Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-06-22
The Worst Railroad Horror of
 the Year.
FAST TRAIN RUNS INTO OPEN SWITCH
Coaches Piled on Top of Engine and Wrecked Passengers, Burned and Scalded to Death. Wreck Occurred Near Home of the Widow of the Late President Garfield.

Cleveland, O., June 22.-While travelling at the rate of seventy miles an hour the famous 20th century limit ed, the fastest long distance train fl the world, ran through an open switcl at the little town of Mentor, east o1 Cleveland, at 9:2O o'clock last night causing one of the worst wrecks il the history of the' Lake Shore road.
 The engine was hurled into the ditch A part of the train was crushed on roI of it and the wreck was partly buried The horrors of the wreck were doubled in the horrors of the fire.
 More than a score of people were killed and injured and the famous rrair was largely demolished.
 The train was crowded, practically all its accommodations being taken when it left the city. It was behind time and the greatest of speed wus be ing made to make up lost time.
 The dead:
 Thomas R. Morgan, of the Wellman- SeaverMorgan company, Cleveland burned to death.
 John R. Bennett, patent attorney, New York city; burned to death.
 A. L. Rodgers. Platt Iron company, New York city; died on operating raole at Cleveland general hospital. N. B. Walters, baggageman, of Hamburg. N. Y.; scalded to death.
 Allen Tyler, COllinwood, Ohio, eng- neer; crushed under engine.
 H. H. Wright. travelling man, Chi cago, died at Cleveland general hos pital.
 Fireman Graham, Collinwood; crush ed under engine.
 Williams, first name and address unknown.
 $. c. Beckwith. New York city, ad- vertising agent; seriously burned.
 J. H. Gibson. Chicago. traveller; at Charity hospital; probably fatally in- jured.
 Charles H. wellman, of the We'll man.Seaver-Morg company of this city, Engineer Allen Tyler, J. A. Brad ley, prominent attorney of Akron, Ohio, A. P. Head of London. England, and F. J. Brandt of this city all died this morning as a result of their iI- juries.
 William B. Mickey, address un- known.
 Henry Trinz, New York, barber on buffer car.
 F. J. Brandt. B years old, Tol7lo, trainman; s'
 J. A. Bartley, Akron, traveller;
 Archibald P. Head, London, Eng, steel company representatives;
 Charles H.. Wellman, of the We'll man.Seaver- Morgan company of Cieve- land. scalded and burned;
 Five unidentified dead, one of whom Is supposed to be Arthur L. Johnson, of Comey & Johnson, Cleveland.
 The injured:
 Rudolf Ricardau, Brooklyn, W. Y., will probably die.
 Aaron Gorham, Norwalk. Ohio. fire man: severely burned: not serious.
 Unknown; fatally burned.
 Unknown; seriously burned.
 c. Cordua, Brooklyn, N. Y., serious ly burned.
 D. E. Arthur, Milwaukee.
 At Lakeside hospital:
 Unknown man: crushed and burned.
 Allen Flier, of Astabula; cut and bruised.
 Missing:
 A. l.. Johnson. of Comey and John son. Cleveland.
 The barber and the porter of combi- nation car.
 Late reports gave the number of in- 5ured as twenty-one and of these fif- teen are seriously if not fatally hurt. Practically all the injured were burned and had to be extricated from the piaz- 4ng wreckage by rescue parties.
 A peculiarly distressing feature of the rescue work was the the injured were so crazed when they were taken out from under the mass of wreckage that they could not even reveal their own Identity. Search of their effects furnished the means for identifying three.
 Assistant General Superintendent ID. C. Moon. of the Lake Shore on the scene of the wreck gave out the follow ing statement:
 "So far as can he learned the switch was opened and locked open by some party unknown; probably crank. and evidently for malicious purposes. Train No 10. a fast east-bound train, passed through the same switch 45 minutes ahead of No 26 and it was all right at that time It is positive that no other train or engine. either freight or pas eenger passed through the switch be tween No 10 and No 26
 Travelling at a rate of more than a mile a minute. the heavy train was hurled to it's doom with a momentum that was appalling The scene of the accident was at the Mentor depot. The switch that caused the trouble IS io- cafed about 13O yards west of the de pot As the heavy engine struck the switch 1t left the main track and swung violently to the left.
 For a distance of twenty yards the eneine ran on the rails. and then. ieap- inR from the track. turned on it's side just to the east of the depot The mo nenfum Vas such that the heavy tender was hurled entirely over the englne and was buried in the depot
 he combination car wss hurled with eetK1ec vfsleoce sa tup of the e0lne nu1 tendef and fn . Dooeot voS en- VcoIDa D 1nDcs f10o e ongnA