| Show A FRIGHTFUL WRECK Which Kills Six Postal Clerks and Two Engineers ENGINES AND CARS SMASHED Io Kindling WoodThe Passengers Were not Seriously Injured A Tragedy au the Steamer Eider CLEVELAND Ohio April 1SA frightful fright-ful wreck occurred on the Lake Shore railroad at Kipton station about forty miles west this evening in which six postal clerks and two engineers were killed Past mail Ko1 going east collided with No 21 the Toledo express just as the latter train was about to pull on the siding t let the fast mail pass The fast mail was running at full speed and the force of the collision was so great that both engines three mail cars and one baggage car were completely com-pletely wrecked The following is a list of the dead Engineers Edward Brown and Charles Toliff Fireman Staley Postal Clerks 1 J Nugent Charles Ham mil F F Clemens John J Bowerfine James McKinley C H McDowell Injured In-jured John Danzig son of a section foreman fore-man None of the passenger cars left the track and none of the passengers received serious injuries It was the custom of these two trains to pass at Kipton the Toledo express taking tak-ing the side track for the fast mail O which usually went through without slackening The express was a few minutes min-utes late this evening and had just come to a stop at the switch when the fast mail 4 came in eight The engineer of the fast mail applied the brakes when he saw a collision was inevitable but the spec of the train was not checked materi ally The engine of the Toledo express was knocked squarely across the track and that of the fast mail reared in the air rest ing on top of the other The first and I second main cars were telescoped and smashed to kindling wood and the third I crashed into the first two and rolled over on the station platform Two baggage cars of the Toledo express were knocked from the track but did not turn over The passengers were thrown to the floors and badly shaken but none seriously injured The passengers at once began the work of rescue and with a corps of physicians from town ministered to the few who were injured All but one of the dead were beyond be-yond human assistance so soon a the collision col-lision occurred The bodies were all horribly hor-ribly crushed and mutilated arms and legs being torn off and the corpses almost beyond recognition The poor postal clerks were caged like rats and the telescoping of the cars crushed the life out of them without with-out a moments warning The debris is j piled in a heap higher than tho station I is difficult t locate the blame for the accident acci-dent but it is said the express was ordered to stop at Oberlin but went on to Kipton jind had not sufficient time to make the sidetrack |
