The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-10-18
CRUSHED TO Death.
Frightfll Accident Gu the M!ohi-
gan Central Railway.
Twelve Instantly Killed, Five Fatally
Injured and More Than
Score Badly Hurt.
/. .iesult From the Failure of the AfS
Erakes Tho Second Section of an Ex-
cursion Train Crashes Into tho
First, Tolescoplng Three
Passenger Cars


JACKSON, Mich, Oct 14-The second
greatest accident In the history Of the
Michigan Central railroad occurred
here yesterday morning, within 100
yards Of the place where almost four
teen years ago to day the Pacific Ex-
press crashed into freight engine In
October, 1870 and eighteen people
were killed
Fridays disaster has so far record
of twelve dead, five probably fatally
injured and fifteen others more or less
seriously hurt At $40 in the morning an
excursion train originating at 0wego,
n. Y, which had been turned over by
the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
TO the Michigan Central at Buffalo,
was standing on the track at jackson
station, when a second special, also
laden with excursionists from the east,
crashed into it from the rear and tele-
scoped the three last cars Of the 0wego
special. Many of the passengers of the
latter train had been out to breakfast,
some had returned and were in the
coaches; others were at the station
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 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 Whelan and his
fireman, Joseph p. Kimbling, jumped
from the locomotive. The train kept
on and in full view of the several hun
dred people in and about the station,
dashed into the rear coach Of the first
train, passing nearly to the other end.
There were eight cars in the train, all
New York Central cars but one, which
was put in at n station on the Canada
Southern division TO replace one dis
abled. The cars are much lighter than
those on the Michigan Central and the
seventh and sixth cars from tho first
engine were completely telescoped, the
one being fitted into the other snugly.
The fifth car was overturned, and
across side track about fifty feet east
of the depot. The Michigan Central
car was next and It was badly smashed
on both ends, the platforms being car
ried away, and the windows all
smashed. The passengers on this car
were few and none Of them were seri-
ously injured.
II was in the sixth, seventh and
eighth cars where the slaughter took
place and not single occupant Of
either Of these cars appears to have es-
capped death or injury. The scene that
followed the collision was horrible in
the extreme. In a moment the air was
filed with the shrielSs of tho dying.
Dead and mangled bodies could be seen
in the debris. The people on the plat
form and from the surrounding streets,
rushed in every direction TO give what
help could be afforded. Physicians
were on the scene almost instantly and
the work of removing the dead and in
jured was facilitated by impressing
carriages and hearses into immediate
service. Jackson being division sta
tion on the line, wreclting train was
speedily at hand. The dead were con-
veyed 10 the local undertaking rooms
and the injured TO hotels and 10 the
city hospital, where the division sur
geon Of the road, DR.. Gibson, and two
priests Fathers Malaney and Buyse,
took charge of the work OF attending
TO the hurt. While the bodies were
taken out from under the debris there
were heartrending scenes. George
Starr, Of Elmira, n. Y; Darwin Y.
Gibbs, of Wheeler, n. Y, and Lloyd
Woodbury., of Bath, n. Y, had left
their wives sitting together In the
coach while they stepped out to smoke
during the stop. The three women
were killed.
Mr.. Woodbury's father, James Wood
bury, who had been out on the track
the moment he appreciated that the in
coming train was on the same track as
the owego special, jumped on the plat
form TO warn the women 10 jump He
had not time to warn them before he
was ground up in the debris and killed.
In the undertaking rooms lay the
body Of two-year-old baby for hours
unidentified. II was finally located as
the child Of Mrs Anson Harrington, Of
Elmira, N. Y, who lay two miles away
with injuries from which she may die.
There were scores of ether cases where
travelling companions and relatives
were separated and some killed or In.
jured seriously. The officers Of the
road give out the following list Of the
killed and injured:
Knied-MrA Charles Starr, Elmira, NY
Miss Maggie MehAsters, Penn Yan, NY
Miss Harriet Breeze, Pine City, MY
George Hoffman, Saranse, n Y
Mrs }. 5. Beardsloo, East Canton. Pa
Mrs J. H. Keelsr, HAmmondsport N. r.
Mrs Lloyd Woodbury., Bath. NY
James Woodbury.. Bath, NY.
Mrs J. D. Gibbs, Wheeler, NY.
Infant child Of Mrs Anson Harrington, RlmL |
Amy.
hr and Mrs Gilmore Norris Run Pa
Injursd-hrs O. W. Graham. New York
hrh J. A. Burlingame, East Springfield. ot
sseo county, ~ Y. Injuries not known.
Mrs NJ e Keyse, Canton, Pa, face badly
scratched
Mrs Aliie Harris, Canton, Pa, injured inter, !
nauy; recovery doubtful
Mrs Mary Wakefield. ElmirA, ~ ", face cut
badly and badly bruised
Mrs T. A. Dolmentch, Eimira, slightly in. |
jured
Mss J. NJ Anderson, Marsh Run, Tiogn eoun. |
", Pa, badly cut about head and face
Mrs. Blanche Beardslee, Canton, Pa, badly |
cut, leg hurt and skull fractured
Mrs. Alfred searles Elmira, injured inter. |
nally u
William Whalon. engineer OF Webb special,
seriously burned and log broken
Mrs z. w. Fay, Elmira, badly bruised and