Democratic messenger., 1893-08-12
THREE KILLED.
Lake Shore Railroad SleeperS
Leave the Track.
BALL PLAYERS INJURED.
TWO Members of the Chicago Club
Among the Injured The Acct
dent Thought to Have Been
Caused by Spreading Rails
List of the Injured.

List of the injured.
Train No. o. OF tho Lake Shore Railroad
eft Cleveland, Ohio. for Chicago on time.
The train was composed of three coaches,
three baggage ears and five sleepers II left
FremeDt, Ohio, ten minutes late. and was
running at high rate OF spec for Toledo.
When the train was about ten mics out of
Fremont, at small station called Lindsay,
the sleeping ears left the track and crashed
into freight train that was waiting on a
siding for the passenger train to pass. The
first pi;t OF the train got by in safety, but
the cepins ear rolled over the ties some
distance. and. ilnally swervins from their
course. hit the engine OF the freight train
with tremendous force.
The no.sa OF the collision aroused the
people il the little town. anl they soon sur
rounded the wreck. rraly TO aid the unfor-
tunate passengers. whose aroIns could be
heard amid the noise OF escaping steam and
the pandemon:um that followed the dcstruc-
ton of the locomotive. The sleeping cars
were pract cally reduced to kindlinS wood.
and that any one escaped is a miracle.
The following per. ons were killed out
right:
Lafferty, engineer Of the freight train,
Elyria, Ohio.
Charles Spaine. brakeman OF the freight
train. Clayville, n. Y.
- Roberts. porter OF the sleeping car +,
Buffalo, residence unknown.
The following persons are serie usly IL
jured:
Prof b. II. Emerson. OF Amherst College,
Gloucester, Mass. will die.
- Pelmona. porter of the sleeping ear
Orinoco' will die, residence unknown.
]. T. Hamilton. Pittsburg, Pa, injured in
tcrnally.
Bruno Kn;flier, Cleveland, Ohio. injured
about the head.
4. L. West, Chicago.
Stevens, porter. residence unknown.
James Ryan. centre fielder OF the Chicago
Base Ball Club, badly cut about the head
and body.
NJ. kitiriige, catcher. Chicago Baseball
Club badly cut about the head.
Two Of the more seriously in ured were
taken to Toledo and placed in a hospital.
Telcgrams were at once sent 10 Fremont
for medical aid and a coach left that city
within half an hour bearing physicians to
the scene of the disaster. In the me .Btime
the train crew. aided by the citizens of the
little town. began to remove the debris and
ruins that covered tho tracks. Underneath
the wteckage could be seen the victims OF
the accident. and the Groans OF the more
seriously hurt were pitiful. Here and there
an arm or II leg protruded and little pools of
blood that oozei from underneath the shat
the anxious workers.
Many people who were buried in the
wreck were not seriously injured. Their
hurts consisted principally Of bruises and
scratches, AMI il was not hard task 10 free
them from the heavy beams that held them
to the earth. They were taken care OF by
the town physicians, aud were eaiy to re-
sume their journey Y the time the train
started on its way again 10 Toledo. Perhaps
Is or 20 we e more or less hurt in that way.
whose names were not given 10 the local au-
thoritics. Deeper in the wreek were the
dead and more seriously hurt. They were
buried under the engine, and it was impos-
sible to do anything to aid them until
wrecking train had arrived from Norwalk, n
nearby station.
Prof. Emerson aud the colored potter.
Pelmonn, were extricated after a long strug-
gle with the heavy iron braces and timbers
OF the sleeping ear and they n at once
taken TO houses in the village. Professor
Emersons case was hopeless from the start,
his chest being crushed beyond possibility of
recovery.
The members of the Chicago Baseball
Club were il. the Cleveland sleeper. which
was the last on the train. and to ttlt fact
they owe much of their immunity from more
serious injury As it was. Ryan. the centre
ielder OF the club. and Kittridge. the best
catcher. was cut badly and bled profuscly
Other members of the tea II were bruised and
cut. but not so rs to in erfere with the con-
tinuancc OF their journey.
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
s!eepers were well illed with people bound
10 the Worlds Fair, and the added weight
was too much for the poor spot in the In ok.
The freight engine was totally demolished
aud rolled over ON its side from the force OF
the collision.