The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-06-27

Cleveland, Ohio, June 22.-Nineteen
dead Il a dozen slightly injured to.
night comprise the revised casualty
list made by the wrecking last night
at Mentor, Ohio, of the eastbound
TWentieth-Ce Century limited and Lake
Shore and New York Central's 1S-hour
train, which ran into an open switch,
crushed the Mentor depot and partly
burned it up, scorching several of the
mangled corpses. The surviving ill.,
jured are not much hurt.
The Twentieth Century limited, &C
cording to announcement from New
York, will hereafter return to a 20
hour schedule, although none of the
;lrOad officials ascribe the wreck to
l~cessiye speed.
1WITCH THROWN OPEN AND
LOCKED.
1t is maintained by railway officials
that the switch on which the limited
was wrecked was thrown open and
locked II the switch light ~extinguIsL-
ed by some person, either a maniac or
some II seeking revenge. 1t is still
unknown who this person is, although
detectives are working on the case.
4 careful examination of the switch
today showed that it was in perfect
condition. Trainnen are of the Opin-
ion that the engineer of the Twentieth
Century was deceived by the light of
Il switch just beyond the open switch,
the light of which is said to have been
out. w. H. Marshall, general manager
of the Lake Shore, says the speed OF
the train was not a cOntributOry cause
to the wreck. He said that other Lake
Shore trains travel through Mentor at
q speed equal to that attained by tine
limited last night, which was not, Mr..
Marshall said, above 90 miles an hour.
The schedule for the train calls for
4 speed of 5 7miles an hour at Mentor.
Coroner York, of Lake county, an
rOunced this evening that an inquest
would begin next Monday in Paines-
vile.
REVISED LIST OF THE DEAD.
A revised list of the dead follows:
JOHN r. BENNETT, attorney, 81
Nassau street, New York.
JOHN A. BRADLEY, of the law
firm of Rowley, Rogers, Bradley and
Rockwell, Akron, Ohio.
T. r. MORGAN, second vice presi-
dent of the Wellman, Seavers, Morgan
Company, Cleveland. Ohio.
c. H. WELLMAN, of the Wellman,
Seavers, Morgan Company, Cleveland,
died in hospital.
A. L. ROGERS, New York city, rep
resentative of the Plat City Iron
D-nrI-y Of noutnn Ohio din1 in hos
pital.
c.. E. BECKWITH, 115 Hath street,
New York.
A. H. HEAD, London representative
of the Otis Steel Company, of Cleve-
land, died in hospital.
H. H. WRIGHT, Chicago, died in
hospital.
d. Z. ARTHUR, travelling man, Mill
waukee, died in hospital.
J. H. GIBSON. Chicago, travelling
man; died in hospital.
H. c. MECHLING, New York city,
With the Wheeling Corrugated Iron
Company.
L. NJ. EIRICK, manager Keith's
theatre, Cleveland.
E. f. NAUGLE, Chicago, proprietor
of a railway supply house.
Two unidentified bodies, supposed to
be those of L. a. Johnson of the mil
Enery firm of Comey & Johnson, Cleye-
land, and Henry Trinse, barber on the
train.
ALLEN TYLER, engineer, Collin
wood. Ohio, died in hospital.
f. j. BRANT, head brakeman, Erie,
Ia, died in hospital.
\. b. WALTER. baggage man,
Hamburg, \. Y, died i'll hospital.
w. d. MICKEY, porter, Chicago.
PITIFUL SCENES AFTER THE
WRECK.
The scenes following the wreck were
appalling. The night was dark save
for the light from the blazing wreck
OF the coach which was crushed and
splintered on top of the engine. Men
swarmed about it, combating the
flames with the means at hand, CROP
ing their way through the binding,
scalding steam that rose in clouds,
= hunting for the injured whose piteous
cries were such as chilled the hearts of
Athose who heard them. The water sur
ply was small, and the means at hand
for fighting the flames we're pitifully
Inadequate, but the zeal Of the res
cuers wrought great things for the
first few minutes.
Pullman Conductor J. J.. ONelli,
with his force of 'p0rters, did yallent
work in helping care for the injured
as they were taken from the wreck.
Bedding, blankets and sheets were