The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-22

Ing Cars-The Injured Hurried TO
Hospitals in Ceveland-Most Of tho
Persons on Beard Were From Chicago
MEX TOR, Ohio, June 2l.--Running at the
rate Of fifty or sixty miles an hour. tho
Twentieth Century Limited on the Lake
Shore Railroad dashed into an open switch
at the passenger station here shortly BE-
fore 10 o'clock tonight.
Fight Lersons were killed and twelve
or fifteen la ilv injured. The COM
b!nation baggage and smoking buffet car
and the sleeping car behind # caught fire
and we're destroyed.
The train was eastbound. 1t left Cleve-
land about Q o'clock, and as 1t does not
stop here 1t was running at great speed,
The eng ineer did not notice the open switch
until the train struck it,
The engine left the rails and plowed
into the ground, tearing up the track for
yards. The two coaches following the
engine damned into it with great force and
were crushed, the fire from the engine
setting them ablaze. Fortunately most OF
the occupants Of the two coaches we're
rescued before the fire reached them.
The engineer was killed. He Is Allen
Tyler, of Collingwood, q. The others
dead were passengers who were In the
smoking car. The fireman VIVA 80 badly
hurt that he will die.
John X. Bennett, Il lawyer OF New York.
was killed instantly. All the rest who are
believed to have persisted we're incinerated.
A. J.. Rogers of New Rochelle. N. Y. was
also killed.
The injured were horribly burned. q. h.
Wellman and 7. R. Morgan OF the Well
man, Morgan h Seaver Engineering Com
pany of Cleveland are among the injured.
Most OF those on board the train were
Chicagoans
The Lake Shore officials at once sum
moned all the doctors within reach, d num-
Der coming from Cleveland.
Those in the rear coaches were not niured
and they SET about at once to rescue those
pinned in the burning cars. The fire spread
with great rapidity and it was with much
difficulty that the passengers in the two
coaches behind the engine were pulled from
the debris.
The officials have not yet determined
" no il to blame for the accident. but it is
believed the switch was left open by
freight crew whose train had occupied the
siding short time before the Limited came
dashing along.
The special train from Cleveland carry
ing physicians and surgeons supplies was
in charge of D. c Moon assistant general
superintendent OF the Lake Shore.
Some Of the injured were taken aboard
the fast mail train No. 3. due in Chicago
at 7:sO O'Clock tomorrow morning. and
were taken to Cleveland.
The train pulled out OF Cleveland four
minutes late and was running about five
minutes behind time when it struck the
switch.
This was the fourth trip OF the fier on
its run from Chicago to New York on an
eighteen hour schedule. The train was
the fastest long distance train in the world.
It was put on three years ago on twenty
hour schedule, which was reduced two
hours on June 10.
The train hauled out Of Cleveland Ave
ca RS, four Pullmans behind the buffet car.
81 tl,n ) Ia to hA
equipment throughout was the best that
money could buy and cost the company
over 100000.
ANXIETY IN CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, June 2l.-The first news of the
Twentieth Century wreck was received in
Chicago by ". c. Brown, first vice-president
Of the Vanderbilt lines. His first nforma-
ton was that ten persons had been killed
and many others injured
Mr.. Brown instantly sent telegraph
orders to Cleveland to have relief train
sent to the scene OF the wreck. He also
ordered two Of the best telegraph operators
in the service Of the Lake Shore from Ceve-
land to Mentor with instructions to rush
every available bit Of news as to the names
of the killed and injured and the nature
of the wreck to this city.
Shortly before midnight Mr.. Brown and
c. S. DAILY. passenger traffic manager Of
the Vanderbilt lines here, went to the Lake
Shore depot. Mr.. Brown operated the