The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-08-07
A lake SHORE WRECK.
1t Brought Death to Three and
Fatal Injuries to Others.
BAsBBALL1sTs IN THE DISASTER


Two Members of the Chicago Club Re-
ceive Bad Cuts-Professor Emerson, OF
Amherst College, and a CoIored Porter
VIII Die Of Their Wounds.
CLEVELAND, o., Aug. T.-Train No. 0
of the Lake Shore railroad left here Satur-
day night for Chicago on time. The train
was composed of three coaches, three bag
gage cars and five sleepers. Il left Ere
mont, o., ten minutes late, and was rum
ming at a high rate Of speed for Toledo.
| When the train was about ten miles out
of Fremont, at a small station called
Lindsay, the sleeping cars left the track
and crashed into freight train that was
waiting on a siding for the passenger train
TO pass The first part of She train got by
in safety, but the sleeping cars rolled over
the ties some distance and finally hit the
engine of the freight train with tremen-
dous force The noise of the collision
aroused the people in the little town, and
they soon surrounded the wreck ready to
aid the unfortunate passengers, whose
groans could be heard amid the noise of
escaping steam and the pandemonium
that followed the destruction of the loco
motive. The sleeping cars were practically
| reduced to kindling wood, and that any
escaped is a miracle.
The following persons were killed out
right; +. Lafferty, engineer Of the freight
train, Elyria, o.; Charles Spaine, brake
man of the freight train, Clayville, N. Y;
- Roberts, porter of the sleeping car,
Buffalo
The following were seriously injured:
Professor B. II. Emerson, of Amherst col
lege, Gloucester, Mass, will die; - Pell-
NOM, porter of the sleeping car Orinoco,
will die; J. B. Hamilton, Pittsburg in
jured internally; Bruno Knifiler, Cleve-
land injured about the head; A. H. West
Chicago, - Stevens, porter; James Ryan,
centerflelder of the Chicago baseball club,
badly cut about the head and body; M.
Kittredge, catcher of the Chicago base
ball club, badly cut about the head
kilograms were at once sent to Fremont
for medical aid, and coach left that city
within half an hour bearing physicians to
the scene of the disaster. In the meantime
the train crew, aided by the citizens of the
little town, began to remove the debris and
ruins that covered the track. Underneath
the wreckage could be seen the victims of
the accident, and the groans of the more
seriously hurt were pitiful. Here and there
an arm or a leg protruded, and little pools
of blood that oozed from underneath the
shattered timbers told the sad tale of suf-
/
Many people who were buried in the
wreck were not seriously injured. Their
hurts consisted principally of bruises and
scratches, and it was not hard task to
| free them from the heavy beams that held
| them to the ear.l. They were taken care
of by the town physicians and were ready
to resume their journey by the time the
train started on its way again to Toledo.
Perhaps fifteen or twenty were more or
less hurt in that way, whose names were
not given to the local authorities. Deeper
in the wreck were the dead and more
seriously hurt. The three who were killed
outright by the collision were not removed
from the ruins until 8 o'clock yesterday
morning. They were buried under the
engine and 1t was impossible TO do any
thing to aid them until wrecking train
had arrived from Norwalk, a nearby
station.
Professor Emerson and the colored nor,
ter, Pelmonn, were extricated after long
struggle with the heavy iron braces and
timbers of the sleeping car. Professor
| Emerson's case was hopeless from the
start, his chest being crushed beyond pos
sihility Of recovery. He is unconscious,
and Pelmonn is in the same Condition,
with no prospects Of living. The mem
bers of the Chicago Baseball Climb, were In
the Cleveland sleeper, which was the last
on the train, and to that fact they owe
much of their immunity from more serious
injury.
The only theory given is that the rails
spread and let the heavy sleeping cars
through to the ties. The remainder of the
train passed the bad spot in safety, but the
sleepers were well filled with people bound
to the Worlds fair, and the added weight
was too much for the poor spot in the
track The freight engine was totally de-
molished, and rolled over on its side from
the force of the collision.