Morning journal and courier., 1893-08-07
DEATH ON THE RAIL.

Sleepers ON East Express Irhhn
Crash Into q Freight Engine-Three
People Killed and Their Bodies
Presented q Sickening SiEht-Arms
Were Cut or and the Heads Were
Mashed Out of All Resemblance OF
Human shape.
FREMosT, O., August Ga wreck CO.
CURED last night shortly after 10 O'Clock at
Lindsey, eight miles west of here, on the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern rail-
road Three people were killed outright,
while fully twenty-five were more or less
badly injured. The westbound Pacific ex-
press left here last night about ten minutes
late. The train consisted of an engine,
baggage car, two EXPRESS cars, three
coaches and five sleepers. The coaches
and sleepers were all well filled with
people, many of whom were on their way
to Chicago.
At Lindsey, the train passed local
freight, which had been sidetracked. The
express train WAS running at full speed
and passed safely until the sleepsrs neared
the switch, close to the freight, when the
first three sleepers jumped the track and
ran into the engine of the freight. The
engine was wrecked and the sleepers were
crushed like eggshells. The eesne that fol-
lowed the collision was heartrending. The
grosns of the dying, the shrieks of the in
jured, and the kissing of the escaping
steam combined to add horror to the
scene.
Work was at once begun to render aid
to the injured and those who were i'm
prisoned in the ruins. The disaster was
Immediately reported and an extra left this
place with several doctors for the scene.
The sighb that greeted the medical party
was terrible. The track for some distance
was covered with debris, beneath which
several persons were imprisoned, and legs,
hands and arms protruded here and there
from beneath the ruins.
The physicians at once attended to the
injured, most of whom escaped with
bruises and scratches.
The killed are: Ed Lsffsrty, engineer of
the freight train; Charles Spane, brake
man on the freight; Porter Robertson (col-
ored) of the sleeper Erie. The seriously
injured are:
Prof. Emerson of Amherst college, Am
herst, Mass, chest crushed, will die; ]. A.
Hamilton of Pittsburg, injured internally,
perhaps fatally; Porter Stevens (oolored),
Porter Pelham (colored) injured internally;
A. d. West, Chicago, badly cut; James
Ryan, center fielder of the Chicago baseball
club, bad cuts; NJ. Kttredge, catcher of
Chicago baseball club, cut about head and
body; Bruno KniGer, Cleveland, Injured
about the head.
e. About fifteen of the injured, after re-
ceiving surgical attention, proceeded on
their westward journey on that part of the
passenger train which had escaped damage.
The others were taken to the Hotel Nichols
and private residences.
The bodies of the three men killed pre-
scented sickening sight Arms were cut
off, legs torn and maneled and heads
smashed out of all semblance of human
shape.
Professor Emerson and Porter Pelham
were extrioated after long struggle with
the heavy iron braces and timbers of the
sleeping cars, and were taken to houses in
the village. Professor Emerson's case was
hopeless from the start. Tonight he and
Pelham are unconscious, and their deaths
are hourly expected.
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 serious injury. Ryan and Kit
fridge were cut badly and bled profusely.
Other members of the team were cut and
bruised, but not 30 IS to interfere with the
continuance OF thelr journey. Inc TRACK
was cleared by noon to-day.
The Lake Shore officials have begun an
investigation of the disaster. The only.
theory given is that the rails spread and
let the heavy sleeping cara through to the
ties.
HE WAS UNSUCCESSFUL.
yhere Will be No Foreign Entries at
the Worlds Fair Regatta.
NEW YORK, Aug. 6 Frank F. Pratt of
the Chicago navy, who went abroad last
June to secure foreign entries for the
worlds fair regatta at Lake Geneva, and
alec to arrange a race between the English
varsity Fights and Harvard or Yale, has
returned without accomplishing either
mission.
Mr.. Pratt last night said that although
none of the English or French cracks were
coming over this year ne has sgitated the
question 30 we'll that there Is every posi-
bility that we shall have immediate ao-
qusintance with them next season and
unless all signs fail, an eight-oared race
between the winner of the Oxford Cam
bridge race on the Thames next March and
the winner of the Hsrvard-Ysle race at
New London in June