The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-08-16
Il KILLED IN COLLISION
Passenger and Freight Trains in a
Crash.
THE ENGINEERS WATCH WAS SLOW.
Wreck Due to q Misunderstanding Of Orders
or Dlsobsdience on the Part Of the Hssineer
Of the Freight Victims Mcstly Lsbsrefs,
Who We're Doring In the Smoking Car aud
We're Hurled Through the Coach.

Cleveland (Special) A fast east
bound passenger train on the Nickel
Plate road collided with a westbound
freight train at Kishman, Ohio, near
Vermillon, resulting in the death OF II
persons, while at least rs others were
injured, eight of whom will probably
| die.
The wreck, according to the officials
OF the company, was caused by a mis-
understanding Of orders or neglect TO
obey them on the part of the crew OF
the freight train.
The engineer and fireman Of the
freight train saved themselves by jump
ing as soon as they saw the passenger
train coming.
Aside from the engineer, the men kill
ed on the passenger train were all rid
| ing in the smoking car at the head OF
the train, and were mostly foreign la
borers in the employ of the Standard
Oil Company on their way from Fort
Seneca, Ohio to Brookheld, Ohio, in
charge OF a foreman. Engineer Poole,
OF the passenger train, was killed at
his post while trying to reach for the
1irbrake after seeing the headlight OF
the freight train. His fireman, Haef-
ner 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 smoker and the
car following The forward cars OF
the freight train were splintered to frag-
ments
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.
Doctors were hurried 10 the scene on
special train from Lorain, and the in
ured were Immediately taken to Lorain
and placed in the hospital there. The
dead were conveyed to the morgue at
Lorain, awaiting identification and dispo-
stion.
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 all at once TO crunch in
like paper 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 of
without cuts, bruises, sprains or broken
bones. The two rear cars were sleep
ers, and they withstood the shock with
out suffering serious harm, no passen-
ger in either of them being injured.
The men on the train who escaped in
jury worked as well as they could with
out tools to save life and limb, and the
residents in the sparsely settled vicinity
soon arrived TO help The sleepers were
used for the accommodation of some oi
the injured, as were seveal houses neal
the siding. The officials of the Ncklc
Plate, as soon as they learned of the
accident, ordered all possible assistance
given and no expense spared in taking
care of the injured
President Caniff, OF the Nickle Plate
stated that from the information in the
hands of the officials the freight train
crew had orders to go on the siding al
Kishman, and there await the passage
of the passenger train. Why this was
not done in time TO permit the passen-
ger train to go by, or a fagman sent
out, has not yet been learned. A rigid
investigation is, however, being made by
the railway officials.