Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1890 — WRECKED AT A STATION [ARTICLE]

WRECKED AT A STATION

HORRORS OF A COLLISION AT CINCINNATI. A Standing Accommodation Train Run Into by a Fast-Running Pa«s«nger *1 rain Five Persons Killed and Several Injured in the Crash.

Cincinnati (Ohio) dispatch: Tho fast train on the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton road bound for Chicago ran into the Glendale accommodation at Winton place recently, with the result that a dozen lives were lost and more than a score of persons Injured. The Glendale accommodation had just stopped to allow the Winton place commuters to drop off. and the vestibule train, running at a speed of sixty miles an hour, plunged into the rear of the accommodation. The rear car on the accommodation was an express car. and this alone saved at least two score lives. Tho big engine on the fast line plowed half way through the baggage ear, frightfully wounding the baggage master, Robert Stevenson, who has since died. His assistant and also the firemen and engineer are badly wounded. A red hot stove in the baggage ear was overturned, and, tho ear catching fire, the flames seemed instantly to communicate with the two coaches, and they too, with from six to twelve people, who wore wedged In by the broken seats, wore burned. > The dead are: JOHN WILSON, superintendent, of the. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Cincinnati; residence. Winton place, F. W. WITHERBEE, conductor of No. 77; residence. Toledo. JAMES STALEY, baggagemastcr. died In hospital. WILLIAM LLAMITZ, a yonng man, died in hospital. An unknown woman. Two of the dead bodies are in tho morgue In this city. They wore all burned to death. The wounded arc: William Coaoley, englnecrof N 0.31. hurt by Jumping. Geohge McKee, fireman of 31, injured by jumping. At once the fire department of Cincinnati was summoned, and several patrol wagons quickly responded to the ••all. By the time two fire engines had arrived the two coaches were almost In ashes, and little could be done except to clear the reek so that the. search for the dead might begin. There was the smell of burning flesh in the air, and the screams and sobs of frantic women were hoard. As tho flames gnawed their way Into the two coaches agonizing shrieks from the helpless victims pierced the atmosphere and many women fainted as i they heard the awfu) cries for help. The passengers of the vestibule train, many of whom wore badly bruised by the shock, did all in their power to aid those in the accommodation train, who had suffered more than they. t Glendale is fifteen miles from Cincinnati and one of the most, aristocratic of its many suburbs. Tho bulk of those on tho accommodation were leading merchants, bankers and brokers of the city, though many of those who got off at Winton place were clerks. A special train with surgeons was sent out from hero, and another special brought the most seriously injured to the hospLal in the city. |