Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-10-28

gled with in the efforts of the res
cuers to release some man or woman
or child pinned down in the wreckage.
The spark soon became light. then
FIRE, small at first and needing only
bucket of water to quench it, butrapid-
ly increasing in brilliancy as it fed
upon the highly vanished wood above.
No kindlings could have been better
placed Then the fire became fierce as
it formed its own draft and
crept upward towards the vic
Tins in waiting. There was no
water nothing to quench the
red fury, and soon the neighboring
farmhouses could be seen, the light
was so great The fire soon became q
great white furnace devouring men,
women and children, and melting iron
and warping wheels of cars, and when
the fire department attempted to
quench it the water sizzled as it struck
the red hot iron and went up in steam.
The blaze was seen for miles around
The wreck and the bright light at
tracted crowds of people to the Grand
Trunk yards and the work of rescue
was pushed as rapidly as possible. This
work became frantic struggle as the
fire increased and the prisoners one by
one passed into lnsensibility. Stories
of suicide among the cremated people
were told but could not be substan-
tiated.
The death of Mrs. c. w. Van Dusen
was very sad. She had got partially
out of the car, but her feet had been
caught and held her fast by the
timbers and there she burned to death.
Her agony was terrible, but she re-
tanned her senses to the last and gave
her name and address and told what
friends to notify. She was a teacher
in the Methodist Sunday school and
died like Il Christian. Her husband,
Charles Van Dusen, died at the Nichols
Memorial home at 10 o'clock.
C. ii. Ward and b. s. Ward, brothers,
of Moretown, VT, were in the ILL
fated coaches and were among the
number who escaped uninjured. After
the coach was over C. II. Ward jumped
out of the left side through a window.
In front of him sat a lady with a
baby. He pulled her through the win
dow, when she cried out to save her
baby, but the little one was fastened
beneath the seat, and perished
while the crazed mother had to be
taken away by force. Ward says that
in front of the woman was "a young
lady and just behind her n young man.
Bstc% of him were two young men.
None escaped.
As fast as the charred remains were
separated from the ashes of the ill
starred No. l3 they were blanlieted and
laid in box cars. From this rude
morgue at noon they We're transferred
to the undertaking establishment
ment rough pine slabs were laid
out, and here, wrapped in white
linen, the remains We're placed.
The Identification was that of circum-
stantial evidence, for in most cases the
heads and arms We're burned away,
and jammed up against the stove in
coach No. Is were found the remains of
Il woman and in her heshless arms she
clasped an infant. Part of chain
bracelet, two narrow bits of flouncing
of black silk ana part of a leather belt
We're all that remained to identify the
mother and child.
In the only two faces recognizable in
the morgue all the nameless horrors of
death by fire were stamped. One body
lacked a limb, another an arm; eyes
had gone from sockets. ears and noses
had been licked off by the flames Two
of the bodies might have been but
charred stumps of trees for all the evil
dences that remained that they We're
human beings but II few hours ago
Friday afternoon at o'clock Justice
Henry issued warrants for Henry
Wooley, engineer of train No 8, and
Conductor Burt n. Scott At 4 o'clock
Deputy Sheriff King arrested Wooley
and brought him before Justice Henry,
where he asked for an examina-
tion and was put under $4,000
bail for his appearance next Mon
day He could not furnish the bail,
and Deputy Sheriff King will take him
to Marshall. Wooley and Scott are
charged with manslaughter Conduc-
tor Scott was arrested at Z p. IN. on a
warrant charging criminal negligence.
He gave bonds in $4,000 to appear Mon
day lie made a brief statement to
the effect that he gave the engineer a
duplicate of the order he received; that
he supposed he understood it; that he
afterwards went into the baggage car
and did not know the engineer had
gone over the siding and taken the
double track until the collision oc-
Cured.
Engineer.Wooley told the justice that
while oiling his engine Conductor
Scott came to him and handed him his
orders, asking if he was ready to go.
Scott said to him that the dispatcher
must be crazy as No 0 had gone
through. The engineer continued:
81 hurried up and got through oiling my en-.
gine, got up in the cab ana that time Conduc.
tor Scott was over near the, platform He asked
me II was ready to go / asked him II he
was sure No had gone through He said:
Yes. She has My fireman heard that After
he said that No. had gone through asked him
how the board was. He said: All clear Look
out for the board at Bellevue got up on my
seat and started the engine 1 did not pass