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Show DEATH'S CARNIVAL. Terrible Railway Accident Near Cleves. Ohio, in Which Twenty arc Killed and Fifty Wounded. AN ENGINEER'S FATAL MISTAKE. The "CaiiDon Bali" Special Collides With a Freight, Both RuDnlag at High Speed and a Scene of Horror Ensues. Special Dispatch to The Times. Cl eves, Ohio. May 15. One of the most frightful accidents in the chronology of railroads took place at this point yesterday, and, as a result, twenty-two persons are dead and dying and several more are badly i injured. At 3 o'clock in the morning a terrific storm arose, the rain falling in torrents while the wind blew a hurricane. It was in the midst of this war of the elements that fee tstality occurred which sent so many to Delr last account. A mistake on the part sf Hiram Hinds, the engineer of a freight train, was the cause of the disaster. The summer time table on the "Big Four" went into effect today, and by its provisions the freight should have taken the siding at Cleves, while under the old rule it sidetracked side-tracked for the "Cannon Ball" a few miles farther west. The freight came by the station, sta-tion, running at a rate of twenty miles an hour. Whether or not Hinds had lost cou-trol cou-trol of his engine will never be known, as both he and his fireman were killed. Charlie Smith, tlie telegraph operator put up the danger signal. but it was unheeded and the trains met a short distance above the station. Then ensued a scene of horror beyond description. de-scription. The two engines crashed into each other killing both engineers and fiie-laen, fiie-laen, while the cars behind were mashed into splinters killing and maiming their occupants oc-cupants as they piled one on the other in a shapieless mass of debris. The awful raging of the storm added to . the horrors of the scene but it is due to the ' pouring rain that a lire was prevented, in which event the occasion would have been too frightful for imagination to conceive. People from the vicinity flocked in to give aid and the work of rescuing' the wounded and recovering the dead began. After a delay de-lay of three hours a special from Cincinnati arrived with physicians ami the work of attending at-tending to the maimed and bleeding victims was begun. Under the freight engine was found, I crushed and mangled almost beyond recog-1 recog-1 nition, the body of poor Hinds, whi e only a short distance away was the bruised and broken body of Hiram Bruce, bis fireman. Berry Edwards, the engineer of the passenger passen-ger train must have endeavored to reverse, for he was found with one hand grasping tie throttle of his engine, his body being crushed to pulp against the reverse lever. Frank Tyrrell, his fireman, jumped, but was caught in a mass of wreckage and so badly-injured badly-injured that he died today. "Bonny" Keefe, head brakeman in the freight, had a marvelous escape. He was on top of a box car when the accident occurred and so great was the shock that he was thrown nearly twenty feet down a bank into ' a creek, which saved his life. The list of the identified dead is as fol-ilows: fol-ilows: William Hixds, Frank Tvrreli., Hiram Bruce, John Sop.oeder, Phillip Gibbon, George W. Hudler, David Harwood, Holton Ferrall, Berry Edwards, David M. Sherwood, William Gibbons, In addition five urikrown parties, three of whom were j ou tg fellows beating their war on the freight train have been recovered fr m the wreckage. Every passenger ou ' the passenger train was more or less injur jd. The death of Brakeman Win. Gibbons was t a pathetic scene. Gibbons was married only a month ago and left his young wife about two hours before the accident. He was crushed about the body and while perfectly conscious was in great pain. But his sole thought seemed to be of his wife and his agonired cries for "Blanche! Blanche!" were 6tich us to bring tears to the stoutest heart. A colored minister at Gibbons request offered of-fered prayer and in the afternoou murmuring his loved one's name with his last breath the k poor fellow sank to rest. W The coroner is on the spot and superin- K, tending the disposition of the remains. The W 1 ss of property is fully $100,000. The de- r tails of the accident are by no menus coin- " plete. |