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Train e6 was reduced to spllnters In
the crash, and the cries Of Injured
and dying filled the air as rescue par
ties worked by lantern light and the
light Of burning coaches during the |
early morning darkness to rescue the
injured.
The Wreckage Of the two trains
completely blocked the westbound
track on which the Twentieth Gen.
tury Limited, less than a half hour +!
out Of Cleveland, was travelling to-
ward Chicago.
Without seconds warning, sleep |
ing passengers on this train were
brought, with a crash, into the mass
of wreckage and injured persons on
the other train.
Those passengers and members OF
the train crew Of the Twentieth Cen
.tury who were not injured at once
Joined in the work of rescuing the
injured from the wreckage Of the
three trains.
BY daybreak over score Of dead
had been laid in a row beside the
railroad track.
A special train was started out Of
Cleveland for the scene of the wreck
early Wednesday.
II bore a hastily summoned squad
Of physicians and wrecking crew to
aid in clearing the two tracks which
were buried beneath a huge pile of
debris.
New York Central officials we're un-
able to assign any cause for the
wreck.
Bodies of the dead were carried in
to the undertaking rooms Of D. II.
Baker and the Amherst Furniture Co.
as soon as order began to come out
of the chaos brought by the wreck.
One trainload of injured was start
ed to the Elyria Memorial hospital.
over 100 persons were on this train.
The mangled bodies of porter and
TWO pTdNeHdH oU ''diu oo "S'C o'-
lowed to- lie on the tracks while the
more important work of rescuing the
injured from the tangIe of wreckage
was carried forward.
According to one member of the
crew of the first section of Train s6,
that section had stopped and was
standing still at the time of the crash.
At 1880 sixteen dead had been re-
moved from the rear coaches of the
first section of Train sc, apd more
dead were said to be still in the train.
Over twenty-five injured had been
removed and started in two special
trains for hospitals in Elyria.
First section of Train Sc stopped
to get water. The engineer of the
second train was unable to see the
fiaaman because Of heavy fog, and
his train crashed into the standing
first section at the rate of as miles an
hour.
Many of the injured will die.
The Twentieth Century sdeswiped
the wreckage of the two sections of
Train SO and two steel coaches were
overturned.
One of the two rear coaches OF
Train So was filled with foreigners,
and most of them are believed to have
been killed or injured fatally.
N. C. Upp, superintendent of the
Bell Telephone Co. at Amherst, told
the following story of how the wreck
occurred:
"The first wreck occurred between
two eastbound passenger trains.
"The first eastbound train was go
ing slowly, because Of the fog. A sec
ond passenger train, also eastbound
ran by the fiagman's signal, ane
crashed into the train ahead.
"The cars of both trains wer'
thrown on the westbound track, ant
a few minutes late- the Twentleti
Century limited, westbound, ran Int
the wreckage.
"The limited piowed into the wreck
aae. and was itself wrecked.
"SeveraI of those killed were u
wooden coaches.
Passengers in the steel cars escaF
ed serious injury"
upp said some of the dead wer
horribly msngIed. Legs and arm
were torn from bodies.