The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1895-11-20

r.uls 3 D Motor Car With Its
L-uman Freight
D0WE Il 10 TTBDARK RIVER
List of the Dead In tho Terrible Acct
dsnt mt t,ovoIand Pathetic Scenes
Along the River During
Work of Rescue.

CLEVELAND, Nov 18-The people OF
this city stood appalled, when they real
lied tie full horror Of the terrible acci-
dent which occurred Saturday evening
On the big Central viaduct. 1t was the
worst accident that had ever happened
in this city, and ,the story of how the
motor car, loaded with men, women
and children, had plunged through the
open draw seraight down 100 feet in o
the river was told over and over again,
Thousands Of people remained by the
river bank all night, and thousands
more were there eGrly Sunday mornin :
The first r ports of the disaster ha Q
been veriiec in every particular, with
the possible exception of the number Of
victims.
The scenes about The riTor while the
work of rescue was being prosecuted
were pathetic in the extreme. The
thousands O. people who had assembled
waited wi bated breath for the dis
oovery of bodies. It was sad crowd
and out Of respect for the unfortunate
dead but v9ry little noise was made.
Occasionally the wild scream of soma
frantic woman who believed some ore
dear to her was among the unfortunate
ones would echo over the flats, only to
be taken up at u distance by some other
woman whC7o heart was breaking over
her loss. II was almost Impossible to
get to tho r'7Gr. Patrol wagons dashed
this way ard that, their bells changing,
adding to t din and confusion, Ambu-
lances dashed up to the scene, only TO
turn and Give away again, carrying
the remains of other unfortunates. 1t
was almost impossible to work with any
system. The crowd pushed its way rs
near the scene as possible, and the ef.
forts of the large force Of police to
maintain order were almost in vain. II
was with reat difficulty that a body
when recovered was taken to one of the
dead wagons -Four bodies were four1
almost at the same time. They we-e
placed on stretchars aud the solemn
march to tine ambulanccs started. AS
he BODIES were passed from the fire
boat to the willing hands on shore an
aisle was made and the bodies passed
along. Every few feet some woman
would ltep out from the crowd, peer
NC the face of u body nc it passed. AMI
Its not him, th9nk God" j" she would |
ny. And 50 the sad procession moved |
III. -4
As the body of young boy was taken
rom the fire-boat an old lady nearly |
ell into the river in heF anxiety to sec
nc face OF the dead boy. She would |
lot be put buck. Shi threw herself Ga |
he body, looked into the f,ce and cried, |
Thank Cod" Failing upon her knees,
he raised her voice TO heaven and #.
rayed rs only mother could under the .
circumstances. Pressing close arouE1 |
Ter were anywhere from 900 to 5000 |
,eople Til sc VINO could see her raised |
heir hats, and not fow joined her in
prayer.
At anoth spot two mon were try
ng to hold e. almost distracted woman.
,ho helievel her hu baud waj on the |
.l-iaied ca nd was Am.st insane with
.rief
All the time tho search was Going on
ara kept running over tho viaduet.
Both rails f.o.n tao vest b. tho east ap-
roAch of tt Dricgo were blocked with
eoD,e. In the center of the bridge
len, women and chi,dren went this and
hat way, screaming, jossiing each
ther. women tosril e their hair and
alliug upo" God to save their de-
hes' women laLuIed ,Iild "ere iralhpl
n by the ma mad; rn h,rg and i'm insane tt'
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