Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-07-12
Lake Shore Limited Runs
Into a Freight Train.
A TERRIFIC CLASH.
Passenger Train Was Running
at a High Rate of Speed.
THOSE WHO SUFFERED MOST
The Engineer and Mail Clerk Were
Killed and Seven Other Persons In
jured-lnjnred Were Taken to Hos
pita1 In Cleveland.

Killed and Seven Other Persons In
jured-lnjnred Were Taken to n Hos
pital In Cleveland.
Nottingham, o., July 1O.-The
Southwestern limited one of the fast
est trains on the Lake Shore g. Michi-
gan Southern road, crashed into
several freight cars while it was NOV
ing at the rate of 55 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 1.-The Cannon Ball."
as 1T is called. eastbound, left Cleve-
land shortly after o'clock, and had
just past Ollie street, one of the
main thoroughfares of the village,
when freight train-the Southwest
ern fast freight-passing in the op-
posite direction on the. other track,
broke in the middle, it is supposed
The freight was running at the rate
of Is miles an hour, and consisted of :
so cars. When it parted the rear
section jumped the track and bound
ed at an angle right in front or the
| fast-running limited with it's precious
load of humanity. The passenger
engine in an instant was derailed and
was shot down the steep embanlt-
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.
AS soon rs the accident occurred
the crew of the freight train went
back to ascertain the extent of the
disaster.
| The killed: Frank l.. Anderson, OF
Buffalo, engineer of passenger train-
o. G. McCullen, of Cincinnati, mail
clerk.
The injured: William j. 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. +. Love-
less, of Cincinnati, mail clerk, slight
ly bruised.
Engineer Holman, of Collinwood, of
the freight train. was one of the first
persons upon the scene. He found
tho body of Engineer Anderson at
the bottom of the gully, some little
distance from his engine, with life
not quite extinct. He died few
minutes later.
None of the occupants of the pas
senger coaches was 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 coll
lision had awakened all the passen-
gers. Those aboard the train came
from all sections of the country, al
though not few took the train at
Cleveland, and many were en- route
from the far west to the Pan-Amer-
lean exposition ut Buffalo.
Thirteen freight cars were almost
reduced to kindling wood, and their
contents, including several car loads
of fish, were scattered everywhere.
The trucks of most of these cars are
in pretty fair shape and can be speed
lily repaired.
The baggage car was almost de-
molished, its roof being the only part
remaining intact. Most of the bag
gage was recovered, although not a
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 loud report, and
awakened the citizens of Nottingham,
who lent all possible aid to the in
iured. The first of the spectators to
reach the scene were James Hodgson
and James Gethercole, the latter be-
ing a railroad brakeman. Soon
after them came Drs. l. A. Tripp and
w. o. jerks, of the village, who
dressed the wounds of the injured
and sent the patients to the Cleveland
General hospital in ambulances.
| In the creek were ocean fish by the
ton Fish were in the tree tops in
the gully, and the air was permeated
with the odor of fish. Several of
the wrecked freight cars were loaded
with them.
Increase In Wages.