Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-10-21
AN AWFUL DISASTER.


Dozen Persons Killed in a Rear-End
Collision And Nearly a Score of Others
Hurt, Five of Them Fatally-The Fall |
ure of the Air Brake on worlds Fair |
Excursion Train Responsible for the |
Accident-The Killed and Injured.
JACKSON, Mich, Oct. 14.-The second |
greatest accident in the history Of the |
Michigan Central railroad occurred
here yesterday morning within o |
mile of the place where almost four
teen years ago to a day the Pacific ex-
press crashed into freight train in
October, 1879, and eighteen people were
killed. Yesterdays disaster has so far
record of twelve dead, five probably
fatally injured, and fifteen others more
or less seriously hurt.
AT s:45 o'clock yesterday morning an
excursion originating at Watertown,N.
Y, which had been turned over by the
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western to
the Michigan Central at Buffalo, was
standing on the track at jackson
station, when n second section. also.
laden with excursionists from the east,
crashed into it from the rear and teles-
coped the three last cars.
The officers of the road give out the
following list of the killed and in
jured:
KILLED.
Mrs Charles Starr, Elmira, N. Y.
Miss Maggie McMaster, Penn Yam,
N. Y.
Miss Harriet Breeze, Pine City, N. Y.
George Hoffman, Saranac, N. Y.
Mrs. J.. A. Beardslee, East Canton, Pa.
Mrs. ]. II. Keller, Hammondsport,
N. Y.
Mrs. Lloyd Woodbury., Bath, N. Y
James Woodbury., Bath, N. Y.
Mrs. d. j. Gibbs, Wheeler, N. Y,
Infant child of Mrs. Anson Harring.
ton, Elmira, N. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilmore, Morris Run,
Pa.
THE INJURED.
Mrs ]. A. Graham, New York.
Mrs. ]. II. Burlingame, East Spring.
field, Otsego county, N. Y; injuries
not known.
Mrs. C. Keyes, Canton, Pa; face
badly scratched.
Mrs. Allie Harris, Canton, Pa; in
| jured internally; recovery doubtful.
Mary b. Wakefield, Elmira, N. Y.
face cut badly, badly bruised.
Mrs. 4. A. Dolmchant, Elmira, N. Y.
slightly injured.
Mrs. ]. NJ. Anderson, Marsh Run
Cuayhoga county, Pa; badly cut abou
head and face.
Mrs. Blanche Beardslee, Canton, Pa.
badly cut and leg hurt, and docto
thinks her skull fractured.
Mrs. Alfred Searls, Elmira; injure'
internally.
Mrs. CIV. Fay, Elmira; badly bruises
Miss Laura Fay, Elmira; slightly.
Mr.. w. P. Humphrey, Chenango, n
Y; left arm broken, right hand cut.
Miss Maud Bailey, Canton. Pa; il
iured abou. back and internally, prot
ably fatally.
Miss Kate Healy, Morris Run, Pa
bruised on body, not seriously.
Johanna Healey, right arm badl
crushed and both legs broken.
Mrs II, ODonovan, Morris Run, Pa
chest bruised and hip injured.
Mrs. A. A. Herrington, Elmir'
bruised, ankle and leg broken and il
iured internally
Mrs. Sarah A. Keller, Hammond
port. n. Y; leg broken, injured inte
nally.
Frank Fraley, Columbia Cross Road
Pa; badly scratched.
Mrs. ]. II. Gardner, Horsehead, I
Y: head bruised.
In addition to these Robert Walsh,
trainman, was seriously bruised. WI
liam Phillips was hurt internally,
b. Ainsworth, of Elmira, N. Y, h;
his leg hurt; John Beardslee, OF Ca
ton, Pa, whose daughter is so bad
hurt that she may die, crushed abo
the body.
, A Detroit newsboy named Georl
Sells was struck by the boiler OF Il
locomotive and slightly injured
Engineer Whalen, Of the collidil
: train, had one of his legs broken, b
9 he will not die.
Many of the passengers OF the tir
, section had been out to breakfa'
g some had returned and were in t
, coaches; others were at the stati'
platform. Their train was about rea'
to pull out when the second secti'
came into the yards and in sight OF t
station under check. When within
few hundred feet of the standil
| train Engineer Whalen of the seco
! special put on the brakes, but fou
0 to his horror that they did not wor
1 The speed of the train did not DIM
ish. and reversing his engine, it is sa
Engineer Whalen and his fireman, J'
y, Kimling, jumped from the locomoti'
:. The train kept on, and in view OF
several hundred people in and abe
= the station, dashed into the rear Goa
of the first, passing nearly to the otf
o end.
o There were eight cars in the ira
}. nearly all of them New York Cent
v cars. The cars are much lighter tn
a those on the Michigan Central, and
seventh and sixth from the first engl
!. were completely telescoped, the 9
II being fitted into the other snug
The fifth ear was overturned a
10 thrown across sidetrack about II
" feet east of the depot. The Michig
d. Central car was next, and 1t was ba'
Y, smashed on both ends, the platform
RS ing carried away and the windows
ut smashed. The passengers on this
were few, and none of them was
riously injured. 1t was in the six
" seventh and eighth cars where
~ slaughter took place, and not 6 sin
" occupant of either of these cars
n' pears to have escaped death or inJu
Trainmeu's Day.
\. WoRLp's FAIR GROUNDS, CHlcA
Va Oct. 14.-Trainmen' day at the exp
ZION was not distinguished by any