Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-14
Passenger Train on Nickel Plate Crashes
Into Freight
LARGE NUMBER OF OTHERS ARE INJURED
Mixup in Orders L. said 20 BE
Responsible for Disaster which
Causes Loss of So Many
Lives.

die. The wreck, according to the officials
of the company. was caused by misunder-
standing Of orders or neglect to obey them
on the part Of the crew of the freight train.
The dead:
CHARLES w. POOLE. engineer Of pas
senger train, Conneaut, o.
Joseph ALEXANDER, Newark, N. ].
FRANK WEAVER Findlay, Q.
DOMENICO PQMONDORO, Italian lab
ANTONIO GRILLo, Italian laborer
JOSEPH PARACI laborer.
FRANK BUSCINI, laborer
FRANCISCO SCILLI, laborer.
NATALIE ACHILLE, laborer
GALLAGUS TRAVOLA, laborer.
COLOGNO CAGLIANI. laborer.
The injured.
John w. Long, Cleveland.
Richard A. Long, son of J. W. Long.
Mrs. John w. Long
z. Z. ohara, Findiay, o.
B. L. Kerr Grafton, o.
John w. Murphy, West Haven, Conn.
Philip Baskim. Tiffln, o.
Floyd Trumler, Ada, o.
John Dexter, Tifnn, D.
Frank Phillips, Findlay, o.
John Jafa.
Leonardo Syracuse.
Charles Buccufusu
Neona Leonardo.
Charles Dumont.
Joseph Dumont.
Tony Trevalli.
Charles Degar.
Albert jana.
Frank Gallia
Iony Neranca.
Roy Winch, Findlay, internal injuries and
hurt about chest
Dead Mostly Italians.
Aside from the engineer the men killed
on the passenger train were all riding in
the smoking car at the head of the train
and were mostly foreign laborers In the
employ of the Standard Oil company on
their way from Fort Seneca, o., to Brook
field, o., in charge of a foreman Engineer
c. c. Poole of the passenger train was
Killed at his post while trying to reach
for the airbrake after seeing the head
light of the freight train. His fireman.
Hacfner, saved himself by jumping.
The high speed of the passenger train
threw its locomotive and first three
coaches over on the engine of the freight
train telescoping the car following. The
forward cars of the freight train were
splintered to fragments
OF the passengers in the smoker none
escaped injury. Fortunately there was no
fire, but the heavy timbers of the wrecked
cars pinned down many and prevented
them from getting out until assistance
arrived.
Rescuers Promptly on Hand.
AS soon as possible after the wreck
d
| train to the scene from Lorain.
The injured were hurried to Lorain and
placed in the hospital there. The dead
were conveyed to the morgue at Lorain,
awaiting identification and disposition.
When the trains came together almost
everybody in the smoker was doing The
| sudden jar hurled them out of their seats
| into the aisle and threw several persons
| to the roof and sides of the car, which
\ seemed at once to crush in like papeI
| bag, pinning down each passenger in the
| position in which he had been caught The
passengers in the second car escaped more
| easily, as there the violence of the impact
was not so severe, although few got out
without cuts, bruises OF broken bones TIL,
rear cars were sleepers and they withstooC
the shock without suffering serious harm
| No passengers in the sleepers were injured
The men on the train who escaped injury
worked as well as they could without tool!
to save life and limb and the residents IL
the sparsely settled vicinity soon arrived
| to help.
The sleepers were used for the accommo
dation of some of the injured, as were sew
eral houses near the siding The officer
of the Nickel Plate, as soon as they learne,
of the accident, ordered every possible as
sistance to be given and no expense spare,
in taking care of the injured.
Freight Crew to Blame.
President Caniff of the Nickel Plate toda,
stated that from the information in tn
hands OF the officials the freight trail
crew had orders to go on the siding a
Kishman and there await the passage 0
the passenger train. Why this was no
done in time TO permit the passenger trail
to go by or a fagman sent out. has no
vet been learned. A rigid investigation is
however. being made by the railway on
cials.
1t is said that the watch of the enginee
of the freight train was slow and that tn
engineer believed he had eight minutes [
get his train on the siding before the pas
sengar train was due. The freight trai
had slackened speed and was about TO bac
in on the siding from the main track whe
the passenger train came tearing along a
the rate of forty-ive miles an hour an
dashed into IT,
Collision on Santa Fe.
KINSLEY, Kan, Aug. lathe secon
section of the westbound Atchison, Topek
! & Santa Fe passenger train, No. 8, crashe
into the rear end of a freight train a
Lewis. eight miles east of Kinsley, earl
today. The way car and two freight car
were demolished and the engine and bal
gage car OF the passenger train wa
wrecked. Henry swartz of Newton, Kan
fireman OF the passenger train, and a yarC
man named steegle were killed, and FL
gineer Ramsey OF the passenger train wa
seriously injured. The passengers wei
shaken up but none was seriously hur
The train was an excursion, carrying men
. bers OF the order of Eagles enroute
: / Denver.