The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-14
4 DOZEN Arb DEAD
AND OTHERS DYING.
Fearful Fate of Worlds Fair
Excursionists.
AN AWFUL CASUALTY.
'sGood Jesus Care for Tommy" Cried
aDying Mother.
The Failure of the Air Brakes the Alleged
Cause of One of the Worst Disas-
ters of the Present Dis.


awful railroad disaster of the pres
ent age" is the best that can be said
of the terrible wreck which occurred
this morning right in front Of the de-
pot of the Michigan Central Railroad
company in this city.
Twelve lives were wiped out and
nearly twice that number of people
mangled and crushed.
All of the people, happy and joy
full, were on their way to Chicago,
presumably to visit the Worlds
fair. 1t is the first wreck of any
on the Michigan Central
railroad since 1879, and the result
was appalling.
The train in which the causuali-
ties occurred was an excursion train
that left Watertown, N. Y, yesterday
for Chicago, in two sections, heav-
lily loaded. The first section reached
Jackson at $3.50 this morning and
stopped at the depot to change en-
gines. Many passengers alighted to
get a bite of breakfast during the
wait. This in itself was a most for
tunate occurrence, as had it not been
for this the list of killed and injured
would have been much greater.
While the first section was stand
ing in the station, the second section
came into the yard at the rate of
twenty miles an hour. The engineer
saw the semiphore and tried to stop
but for some unaccountable reason
the air brake on his engine failed to
work and the heavy train crashed,
with terrific force, into the cars
still. Two of the rear
of the first section teles-
COPIED and it was in these that most
of the casualties occurred. Every pas
senger in these cars was either kill
led or terribly injured.
The third coach from the rear of
the first section was thrown to one
side and four passengers in it killed
and others injured. With the ex-
ception OF the engine and baggage
car, the rear section escaped serious
harm. The engine was badly wreck
ed and the steam and hot water es-
ed boiler added greatly to the suffer-
ing of the unfortunate victims
Within very short time after the
accident occurred, the people of he
city gathered at the scene by hun
dreds and aided the railroad men in
every possible way, in succoring tie
President Ledyard and other high
officials of the road came from De-
they were advised of the awful af-
fair, and directed the efforts of the
rescurers.
The killed are: Mrs. D. z. Gibbs,
Wheeling, New York.
Mrs. Lloyd Woodbury., Bath, New
York.
James Woodbury.. Bath, New York.
Mrs. James H. Keller, Hammonds-
port, New York.
Maggie McMaster, Penyan, New
Harriet Breeze, Pine City, New
Mrs. Charles Starr, Elmira, New
York
George Hoffman, Louisville, New
York.
Mrs. ]. w. Beardsley, Canon, Penn.
Baby Harrington, six months old
child of Mrs. Arson Harrington,
Elmira, New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilmore, Morris Run,
Penn.
The injured are:
Kate Healy, Morris Run, Pa, tract
ure of the thigh.
Joanna Healy, Morris Run, Pa, SER
ious internal injuries and fracture of
both legs.
]. N. Anderson, Morris Run, Pa.
thigh cut, back sprained.
Mrs. Timothy Donovan, Morris Run,
Pa, serious cuts and bruises.
Miss Maud Benedict, Canton, Pa.
serions internal injuries.
Mrs. Arson Harrington, Elmira, N
Y, leg broken.
Miss Blanche Beardsley, Canton,
Pa, fatal fracture of the skull.
Mrs. c. w. Fay, Elmira, N. Y, pain
full cuts and bruises
Mrs Laura Fay, Eluira, N. Y,
bruised and cut.
w. R. Humphrey, Shenango Lake,
Pa, cut and bruised.
Mrs. Alfred searles, Elmira, N. Y,
Miss E. Dolmetch, Elnira, N. Y.
injuries.
Mrs. Mary Wakefield, Elmira, N. Y.
cut and bruised.
Miss Sarah L. Keeler, Hammonds-
port, n. Y, skull fractured.
Mrs. ]. w. Anderson, Morris Run,
Pa, leg broken and internal injuries.
l.. B. Ainsworth, Norwich, N. Y,
serious internal injuries.
Miss Allie Harris, Canton, Pa, in
ternal injuries.
III. IL
serious cuts and bruises.
Mrs. G. H. Garner, Households. N.
Y, cut and bruised.
Maud Gardner, aged s, bruised and
cut.
Mrs. ]. A. Burlingame, East Spring
field, N. Y, head cut
F. Lewis, Columbian Roads,
Pa, cut and bruised.
When the collision occurred the
shrieks that rent the air could be
heard for blocks.
Joseph Kimberling jumped from the
cab before the crash and escaped I'M
injured. Engineer William Whalen
remained at his post to the last and
was badly hurt, but may recover.
AS the mangled forms were gradu-
ally removed from the coaches the
mass of on-lookers groaned in SYM
pathy and the injured cried out in
agony.
Lord have mercy on my soul.v
shrieked one poor fellow, whose life
was ebbing away.
Good Jesus, care for Tommy cried
a woman who was dying with a child
at her breast.
A woman whose name was unknown
lay on the side of the track suffering
untold mental and physical agony. She
was the mother of a child years old
and implored the bystanders to save
her child
"Only let me see my babe before 1
die, said she. You who know a
mothers love. get my child, 1 be-
seech you Her child was dead.
The. work of removing the dead and
injured was carried on with all posi-