The Globe-republican., 1893-10-20
WRECK AND RUIN.
Fearful Accident to q Worlds Fair
Train.
Dozen Killed and More Than Score In.
jured on the Michigan Central Road
Vessels and Lives Lost on
the Lakes.
Awful Railroad Wreck.

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| Awful Railroad Wreck.
/ JACKSON. Mich. Oct I4.-As direct
result of the policy of the railroads of
! the country in refusing low rates to the
worlds fair at an early period, thus
forcing the people to go there in mass,
the lives were crushed out of twelve
passengers in an instant at the depot
here and twenty-five persons were
succumb to their injuries or be Grip
pied for life.
| The Oswego special on the Michigan
Central railroad was made up into two
section because of the demand of in
| tending worlds fair visitors for room.
hundreds who might have gone months
ago having delayed until this time in
the hope of securing better excursion
rates than had been offered heretofore.
The two sections were running only n
few minutes apart.
The first section OF the special was
lying on the main track just east of the
depot here at $40 o'clock and the pas
sengers were either crowded into the
dining car or still asleep when the sec
ond section dashed up from be-
hind. The air brakes refused to work.
| The next moment the engine of the
second section crushed with awful
force into the rear of the first section,
and before it stopped the two rear cars
had been completely destroyed and
fullys seventy people in them either
killed or injured.
AS soon as possible the work of relief
began.
All the undertakers and physicians
! in town wers soon on the ground and
in short time every undertaken estab-
lishment was morgue. When the
wreck had been cleared away it was
found that seventeen bodies required
only burial and that fifty-two people
were in need of surgical attention.
Engineer Whalen, of the second sec
ton, who was badly burned and one of
whose legs was broken. said: 81 saw
the signal in the yard to keep back and
had my engine in hand, as l thought,
but when l came down near the train.
which was still. my air brake would
not work and l ran into the coaches
The failure of the air brake made it
impossible to stop. never had such
an experience before
Fate OF the Dean Richmond.
BUFFALO. n. ", Oct. 1.-THE saddest
feature of the lake storm, which ragged
Saturday, is the loss of the steamer
Dean Richmond on the shore near Dun
kirk. The first thing that was heard
of this disaster was at 9 o'clock Sun
day morning, when the captain of the
Helena reported having sighted the
Dean Richmond off Long Point, where
she seemed to be laboring under diff
culties. Later Capt. Jack Tierney, of
the steamer W. II. Stevens, reported
that he sighted the Richmond in
the middle of the lake about
miles this side of Erie. One
of her stacks was missing and while he
was looking the other stack and spar
went by the board. She was laborirg
heavily in the trough, as though her
steering gear had become disabled.
Since then nothing has been seen or
heard of the vessel 1t is thought that
she must have gone down with all on
board. Her cargo was eighty tons of
merchandise from Toledo to Buffalo.
She belonged to the Toledo, St Louis
& Kansas City line. Her crew consisted
of about eighteen souls.
A dispatch from DunkirlS states that
three unknown bodies, apparently of
sailors, have been washed ashore few
miles from that port. One of the three
bodies has since been definitely identi-
fed, upon descriptions furnished from
Buffalo, as that of John Logan, first
engineer, from Port Huron, Mich. The
signal board of the boat bearing her
name was later found, and some bar
rels of flour. which formed part of her
cargo. have also drifted to land. She
must have gone down off Light House
point
Still Another.
PORT Rowan. Ont, Oct 1.-THE
steamer Wocoken has gone down off
Long point and out of her crew of six
teen people. three are saved and
thirteen drowned.
The Wocoken left Ashta bula on Fri
day. bound for Duluth, and carried
cargo of 1.SOO tons of coal consigned to
W. l.. Scott. of Duluth. She went first
to Erie where she picked up her con-
sort, the schooner Joseph Paige.
Shortly after leaving Erie she was
struck by the full force OF the storm,
and after trying to make head against
it for some time, Capt. Meswald de-
cided - put about and run for Long
point.
The sea. which was running very
high. was too much for the boat and
she foundered not far from the, west
end of Long point The boat might
possibly have stood the storm had not
her matches given way.
They were washed off by the heavy
seas, the water completely filled the
boat and she went down.
Lost in Lake Michigan.
ONEKAMA. Mich. Oct. 1.-THE big
schooner Minnehaha was beacbed at
Starke, ten miles north of here, at noon
Yesterday to save her from laundering
in deep waters The seas soon over
wSelmed the wreck and drove the crew