The Adair County news., 1922-04-11
"A KILLED WHEN
TRAINS HIT BUS
Dozen Others Injured at Paines-
vile, 0.-VictimS Returning
From Dance.
DRIVERS VIEW WAS OBSCURED
Express Crashes Into Machine and
HurIs Ii Across Rails in Front of
Another Speeding Train--Gas Tank
Explodes and Fires Wreckage.

Cleveland, o., March 6.-FOurteen
persons were killed and a dozen 9TH
ers injured late at night when a New
York Central express train, eastbOund,
crashed into a crowded notorious at
the st. Clair street crossing in Paines-
vile, % miles east of Cleveland.
Dead and dying were hurled along
the railroad right of way for several
hundred feet and bodies of three of
the victims were on the locomotive
pilot when the train was brought from
its sixty-mile-an-hour speed to a halt,
400 yards from the scene of the col
lisiOn.
A few seconds after the first col
lisiOn, westbOund train No. 8, speeding
for Chicago, crashed into the wreck
age of the bus, which, with some of
the dead and injured, was thrown in
to its path.
The motor bus. owned by the Par
rish Truck company of Fairport, had
just left its stand at Main and st.
| Clair streets, Painesville, for its last
trip of the night. Many of the pas
sengers were returning from a lodge
meeting. Others we're homeward
bound from a dance.
The driver Of the bus was among
those killed. AS the automobile moved
onto the six-track crossing from the
shadow of buildings, obscuring the
view at the edge Of the tracks, the
express train was only few hundred
feet away.
None Had Time to Jump.
The train, which makes no stop at
Painesville, was moving at terrific
speed. Women passengers Of the bus
screamed, but none had time to jump
out before the engine splintered and
shattered the automobile.
Frank Vandiz of Buffalo, the engi.
neer, had slammed on the emergency
brakes, but the train went onward
carrying debris on the engine front
until its momentum could be halted.
Following is a corrected list of dead
J and injured as announced by the
Painesville police, the first nine being
from FairpOrt:
Gladys LippilaksO, John Strums
/ Max Strums, Lillian Kelto, Hilda Pra
| ski, Mrs. Oscar Cooper, Mrs. Johr
Bartish. Mrs. Frank Fridebaugh, Stan
ley Radike. Richard Strand, Chardon
Kathryn HOrvath, Richmond; William
J. Sutter, Jr., Chardon; Raymond
OTeary, Painesville; George E. Nc
| Ghee, Medina.
The injured: Andrew Adams, Fair
port. driver Of bus. dying; Mrs. Mar
| tin Steinhach, FairpOrt, condition he
lieved TO he critical; Nick NennO
FairpOrt. believed dying; Raymond Fl
Hamilton. Fairport, serious; Charlie
| Sullivan, PainesviIle. fractured ribs.
Bodies Scattered Far.
"Mangled bodies lay along the rail
road for nearly the three blocks" salt
| Chief of Police T. J. Appleton o
Painesville, one of the first 20 reacl
the scene. "SOme were thrown ont
the platform at the station, two block
from where the bus was hit. Their
were three bodies on the engine;
man, a woman, and a young girl
The wreckage later caught fire whel
the gas tank of the bus exploded.
A. W. Barnes, crossing watchmar
declares the bus stopped on the sOutl
side of the track to discharge pas
sengers and that he tagged the drive
| with his lantern, but that the bu
came on despite the warning. Cheste
Parrish, manager of the bus line, de
caares that large oil tank passing tn
bus obstructed the view of the driver