Show AN AWFUL TRAIN WRECK during a heavy storm a passenger ex press arc ican into a freight on tho the we big four noad in iii the midst of a ter terrific rifle storm of wind and ruin two mo big four trains crashed into each other near cloves cleves ohio sunday morning v ith awful effect the full horrors of which are arc not yet known the summer schedule went into effect sunday morning freight no 43 a through northbound north bound train had orders to stop lit at north bend to allow express no 80 a cannonball special to pata under the other schedule the trains passed at another point some borne miles aber on instead ot of stopping stepping the freight pulled ahead and approached lunning at the rate ol of twenty miles an leour why lie he did not stop at north bend will III acier be known is as he Is dead but it la Is thought that in ills anxiety over tho the storm which might haic washed out bridges he forgot tile the new schedule and hurried berried on As the train approached cleves charles smith the telegraph operator wasi was astonished tor for lie knew that it 11 should lave have sidetracked at north bend and that the express a 11 fcc minutes overdue overt nc was but a short distance away running forty five miles a ah lour hour to n analo up for lost time smith rushed to the signal ii wires fres and dashed off the danger signal either it was not seen in the blinding lain or the engineer c oula could not control his engine for it sped on by is without lessening its t decd I 1 at that very moment the express came c I 1 into I 1 n U t 0 I 1 sight fight with the speed ot of the wind it if a any ny C effort f was made on either engine to slacken speed it was not appreciable and the iron monsters sprang at and crashed into each other with a roar that rolled above the storm like a clap of thunder both engines were battered into shapeless masses and rolled oil off the track the cars care behind viere vera smashed into kindling and the track tor for feet was torn up telegraph poles were thrown down and it was ti two 0 or three hours after the wreck before word nord was sent out and a special train was sent to the scene from cincinnati long before however the people from the little village and from the surrounding country had bad gathered and in the frightful storm were doing all they could tor for the victims the wreckage caught fire A messenger ran to cleves the fire bell rang people rushed rubbed to the scene and prevented the wreck from burning up the wounded were removed to cleves under the care of dr hughes of that place dr of cincinnati was soon there with two aids and gave the best care possible to the injured one of the never to be forgotten scenes was tl ii af V it II abe ed cd until after noon conscious all the time jie ile had bad a young wife that he be had kissed good bye but an hour before all his grief and all his talk was about that wife in the amon agonies lesof of death till his bis tongue was stilled forever he spoke of her again and again he be begged some one to pray at last in ia response to his pleadings an old colored minister stepped timidly to his bedside the dying man beckoned the sable man mail to go on then and there as the fervid petition arose from the trembling lips of the colored divine there was a scene of solemnity that none present m will III soon forget or ever experienced before the words wint to the listeners as though they were A ere inspired Il willoney loney II oncy keefe a freight had just leached beached the top of a car when the collision occurred the crash was so BO terrible that lie he was thrown over a telegraph wire ire forty feet into a stream is hah lluc the win 6 the engineer fireman an and ana conductor of the freight train and the engineer and on the passenger and three passengers were fatally injured |