Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1908 — ELECTRIC LINE CRASH [ARTICLE]

ELECTRIC LINE CRASH

Five Persons Killed Instantly and Three Others Are Given . Fatal Injuries. FIFTEEN ABE SERIOUSLY HURT Pierced by Splinters from the Smashed ' , Cars and Bones Broken. Only One Man on the Cars Escapes Injury—Boiler Explosion Bends i Eight Men Unwarned to | Eternity. Dayton, 0., Aug. 11. —Five persons are dead, three are fatally Injured, and fifteen seriously Injured was the result when two trolley cars crashed' together between Sidney and Piqua on 1 one of the lines of the Western OhW' Traction company. The dead it* j William Bailey, motorman, Piqua, O.; William McQuillen, Locking!on, 0.* 1 James Kohl, Detroit, Mich.; Georg* Robinson, banker. Sidney, O.; C. M. Hummelhauser, Detroit, Mich. The fatally injured: Charles McClure, Sidney, O.; Charles Hale, motorman, Wapakoneta, O.; George A. Hax, Baltimore, Md. / List of Seriously Hurt. The seriously Ihjured: L. N. Hapenrod, head and Internally iDjured, Locklngton, O; John Maher,, Dayton. 0., head, liip and legs injured; Fred C. Gremman, Philadelphia, head cut; H. L. Ernst, Daytou, 0., head cut; Tobias Moxiey, Lima, 0., head and hip hurt; C. B. Limas, West Point, Ind.. head and face crushed; Clarence Long, Dayton, O.; George Blakely, Sidney; Chas. P. Lock, Tippecanoe City, 0., compound fracture of the arm; Minnie Rekerly and Mrs. B. Rekerly. Sidney; Howard Smith, Piqua, Internally injured; Cora Anderson, Piqua; Mary Ernst and Rollin S. Rex, Dayton. O. Somebody Had Blundered. 1

The disaster was caused by misunderstanding of orders by the crew of the southbound limited car of the Western Ohio Traction road, which while running late at a high rate of speed, crashed into the northbound limited car. Both the cars were due here at 6:18 p. m., but as the soutubound car was late, orders were given to pass at a siding about two miles north of here. The impact of the two cars was so terrible that but one of those on the cars escaped injury. Many automobiles from Piqua and Sidney were rushed to the scene and conveyed those Injured to an improvised hospital at the Shelby county Infirmary and to their homes in Sidney and this city.

Worst‘Wreck on the Line.

The wreck is the worst that has occurred in this section of the state In many years. While rounding a slight curve each, m&torman caught sight of the approaching car. Bailey, who was a'tew motorman, tried to jump from htt car and was killed. The two cars came together with such force that the impact completely telescoped the southbound car, in which the most of those killed and injured were passesgam.

TERRIBLE BOILER EXPLOSION Kills Eight Men, Their Bodies Being Frightfully Mutilated. York, Pa.. Aug. 11.—Eight men were killed, nearly a score of others more or less seriously injured, and thousands of dollars’ worth of property damaged by the explosion of a boiler In the York rolling miK. The dead si's: John Clency, Yorkj Benjamin Bremer, Harry Seachrist, Paoll Pud, Alfred Struck, John Slossman, and Harry Ferger, all of Columbia, Pa.; Edward Flttler, Marietta, Pa. A rescue party was quickly organized and search for bodies was instituted. Ambulances from the York hospital were hurried to the scene of the explosion, but owing to the number of dead ’and

Injured delivery -wagons and other conveyances were pressed into service in order that the injured might be rushed to the hospital. ’ While the Injured were being looked after the bodies of the dead were being carried from the ruins of the budding. Most of those killed bad their heads and limbs torn from their bodies, and were so badly mangled Hint identification was almost an impossibility. The mill bad been dosed down for about a week and two score of inen were engaged in making repairs to an engine. The men were working close to the boiler and when the explosion .occurred its effect was awfnl. The shock was so terriftic that it demolished a large portion of the mill and sent heavy pieces of twisted iron and metal in all directions. The plant of the Broomal, Schmidt 4k Steacy company, located near the scene of the explosion, was badly damaged. and a horse which was standing three hundred yards distant from the mill was instantly killed. Box curs on the railroad siding adjoining the mill were torn to splinters.

Washout Costs Three Lives Goldfield, Nev., Aug. 11.—As the re-: •nit of a washout on the Tonopab and Tidewater, near Shoshone. Cal., a pas--senger train piuuged into a chasm and thrfee men were killed. The dead are: Engineer Hamilton, Fireman Broadwell, and M. H. Moore, a passenger, supposed to be from Georgia.