Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-07-12
IS KILLED, 20 HURT
CINCINNATI SECTION OF TWEEN
TlETH CENTURY LIMITED
CRASHES INTO FREIGHT.
MISTAKE IN ORpERS CAUSE
Cars Are Telescoped and Hardly a
Person on Train Escapes Injury
Coach Filled With Women and Chill
dren Crushed by Engine.

Niddletown, O-Nineteen persons
were killed outright and score in
jured, IA fatally, when the New York
bound Big Four passenger train No.
II, the Cincinnati section of the TWEEN
tieth Century Limited, collided head
on with a Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton freight train near here Mon
day afternoon.
The engines are mass of ruins, the
passenger coaches were telescoped,
two partly telescoped, while the smo-
ker went over the baggage car and
landed in cornfielG.
The Big Four people had asked the
right of way over the Cincinnati, Ham
ilton & Dayton tracks because of a
freight wreck at Sharon, O. and the
train was bowling along at approx
mately fifty miles an hour. 1t is said
that the engineers of two trains did
not see each others engine until too
close for the accident. Orders had
been given it was said for "clear track
for the Big Four train which left
Dayton ten minutes behind time about
one o'clock and which was trying to
make up the lost time.
The two engines crashed with ter
rife impact The massive engines
rearing up like living things then
crashed into and through the cars OF
both trains. AS soon as news of the
collision was received in Cincinnati
the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
officials sent train to the scene with
Cincinnati physicians and nurses.
Railroad officials of both roads also
went to the scene. At the same time
Middleton and Dayton rushed as
sistance and the people of Middletown
turned out almost en- masse to rem
der what assistance they could.
When the engines crashed one Of
the steel monsters crushed through
the combination baggage and smoking
car and day coach which was large
ly filed with women and children. 1t
was some minutes before a move at
rescue work could be started. as the
crews as we'll as passengers were
tossed about. When those too able
reached the upturned cars they found
dead and injured persons lying near
or pinned under the heavy wreckage.
Within a few minutes II bodies had
been removed. Some of them were
females, for the coach was what Is
known as the ladies' car reserved es-
pecially for the women and children.
While the dead were being removed
willing hands were working with
might and under distressing circum-
stances. The shrieks of injured. some
of whom we're dying, the din and
shouting he noise of escaping steam
as 1t hissed from battered engines.
made the affair most distressing.
The bodies of tbs dead were con-
veyed to the station at Hamilton and
here the scenes were heartrending.
Crowds of men and women thronged
around the building, many in search
of relatives or friends they knew were
on the train.
The Twentieth Century train was
In charge of Conductor Weaver. The
freight in charge of Pilot Valid, had
orders to meet the flyer at 1:T at
Coast Town In advance of the regular
engine of the flyer was Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton pilot engine in
charge of engineer, fireman and Con-
ductor LANCE. The Big Four train
was in charge of Conductor Thomas
Maloney 1t is thought the fact that
the Twentieth Century Limited was
late was the main cause OF the acct
dent with having left Dayton ten min
regain that lost time. The freight
was on the Cincinnati. Hamilton &
Dayton siding and it seems had orders
for a clear track at 1907 p. H. When
that time arrived she pulled out on
the main line but was scarcely under
Roadway when the flyer flashed into
view and crashed into 1t. There was
practically no chance for either en-
gineer to reverse levers before the
crash came.
The dead: A. S. Garrigun, Colum-
bus; Thomas Dunlevy and Wildman
Dunlevy, brothers, Dayton; Richard
Van Horn, Dayton; Charles w. Molten,
Dayton; j. Smith kirk, Dayton; III.
A. Smith, Dapton; George Fohley,
Dayton; H. P. Baker, Cincinnati; Roy
T. Snyder, London; Frank Golden.
brakeman, Delaware; Kieng Yen Ling,
Chinaman, Columbus; c. P. Grant.
Springfield; John W. Cooley, Mo
Cutahenville; Fay A. Don Feniner.
Pleasantville; Jesse j. Body, Patriot,
Ind: three unidentified men
Seriously injured: William Weis-
ner, pilot: w. NJ. Lamb, fireman; Rob
ert Wall. pilot; William A. Schultheis,
Cincinnati: A. B. Menke, Columbus;
John Rankin, VIII Rankin, Thomas
MCGEE, Gary Ferguson, Carrie Fergu+
son, William Halter, all of Dayton.