The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-06-29
Of Train Going Nearly Sev-
enty-Five Miles an Hour.
NINETEEN is DEAD LIST
Engine Plunged Into Open Switch and
Whole Train Was Demolished.
Fire Added Horror to
the Catastrophe.

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seventy miles an hour, the famous
Twentieth Century Limited, the fast
est long distance train in the world,
ran through an open switch at the
little town OF Mentor, Ohio, east of
Cleveland, at 9:2O o'clock Wednesday
night, causing one Of the most hor-
rible wrecks in the history Of the
Lake Shore road.
The engine was hurled into the
ditch. A part Of the train was crushed
on top of it and the wreck was partly
burned. The horrors Of the wreck
were doubled in the horrors Of the
FIRE.
The train was crowded, practically
all accommodations being taken when
it left Cleveland. It was behind time
and the greatest Of speed was being
made to make up the lost time.
The official list Of the dead and in.
jured as compiled by the officials OF
the Lake Shore company is as fol.
lows:
JOHN R. BENNETT, attorney, 81
Nessau street, New York city.
JOHN A. BRADLEY, Waron, Ohio.
T. R. MORGAN, second vice presi'
dent Of the Wellman-Seavers-Morga
| company, Cleveland.
C. H. WELLCAN, Of the Wellman-
Seavers-Morgan company, Cleveland.
A. l. ROGERS, Of New York city,
died in hospital.
8. c. BECKWITH, lis One Hun
dred and seventy-fourth street, New
York.
A. H. HEAD, London, England, rep
resentativs Of the Otis steelee COM
pany. OF Cleveland. died in hospital.
H H. WRIGHT, travelling man,
Chicago. died in hospital.
D. ARTHUR, travelling man, Milwau'
kee, died in hospital.
J. n. GIBSON, Chicago travelling
man, died in hospital, Cleveland.
H. c. MECHL1NG, New York
l. M. EIRICK, manager Keith's
theater. Cleveland, killed in wreck.
TWO UNIDENTIFIED, supposed to
be J. A. Johnson, Of the millinery
firm Of Comey & Johnson, Cleveland,
and Henry Trinz, the barber on the
train.
ALLAN TYLER, engineer, Collin.
wood, Ohio, died in hospital.
F. J. BRANT, head brakeman, Erie,
| Pa, died in hospital.
N. B. WALTERS, baggageman,
Hamburg, N. Y, died in hospital
W. D. MICKEY, porter on Pullman
car, died at scene Of wreck.
The wrecked train was making
nearly Is miles an hour when the
accident occurred, according to Fire
man Aaron Gorham, of Norwalk, who,
badly bruised, but otherwise uninjur-
! ed, miraculously escaped death.
I'VE were speeding like the wind"
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| the track. It occurred SO quickly
that little knew what happened
until we crashed into the Mentor
freight house. I neither heard nor
saw the engineer after that. The
engine overturned and somehow the
| tank managed to fall upon me, but
not heavily, and I was sheltered by
It."
D. C. Moon, assistant general super.
intendent Of the Lake Shore, after
Investigating the cause of the wreck,
made this statement Thursday:
I have made careful and thor
ough examination. The switch was
open. I am satisfied that somebody,
having key, opened the switch with
malicious intent. The train did not
Jump the track"
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.