Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-07-18
AN AWFUL WRECK.
A Lake Shore Limited Runs Into
a Freight Train.
The Engineer and Mail Clerk Were
Killed, and Several Other Per.
sons Injured, Two Per-
haps Fatally -Ter-
ribIe Scene.

Nottingham, o., July 10.-The
Southwestern limited one of the fast
est trains on the Lake Shore & Michi-
gan Southern road, crashed into
several freight cars while it was NOV
ing at the rate of So or 60 miles an
hour, and was precipitated into a
gully, about 100 feet below early
Tuesday morning. Miraculously, only
two persons were killed, although
seven Others were seriously injured,
one or two perhaps fatally.
The limited, or "the Cannon Ball"
as it is called, eastbound, left Cleye-
land shortly after o'clock, and had
just past Ollie street, one of the
main thoroughfares of the village,
when a freight train-the Southwest
ern fast freight-passing in the OPP
posite direction on the other track,
broke in the middle, it is supposed.
1'he freight was running at the rate
of Is miles an hour, and consisted of
so cars. When 1t parted the rear
section jumped the track and bound
ed at an angle right in front OF the
fast-running limited with its precious
load of humanity. The passenger
engine in an instant was derailed and
was shot down the steep embank-
ment, carrying with it the coal tend
er, mail, baggage and buffet cars.
One of the sleepers left the track, but
became detached and remained on
the roadbed.
In the rear section of the freight
train were 13 cars, and these were
telescoped and thrown to either side
and rolled down into the ravine,
turning over and over as they went.
The killed: Frank L. Anderson, Of
Buffalo, engineer of passenger train.
o. G. McCullen, of Cincinnati mail
clerk.
The injured: William ]. Elliott. of
Buffalo, fireman, fatally injured;
Charles w. Gano, of Cleveland, extra
conductor on freight, seriously in
jured; A. Hertz, of Cleveland. conduc-
tor on freight, seriously injured, but
will recover; Andrew Haund and
Harry Maltby, of Buffalo, badly in
jured; w. NJ. Baker, of Columbus,
mail clerk, badly bruised; f. f. Love-
less, of Cincinnati, mail clerk, slight
ly bruised.
None of the occupants of the pas
senger coaches were injured, al
though each was badly shaken up and
very much terrified. Then it was
that pandemonium reigned. Women
shrieked, children cried and men ran
hither and thither yelling at the top
of their voices. All thought that
they were going to certain death.
The sudden lurch following the col
lision had awakened all the passen-
gers. Those aboard the train came
from all sections of the country, al
though not a few took the train at
Cleveland, and many were en- routs
from the far west to the Pan-ATrer-
lean exposition al Buffalo.
Thirteen freight cars We're almost
reduced to kindling wood. and thei=
contents, including several car loada
of fish, were scattered everywhere.
The baggage car was almost de-
molished, It's roof being the only part
remaining intact. Most of the bag
gage was recovered, although not
little was lost. The mail in pouches
was not mutilated, but that part of
it which the clerks had been distrib-
uting was strewn broadcast. George
w. Pepper, superintendent of the
mail service, and postal clerk, ar
rived shortly after and supervised the
collection and disposal of the mails.
The crash made a loud report, and
awakened the citizens of Nottingham,
who lent all possible aid to the in
jured.
Drs. 7. A. Tripp and w. o. jerks,
OF the village, dressed the wounds of
the injured and sent them to the
Cleveland General hospital in ambu-
lances.