Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-10-19
An AWFUL DISASTER.

AN AWFUL OtSAStGU
4 Do.en Per.op. KilIed In = Rear-End
Collislon And Nearly Score OF Osners
Hurt, Five or Them EAtally-The Ess
ure Of the Air brake worlds ken
Excursion Train BespOnsible ZOE sn
Accident-Ths KiIlsd and Injured.
JACKSON, Mich, Oct. 1.-THE second
greatest accident in the history f the
Michigan Central railroad Occurred
here yesterday morning within g.
mile of the place. where almost four
teen years ago TO q day the Pacific ex-
press crashed into . freight train in
October. 1879, and eighteen people were
killed. Yesterdays disaster has SO far
record of twelve dead, Ave probably
fatally injured, and fifteen others moro
or less seriously hurt.
At s:45 o'clock yesterday morning an
excursion originating at Watertown. N.
T., which had been turned over by the
Delaware, Laclkawanna & Western to
the Michigan Central at Buffalo, was
standing on the track at jackson
station, when second section, also
laden with excursionists from the east
crashed into it from the rear and teles-
COPIED the three last cars.
The officers of the road give out the
following list of the killed and in
jured:
KILLED.
Mrs. Charles Starr. Elmira, N. Y.
Miss Maggie McMaster, Penn Yam,
N. Y.
Miss Harriet Breeze, Pine City. N. Y.
George Hoffman, Saranac, N. Y.
Mrs. J. A. Beardslee, East Canton, Pa
Mrs. j. II. Keller, Hammondsport,.
N. Y.
Mrs. Lloyd Woodbury., Bath, N. Y.
James Woodbury., Bath, N. Y.
Mrs. d. j. Gibbs, Wheeler, N. Y.
Infant child Of Mrs. Arson Harring--
ton, Elmira. N. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilmore, Morris Run,
Pa.
THE INJURED.
Mrs. ]. A. Graham, New York.
Mrs. ]. H. Burlingame, East Spring
field, Otsego county, N. Y; injuries
not known.
Mrs. c. Reyes, Canton, Pa; face
badly scratched.
Mrs. Allie Harris, Canton, Pa; in
jured internally; recovery doubtful.
Mary B. Wakefield, Elmira, N. ";
face cut badly, badly bruised.
Mrs. E. A. Dolmchant, Elmira, N. vs..
slightly injured.
Mrs. ]. M. Anderson, Marsh Run,
Cuayhoga county, Pa; badly cut about.
head and face.
Mrs. Blanche Beardslee, Canton, Pa :,
badly cut and leg hurt, and doctor
thinks her skull fractured.
Mrs. Alfred Searls, Elmira; injured
internally.
Mrs. CIV. Fay. Elmira; badly bruised,
Miss Laura Fay, Elmira; slightly.
Mr.. w. P. Humphrey, Chepango, N.
Y; left arm broken, right hand cut.
Miss Maud Bailey. Canton. Pa; in
jured about back and internally, prob
ably fatally.
Miss Kate Healy, Morris Run, Pa.
bruised on body, not seriously.
Johanna Healey, right arm badly
crushed and both legs broken.
Mrs. T. O'Donovan, Morris Run, Pa,
chest bruised and hip injured.
Mrs. A. A. Harrington, ElmiraS
bruised, ankle and leg broken and in
jured internally.
Mrs. Sarah A. Keeler. Hammonds-
port, N. Y; leg broken, injured inter-
nally.
Frank Fraley, Columbia Cross Roads,
Pa; badly scratched.
Mrs j. H. Gardner, Horsehead, N.
Y; head bruised.
In addition to these Robert Walsh, .
trainman, was seriously bruised. vii.
liam Phillips was hurt internally, L..
B. Ainsworth, of Elmira, N. Y, had
his leg hurt; John Beardslee, of Cam
ton, Pa, whose daughter is so badly
hurt that she may die, crushed -
the body.
A Detroit newsboy naned George
Sells was struck by the boiler of the
locomotive and slightly injured. r.
Engineer Wha1en, of the collidin8
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 Z
to 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
to his horror that they did not work.
The speed of the train did not dimin-
ish, and reversing his engine, it 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 cars are much lighter than
those on the Michigan Central, and the
seventh and sixth from the first engine
were completely telescoped, the one
being fitted into the other snugly.
The nth car was overturned and
thrown across sidetrack about fiftv
feet east OF the depot The Michigan
Central car was next, and it 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 se-
riously injured. It was in the sixth.
seventh and eighth cars where the
took place, and not a single
occupant OF either Of these cars an
pears to have escaped death or injury.
Trainmeu's Dsy.
WORLDS FAIR GROUNDS, CHIcAao
Oct. 14.-Trainmen's day at the exnos;. !.
ton was not distinguished by anv for
ma! exercises, but several thousand