New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-05
NINE SERIOUSLY INJURED
Section of Twentieth Century
Limited, Running Fifty Miles
an Hour, Strikes Freight
The Cause.

?. BAKER Cincinnati.
II. 4. SMITH. Dayton Ohio
:. SMITH KIRK. Dayton. Ohio
GEORGE PROFILE. Dayton. Ohio
FRANK GOLDEN. passenger train brakeman
JOHN "a COOLEY, McCutcheonsville Ohio.
MISS FAY Il. DAUBENMIRE Pleasanty-flle
ORC
RAY 3 SNYDER. London. Ohio
= : GARRIGUS Columbus. Ohio.
RICHARD VAN HORN. Dayton Ohio.
CHARLES Il MoULTON. Youngstown Ohio.
MRS JESSE D BODEY. Dayton. Ohio
WILLIAM Dt-NLEATY Dayton Ohio.
KING YEN LJ-N Columbus Ohio.
g. 3 GRANT Springfield Ohio
Unidentified woman about forty years
Unidentified man. initials w A. on cloth
Two unidentified men supposed TO be from
Dayton
The following Is 2 list of the injured
who were brought to Dayton or reported
by railway officials:
Mrs. J SMITH KIRK. Dayton; perhaps
fatally.
PETER JENNINGS. engineer Big Four pas
s-uger Irain. badly injured
" 2 LAMM. fireman Big -Four passenger
train internal injuries; recovery doubtful
VALID train pilot OF the c, H. & d;
SAMUEL WAYNE GARRIGUs. No. 500
West TOwne street Columbus; arms and sew
JOHN ) WHITE. Iiyery1nan. Dayton: rot
dangerously hurt
JAMES /. H. KoNNONY. Louisville: right
leg srd ribs broken
seriously hurt
WILL LITZY. Harrodsburs. Ky; badly
burned. condition doubtful.
OSCAR CCBANISSY tcoloreol. of Cincin-
reri. head and sides injured.
VILLAIN WEISNER Cincinnati. head.
SHOWS ana shoulders injured, serious
" = WHITE. Cleveland: head cut
F DAYTON. Latonta. Ky; condition
rERRY FERGUSON, Dayton Ohio; side hurt
10Y seriously
MRS EMMA L1NDY. Caledonia, Ohio. thighs
srd hips injured, serious
JOHN RANKIN. Springfield. Ohio. night leg
6fslocated- hip injured
DoIT. Benefonteine. Ohio. right leg
FRANK K EDWARDS. Latonia. ~.
VIII. HALLER. Dayton. Ohio.
JERRY FERGUSON. DAYTON. Ohio
WILBUR GREENWOOD. Springfield. Ohio.
TssPER HAGAN Hamilton. Ohio.
The trains were the Cincinnati section
IF the Twentieth Century Limited on the
Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago & St.
louis Railroad (the Big Four) and the
second section Of freight train on the
Cincinnati. Hamilton & DAYTON road.
siding to give the passenger train q clear
track when the flying Limited travel
ling II : speed Of fifty miles an hour.
flashed around curve and crashed into
The Big Four train had been detoured
II avoid blocked track on that road at
Genoa few miles south Of here. ca used
r. z freight wreck earlier in the day. In
edition 10 its regular crew II carried
pilot engineer IF the Cincinnati. Ham
-lton & DAYTON road. VINO was practi-
Cslly IN charge Of the train.
misunderstanding Of orders caused
the accident. which was one OF the worst
p-hich has occurred in this section Of the
country. The pilot engineer, George
wald had received orders TO wait at
Post Town z siding station three miles
rcrth of this CITY. according 10 railroad
cf7cials The freight train was to have
RAISED him there. but was late in pull
ny out Of Niddletown. Instead of the
seven minutes margin which Valid
thought he had TO reach Middletown. the
tine was less than five minutes The
first section of the freight had taken the
siding here. and John Weaver. the con-
C1ICTCT
tried TO reach the north end of the ame
siding. Before his train had cleared the
sEi1ch points the passenger train
rounded z curve screened by the thickly
wooded lots on each side Of the track
The engine crews had time to jump, and
eli escaped serious injury.
The crash. when the trains met was
terrific The freight was made UP OF
eondoia cars, fat cars and box cars
ltaded with lumber. Directly behind the
Passenger locomotive and the tender was
2 combination baggage and smoking car
followed by a day coach and a chair
or. All the dead and injured were IN
the first two cars, there being SIX pas
sengers in the smoker and twenty-one
IN the day coach
The engines locked into a mass OF
smashed steel and iron. the heavy pas
senger locomotive telescoping It's sraiier
fellow as far as the cab First in the
freight train were a steel coal car aho
box car loaded with siX-inch tiTnbers
The heavy gondola car ripped the floor
out Of the combination car and tossed IL
and the locomotive tender down & ten
loot enlbankment into a cornfield-
The timbers in the car following were
oriYen with terrific force into the Gay
coach, which mounted the gondola car
sno split il in two.
Every seat in this coach Was TORN
rom its fastenings. the roof was thrown
10 one side and the massive tilnbers'
hurled with great force, struck among
NE men and women III the coach
Even before the crash came rescuers
we're running TO the wreck from the
Niddletown station of the Cincinnati
Hamilton &. Dayton, some three hundred
.erds south Of the place Of the accl-
'4eht Every surgeon in town was sum-
"'hed to the place, which is mile or
more from the city proper, and calls Tor
assistance we're sent 10 Dayton and
Hamilton
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