The Red Cloud chief., 1893-10-20
HORROR IN MICHIGAN.
fH'GHTFUl REAR END COLLISION
At JACKSON.

Twenty Minutes for breakfast, but Only
Moment in Which TO Die"-A Disaster
That Is Only Explained By the Lack Of
Perfection In Human Ingenuity,
y JACKSON. Mich, Oct. 1.-THE second
greatest accident in the history Of the
Michigan Central railway occurred here
within 100 yards Of the place where al.
most fourteen years & to q day the Pa
clio express crashed into a freight engine
In Oct, 1879. and eighteen people were
Killed. The disaster has 30 far q record Of
twelve dead, five probably fatally In.
fured and fifteen others more or less hurt.
AT s4" o'clock in the morning an excur-
sion train originating at Owego, N. Y.
winch mad been turned over by the Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western to the
Michigan Central at Buffalo, was stand
ing on the track at Jnckson station, when
a second special, also laden with excur.
sionists from the east, crashed into 1t from
the rear and telescoped the three last cars
Of the Owego special.
Several Hundred Saw the Crash.
Many Of the passengers Of this latter
t'ain had been out to breakfast; some had
returned aud were in the coaches; others
were on the platform. Their train was
about ready to pull out when the second
special came into the yards and in sight Of
the station under check. When within a
few hundred feet Of the standing train
Engineer William Whelan, Of the second
special. put on the brakes, but found to
his alarm that they did not work. The
speed of the train did not diminish, and
reversing his engine Engineer Whslan
and his fireman, Joseph p. Kimbliug,
jumped from the locomotive. The train
kept on and in full view Of the several
hundred people in and about the station
dashed into The rear coach Of the first
train, passing nearly to the other end.
None Escaped I'm Three Cars.
There were eight cars in the train all New
York Central cars except one which was
put In mt n station on the Canada Southern
division to replace one disabled. The cars
are much lighter than those on the Michi.
Central, and the seventh and sixth cars
from the first engine were completely
telescoped, the one being fitted into the
other snugly. The fifth car was over
turned, and thrown across a side track
about fifty feet east Of the station. The
Michigan Central car was next, and Il was
badly smashed on both ends, the plat
forms being carried away and the windows
all smashed. The passengers on this car
were few and none of them was seriously
injured. 1t was In the sixth, seventh and
eighth cars where the slaughtertook place
and not q single occupant Of either OF
these cars appears to have escaped death
or injury.
Long List of Victims.
The officers of the road give out the fol.
lowing list Of the killed and injured:
Killed-Mrs Charles Starr, Elmira, n. Y;
Miss Maggie McMaster, Penn Van. N. Y:
Miss Harriet Breeze, Pine City, N. Y;
George Hoffman, Saranac, N. Y; Mrs. j.
A. Beardslee, East Canton, Pa; Mrs. j.
II. Keller, Hammondsport, N. Y; Mrs.
Lloyd Woodbury., Bath. N. y; Mrs. ID. j.
Gibbs, Wheeler, N. Y; infant child Of
Mrs. Apson Harrison. Elmira N. Y; Jas.
Woo6Ev, Bath, N. y.
Two have not yet been identified. OF
these one IL a dark-skinned man with a
flowing gray beard, about 60 years Of age.
There ARE no means Of Identifying him.
The other is a woman of IS. with dark
hair and sallow complexion, having some
show of beard on her upper lip; wear Q
wedding ring on the fourth finger Of the
right hand. The man Is terribly crushed
about the head aud face, but the features
are discerlible. They have not n scrap
to identify them, but some Of the passen.
gers say that they believe their names
were Buck, aud that they were husband
and wife.
Injured: Mrs. G. w. Graham, New York,
and Mrs. j. A. Burlingame, East Spring
field. Otsego county, N. Y. injuries moi
known; Mrs. Allie Harris, Canton, Pa, in
jured internally, recovery doubtful; Mrs
Mary Wakefield, Elmira, N. Y, face GU,
badly, severely bruised; Miss j. NJ. Ander
son. Marsh Run, Cuyahoga, county, Pa.
badly cut about head and face: Miss
Blanche Beardslee, Canton. Pa, badly cut
leg hunt, and skull fractured; Mrs. ALFRED
S.arles, Elmira, injured internally; Mrs
G.. w. Fay, Elmira, badly bruised
and scratched; Mr.. w. X. Hum
phrey. Chenango Lake, N. Y, left arm
broken twice aud right hand cut; Mis-
Maud Benedict, Canton, Pa, injured abou'
back and internally, probably fatally
Miss Kate Healey, Morris Run, Pa,
bruises OH body; Johanna Eealey, badly
right arm crushed and botl! legs broken
recovery doubtful; Mrs. I. Donovan, Nor
ris Run, Pa, chest bruised and hip 10
iured; Mrs. A. Harrington, Elmira, N. Y.
leg fractured and otherwise bruised, ankl
and leg broken and injured internally
Miss Sarah A. Keller, Hammondsport, N
Y, leg broken, injured internally
Mrs. Herbert Gardner, Households, N
Y, head bruised; Robert Walsh, trainman
seriously bruised: William Phillips, O
Saginaw, hurt internally; l.. Is. Aims
worth, Of Elmira, N. Y, leg hurt; job
Beardslee, of Canton, Pa, crushed abou
the body; Mrs. c. w. Fay, OF Elmira, an
Laura Fay, her daughter. cut about tn
head; Engineer Whalen, Of the collidirJ
train, one leg broken. The rest Of the IL
jured nave comparatively slight wounds
LATER.-The ma and woman classed a
unknown nave been identified as Mr.. an
Mrs. Gilmore, Morris Run, Pa.