Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-09-15
RAILWAY DISASTERS.
Bevcrai Fatal Ones Occur In America
Ten Lives Lost in Franco.

CHICAGO, Sept. 10.-The ST. Paul ex
press on the Chicago 81 Northwestern,
which left the Wells street depot at
$3.50 o'clock Sunday night, was wrecked
one hour later between Darlington
and Cary by colliding with three coal
cars, said to have been blown on
the main track by miniature
cylone which was sweeping across the
country. General Superintendent S.
Sanborn was badly injured, and Fire
man j. Mcmahon was killed and two
employees and two passengers were
hurt.
The train was running fast and the
signals showed clear track. Sud-
denly the engineer espied the cars on
the track ahead of him and applied the
air brakes. But he failed to check the
momentum of his heavy train and it
! crashed into the obstruction with
terrific shock The engine jumped
the track, and was followed by the
mail, express and buffet cars The
mail tipped clean over, the express
landing almost on top of it,
When Engineer Stearns saw a colli-
sion was inevitable he jumped and es-
capped injury. j. Mcmahon, the fire.
man, stuck to the engine and was in
stantly killed. His body was taken
| from the wreck and left in the care OF
| friends at Darlington. A. j. Bliss is u
! flour merchant from Boston. He was in
| the buffet and was thrown across
the car and his left leg broken above
the knee The fracture is bad one
and may cost him his leg. Thomas
Green, the baggageman, was canght in
| the debris of his car and had his left
leg broken and received number of
serious cuts about the head Superin-
tendent Sanborn had several ribs
| broken.
/ NORTH ADAMS, Mass, Sept, 10.-The
most frightful disaster known in this
vicinity took place on the itchburg
road Saturday evening in the Hoosac
tunnel short distance east of the
central shaft The accident was
caused by a rear-end collision be-
tween east-bound freight trains and
as near as can be ascertained happened
about 10:30 p. IN. A freight train had
stopped to repair on engine which had
broken down, and about the same
time west-bound express train
passed through the tunnel, filing it
with smoke. A second east-bound
. freight train was allowed to
enter the tunnel, contrary to
the rules of the road. and the
engineer being unable on account of
/ the dense smoke left by the passenger
train to distinguish the lights of the
train from the lights on the walls OF
the tunnel, bad wreck was the result,
both trains being badly damaged. The
, tunnel was blockaded and two men
. killed outright and three were serious
ly injured.
Operator Hodkin, who was in charge
, =, of the signal lights at the east portal.
J is confined in the police station on the
, charge of criminal carelessness. w.
Hodglkins, the west portal operator,
4 has also been placed under arrest. He
4 claims he received the 80. K" from
y the east end operator and consequent-
ly changed his signal.
!. BRUSSELS, Sept. 10.-Ten persons
a We're killed and twenty injured by the
wreck of the Paris and Cologne ex-
!, press train Sunday. The accident hap
). pened at Apilly and was caused by a
a collision of the express train with a
a freight which was being shunted. The
/ engineer saw the danger ahead and
reversed his engine. This had the
IL rendering the accident less severe than
l. it would otherwise have been. AS it
= was, the wreck was very disastrous
It one. A passenger on the train, who
"a escaped with slight injury, says that
" the shock of the collision was tremen-
IT dous, and that the forward cars were
reduced almost to atoms. The bodies
of the victims were badly mutilated in
|
le from the trunk. 1t is reported that the
station master at Apilly, on seeing that
10 collision was inevitable, jumped in
IS front of the express and was killed.
y FAIRBURY. ILL.,, Sept 1O.-rhe north
b, bound mail train No. 10 on the Wabash
4 railroad was ditched when three-quar-
ID ters of mile out of Sauneman. Engi-
is neer E. L. Miller, of Chicago. was
l. killed outright and his fireman, named
% Gilman, received injuries that will
1t cause his death. The engine, which
10 was No. 573, was thrown to the left side.
10 while the mail car was thrown to the
s. right and the rest of the cars stayed on
e. the track. Coroner Zimmerman, of
al this county, empanneled a jury, who.
IS after examining all the available wit
I'd nesses, returned a verdict that they
le were unable to determine what caused
e. the accident. Conductor ID. III. Pow
IN ley, of the ill-fated train, and others
le in the train claim that the speed
IN was not fast but that the stop
le was made partly by applying the
OF emergency air brake, which Mil
Ter accomplished before his engine
went into the ditch. Several on the
train received slight injuries. William
r. Chenowith, foreman of the wreckinR
crew of the Wabash Chicago division,
r. was managing the clearing up of the
p wreck when heavy timber gave way
mt striking him on the head, crushing in
o. his skull and otherwise injuring him
Ie His death soon followed.