Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1905-06-28
Chicago Flyer Suddenly Goes Into
Open Switch
LARGE LIST OF DEAD AND INJURED
Although Mono Of the Lake Shore or
New York Central Officials Ascribe
the Disaster to Excessive Speed, a
Return to the 2o-Hour Time Is An
nounced.


Cleveland, o., Special-Nineteen dead
and a dozen slightly injured comprise
the revised casualty list made by the
wrecking Thursday night. at Mentor.
Ohio. of the east-bound twentieth CEN
tury limited. the Lake Shore and New
York Centrars eightecn-hour train.
which ran into an open switch, crushed
the Mentor depot ana partly burned it
up, scorching several of the mangled
corpses. The surviving injured are not
much hurt.
The twentieth century limited, ae-
cording TO announcement from New
York, Will hereafter return to twenty
hour schedule. although none of the
railroad officials ascribe the wreck to
excessive speed.
1t is maintained by railway officials
that the switch on which the limited
was wrecked was thrown open and
locked aad the switch light extinguish-
ed by some person, either a maniac
or some one seeking revenge. 1t is still
unknown who this person is, although
detectives are working on the case. A
careful examination of the switch
showed ;hat ii was in perfect condition.
Trainmen are of the opinion that the
engineer of the twentieth century train
was deceived by the light of the switch
just beyond the open switch. the light
of which is said to have been out.
w. Fl. Marshall. general manager of
the Lake Shore. says the speed of the
train was not contributorJ cause to
the wreck. He said that other Lake
Shore trains travel through Mentor at
speed equal to that affair led by the
limited. which was not. Mr. Marshall
says, above 90 miles an hour.
The schedule for the train crlis for
speed of 81 miles an hour at Men
tor
Coroner York. of Lake county. an
nounced that an inquest would begin
next Monday in Painesville
A revised list Of the dead follows:
John X. Bennett. attorney, 81 Mas
sau street. New York.
John a. Bradley, of the law firm
of Rowley. Rogers. Bradley G. Rock
well. Akron, Ohio.
T. X. Morgan, second vic te president
OF the Wellman-S -Seavers- Morgan Com
pany. Cleveland.
c. Il. Wellman. of the Wellman-
Seavers Morgan Company. Cleveland
died ir hospital
A. l.. Rogers, New York city. repre-
sentative of the Platt City Iron Works
or Dayton. Ohio. died in hospital
>. {. Beckwith lis One Hundred and
Seventy-fourth street, New York.
A. II. Head, London representative
Of the Otis Steel Company, OF Cleve-
land died in hospital
ii. II. Wright travelling man, Chi
cago, died in hospital
ID. +. Arthur. travelling man. Mil
waukee. died in hospital
j. II. Gibson. Chicago travelling man
died in hospital
Fl. c. Mechling, New York city, with
the wheeling Corrugated Iron Com
pany.
l.. NJ. Eirick. manager Keith's The
atre, Cleveland.
E. F. Nagle. Chicago, proprietor of
n railway supply house
Two unidentified bodies. supposed to
be those of l.. A. Johnson. of the millin-
cry firm OF Comey & Johnson, Cleve-
land. and Henry Trinse, barber on the
train.
Allen Tayler. engineer Collinwood.
Ohio, died in hospital
=. j. Brant. head brakeman 2O12
Ash street, Erie. Pa. died in hospital.
n. B. Walters. baggage man, Ham
burg, n. Y. died in hospital.
w. ID. Mickey. porter, Chicago.
The scenes following the wreck were
appalling. The night was dark save for
the light from the blazing wreck Of the
coach that was crushed and splintered
on top of the engine. Men swarmed
about it combating the flames with the
means at hand grouping their way
throush the binding. scalding steam
that rose in clouds. hunting for the in
Jured. whose piteous cries were such as
chilled the hearts OF those who heard
them. The water supply was small and
the means at hand for fighting the
names were pitifully inadequate. but
the zeal Of the rescuers wrought great
things for the first few minutes.