The San Francisco call., 1905-06-22
New Train Of Lake
Shore Runs Into
Open Switch.
in Ohio Said
to Be the Work
of F'iends.
Sixteen Injured in Smash-Up
of Speedy Twentieth Cen
tury Limited.

CLEVELAND, o., June 21.-D. C..
Moon, assistant general superintendent
of the LIKE Shore, stated late Tonight
the work of train wreckers. He said
TINT fast passenger train had passed
over the switch safely three-quarters
of an hour before the Twentieth Gem
tury wreck. Immediately after the
wreck occurred It waa said TINT the
switch was locked open, so that NO
train could pass 1t without being
thrown from the track.
( MENTOR. Ohfus June 21.-Runnins at
the rate Of more than fifty miles an hour.
the Twentieth Century Limited on the
Lake Shore Railroad dashed into an open
switch at the station here shortly before
10 O'Clock tonight and was wrecked.
Eleven persons were killed and sixteen
badly injured. The combination baggage
and smoking buffet car and the coach
behind it caught fire and were destroyed.
The identified dead:
JOHN r. BENNETT, patent attorney.
New York City. burned to death
THOMAS r. MORGAN of the Well
man-Seaver Morgan Company, Cleveland.
burned to death.
ALLEN TYLER, engineer, Collinwood,
Ohio, crushed under engine.
NEWT WALTERS, baggage master,
Hamburg, N. Y
FIREMAN GRAHAM. Collinwood. Ohio
w. d. MICKEY, New York. identified
by Y. M. C. A. card.
Five bodies, horribly burned, were taken
from the wreck. 1t was impossible to
identify them.
The identified injured: Charles H. Well
man of the Wcllman-Seaver-M Morgan Com
pany of Cleveland, Ohio, scalded and
burned, will die; H. H. Wright, Chicago;
A. B. German, Norfolk, Ohio; J. H. Glib
son, Chicago: c. Cordua, Brooklyn. N. Y.
D. Arthur, Milwaukee; s. E. Beckwith, 10
East Seventy fourth street, New York;
Fl ]. Brandt, Toledo. Ohio
The missing: Barber and porter OF the
combination car.
The train was eastbound. 1t left Cleve-
land at about o'clock and as it does
not stop here. it was running at great
speed The engineer did not notice the
open switch until the train struck it. The
engine left the rails and crashed into
the station, tearing up the track for
wards The fire from the engine set the
wreck ablaze Fortunately most of the
occupants of the coaches were rescued be-
fore the fire reached them. Some, how
ever, were cremated.
Engineer Tyler of the train was taken
from under the side of the engine dead
and horribly mangled about two hours af-
ter the wreck.
This was the fourth trip Of the Filler
on it's run from Chicago to New York
on an eighteen-hour schedule. It is the
fastest long distance train in the world.
The train pulled out Of Cleveland with
five cars, including four Pullman cars
and buffet 1t proceeded without Incl
dent to the CITY, distance of twenty-five
miles, when the accident occurred.
The Chicago sleeper. which was be-
hind the combination car, swung from
the track and crashed into the freight
station which was completely de-
stroyed. Every car left the track, the
rear trucks of the last coach only re-
naming on the rails.
The combination car was badly
burned. but cooled OFF at 1870. so that
rescuers could work. About fifteen
passeng gers are known to have been
riding in this car, and at least six OF
the number are dead.
The fire departments from Mentor
and from Paiasville we're called and
were at work trying to extinguish the
flames in the combination car within
thirty minutes after the wreck oc-
CURED.
The Lake Shore officials at once sum-
moned all the doctors within reach, a
number coming from Cleveland. The dead
and injured were taken care of and sent
on a special train to Cleveland, where
they will be placed in hospitals.
Those in the rear coaches were not in
i,,red. and they set about at once to res
cue those pinioned in the burning cars
The fire spread with great rapidity. and
It was with much difficulty that tho pas
sengers In the two coaches behind the
engine were pulled from the debris.
The officials have not yet determined
who is to blame for the accident