reports are true, the accident was
due to negligence on the part of those
whose business 1t is to keep the track
in repair. The train was going around
sharp curve when the accident oc-
CURED and ties at this point were so
rotten that they would not hold the
spikes fastening the rails.
All the injured passengers were in
day coaches. Many of them were
asleep when the train jumped the track,
not realizing what had happened, The
greatest confusion prevailed. The last
coach was smashed into kindling wood
and 1t is mystery that any of the oc-
cupants came out alive.
Fatally injured: j. II. Moreicl, Hum
iston, la.
Judson Hunt, Philadelphia, Pa.
Leta Hunt, Baltimore, Md.
MoRGANFIELD, KY, July 26.-A terri
BILE wreck occurred on the Ohio Valley
road Monday night, about two miles
from this city. A freight train con.
sisting of an engine and six cars
loaded with through freight were
ditched and afterwards burned. Three
lives were lost-Robert Vandorn, engi.
neer; Frank Threlkeg, fireman, and
Marion Davis, head brakeman. Their
bodies were burned to crisp.
ST. LOUIS, July GA northbound
freight train on the st. Louis, Chicago
& St. Paul railroad, consisting of eigh.
teen local freight cars, crashed through
q trestle near Reihls station at 4 o. clock
Tuesday morning, piling the entire
train in heap. Conductor w. L. Bur
rell, of Springfield, Ill, was instantly
killed. Brakeman Charles johnson and
w. A. Clements, of Alton, and Walter
Manning, Of Springfield, were proba.
bly, fatally injured. The trestle was
comparatively new and no cause is
known for its collapse.
PITTSBURGH, July ga West Penn
sylvania railroad passenger train yes
terday morning crashed into the rear
Of freight train near Pine Creek, three
miles outside of the city. Fireman
Stump. Of the passenger train, jumped
from the engine and was badly bruised
and Engineer Alfred Bissell, was badly
cut and bruised. Samuel Murphy, a
contractor; BagRagemaster Flemming
and Richard Armstrong, a passenger,
also sustained severe injuries.
PROVIDENCE, r. J., July 26.-Yester-
day morning theSnail train from Bos-
ton TO New York on the Old Colony
road, was wrecked opposite Dodgeville
station. The train consisted OF two
mail cars, baggage car and several
passenger coaches. A freight train
from Boston had switched off some
cars at Dodgeville and one OF them was
left on the main track in the way of
the mail train. The train approached
the obstruction at the rate of thirty
miles an houra crashed into 1t. The
engine was completely demolished. A
mail clerk named Moller was instantly
killed and a mail clerk named Murphy
seriously hurt. Several of the passen-
gers were also injured.