The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-14
Part Of Special Worlds Fair Train
TeIescOped While Standing in
the Station at Jackson.
TWELVE PERSONS KILLED
Five Probably Fatally Hurt and
Over Twenty Less Seriously.
Air Brakes on the Second Section Re-
fused to OWOrk-Statement from
Officials of the Road.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
JACKSON, Mich. Oct. 13.-The second
greatest accident in the history of the
Michigan Central railroad occurred here
this morning within one hundred yards of
the place where almost fourteen years ago
to day the Pacific express crushed into a
freight engine in October, 1879, and eighteen
people were killed. To-day's disaster has,
so far. a record of twelve dead, five prob
ably fatally injured and twenty-one others
more or less seriously hurt.
AT S45 o'clock this morning an excursion
train, originating at Oswego. 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
telescoped the three last cars of the Os-
wego special. The officials Of the road give
out the following list of the killed and in
jured, the dead being:
MRS. CHARLES STARR, Elmira, N Y
MISS MAGGIE McMASTER, Pen Yam,
MISS HARRIET BREEZE, Vine City,
GEORGE HOFFMAN. saranac. n. Y.
MRS. j. A. BEARDSLEE, East Canton,
MRS. ]. H. KELLER, Hammondsport,
N. Y.
MRS. J. Fl. WOODBURY., Bath, N. Y
JAMES WOODBURY., Bath, n. Y.
MRS. ID. j. GIBBS, Wheeler, n. Y.
INFANT CHILD of Mrs Anson Harring-
MR.. AND MRS. GILMORE, Morris Run,
Pa.
The injured are:
MRS. G. GRAHAM, New York
field. Ostego county. New York; injuries not
MRS. MKEYEs. Canton. Pa. face badly
MRS. ALLIE HARRIS. Canton. Pa, in
Jured internally; recovery doubtful.
MRS. MARY WAKEFIELD. Elmira, n.
MRS. E. A. DOLMENTCH, Elmira. N.
MISS j. NJ. ANDERSON, Marsh Run,
Perry county. Pennsylvania, badly cut
MRS. BLANCHE BEARDsLEE, Canton,
Pa. badly cut, leg hurt and. the doctor
MRS: ALFRED SEARLEs, Elmira, in
MRS. 9 ". FAY. Elmira, badly bruised
MISS LAURA FAY. slightly injured.
w. H. HUMPHREY, Chenango Lake, n.
Y, left arm broken twice and right hand
MISS MAUD BALREY, Canton, Pa. in
jured about back and internally, probably
MISS KATE HEALY. Norris Run. Pa.
JOHANNA HEALY. badly: right arm
crushed and both legs broken; recovery
MRS. t. DONOVAN. Norris Run, Pa,
chest bruised and hip Injured;
MRS. A. HERRINGTON, Elmira. N Y,
leg fractured and otherwise bruised, ankle
and leg broken and injured internally.
MISS SARAH A. KELLER. Hammonds-
port, N. Y, leg broken and injured internal
FRANK FRALEY, Columbia Cross
Roads: Pa; badly y, s. scratched ea
heads, n. Y, head bruised.
ROBERT WALSH, a trainman. was
wfTLIAM PHILLIPS, Saginaw, hurt in
ternally.
L. B. AINSwORTH, Elmira, N Y, leg
JOHN BEARDsLEE, Canton Pa. whose
daughter is so badly hurt that she may die,
was bruised about the body.
DETROIT NEWSBOY, struck by the
'IsaS ENGfNEER WHALEN one leg as'G broken,
will recover.
THE BRAKES REFUSED TO WORK
Many of the passengers of the Oswego
special had been out to breakfast. Some
had returned and were in their coaches
others were on the station platform. Their
train was about ready to pull out when the
second special came into the yards. When
within a few hundred feet of the standing
train engineer William Whalen. of the sec
ond 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 Whalen and
his fireman, Joseph r. Kimbling, jumped
from the locomotive. The train kept on,
and, in full view of several hundred 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 belonging to the New York
Central, except one, which was put in at n
station on the Canada Southern division to
replace one disabled. The cars are much
lighter than those on the Michigan Cen
trail, and the seventh and sixth cars from
the first engine were completely telescoped,
one being fitted into the other snugly. The
fifth car was overturned and forced across
a sidetrack about fifty feet east of the de-
pot. The Michigan Central car was next,
and it was badly smashed on both ends,
the platform being carried away and the
windows broken. The passengers on this
car were few, and none of them were Sc
ricusly injured. 1t was in the sixth, sew
enth and eighth cars where the slaughter
took place. and not n single occupant of
these cars appears to have escaped death
or injury.
The scene that followed the collision was
horrible in the extreme. In a moment the
air was filled with the shrieSs of the dying
Dead and mangled bodies could be seen in
the debris. The people on the platform and
from the surrounding streets rushed in
every direction 10 give what help could be
afforded. Physicians were on the scene al
most instantly and the work Of removing
the dead and injured was facilitated by i'm
pressing carriages and hearses into imme-
date service Jackson being a division
station on the line, a wrecking train was
speedily at hand. The dead were conveyed
to the local undertaking rooms and the in
jured TO hotels and 10 the city hospital
where TIE division surgeon. DR.. Gibson,
and two priests, Fathers MIllany and
Buise. took charge of the work OF attend
ing 70 the wounded.
While the bodies were being taken out
from under the debris. there were heart
rerding scenes. George Starr. OF Elmira,
NJ V; Darwin 2. Gibbs. OF Wheeler. n. Y,
and George Woodbury.. Of Bath n. Y. had
left their wives sitting together in the
coach while they stepped out to smoke dur
ing the stop. The three women were killed.
In the undertaking rooms lay the dead body