Show A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT Tvro Trains I7cct on Ji Crossing Vitli Fearful Kciiiltfl ST THOMAS Ont July 1GA terrible I accident occurred at the crossing of the I Grand Trunk and Michigan Central railways rail-ways in this city abont < Joclook last evcn ing Au cxcnrsioEtnun on tho Gr iid Trunk from Port Stanley ran into n passing freight train on tho Michigan Central l made up of a number of cars with oil The engine crashed into one of these cars when the oil instantly took fire and burned with great fierceness communicating to the carson cars-on both trains and extending to Griffins warehouse the coal and lime sheds adjoining ad-joining the track on the west and John Campbells dwelling on the east all of which were burned to the ground with their contents Engineer Donelly of the excursion excur-sion train was burned His fireman jumped and escaped with light injuries The forward for-ward car of the excursion was filled with passengers who made frantic efforts to escape es-cape but notwithstanding that hundreds of brave and willing hands were immediately at work to assist in their rescue it is feared a number of lives have been lost and that they will be burned beyond before be-fore their bodies can bo got out of the I wreok At 8 oclock when a thousand people I peo-ple were crowding around the burning pile one of the oil tanks on a car suddenly exploded II ex-ploded throwing hundreds to the ground I with great force and scattering tho firo in all directions and severely perhaps fatally injuring many At 830 clock nine bodies were taken out They were burned to a crisp It is almost I impossible to ascertain with any certainty the names of those lost in the wreck till tho arrival l of the train from Port Stanley There are manyconflicting rumors but it seems almost certain that Engineer Donnelly Mr Yealand a clerk in J W Nickleboronghs dry goods store and child and the wife and child of James Smithers dry goods merchant were burned to death A son of Mr Potts master mechanic me-chanic of the Michigan CenlralBRailway was burned on the neck andjscores of others were injured who wereftaken to their homes before their names ould be learned Gangs of men under tho direction of Superintendent Morfore and Assistant Superintendent Morehead of thai Michigan Central Railway and J Stewart agent for tho Grand Trunk Railway are hard at work moving the debris and it is expected that the track will be cleared by daylight The telegraph wires were destroyed de-stroyed and several poles have been burned thus interrupting communication UTICA July 1Gfho special train which oonvevs the President and party to tho Thousand Islands left Utica at the appointed ap-pointed hour Secretary and Mrs Fairchild boarded tho train in Utica this morning At Holland Patent tho party was augmented i by Miss nose Cleveland L L Yearaans and wife brotherinlaw and sister of the President and Miss Carrie E and Miss Mary Hastings Presting Cleyelands nieces gMr THOMAS Ontana Jnly 1G1he rum nS Ikilled in the railroad disaster yesterday p Incteen and injured about forty Af 5 C collision occurred the passengers ocd omergingjfrom the car windows rilablo meanspf egress being taken Ate of TIff majority of tho pas lae45 j S hi tho car next to the engine had jTibeen got out when tho engine plunged into the train Engineer Donnelly was found in the cab with his illLandon the lever still as if endeavoring to make the air bra es > work To add additional addi-tional horror thVaffair the section train into which the engine of the passenger train f ploughed consisted of two cars containing I tanks of crude oil and a car loaded with barrels i bar-rels of refined oil end almost before tho passengers heard tho crash of the 01 lision it was followed by a tremendous explosion ex-plosion whichcould be heard for miles A i pyramid of red fire and black clouda towered tower-ed up in tho air and in a moment sheets of firo reached out and enveloped cars dwellings and warehouses in tho vicinity Burning oil was scattered around in all directions setting fire to Griffins coal and salt warehouses J L Campbells dwelling and watch house and I other structures in the vicinity destroying S I all these causing a loss of about 50000 I I I |