The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-12
A. FRlaHTFUl WRECK.

rhree Person. Killed and siauy Injured
by a Wreck the Lake shore Rad ut
Lindsay. O.-Fiss Sleeping Cars Reduced
30 KindlinE by totifdct With freight
Narrow Escape OF Chicago Bascbailists.
CLEVELAND, Aug. I.-Train No. 9 of
tbs Lake Shore railroad left here SAT-
rrtiay night for Chicago on time. The
train was composed of three coaches,
three baggage cars and five sleepcrs-
IL left Fremont ten minutes late and
was running at a high rate of speed for
Toledo. When the train was about
ten miles out of Fremont, at small
station called Lindsay, the sleeping carr
left the track and crashed into freight
train that was waiting on siding for
the passenger train to pass. The first
part of the train got by in safety but
the sleeping cars rolled over the ties
quite distance. finally swerved from
their course and hit the engine of the
freight train with tremendous force.
The noise of the collision aroused
Che people of the little town. and they
soon surrounded the wreck ready to
aid the unfortunate passengers. whose
yroans could be heard amid the noise
ofthe'escaping steam and paBdemonium
that ensued by the destruction of the
locomotive. The sleeping cars were
practically reduced to kindling wood
and that anyone escaped il a miracle.
Three persons were killed outright
and a number seriously injured.
kilograms avere at once sent to Fre.
mont for medical aid. and coach left
that city within haitian hour bearing
physicians to the scene of the disaster.
In the meantime the train crew. aided
by the citizens of the little town. be-
gan to remove the debris and ruins
that covered the track. lderneath
the wrecllage could be seen the victims
of the accident and the groans of the
more seriously hurt were pitiful.
Here and there an arm or n leg pro-
truded and little pools of blood that
oozed from underneath the shattered
timbers told the sad tale of ;.uffering.
Many people were buried in the
wreck who were not seriously injured.
their hurts consisted mostly of bruises
and scratches. and it was not hard
task to free them from the heavy
beams that held them to the earth.
They were taken care of by the town
physicians and were ready 20 resume
their journey by the time the train
started again on its way TO Toledo.
Perhaps fifteen or twenty wee more or
less hurt in that way whose names
were not given to the local III thorities.
Deeper in the wreck were the dead
and more seriously hurt. The three
who were killed outright by the col
lision were not removed from the
ruins until o'clock. They were bur
led under the engine and it was i'm
possible to do anything to aid them
until wreclxing train had arrived.
Prof. B. III. Emerson, of Amherst col
lege, Gloucester, Mass, and the colored
porter, Pelmonn, were extricated after
u long struggle with the heavy iron
braces and the timbers of the sleeping
car, and they were at once taken to
houses in the village. Prof. Emerson's
case was. hopeless from the start. his
chest being crushed beyond possibility
of recovery. and PeImonn was in the
same condition, with no hope
The members of the Chicago base
ball club were in the Cleveland sleeper.
which was the last one on the train. and
to that fact they owe much of their i'm
munity from more serious injury. As
it was, Ryan. the center fielder of the
club, and Kittridge. the best catcher,
were cut badly and bled profusely.
har Of tl,a -, h-,,
ed and cut, but not so as to interfere
with the continuance of their journey.
A special train left Toledo soon after
the report of the accident. with Lake
Shore officials on board, to make a
thorough examination of the track and
ascertain what caused the wreck. The
only theory given is that the rails
spread and let the heavy sleeping ears
through the switch.