Show I 1 alcid accident on t ST THOMAS oct ont july I 1 15 5 A terrible accident occurred at the crossing cro alag of etibo he grand trunk and michigan central railways in n this city about 7 this evening an excursion train on the grand trunk from port stanley ran into a passing freight train on the michigan central made up of a number of cars laden with ith oil the engines crashed into one of these when the oil in int antly Mantly took fire and burned with great com n muti with tho the cara cars on Z both 1 trains and extending to the lie griffins warehouse waro ware houie houe and the coal and limo lime sheda adjoining tile track on the vest meet and john campbells dwelling on the tile east adlof all of A which were bur it od to the ground v with iab their contents engineer donnelly ot of the excursion train waa was burned in a the wreck ilia his fi fireman reman lumped jumped and escaped witla elight slight injuries the forward car of the excursion irain was filled A knitli ith passengers who made frantic efforts to escape but notwithstanding danding hundreds hun dreda of brae brave and billing nilling hands were mere immediately immediate ty at ft aik oik to assi assist t in their rescue it is feared a number of lives havo have been lost and they will Bill bo be burned beyond recognition rc before their bodied can bo be got out of the wreck at 8 when choti thousand andi of people tt A ere crowd croft ding around the burning pile one of tile oil tanks on oil the cara cars suddenly exploded throwing bund hundreds redi to the ground with great force and nd scatter ecat itil fire in all 11 directions and severely perhaps fatally injuring many at 6 80 nine bodice v acre ere taken out they were burnel burno I 1 bearly 1 to a a criep crisp LATER ST sr aiom s july 10 16 the number killed I 1 in it the railroad disaster yesterday was 19 and the injured about 40 after lio the collision occurred tho the passengers commenced emerging from the far car windows overy available means of egress being taken advantage of A majority of tho the passengers in the car next the engine had been got out when lien bo the engine planned plunged into the rain train engineer donnelly avas ww found in fit the cab with hia his hand on the be t lever ever still as it if endeavoring to make the air brakes work to add additional horror borror borto to tho the affair of the tile train into which abich the ilia engine of the passenger train ploughed sloughed hed consisted consitt ed of 0 two car cars containing tanys of crude oil and anti a car loaded mith barrels of refined oil and almost before the passengers pae engere heard the tile crash of the co collision it wa was followed by a tremendous dous explosion which could be he heard for miles A pyramid of rod red cro fire and black eloids towered up in the air and in fit a moment a sheet of fins oro reached out and enveloped the cars dwellings and warehouses in the vicinity i the burning oil was scattered aroun around d in all directions direct ione setting fire tu grif fina coal and salt warehouses J L campbells dwelling and warehouse and all d other in the tile vicinity destroying all of these and causing a loea loss bf of about tSO |