The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-09
WRECK IN A TOWN
PASSENGERS KILLED OR INJURED
IN A COLLISION.
A FREIGHT TRAIN CRASHED
INTO REAR END OF PASSENGER
TRAIN ON THE PENNSYLVANIA.

Three Were Killed and Thirteen
Were Injured-PassenEer Train
stopped on the Main street of Ada.
O.-FIagman Was Sent Back to
Warn the Freight, but the En-
gineer of the Latter Did Not See
Him on Account of n snOwstOrm.
Citizens Crowded to Assist.
Ada, o., Jan. S.-Three men dead and
fourteen or more other persons in
jured, one fatally, is the result of a
collision between two trains on the
Pennsylvania system, on the main
street of this city. at 8 o'clock this
afternoon.
The dead are:
Joseph Stein, Fort Wayne.
- McPool, Fort Wayne.
Alonzo Madley, VanWert, o.
The injured are:
w. A. Freese, Chicago; ]. ]. Casey,
Toledo, cannot recover; Mr.. and Mrs
Durselman and little daughter of Had
ley: Peter Tracey, conductor of train
No. 80; Curtis McElroy. Ada; Andrew
Brunnon, Fort Wayne, Ind; M
Geise, Ottawa; Walter Klinger, Ada;
W. D. Blackburn, baggage master of
No. 80; Guy Kingsbury, editor of the
Dunkirk Standard; Benjamin Cooke,
Fort Wayne; T. ]. Burdette, Dayton.
The accident was one of the worst
that ever occurred on this division of
the Pennsylvania system and was
highly sensational in all it's details, oc-
curing as it did on the main street of
the town at a time when the thorough
fare was crowded with people.
Train No. So, WeSt-bound for Fort
Wayne, had started out of the sta
ton, but at the main street crossing
was compelled to stop on account of
some accident to the air-brakes. A
flagman was sent back to notify No.
10, a freight train going in the same
direction, which was several minutes
late.
Owing to the snowstorm, the engin-
eer of No. 10 was unable to see the
signal in time to slacken his speed.
| His engine crashed into the rear of
No. IS. No. So consisted of two coaches,
| the rear one being a combination bag
| gage and passenger car, with another
| passenger car in front. Both were
telescoped, and scarcely a passenger
| escaped injury of some sort. The en-
| gineer and fireman of No. 10 were also
| slightly hurt, but not enough to pre-
! vent them from rendering immediate
| assistance to those who were in great.
| err distress.
| The scene about the wreck was
| frightful. Many people were congre-
| gated about the spot at the time, and
| the street was well filled with wayfar-
| ers on their way home from work
| The crash was heard all over the city,
| and almost the entire population was
soon on hand to render what assistance
| they could in caring for the wounded
| and dead, who were at once carried
to the freight house and station and
| laid on improvised cots.
The engine on No. 10 was almost de-
molished but the cars behind it were
not damaged in the seast, and none of
the passengers were bruised. The
wreckage was strewn all over the
tracks, and in a few minutes the Chi
cago and New York Limited, east
bound, dashed through on the other
track at sixty miles an hour, hurting
the accumulated debris in all direc-
tons, but never pausing in it's fight
until half a mile from the town. Then
the train was stopped and backed to
the scene of the accident to get orders
No damage was done to the engine
of the flyer, but it was learned that a
piece of wreckage flew into the cab as
the train dashed past and painfully
bruised the engineer. He was, how
ever, able to continue his run, and
left in a few minutes with his train.