The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-11-21

the surface Of the river revealed nothing
Of the terrible tragedy just enacted.
The waters closed over the car and Its
passengers ami the work Of resouing the
bodies In the uncertain light was slow
indeed. At 0 O'Clock half dozen bodies
that had evidently floated cut Of the car,
had risen to the surface, and were taken
from the river and carried to various
morgues.
THE MoToRMAN RUNS AWAY.
Tho captain Of the bridge guard says:
"I saw this car coming rapidly toward
the draw just ms I had given the signal to
swing It to admit of the passage of a YES
sol. / waved my hand and halloed to the
motorman to stop, but apparently he paid
no attention to me and the car came on.
Just before II went over the brink the
motorm an jumped and ran away,
This statement does not agree with
those of the eye witnesses, who declare
that the conductor went ahead 70 the
open switch, which is about 900 feet from
the draw, and motloned to the car to
come ahead. It is certain that the con.
ductor mounted the car again and went
down with the passengers TO death 1t
will never be possible TO tell exactly
what he did before the accident occurred.
LIST OF DEAD UNKNOWN.
The exact number Of passengers In the
car will not be known until all the bodies
are recovered. The fare register in the
car showed that twenty-five fares had
been collected. There may have been
other passengers with transfers which
would not have been rung up on the reg
lister.
AS near as can be learned fifteen, at
least, aud possibly twenty persons, were
In the car when 1t made the plunge.
Seven unidentified bodies are Mt the
morgues now. One man whose name has
not yet been learned, is at the hospital, in
an unconscious condition. So far as car
be learned, he is the only passenger who
escaped death.
THE WORK OF RESCUE.
The work OF resouing bodies went OF
by the tlaring light Of lamps on the flr'
boats. by i0:30, Eve more bodies in ad
dition to those already carried to tn,
morgues, making twelve In all, have beer
taken from the river.
Among them was the body Of youni
woman with blonde hair, fairly wei
dressed She was apparently a shop girl
going home from work. BY her side II
the dead wagon lay the body OF womal
about so years old. Near her was anothe
of woman of about 40 years old.
ANXIOUS ONES AT THE SCENES.
Scores OF persons living on the Sout
side who had relatives or friends workin
or visiting on the East side, tlooked to tn
scene of the accident and visited tn
morgues to make inquiries about missin
friends.
In the confusion, however, little coul
be learned from them. Perhaps the pei
the throng about the bridge, for up to l
O'Clock not single body had been ident
fed
Horace Andrews, President J. J. Sta
ley, and the superintendent of the Clev
land electric railroad, say that they ha,
Investigated the accident as far as 1t
> possibl tonight. They are at loss
, understand how 1t happened. Andrew
said that the motormau, whose name
Rogers, had been in the employ of Il
company for four years, and regarded hi
as q thoroughly competent and trus
. worthy man.
, The conductor, whose name is Hoi
{ man, who Is in the wreck, had been c
. the road two years and had been on
r ployed for two years before In the CT
, shops of the company. He also had Il
| full confidence of the company, Andrew
said.
THE FIRST IDENTIFICAT1oN.
! The first body identified was tn
? Henry W. Mecklenburg, a tailor wi
r lived at No. 5S Mary street.
Q Word just from tho scene says dred
has been secured and the wrecked G
{ will be raised bodily from the bottom
the river. If that is done, the remand
{ of the bodies will soon be recovered, for
n is probable that few, II any of the bodie
z have fioated away, the river being pra
/. tically without current at that point.