The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-09-22


son was killed and thirty-seven in
jured. six of them fatally, when an
Erie passenger train jumped the
track west of here late this after
noon and rolled four coaches and
a baggage car down the embank-
ment into the Auglaize river
Hospital Accommodations at Lima
proved inadequate to the tax put
upon them by the accident, and the
less seriously injured are scattered
over the city most OF them In hotels.
Because the injured are so scatter
ed il is impossible tonight to get an
accurate list of their names. The
number of those hurt, however, Is
admitted by officials of the road.
Spreading of the rails Is given as
the cause of the accident. The train.
through flyer from Chicago to New
York, due here at 1880 in the after
noon. was running forty miles an
hour as II reached a curve that APP
proachcs the bridge over the Au-
glaize at Conant, village twelve
miles west of here.
when the locomotive struck the
curve the rails spread. The locomo-
tive jumped. snapped the coupling
between the tender and baggage car
and came TO a stop half buried in
the earth at the side OF the right Of
way. The baggage car and four
day coaches trailing plunged down
the embankment, rolling over as they
went. until they reached the river
bed. The two pullmans ut the rear
stuck to the rails, being saved when
another coupling broke. No pullman
passengers We're more than bruised
The one person killed was Mrs
Langdon Strait of Brooklyn, N. ",
aged "a Mrs. Strait was returning
from California with her son, James
il. Strait, who escaped the wreck
with slight injuries. Examination OF
Mrs. Strail's body fails to disclose
any marks of injury and 1t is held
| that she died from shock. which af.
fected her heart.
Train officials of the Erie refused
| tonight TO give any information as tC
| the personnel of the crew in charg,
of the train or any details concerning
| the wreck, replying to all questions
| that the reports were being censored
| by higher officials of tine road II
Marion, o.. and Huntington, Ind /
would acknowledge the number in
| jured.
| II was reported tonight that thI
| track at the point which the traiI
| was wrecked had been undergoing +,
pairs within the past few days; tina
the tracks had been raised, and tina
there was fresh earth on the road
bed.
That the four passenger cars coult
have gone over the embankment int
the river without killing more thai
one of the many persons carried 1
considered more than remarkable
When the Pullman passengers re
covered sufficiently from their excite
ment to get out and down to tn
wreckage they fully expected to b
Il met by a sight OF dead and mangle'
bodwies, by all the worst phases OF
horrifying wreck. AS each uninjure,
passenger In the derailed coaches so
II to his feet and began to look abou
i him for way out he wondered a
the many who rose with him. 1t ma
seemed to each, that he was the onl
favored one and that all the other
must be dead.
In but a few minutes those VIII
had escaped had the work of rescu
under way The injured were extri
Gated from the wreckage and lai
H out aoh~the ground to await the he'll
from the city. Every sur
'tgDA'tW Hma was. sent out. some go