Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-10-18
NINETEEN KILLED.
frightfu Collision Between Railway Trains
Near the Depot at jackson, Mich.

occurred at $50 this morning right in
the Michigan Central yards. Two sec
tons of a Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western Worlds Fair train came to-
gether. The first section was in the yard
just east of the gate, some passengers
being in the depot eating breakfast,
when the second section came thunder
ing own the track, and before any one
realized what was going on, the coaches
were piled on top of each other in q
confused mass and the shouts and
groans of the wounded and dying
filled the air for blocks around.
Supt. Jordan stated that the air-brake
failed to work. The engineer saw the
semaphore up when his train passed the
junction and he tried to stop the train,
but he could not control it. The crash
was terrible. The two rear cars went
clear through each other and every
passenger in the two telescoped coaches
was either killed or injured.
REsCUING THE VICTIMS.
Immediat ely the work of rescue was
began and as quick as the unfortunates
could be taken out the dead were car
rled to temporary mOrgues and the in
jured to the most convenient shelter.
Every conceivable kind of conveyance
was pressed into service in conveying
the dead and injured from the scene
and willing hands did all in their power
to aid in the work of rescue.
The third coach in front of the tele-
scoped cars was a special from Honor
and CORTLAND, n Y, with thirty -eight
passengers on board. They were terri
bly, shocked and thrown about, but no
one was seriously injured. Judge
EgglestOn. of CORTLAND, was one Of the
nd hoA l. 90 VII
torn off but he was uniniured.
Six bodies were taken to Bolton u
Pillsbury's undertaking establishment.
| The identified are: James Woodbury.
and his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Lloyd
! Woodbury., of Bath, n. Y. The others
are those of man and two ladies, one
with a babe in her arms. The latter
woman's head was severed from the
body. Mrs. Lloyd Woodbury's hus-
band was with the party but escaped
injury. He had gone to the platform to
smoke, when looking u, he saw the
second train coming. Surprising it
would stop, he paid no atten-
! ton until it had nearly reached
| the train and too late saw the danger so
! imminent. He rushed to the door and
! called out to his family to come quick.
! Mrs. Woodbury. states that there were
! from one to two passengers IN most of
! the seats, most of whom were women,
! the men having gone out doors. EigL-
| teen are dead and as near and can be
! learned twenty-five or thirty injured.
NINETEEN DEAD.
The latest reports say that nine
| teen bodies have been found
and the list OF wounded foots
| up fifty or sixty. A large
force is at clearing the timber away. 1t
| is feared that there are other bodies
! beneath the cars. The city is the
scene of suffering and sorrow.
| Those seeking friends and relatives
are in anguish because they cannot find
| their missing ones. Many of the dead
cannot be identified, there being no
| papers on the bodies Or addresses to be
| found.
The state law requires all trains to
slow down to six miles an hour inside
! the city limits. Had the second section
| done SO when it entered the junction
! yard, the train could certainly have
! been controlled by the engineer, though
! the air-brakes did refuse to work. The
! present wreck is worse than the one
! which occurred at the junction fourteen
! years ago, and was doubtless caused by
! negligence.
Engineer Bill Whalen, who lives
here, was running the last section. He
| rays L saw IuG SISldl LII Gu6 yarn W
| keep back, and had my engine in hand
as [ thought, but when l came down
near the train which was standing still,
nv air 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"
Whalen is badly burned and one leg
broken, but he will live.
The difficult part is to find all the
wounded. They have been taken to pri-
Vate houses for care and their addresses
cannot be determined for some time.
The unknown babe has been identi-
fed as the child of Mrs. Arson Harring
ton, 625 Pennsylvania Avenue, Palmyra,
n. Y. The latter is at the hospital
dangerously, if not fatally, injured.
The man and woman unknown and
dead at the morgue have neither scrap
to identify them, but some Of the pas
sengers say that they believe their
names we're Buck and were husband
and wife. They were taken out to-
gether and seemed to have been in one
| seat.
Charles Starr will accompany the re-
mains of his wife East at P. NJ. this
evening A telephone message from
the hospital physicians says all the in
| jured up there are no worse and seem
not to be in danger of death, except Jo-
hanna Healy. She is worse.
SCENES OF HORROR.
Immediately after the wreck occurred
crowds Of me were at the scene work
ing with axes, saws, ETC., to release the
dead and dying. Ambulances were
sent from the hospitals and physicians
and nurses applied themselves to the
task of caring for the injured.
| The scenes at the wreck were heart
rending. Two lovers on their wedding
trip died in each others arms. One
old man sought in vain for his wife. He
found her among the dead with her
head cut off, He fell and died at her
side with the word "Mary" on his lips.
NAMES OF VICTIMS.
All the dead and injured have been
taken from the wreck. The wrecking
engine has removed the cars. The
frightful list is ffty-two injured and
or