The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1910-07-14
l9 DIE IN WRECK
TRAIN GOING SO MILES AN HOUR
CRASHES INTO FREIGHT
IN OHIO.
IMPACT WAS TERRIBLE
Engines Lock Together and Cars Col.
lapse Like Egg shells.-Three
Probably Fatally Hurt and
Six Injured.

\ people were Killed outright, three
probably fatally hurt and half doz.
en- were seriously injured in q head.
on collision between freight and
/ passenger train on the Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton railroad here.
OF the killed, 1S were passengers, the
other victim being a meluber of the
passenger train crew.
The Dead.
II. P. Baker. Cincinnati. l.,
H. A. Smith, Dayton. II.
]. Smith Kirk, Dayton.
George Frohle, Dayton.
Frank Golden, passenger train
brakeman.
John w. Cooley, McCutcheonville
| Ohio.
Miss Fay H. Daubenmire, Pleasant
Vile, Ohio.
Ray D. Snyder, London, Ohio.
A. S. Garrigus, Columbus, Ohio.
Richard Van Horn, Dayton, Ohio.
Charles H. Mouiton, Youngstown, o
Mrs. Jessie j. Bodey, Dayton, Ohio
William Dunleavy, Dayton. Ohio.
King Yen Luen, Chinaman, Colum
bus, Ohio.
c.; B. Grant, Springfield, Ohio.
| One unidentified woman, about 4t
years old.
Unidentified man, initials "W. A.
on clothing.
Two unidentified men, supposed te
be from Dayton.
The trains were the Cincinnati sec
ton of the Twentieth Century limited
on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago
and St Louis railroad (Big Four) and
the second section of freight train
| on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day
ton road.
The latter was attempting to make
siding to give the passenger train
clear track when the flying limited
travelling at rate of SO miles an
hour. flashed around a curve and
crashed into 1t. The Big Four train
had detoured to avoid blocked track
IN that road at Genoa, few miles
south of here, caused by q freight
wreck earlier in the day. In addition
to its regular crew, it carried pilot
engineer of the Cincinnati, Hamilton
and Dayton road, who was practically
In charge Of the train.
Directly behind the passenger loco.
motive and tender was a combination
baggage and smoking car, followed by
Q day coach and chair car. All the
dead and injured we're in the first two
cars, there being six passengers in the
smoker and 21 in the day coach. The
engines we're locked into mass of
smashed steel and iron, the heavy pas
senger locomotive telescoping its small
er fellow as far as the cab.
i Every seat in the day coach was
torn from its fastenings, the roof was
weight of massive timbers, hurled with
awful force, struck among the men
and women in the coach. Even before
the crash came rescuers were running
to the wreck from the Middletown sta
tion Of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton, some 300 yards south of the
accident.
A misunderstanding of orders caused
the disaster, which was one Of the
worst that this section Of the country
nas ever experienced. The crash when
the trains met was terrific. the freight
being made up of coal cars, fiat cars
and box cars loaded with lumber.
Relief trains were made up at each
Of these places and the injured were
placed upon item and sent to hospitals
In those cities.
Every surgeon in town was sum.
moned to the place, which is mile or
more from the city proper. and calls
for assistance were sent to Dayton and
Hamilton.
Death List Growing.
Middletown, Ohio Three VIC
Tins of the wreck Of the Big Four
New York flyer here died from their
injuries during the night, bringing the
total number of dead up to %.
Reports from the hospitals in Day
ton and Hamilton, where many of the
81 injured were taken, indicate that
number of these will die. Some Of
them are frightfully MANNED and no
hope is held out for their recovery.
The names of those who died during
tie night were:
EDWARD DUNLEY, Of Dayton.
EDWARD CAIN, of Dayton.
WIN AMRINE, residence unknown
Dunley is a cousin Of William Dun.
ley, whose name was in the list Of
III dead 1iven 0ut Tuasdav