Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-02-02
FATAL WRECK.
Disaster on the vandalia Road--A Lad,
Killed-Many Injured.


at Coatsville, 20 miles out. One per-
son was killed and thirty-eight in
jured. The train was running at full
speed and was about ten minutes late.
1t had just passed the town and was
rounding a curve when the track
spread
The private car of President w. r.
McKeen, which was in the rear,
jumped the track. This was followed
by the parlor car and then The ladies'
car. All went off the track, the two
rear cars going down the einbankment
10 feet before the train could be
stopped. The smoker left the track,
but did not go over. The two rear cars
caught fire, but were extinguished
when the work of rescue began.
Mrs. w. S. Towers, of Carthage, Mo-,
was carried from the car and died
while being taken to the school house.
The injured were carried up the en-
bankment to houses on the north side
of the track, and soon the townspeople
and physicians gathered to give assist
ance.
Mrs. Zelda Seguin Wallace, the noted
operate singer, was among those Sc
riously injured. Mrs. Wallace was
one of the prominent operate and
concert singers in the United States,
although latterly her appearances
have been confined to the concert
stage. She gained national reputa-
tion as a member of the Hess Emma
Abbott and Duff opera companies for
many seasons,
John w. Norton, the widely known
proprietor of the Grand opera house,
st. Louis, and manager of theaters also
in Chicago and Pittsburgh, had his
head badly crushed and is reported to
be dying.
Others who were injured are as fol-
follows:
John w. Cravens. Bloomington Ind, ribs
fractured and hurt internally; Richard Crouch
Brazil, Ind, badly injured in head; D. w.
Mendenhall, Terre Haute, ribs broken;
A. cardwell' Elmira' N. y, hip bro.
| ken; George w. Faris, congressman e lect
Eighth Indiana district. slightly injured
on head and back; Richard Garrish, New
| York, cut in face and bruised; Mrs. Custer
| Terre Haute, rib broken; Andrew Johnson
porter on dining car, right arm broken;
hurt internally; Mrs. Rothschids, og-
den. U. T., badly bruised arm and
shoulders; Mrs. Deife, Omaha, bruised about
the body; Joseph Dillon. New York, arm
| broken; W. r. Sherwood, New York, arm
broken; d. Newmeyer, Evansville, hurt In
ternaly; Charles Jones. indianapolis, back in
| jured John r. Wise Indianapolis arm broken
and head cut; f. Wrap, Pittsburgh, head cut
| DR.. Colbert, injured in side; Rev. Mr.. Talbot
| Greencastle, Ind, badly injured; Mrs. Cob.
| lentZ, Franklin, Ind, arm broken Margaret
| Roberts indianapolis, injured about face anC
hrpnSt. Ewing o. N hitting ROStOn had
over left eye: Mrs Ewing o. Whiting, Bos
ton, injured about side and breast seriously
S. Neugeon, Vigo, Tex, seriously hurt about
head likely not to recover; Mrs N. w. Fergu
son, Terre Haute, right side hurt and interna
| injuries serious; Mrs. ID. Hudson, Greencastle
cut on right side OF the head not serious; Ger
trude Parrish, 4-year-old girl, Pales
tine, cut on side Of face, not seriously; w. S
Towers, Carthage, Mo-, badly hurt in side; lie,
Sheets, indianapolis, badly bruised j. ]. Lee
Mansfield, o., injured internally and bruised
about the face; Mrs j. H. Dillon, New York
badly bruised and arm broken L.W. d BeeDe
Paris, Ill, bruised about the head; Mrs D. L
Anderson Greencastle. Ind. hurt about head
Mrs. Pescus, Terre Haute, ribs broken, inter
nal injuries.
The wreck and the cries of the in
jured and frightened passengers ere
ated panic from which no one recov
cred for several minutes. Those in the
day coach were the first to recover
their self-possession and fastened t.
the relief of the victims. In tn,
chair car they found the injured pas
sengers pinned down by a mass o
broken and twisted chairs, groaning il
their agony. The stove was seen t.
be igniting the woodwork of the car
but few pals of water extinguishet
the fire. Then the imprisoned deat
and injured were eXtricated from
under the heavy chairs. One of thu
eye-witnesses was President Swain, o
the state university at Bloomington
who was one of the first to reach tn,
car where the victims lay.
The track was examined and it wa
found that the guard rail of the switcl
just east of Coatesville broke, causing
the accident 1t is believed the engin,
started the break. President McKeen'
car, which was occupied by his son
turned completely over, but was no
damaged much, and no one was hurt
A relief train, with six surgeons ol
board. left here for the scene, and th
injured are now in st. Vincents hos
pital here.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 29-J ohm w. Norton
injured in the Vandalia wreck Monda,
afternoon, was SO years old, and al
actor and manager of theaters for thir
ty years. He was proprietor of tn
Grand opera house in this city at tn
time of his injury. Severe illness eigh
years ago forced him from the stage
and he appeared but once since. Ii
! was an instructor of dramatic ar
and brought out Mary Anderson, VIII
made her first appearance at tn
Grand opera house, then De Bar
opera house, under his management
He was divorced from his wife, know
as Emma Stockman, who eloped in 1888
with II. w. Moore, managing editor O
the Post Dispatch
Want Altgeld for President.
} ST. LOUIS, Jan. 29.-The statement
made by one of the most prominen