Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1888 — DEA TH DEALING [?]RROR. [ARTICLE]

DEA TH DEALING [?]RROR.

Several of Them Occur oa Prominent Railroads, Fi»e Fennni Killed a*d Minn Fctally Iftpired M«ar Mea<lv|ll», Pa.—Sat Kilted on the Cincinnati teakbern—OS im - K tilroitd Cattjatrophex. The fast Chicago Express on the New York, Pennsylvania A Ohio railroad,-" consisting of seven c?rs. collided with a,„ freight three miles West of Pa., on tbe mrruing of Eixe persons woo l led outright, jjjtiefatally injure-.', r ! four othaßpreriou <ly injured. ' :ie ;vame is rest upon the qffict'Tb.rf lid train, who were rmoJ ' Express’ time. Both train . v-.ipVer two hours late, and the being' entitled tn the right Of WAS ruan'ng without n-. Siiiiply taking it for granted that fbeEkprcsn was in," Corrducter Murray, olth’e freight, pulled out fo’ .G-meva, where he bad orders against two other trains. Almost simultaneously tbe trains sWep; by the last two intervening stations, Geneva and Buchanan, only four miles ap rt, and as the word was sent to the dispatcher’s office the inevitable result was certain. The two trains, the express, running forty-five miles, and tlje freight train fifteen miles an hour, met on a long, forept-hiddea curve, with a crash that was terrible. The two engines seemed to rise bodily z in the air, and in an instant were in g on their furnace ends, pilots pofhled to the sky, and their drivers lacked in the embrace of deaths Both engineers and firemen, of the twp/ colliding engines wfere brUsLed between the iron drivers,, and the mangled bodies of and fireman Humes pinned .to death, jint as they ofi of leftpinj/from The eight was sickening, covered frcjte ' yiew irivtid ly blan kefs. ®he baggage car, ek-prt-60 ear and smoker of the pasr-enger 'were cojnpletely wrecked. The/ car 'telescoped infapLzthb smoker like a Xedge, splitting iV open and sweeping every seat from The total number of passe on the t rain was fifty three, of whoWl were in the smoker. A'lfeWthese more or less crash /as ? -heard for a great distance, neighborhood andrrien and women ran of.the ruim. Mie ivhp were not in mAtazed, and for a ttjfF peSplie seemed tjieny’*' The cries that *bj|4e from brongl.t the mto a .realizatio^^^^r'(errib'e situation, and' Tn a time a large force oi tnesr wer^rwortr systematically doing all the wounded and dying. .The railroad company, after dispatching two flecking crews lo the scene of the disaster, soon followed with a passenger train on which to transfer tbe passenigers of the wn eked train and take the wounded and such of the dead as had been recovered to Meadville. Two fast mail trains on the Cincinnati Southern railroad, while running at full speed, collided about twelve miles south of Somerset, Ky., on tbe evening of tha 31st, and caused a frightful casually. The engineers and baggage and express mes sergers on both trains were instantly killed. The accident was due to the officers of one of the trains misconstruing their orders. Three coaches of each train were burned. The scenes of horror that usually attend such accidents were repeated. 8o far six persons are dead as a result of the accident, and many Others were injured. A disastrous wreck occurred at Wilder’s, Ind., on the Chicago & Atlantic railroad, near the crossing of the L, N’ A. & C., Saturday. Two sections of a fart stock train were going east. Lhs first section slackened speed for the crossing, end the second section following close and being unable to see the othe ron account of the blinding storm, went crashing into the rear end, demolishing the engine and caboose. One ear of cattle was destroved and the cattle were burned. Brakeman L. Lyman, of Huntington, was burned to a crisp. All that could be found of his remains was • a portion of a lower limb.