Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-13
NEAR A SCORE DEAD.
Terrible Railway Collision Near
Jackson, Mich.
THE AIR BRAKES FAILED TO WORK.
First Section of a Train Run Down
by the Second.
LIST OF THE VICTIMS

JACKSON. Mich, Oct. ia terrible
wreck occurred this morning about 9
o'clock 100 yards east of the passenger
depot In this city. Hacks and undertakers'
wagons are rapidly taking away the dead
and wounded
An excursion train from the east was
standing at the depot when another ex-
cursion train pulled in. The engineer lost
control Of his air brake and could not
stop his train and 1t rushed at the rate
of 40 miles an hour into the train ahead,
plowfng under 1t and throwing the cars
In all directions. Nine cars join in the
ruin and the engine Is smashed.
Later.-It IL now said that six dead bod
les have been recovered from the wreck.
Many are injured.
The cars are terribly smashed, two Of
them being thrown across the track. One
car was driven completely through another
and others were turned entirely over.
Thousands Of people were aboard the two
trains and they were wedged in in all kinds
Of shapes. Some of the cars were badly
enough wrecked to kill all the people on
board them. Considering the shape the
cars were in 1t is remarkable that any at
all escaped without injury in some Of the
cars.
Dead and Injured.
Following dead and injured have been
Identified:
Dead-Mrs. Lloyd Woodbury. of Bath, N.
Y. James Woodbury., Bath, N. Y; Mrs.
Woodbury's father-in-law; Mrs. Bardslee
Scranton. Pa; Maggie McWatson. aged
twenty. Pennyran. N. Y; Miss Harriet
Breeze. Pine City. N. Y: Sisue Headley,
Warrior Run, Luzerne county. Pa. near
Scranton.
Jp3,r nj
about head; Mrs. c. w. Fay. Miss Laura
Fay. all of Elmira. N. Y. all badly injured;
Miss Blanche Burdslee. Scranton. Pa, is
in a precarious condition.; Mr.. I. N. Burds-
lee. Scranton. Pa; Mrs. ]. H. Gardner,
Households. N. Y; not badly; Mrs. Allen
Harris. Troy. Pa. two ribs broken and
bruised; Frank Ferley, Columbia Cross
roads. Pa. slightly: Mrs. J. A. B. Airing
ham. Springfield, N. Y, arm and shoulder
fractured.
The dead and injured have been removed
and are now lying at the hotels.
So far 1t Is known that thirty-four per-
sons were injured, many Of them. 1t Is
feared, fatally. The number Of dead Is
now placed at nineteen.
The first section of the excursion train
was called the ''Oswego' and the last Sec
tion the webb special.
F. J. Reed. conductor Of the Oswego spe-
cial, has sent the following dispatch to the
officers Of the road In Detroit:
Il was stopping at jackson for breakfast
and had just started when the webb
special. going west struck my train in the
rear part and broke three coaches. / cannot
ascertain how many were injured. My train
was protected in the jackson yard by the
semaDhore."
Engineer William Whalen, who lives at
Jackson, was running the last section. He
says: II saw the signal in the yard to keep
back. and had my engine in hand as
thought but when / came down near the
not work. and 1 ran into the coaches.
The failure Of the air made it impossible to
stop. I never had such an experience be-
fore"
Whalen is badly burned. One Of his legs
Is broken. but he will live.
No less than nine specials had already
passed through jackson going west this
morning in addition to the regular trains.
The Air Brake Failed.
DETROIT. Mich Oct. 13.-The superin-
tendent Of the Michigan Central here says
that ten dead bodies have been recovered 50
far and the number Of injured has not yet
been reported. The trains were Delaware
and Lackawanna day coach excursion
specials. The first section had stopped to
let the passengers take breakfast. 1t had
peen standing at the depot twenty-six min
Ing into 1t. The signal semaphore was up
all right, but the engineer claims that his
air brake would not work and he was DOW
erless to avoid the accident.