People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1893 — MANY CARS DITCHED. [ARTICLE]

MANY CARS DITCHED.

World's Fair Express on the Baltimore A Ohio Wrecked—Thirty-Nine Passengers Burt. Akron, 0., July 26. —A most serious accident occurred on the Pittsburgh & Western railway at Monroe Falls,about 7 miles north of here, Tuesday. The second section of a Baltimore & Ohio excursion train, loaded with excursionists for New York state bound to the world’s fair, was thrown from the track by the spreading of the rails, and three of the day coaches loaded with excursionists rolled down a 15-foot embankment and two other cars were derailed. Thirty-nine persons were seriously injured, three of them fatally. A number of doctors from here went to the scene of the wreck and did all in their power to allay the suffering of the injured. As speedily as possible these were conveyed to Akron, and all are being cared for at the city hospital. If reports are true the accident was due to defective ties, and negligence on the part of those whose business it is to keep the track in repair. The train was going around a sharp curve when the accident occurred. Those fatally injured are J. 11. Moreick, Humeston, la.; Judson Hunt, Philadelphia, and Leia Hunt, Baltimore. All injured passengers were in day coaches. Many of them were asleep when the train jumped the track, and not at once realizing what had happened the greatest confusion prevailed. The last coach was smashed into kindling wood, and it is a miracle that any of the occupants came out alive.