The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-08-10
LAKE Shore WRECK.
Spreading Rails Were the
Cause of the Disaster.
THREE KILLED AND TWO WILL DIE.

An Amherst Professor a vIctIm-Many
Persons More or Less Seriously Injured.
Members of the Chicago Baseball club
Badly Hurt.
FREMONT, o., Aug. THE debris of
the wreck at Lindsay on the Lake Shore
railroad has all been cleared away and
trains arr now running as usual. Lake
Shore Officials have arrived here from
Toledo and made thorough examina-
tion of tne track to ascertain the cause
Of the terri lie wreck. The only theory
given is that the tails spread and let
the heavy sleeping cars through to the
ties. The remainder Of the train passed
the bad spot in safety, but the sleepers
were well filled with people bound to
the Worlds fair and the added weight
was too much for the poor spot in the
track. The freight engine was totally
demolished and rolled over on its side
from the force of the collision.
The following persons were killed
outright: E. Lafferty, engineer of the
freight train, Elyria, o.; Charles Spaine,
brakeman of the freight train, Clay
vile, N. Y; - Robertson, porter of
sleeping car Buffalo, residence un-
known.
The following persons were seriously
injured: Professor 3. II. Emerson of
Amherst college, Gloucester, Mass, will
die; - Pelmonn, porter of the sleep
ing car Orinoco, will die, residence un-
known; j. b. Hamilton, Pittsburg, in
jured internally; Bruno Kdifller, Cleve-
land, injured about the head; A. h.
West, Chicago; - Stevens, porter, res
dence not known; James Ryan, center
fielder of the Chicago baseball club,
badly cut about head and body; NJ
Kittredge, catcher of the Chicago base
ball club, badly cut about the head
The train was composed of three
coaches, three baggage cars and five
sleepers. 1t left Fremont 10 minutes
late, and was running at high rate of
speed for Toledo. When the train was
about 10 miles out of Fremont, at q
small station called Lindsay, the sleep
ing car left the track and crashed into a
freight train that was waiting on q sid
ing for the passenger train to pass. The
first part of the train got by in safety,
but the sleeping cars rolled over the
ties some distance, and, finally swerv-
ing from their course hit the engine of
the freight train with tremendous
force. The noise of the collision aroused
the people in the little town, and they
soon surrounded the wreck ready to aid
the unfortunate passengers, whose
groans could be heard amid the noise
of escaping steam and the pandemonium
that followed the destruction of the
locomotive. The sleeping cars were
,Asa oil g.. L.. a
and that anyone escaped ID miracle.
kilograms were at once sent here for
medical aid, and a coach left within
half an hour, bearing physicians to the
scene of the disaster. Many people who
were buried in the wreck were not seri-
ously injured, Their hurts consisted
principally of bruises and scratches.
Perhaps 10 or 90 were more or less hurt
in that way whose names were not
given to the local authorities. Deeper
in the wreck were the dead and more
seriously hurt. Prof. Emerson and the
colored porter Pelmonn were extricated
after long struggle with the heavy
iron braces and timbers of the sleeping
car, and they were at once taken to
houses in the village. Prof. Emerson's
case was hopeless from the start his
chest being crushed beyond possibility
of recovery. He is unconscious and
Pellmonn is in the same condition, with
no prospect of living. The members of
the Chicago baseball club were in the
Cleveland sleeper, which was the last
ON the train, and to that fact they owe
much of their immunity from more Sc
rious injury. AS it was, Ryan, the CEN
ter fielder of the club, and Kittredge,
the best catcher, were cut badly and
bled profusely. Other members of the
team We're bruised and cut, but not so
as to interfere with the continuance of
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