Show ll aind harrowing from collision with a large water tank m ami mm of are from his A A sice on fire I 1 louisan lou iaan kil UM alit little rish it acir ET altoe 1 pre to THE rimmy arop t killil aal sturdy ontario april 23 ater rimo railroad accident occurred on alio trunk line near hero at 7 this morning alio st jumped alie track anil the engine ran into a water tank two cars were telescoped and immediately took firo all the dead seventeen in number have ix en taken out alie only body identified is that of it S gurney of chicali Chic agi he was instantly killed but was not burned an italian name unknown was also in fc tautly killed and tho kotlier fifteen a pro burned beyond possibility of about twenty persons were injured but only one or two se none of alie train handi were killed alio horenian was burned and received a bad abo train mas composed of an engine two baggage vais a Bno lier a chicago A grand trunk through RAS benger coach a wabash coach a wagner birst class coachi a pullman car and two wanner sleeping cars in the order named the accident acci Jent occurred at a junction where a Y ja built this Y h used to switch through trains for the toronto from the main llido the train is said to have been running at a speed of furta mili an hour or more alen directly on the crossing ilia switch engine alie track and plunged into ane water lank winch in the apice between thay the tank inlo atoms anil turning it almost upside down the baggage cars cuno derex aly after the engine anatlie of w as over the en yina and on the main track leaving ite behind it the other car caslib alre from the edaine and the two vere soon in the coaches following miah alie eipp tion of alie two cars at the rear of alio train were huddled together by alio beok and soun hiie from alie baggage can alie sera on alie annn numbered of whom were the time aliey bad alie terrible alia majority of these on board lie rain ero able to get out of the collum before lie iru readied bliem bill in ibe that reigned it ami not known giov many were left to alio mercy of alie llau ica penned in by material of the wreck and unable to extricate ii H jurney 0 strook lyn new york biad ilia head completely severed from liia boily by a piete tit 11 ing debris dricker was atao instantly killed As awn as the engine rolled over after alio water tank wathon and fireman chapman crawled out ron it neither of them being much fiort an auxiliary train was sent out from this city on receipt ot alie now a of the accident and tho aissen pissen gern including 1 lie mj ireland two of the killed were brought to tins city the two wagner card in alie rear of the train ere uncoupled the others and were saved from the by a largo ang of employees who worked unceasingly at the wreck doing their utmost to extinguish the fire their was great difficulty in securing water owing to the tank being ed and alie firo bield sway for many hours before a thorough search could bo made alie dabria up to 5 the clia remains of eighteen victims biad been exhumed irom the wreck in no ane cane c was enough of the body left to identify the demaios or to tell whether the per sass w ero of malo or female sex among the wounded now in the hospital are alio following fallowing fal lowing james A balmer illion N y cut but not liburt hamilton dark chicago double fracture of hie right leg badly licad cut and probably internally injured of all the injured lie is alio worse anthony maaz an italian on bis way from wio coasin to italy head cut adwin chapman fireman head badly cut knoch kenyon of london bog ribs broken 0 C adibell nod idward bert william ankle badly A L poney danville llesi cut about the licad georgo white a oa his way from illinois to union hill right par cut ott and scalp wound andrew J carpenter yankton dekota injured about the bead S E young cheyenne flig lilly liburt joseph fail sioux 1 umi dekota on his way to luland blaino acl wounds leg and shoulders but not seriously about ten others were slightly elight ly bruised but not so badly as to prevent them from continuing their it wa Goc loik this oven ing befaro the araki were tle areil alio wounded in aliu are all doimi well bo fair an can IMS there was no negligence on alie biart ot alie railroad tho simply jumped alie truck at the imi alie screams of alio inon who were being in tha could be lierd above tho of tho bicum and llin roaring of the pool bays the was fifteen late but was net running booro alian twenty miles an hour when tho accident oc burred aal ordera aro thit trains must not run at that place at a creater epe d than twenty miles to where tho accident liap pencil is considered danger as there ia a on ebarp cune hence the of running slowly A later report saya that doven cara a car two claa coaches a amaker a biral o acs two sleepers were burned there beio gnot a vestige of antonni that burn left one ear the luggage car was demolished and the engine was the most complete wreck imaginable the losa to the company will lie enormous many ol 01 allm w on ilia train were going to nev vuk to tio palt in the centennial festivities most 0 hie agers loat all or a portion of their and clothing and a largo amount ol 01 mails were lust by alio alro another report of alie accident says alio llio remains of from 10 to were taken out of the v rui i they were cut almost to a man anil burred beyond all they were huddled onether in haps h aps in tho andi 0 the smoker and were penned in by timbers which made it hie for them to extricate themselves nothing could bo donn for ahcin as the ier cenes of alio lames made it out of ilia question tor alio men to them the only way in which it be ascertained that from li to IS bodies bad been out waa from the fact that the lepa and arms corresponding to about that number were found alio remains were talon to aliu city and placed in alio morgue identification an inquest bill be held tomorrow to morrow it will in all probability ba days before ibe dead are identified borne of atie wounded were also taken to the hospital NY annl 23 A special train on the grand trunk camo in today to day about 1 40 pm having on board about 75 of alie passengers that were in alie accident that occurred a short ilistine ili stane west of hamilton this morning among them were four men who were badly ca and injured about the licad and body malcolm mckay of boston in relating bis experience said 1 I have no idea how I 1 got out of alie wreck but would not bo surprised if I 1 went through a window as the doctor several pieces of glass from alie cuts in my licad I 1 have a faint remembrance of two men helping me stand but I 1 was bialt nay here before I 1 clearly understood what biad happened it is feared that bill phillipi of chicago the birst baseman of the hamilton team was amock abo killed llevat expected to report today to day april 29 workmen in shifting the remains of the wreck thia afternoon discovered att waa without doubt alie cause of the disaster one of the axles of the eoline waa found to be brokon the ale after the accident had been pitched into the mud and water and had also lieen somewhat burned the coroners Coron erd jury seemed to be of the opinion eliat the broken axle caused the accident but ia order to set some moro upon the subject an expert in iron and working vi as ai pointed to nuke au inspection spec tion the coroner inspected alio charred remains very closely lie says be is sure there aro not the re gaind of eighteen persons among them he thinks be alie right number or at the outside which mil make almost nineteen deaths from tha accident most of mero killed instantly and remains were burned afterward but it is certain that como suffered intenzo beina slowly burned to death abilo hemmed in by port ioui of the all the wounded are doing hell lu iho hamilton hospital many telegrams have been received inquiring about persona to have been in the wrecked train alie majority of alio injured are from chicago and places west of it ii feared mr curmick of chicago v ai amone burned to death a piece of a chirl bearing alie word curnick having been found among alio chaired of alie victims airs cullin of who it lias been stated was on the train be traced among the charred bodies have been faunl tivo note books with the name K Simo ieH pueblo Iu eblo culo their baner ii supposed lo 10 leavo been from colaud Jo laud an tic bearing the name 1 duard johnson liaa also beba found |