The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-06-30
Thrown from Track While Running'at
Rate of so or 60 Miles an Hour
NINETEEN Persons Are Killed and
Many Injured.

rails and plowed into the ground, tear
coaches following it damned into it
with great force and were crushed,
the fire from the engine setting them
ablaze. Fortunately most of the occu-
pants of these two coaches were res
| cued before the fire reached them. The
Lake Shore officials at once summoned
all the doctors within reach, a number
coming from Cleveland. The dead and
injured were taken care of and sent on
special train to Cleveland, where
they will be placed in hospitals.
This was the fourth trip of the flyer
on it's run from Chicago to New York
on an 18-hour schedule. The train was
the fastest long-distance train in the
world. 1t was the pride of the New
York Central system. The train hauled
out of Cleveland five cars. four Pull
man cars behind the buffet car.
The Victims.
The dead: John R. Bennett, attor-
ney, No. 81 Nassau street, New York
city; John A. Bradley, of the law firm
of Rowley, Rogers, Bradley & Rock
we'll, Akron, O.; T. r. Morgan, second
vice president of the Wellman-Seavers-
Morgan company, Cleveland; C. H.
Wellman, of the Wellman-Seavers-
Morgan company. Cleveland, died in
hospital; A. l.. Rogers, of New York
city, representative of the Plat iron
works, of Dayton, o., died in hospital;
S. c. Beckwith, No. 115 One Hundred
and Seventy-fourth street, New York;
A. H. Head, London, England, repre-
sentative of the Otis Steel company,
of Cleveland, died in hospital; H. II.
Wright, travelling man, Chicago, died
in hospital; D. E. Arthur, travelling
man, Milwaukee,, died in hospital; J.
H. Gibson, Chicago, travelling man,
died in hospital, Cleveland; H. c..
Mechling, New York city, with the
Wheeling Corrugated company, killed
in wreck; l.. NJ. Eirick, manager
Keith's theater, Cleveland, killed in
wreck; F.. E. Naugle, Chicago, pro-
prietor of railway supply house,
killed in wreck; two as yet unidenti-
fed dead, supposed to be l.. A. John
son, of the millinery firm of Coney &
Johnson, Cleveland, and Henry TRIM,
the barber on the train; Allan Tyler,
engineer, Collinwood, O., died in hos
pital; F. J. Brant, head-brakeman, No.
2012 Ash street, Erie, Pa, died in hos
pital; N. B. Walters. baggageman,
Hamburg, N. Y, died in hospital; w.
D. Mickey, porter on Pullman car, Chi
cago, died at scene of wreck.
The injured: J. H. Langdon, Chi
cago; r. c. Cordeaugh, Kay Cottage,
Highlands, N. j.; NJ. ]. Kennedy, San
Francisco, slightly hurt; Kate Trott.
Chicago; Mrs. H. D. Turneri, nervous
shock; Theodore Keuhl, No. 1911 Wolf
ram street, Chicago, severe shock; w.
H. Colvin, No. 1872 LaSalle street, Chi
cago, thought not to be seriously
hurt: George Murray, No. 1913 George
street, st. Louis, thought not to be-
seriously hurt; A. E. Dickson, No. GAS
Marquette building, Chicago, knee
wrenched; Nathan Allen, Kenosha,
Wis, back slightly injured; S. T. Katy
No. 1922 Paulina street, Chicago, pain
in chest and back; A. p. Gorham, fire.
man, side injured. Collinwood, o.
Suspects Maliciousness.
Cleveland, O., June 23+-D. c. Moon
assistant general superintendent of the
Lake Shore road, stated late Wednes-
day night that it looked as though the
Mentor wreck had been caused by ma
licious mischief. He said that fast
passenger train had passed over the
switch safely three-quarters Of an hour
before the Twentieth Century was
wrecked. Immediately after the wreck
occurred it was found that the switch
was locked open, so that no train could
pass it without being thrown from the
track.
Reward Offered.
Cleveland, O., June 24.-The Lake
Shore Railway company has offered
reward of $4,000 for the arrest or for
information leading to the arrest Of the
person or persons responsible for the
wreck of the Twentieth Century limit
ed at Mentor.
State Railroad Commissioner J. =.
Morris, who Friday started an inves-
tigation of the wreck is quoted as say
ing that the switch was undoubtedly
open, and that some one set it that
way Just q short time before the flyer
struck it.