| Show MERRYMAKING ENDS IN DISASTER r t Many jany Excursionists Killed and Others Wounded 1 MAINS tAIS S PLOW LOW INTO PEOPLE ft ti to 10 S U i If f t lb II ra huI or H lite ilta I Mich May Mn 3 say day of ot mer meri i t and N b by 1600 I PoI Pol I it excursionists from Toledo WM luht to a II Ioe e by lI b a n frightful cn In at lit the corner covner ot of ami I streets tot at nl 1130 to In which h at Ut I t least seven of ot the ex exI I were w re killed and anI a 1 number estimated nt nl 30 The was given by hy the Polish Sneers tiera of Toledo over the be Lako Shore railroad ti Tho rho left leti the thet t hII tIt corner corper of ot Cannell and DC street thU morning anti and were greeted U cl by b a n number of ot local Io Poles and who escorted the tho vis Is to St It J church h An en no was waa held later hiter at aL Harmo hall hail Despite Dealto their efforts hundreds crawled under une the lOver oer of ot the th Ih Kates and walked d n the dark to await avalt the till ar nr arria ria of or their train which could bo ho seen up Uli slowly from the station Mutton 1000 1 persons ero cro ulong the tracks jI for lor or two blocks block wait waiting ing lor t to board the Lake Shore excursion trAin and arni secure seats It H was only a afef ar afew few r foi blocks down lown the tho truck track creeping carefully t ulI along from out of ot the Clim the tho Grand Trunk g on lid Nt York express known ns tie th tho Pun Pan American merican flyer It plowed through the tutu mail nl of or people throwing them to both hoth alde Ild i of or the track teach bruised and maimed a p number ot of them under tl heels TW fh was wa checked ant and slopped as ns I u possible ond nn backed to tot t Keno of oC the thc catastrophe where for two clocks the tho track tl ck was covered with m led and anti dying people Four of oj ad ve yure killed I outright by tho the tr f the th others died after r being tol 1 to tn hospitals olsT The T tracks are very dark below Can Cnn Canfield field Md flea and nati had to lo be bebr br Into Inlo ute U e to find the victims A coal several severi neigh bot houses und end the shanty at the crowing crossing were w re made tern tem pored hospitals and arni the wounded wt carried Into nl th thin m until the nm arn bulan but u a 1 few minutes later 10 ter ambulance in the city eUy was called to th scene le r and the Injured were soon under the care rare of surgeons In the he hog lios Patrolman r r Schultz who was one of the th officers leers on an duty at lit the crossing Ve We e made every effort to keep the th le off orr the tracks but It wn was IL s There r tre were 1600 I OG excursion f t ng Bark ta t I u that r jf t f local low Poles Ioles lol s who wM had been Entertaining be thorn them were down at atthe atthe atthe the crowing c to sea seo o them off ort Those Thone e behind pushed ush und hoed the foremost A j 4 thy they crawled under the gates lates m bleh were down properly or Jumped over them despite our best efforts I There was lal no warning whatever of I the approaching p Grand hand Trunk train I Ii No whistle van w ws blown blon and the hell belt i was KAS not ringing I should think that 1000 was Ill a II small number for tor the people who we re on the tracks for tor two to blocks trying tr to 10 be hi among sinon the first aboard tho the Lake UKe Shore horo train and anI thereby there b secure Mats Cats s at for fer the tine homeward trip I The Th Orand arand Trunk train came like a meteor out of ot the darkness up the track and end was through the crowd nl ai most niost before I realized realised what whal had hap hop happened and end rescuers swarmed down lawn tho the track The cries and moans of or the tho thoI I Injured guided us In the search and we pitted picked them up from Crom both sides ldes i of the track for Cor two blocks Some Home of or orthe the EIghts were wece too sickening to de Ie describe write scribe When Sh n Thorns Thom H U Hart Bait the engineer who W wee In tn charge of the tho Grand Grond Trunk train which sea ran Into Ino the Hie crowd wits wan wn seen n at al Mi ide bI home hom tonight he lie gave gae the following n of or the affair 1 Th hii J att where th the accident oe or Is li not a regular topping sloppIng point for Interning ti I nger trains and un unless Unless less leu th lbs receives notice be bf befort before tort fort teaching uv U tJI crossing or has hns the rignal Ignal turned against him he runs tuna through Without stoppIng Vit We were running down on 01 time to tonight tonIght tonight night and Rod wh when n wu we neared l Cannell I noticed j the tho headlight of ot the Lake Jake Shore train standing at nt but ns as this tit fa a 4 common occur tenet ronN I 1 raid no attention tA t It II The Tho light from the other ether engine was shin shining leg ing lu In my m eyes ees end and nJ It was Willi wa impossible tor for 1 to lo see fee the crowd on the track until I J ml th the other oilier engine When I 1 first t noticed the crowd crowl the theS S pl were all nil over the tho track and after blowing the whistle I th t blab bink but could not stop my train In tn time tine to a running Into th them a W Wf were well running about twelve t hI miles nn an hour th the usual speed at that plArl aa and l it was wall Impossible for tor mo ma to toy tny train to a stop atoll In Inthe inthe the short horl e between my no 01 train and the crowd CroWl Many In III the excited and threatened t ned nM U t take my y life They threw thle bricks and anil stones 11 through tIne thu thumb mb rob windows and I wee was wa finally forced to send fend for Cor the to 10 protect prot t me m of or the croud c carne came me Into nto the cub cab with me nl |
