Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-10-21
CRUSHED In A WRECK.
Collision Between Excursion Trains
at jackson, Mich.
One Section Crashes Into Another, KILL
ing Twelve Persons and Injuring
More Than n soore-Air Brakes
Failed to Work.
A DOZEN DEAD.

Olu SeCJlOnS OF Jne New OrR central
special day-coach excursions to Chica-
go, CARRYING people to the worlds fair
The first section had stopped at
jackson for breakfast and had just
started to pull out when the second
| section, travelling at rate of 40
miles an hour, dashed past the sema-
phore and crashed into the rear end of
the train ahead. The heavy locomotive
plowed its way under and through the
| passenger coaches, smashing them into
bits and throwing the fragments high
into the air. The trains were crowded
| with passengers and the engine did fa-
tai work as it tore through the cars. A
complete list of the dead follows:
| Maggie McMaster, aged 20 Penn Yam, N Y,
Mrs. j. H. Keeler, Hammondsport, N. Y.
| George Huffman, Lowmau, N. Y.
| Mrs. Norton Beardsey, Canton, Pa.
| Mrs. Charles Starr Elmira, N Y.
| Mrs. Darwin Gibbs, Wheeler Steuben coun-
| ty, N. Y.
James Woodbury., Bath, N Y.
Mrs Leoni Woodbury., wife Of james Wood
| bury, Bath, N. Y.
Miss Harriet Breese, Pine City, N Y.
William r. Gilmore Morris Rum Pa.
| Mrs. William r. Gilmore, Morris Run Pa.
| baby about months old, child of Mrs An
! son Harrington, Of Elmira, n. Y.
A complete list of the injured is as
follows:
j. N Anderson, aged 5O New York state, cut
| badly about the face, back and legs, recovery
doubtful; L. b. Ainsworth, Norwich, N. Y,
leg cut Mrs Mnude Bentley, Canton, Pa,
| injured internally, may die; Miss Blanche
| Beardslee, Canton, Pa, internally in
Jured and badly cut up, will probably
| die; Mrs. James A. Burlingame, East Spring
| field, N. Y, arm sprained and cut in forehead;
Mrs E. a. Dolmetch Elmira, N Y, slightly
| hurf n II nplay FlTOirn eli n
| jured; Mrs 5. Donovan, Morris Run, Pa,
chest bruised and hip injured; Mrs c.
| w. Fay, Elmira, N. Y, badly bruised;
Miss Laura Fay, Elmira N Y, badly
bruised Frank Farley, Columbia Cross Ronds,
Pa, head cut and badly bruised Mrs, j. H.
Gardner, Horseheads, n. Y, slightly injured;
| Miss Maude Gardner, injuries not serious; Miss
Kate Healey, Morris Rum Pa, right thigh
fractured body bruised, may recover; Miss
Johanna Healey Morris Run, Pa. injured in
ternally, recovery doubtful; Miss Headley, Ell
mira, n. Y, slightly injured; Mrs. Anson
Harrington, Emira. n. Y, right leg
broken, body terribly bruised, recov-
cry doubtful: Mrs. w. r.. Humphrey Chenan.
Co. n, Y, arm broken and badly cut; Mary C.
Keys, Canton, Pa, face badly scratched: Mrs.
Sarah keeler, Hammondsport, N Y, legs
broken and injured internally; Mrs Alfred
Sears, Elmira, n. Y, back and chest injured:
Mary B. Wakefield Elmira N Y, slightly hurt;
William Whalen jackson, Mich, ankle broken
and injured internally.
The cause of the accident is thought
to have been the failure of the air
brakes on the second section. The en-
gineer says that when he passed the
semaphore he tried to stop the
train, but found the brakes would
not work. He and the fireman saved
their lives by jumping, but both
were hurt. The collision occurred
about 100 yards east of the station.
The first section had been standing
twenty-siX minutes, the passengers
had taken breakfast and the train was
just starting on its journey. Sud
denly the people around the sta
tion were astonished to hear the
roar of the second section as it
came laundering down the track, and
We're Mortified to see it a moment later
strike the rear coach of the first sec
tion with terrific force. The on
coming engine drove its pilot be-
meath the first car it struck, lifting
the coach almost on end and in
a position where it was most easily
riven by the head of the boiler as
the machine kept right on, its prog
ress seemingly only temporarily
staid by the impact on the coach. The
fate of the last coach on the train was
shared by eight others. The big en-
gine of the second tore through them.
Some of the cars were turned quite over
by the force of the shock. One car
"telescoped" another so completely
that the wreckage looked like but a
single coach.
The passengers were iammed into all
sorts of positions kby the crashing tim
bers.
The first section of the excursion
train was called the "Oswegon and tlTe
last section the "Webb"' special. En-,
| gineer Bill Whalen, who hives here, was
| running the last section. He says: 81
saw the signal in the yard to keep back
and had my engine in hand, as
thought, but when l came down near the
} train, which was still. my air-b brake
would not work, and | ran into the
coaches. The failure of the air made
it impossible to stop. | never had such
an experience before" MIR. Whalen is
badly burned, and has one leg broken
! but he will live.
One of the most horrible sight!
, around the wreck was woman carry
ing woman's head, bloody and disfig
ured, through the crowd. She held thu
head by the hair, and now and ther
would hold it up, look lovingly at it
speak to it tenderly and kiss it
s Then she would show it to tn,
horror-stricken spectators. She laughed
: and cried by turns, and was plainl!
= ravirg maniac, made so by the dis
: covery of the fearful death of the per
e son whose grisly relic she carried Sh
/ N., %I 4
: the head; which she would not relin
qulsh
ENDED IN MURDER.