The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-18

Cleveland, O., August 13-A fast
eastbound passenger train on the Nick
ell Plate road co.lided with a westbound
freight early today at Kishman, o.
near vermillion. resulting ia the death
Of II persons, while at least % others
were injured. eight Of whom viii prob
ably die. The wreck. according to the
officials of the company. was caused by
a misunderstanding Of orders or neg
lect TO obey them on the part of the
crew of the freight train.
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
labore.s in the employ of the Standard
Oil Company, on their way from Fort
Seneca, O., to Brookfeld, o.. in charge
of a foreman. Engineer c. c. Poole,
of the passenger train, was killed at
his posi-. while trying to reach for the
air brake. after seeing the headlight
of the freight train. His fireman
Haefner, saved himself by jumping.
TWO COACHES TELESCOPED.
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 splinter
ed to fragments
Of the passengers in the smoker, nohe
escaped injury. Fortunately there was
no fire, but the heavy timbers of the
wrecked cars pinned down many aad
prevented them from getting out until
assistance arrived.
AS soon as possible after the wreck
occurred doctors were sent on a spe-
cial train to the scene from Lorain
The injured were hurried to Lorain AID
placed in the hospital there. The dead
were conveyed to the morgue at Ho-
rain, awaiting Identification and dispo-
sition.
NONE IN SLEEPERS HURT.
When the trans came together al
most everybody in the smoker was
doing. The sudden jar hurled thenl
out of their seats into the ais.e, and
threw several persons to the roof and
sides of the car, which seemed all AT
once to crush in like a paper bag, plc>
ming down each passenger in the posi-
ton 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 off without cuts, bruises
sprains, or broken bones. The two
rear cars were sleepers, and they with
stood the shock without suffering sc
rious harm. No passengers in the
sleepers were injured.
The men on the train who escaped
injury worked as well as they could
without tools to save life and limb, ard
| the residents in the sparsely settled
| vicinity soon arrived to help. The
| sleepers were used for the accommoda
| ton Of some of the injured, as were
| several houses near the siding. The OF
| ficials Of the Nickel Plate, as soon as
they learned of the accident, ordered
| every possible assistance to be given
| and no expense spared in taking care
of the injured.
OFFICIALS INVESTIGATING.
President Caniff, of the Nickel Plate
| today stated that from the informa,
ton in the hands of the officials the
l lT61guL lIdIu udu luz W oo oA $500
side track at Kishman and there avail
the passage of the passenger traln
Why this was not done in time to per
NIT the passenger train to go by, G.
a fagman sent out, has not yet peer
learned. A rigid investigation is, how
ever, being made by the railway OH
Gals.
It is said that the watch of the IN
gineer of the freight train was sloV
and that the engineer believed ne ma:
eight minutes / o get his train on IN
siding before the passenger train wa
due. The freight train had Stacked
speed and was about to gack in on IN
siding from the main track when tn
passenger train came tearing along a
the rate of As miles an hour and dash
ed into it.
The engineer and fireman OF tn
freight train saved themselves b,
Jumping as soon as they saw the pas
senger train coming.
Roy Winch, of Findlay, who al
though severely injured, was the f.s
mar to rush into h wrecked smokin
car for rescue WORK, gave h folio"
ing account:
\ The living, b u N
} dead were piled all over the floor OF IN
. car; the living entangled with the arm
and legs of the dead, n many Q
; them pinned down by the dead bodie
of the Italians.
The Italians, stamping e the il'
Il inc and the dead, fought their way on
| of the car. To what extent their pound
q ing and walking on the wounded Is &c
sponsible for many of the injuries sus
tanned. cannot be known. / never sa'
people so unwilling to help. Tne
would come up and take a look at IN
) car, shudder and then walk away.
"The engineer Of the passenger trai
J, was nipped between the engine an
t tender, and when we found him he wa
hanging head down by the shreds {
one leg. over the side of the engine
He died shortly afterwards