The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-14
COLLISION KILLS TWELVE
 - DiSaStrxS, Wreck Near / Cleveland: m% CESS WERE TELESC0PED Italian Lab0rerS Pinned Down
 in Smoker. Freight Train Failed to Take siding as Ordered and Crashed Into Fast Passenger Near Kish-
 man, Ohio.

hound messenger train on the Nickel
 Plate road collided with a westbouno freight train early today at kishman' O., near Vermillion, resulting in the death of twelve persons, while at least
 twenty-five others were injured, eight
 of whom will probably die.
 The wreck, according to the ofhclals
 of the company was caused by mis- understanding of orders or neglect 10
 obey them on the part of the crew or
 the freight train.
 The dead: c. w. Poole. engineer of
 messenger. Connaut. O.: Joseph Alex
 ander Newark. N. J.; Frank Weaver,
 Findlay. O.: D. Domodoro.' >laborer;
 Antonio Grillo, laborer; J. Paraci, la
 borer; F. Buscini. laborer; F. Scllli,
 laborer; N. Dirmora, laborer; A. A.
 Chile, laborer; G. Travola, laborer; C'
 Cagliani, laborer.
 Injured: J. W. Long, Cleveland, O.;
 R. A. Long. son of J. w. Long. right leg amputated, may die; Mrs. J. W. Long, l.. Rein. Bascom. O.; E. E.
 OHara. Findlay. O.. right leg amputat-
 ed B. l.. Kerr, Grafton, O.: J. w.
 Murphy, West Haven. Conn; F. Bas-
 kim. Tifin, O.; F. Trumer, Ada. O.; J.
 Dexter, Tiffin. O.; F. Phillips. Findlay' O.; John Jafa, Leonard. O.: Siracusa, c.
 Dumont. Joseph Dumont. internal fnJu-
 ries, may die; T. Traveli, c. Degar' Albert Jana. F. Gallia. T. Veranca.
 Aside from the engineer the men
 Killed on the passenger train were all
 riding in the smoking car at head or
 the train and were mostly foreign la
 borers in the employ of the Standard oil Company. on their way from Fort
 Seneca. O., to Brookfeld. O.. in charge
 of foreman.
 Engineer c. c. Poole. of the pas
 senger train. was killed at his post while trying to reach for the airbrake after seeing the headlight of the freight train. Ills fireman, Haefner'
 saved himself by jumping. The high speed of the passenger train threw It's locomotive and first three coaches over | on the engine of the freight train, tel escaping the smoker and the caF fol- I lowing The forward car of the freight | train were splintered to fragments. or the passengers in the smoker none es- capped uninjured. Fortunately there | was no fire. The injured were hurried to Lorraine and placed In the hospital there. ... .: .. ... The dead were conveyed to morgues at Lorraine. When the trains came to- 1 gether almost everybody in the smok-
 CT was dosing. The sudden jar hurled | them out of their seats into the aisles and threw several persons to the roof l and sides of the car which seemed all | at once to crush In like a 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 the violence of | the Impact Swas 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 se-
 rious harm. No passenger in the sleep CTS were injured. President Canniff of
 the Nickel Plate today stated from the I information In hand of officials the | freight crew had an order to go on the siding at Kisman and there await the passage of the passenger train. l Why this was not done in time to per
 init the passenger train to go by and a 1agman sent out has not been l learned A rigid investigation is, how
 ever, being made by the railway off, cials. It Is said that the watch of the
 engineer of the freight train was slow i and that the engineer believed he had
 eight minutes to get his train on the
 siding before the passenger train was
 due.
 Description of Scene.
 1 The engineer and fireman of the l freight saved themselves by jumping as | soon as they saw the passenger train
 coming Roy Winch of F1ndlay who, l although severely injured was the first
 man to rush into the wrecked smoking g | car to take part in the work of rescue, gave the following description of the | sight within: The living. the wound | ed and the dead were piled in an in | discriminate mass all over the floor of | the car, the living entangled with the 1 arms and legs of the dead, and many ! of them pinioned down by the dead bodies of the seats Some of the dead were so badly
 mashed that through their mouths pro- | truded hideous masses of interstines. TWO men, Italians, I saw pinned | down, the one on top being caught in l some way about the chest so that he 1 could not get away. The man under ] meath him was also held down mainly
 by the weight of the man on top. who, 1 in his frantic efforts to get away, kick | ed the man under him literally to death. 1 'Terrorized by the death of their | companions. the hiss of escaping steam, i and the fear of death in the darkness. | the Italians fought with one another | and stamped over the living and dead ] in their efforts to get out of the car. l Several of them were almost as badly
 injured by fighting each other as by | the wreck.
 ''The engineer of the passenger train
 was nipped between the engine and ten
 der, and when we found him, he was 1 hanging head down by the shreds of
 one leg over the side of the engine. Two 1 men held him in an upright position for | over half an hour before wo were able | to release him. He died shortly after
 wards. He was conscious only part | of the time.