Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-01-10
KILLED In A R. R. WRECK.
Particulars Of the Accident in Which
Chas. Snyder Lost His Life.

On Wednesday of last week the
parents of Charles Snyder We're
shocked to receive the intelligence
that their son had been killed in a
wreck on the Ohio Southern, upon
which road he was making his first
trip as fireman.
The body was brought to Napoleon
on Thursday and was buried on Sat
urday, funeral services being held at
st. Augustine's church by Father
Putt. The unfortunate young man
was aged % years. 3 months and 1s
days at the time of his untimely
death. We CLEAN the following par
ticulars of the sad accident from the
Lima Times:
One of the worst wrecks on the
Ohio Southern railroad since the
completion of the road to Lima, hap
pened at $40 o'clock Tuesday night
two miles above Bainbridge. One
man was killed, four injured, and
two engines, caboose and several
cars wrecked.
A light" F" consisting of an engine
and caboose, was sent south from
Springfield, and was run as the first
section of passenger train No. 4. The
train dispatcher put out an order for
number at Greenfield and the crew
on north bound freight train No. 20
was stopped at Bainbridge and given
time order on No. at Sprout
Springs, being given until 9 o'clock
to reach the station. The operator
at Greenfield let first No. 4, the light,
pass his station without stopping
them for orders and the result was a
head end collision of the ''lightN and
the north bound freights.
The country where the accident
happened is very hilly and the rail.
road track SO crooked that the two
trains were within short distance
of each other before either of the en-
gineers discovered the others head.
light Both trains were running at
high rate of speed and the crash
was terrible. Eegineers Summers
and Crawford were at the throttle
and both reversed their engines
called to their firemen and jumped
for their lives.
Both were injured in jumping, but
their injuries are not serious Fire
man Chas. Snyder was putting in q
fire when he head the warning, but
he did not seem to understand what
it was about until he saw the engi
neer jump from the gang-way. He
/ sprang to the tank and was about tc
jump when the engines came togeth
er and he was caught and instantly
crushed to death in the wreckage
Brakeman Mendenhall, of No. 80
was in the engine and jumped wheI
the engineer did. He was slightly
injured, and brakeman Davis, who
was in the caboose on the light train
was considerably bruised. All the
other trainmen escaped injury. Both
engines, the caboose on the light
and four cars on train 80 were badly
wrecked and the track completely
block. AS soon as word could be sent
to Bainbridge, the officials at Spring
field were notified and wreck train
made up for the scene af the accident
at o'clock.
Fireman Snyder's remains were re
moved from the debris and taken tc
his home in Napoleon. The operator
at Greenfield, who failed to stop the
light, claims that his order lamp wal
displayed, but the oil had burned out
consequently the crew saw no sigma
and did not stop.
w. w. Wire, the operator at Green
field, says he had orders for the Obi,
Southern train going sout, and say
he hung out q red light, but that i
went out without his knowledge, and
that the train, seeing no light
passed Greenfield without slipping
and the collision at Bainbridge re
suited.
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