The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-11-28
CONDITION OF
THE INJURED.
How the Men Who Were Hurt
In the w. & i. f. Wreck Are
RECOVERING FROM INJURIES
Accident That Might Have Been Even
More Serious Surgeons Make State
ments About the Condition
of the Men.


extent of the wreck which occurred sat
urdav evening on the w. S& l.. e. tracks
south Of the city. AS the list OF the
injured workmen grows larger the rail-
road officials recognize that their loss,
with the destruction of the cars, will be
an exceedingly large one.
Probably the worst injured among the
men who were caught in the wreck was
Arthur Boylan, of 900 South Hartford
street, foreman of the working crew
who occupied the coach which was en-
tirely demolished. Boylan was picked
up by the doctors and removed to the
office of DIR. E. d. Brant, where the sur
, geons attended to his injuries. He sus-
tained a fractured right arm and two
fractures of the bones in the right leg,
with numerous slight cuts and bruises.
A rumor Sunday was to the effect that
| he had died, but this was untrue, and
\ from the statement of the attending
Sturgeon, he will recover.
Moritz Schlafly, residing at 1920 East
Third street, was as badly injured as
Boylan. Three ribs were broken which
penetrated one of his lungs, and some
danger is attending his condition. Drs.
o, e. Portmann and DR.. Schuffell are
attending him. Schlafy was also In the
car which was filled with the working
crew. After the accident occurred
Schlafly got upon his feet and walked
home after surveying the broken cars
and seeing that his fellow workmen
were being cared for. He did not inn
mediately suffer any pain, and when
he arrived home he attended to some
s. light work, when he suddenly felt ter
rible pains overcoming him and he
quickly lay down in the house. When
the surgeons were summoned they dis
covered his real condition and informed
the, family Schlaly Also sustained a
number Of bad bruises on his side and
back which are very painful.
So far as is known the following re-
ceived various injuries and slight cuts
about their bodies: Henry Wise, resid-
ing at 924 Gibbs street, Bert Schafer,
1914 East Fifth street, Henry Homesak,
629 East TuscaraWas street. George
Eckeman, 1921 East Seventh street,
Charles l.. Ecker, 1923 East Third street,
Christian Vorron, S22 South Cherry
street Daniel Judd, 1882 East Eighth
street. Ecker was badly cut upon the
body and had one of his ears tore partly
off. Vorron had a small bone in his left
foot fractured.
The story as to how the accident oc-
Cured, and as related by the railroad
officials so far as they could learn It,,
is about as follows:
A coal train which had just come
from the warwick mines on the Cleve-
land division of the w. g. l.. e. railway
at Navarro met the construction train
near that village, the latter carrying a
crew of over twenty men in an old G.
C. & S. passenger coach. The pull from
Navarro to this city being mostly up
grade the two trains were coupled to-
gether and pushed their way forward,
the engine of the coal train being in
the center with numerous coal cars be-
hind it and the construction train ahead
with the engine at its forward end. A
speed of about fifteen miles an hour
was maintained on the way and kept
up until this city was reached, when
one of the trainmen alleges that that
speed was somewhat slackened. Just
about the same time that the extra
train was pulling up from Navarro, the
shifting crew pushed some cars to the
track in the vicinity Of the rolling mills
where there is curve in the track
Three cars which were empty were per-
mitted to stand on the main line while
the shifting engine pulled over switch
to the works Of the Royal Brick COM
pany. Conductor William Thompson
remained with the empties till the crew
should return from the brick yards
The engine had barely left the main
track when a rumbling, rolling noise
greeted the ears OF the trainpen and
a little later the extra train pulled into
view. He signalled to the engineers to
4 stop, but it appears that the engineer
on the work train engine did not see
the signal and he kept his throttle open,
while the engineer on the coal train
engine saw the signal and reversed his
lever and succeeded in bringing his por-
tion of the extra to a slow speed and
nearly stopping, the cars and engine
sliding on probably from their own mo-
mentum. 1t was too late when the first
engineer saw the cars standing on the
main track ahead, and reversing his en-
gine he and his fireman jumped off and
away from the engine. The force when
the engine and the three empty cars
met wes terrible, and the three cars
were crushed and entirely demolished.
Really a double collision occurred.
When the sudden stop was made the
old passenger coach on the rear of the
construction train was fairly telescoped
and the working crew of men which 1t
contained We're thrown and pitched
everywhere, and the sight must have
been a terrible 'one; the wounded
groaning with pain and those only
slightly injured shrieking with terror
and fright
The coal train consisted of Engineer
Harry Remembering, Fireman Frank
Yengling, and Conductor Joseph Con-