Lindsey, Ohio Train Wreck
August 7, 1893
THE LAKE SHORE WRECK.
Sleeping Coaches Smashed – Three Killed and Many
Injured.
FREMONT, O., Aug. 7. -- A terrible wreck
occurred at Lindsey, a small village of about
500 inhabitants eight miles west of this place,
on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern. An
engine and three sleepers were badly demolished
and three people killed outright, while fully 25
were more or less badly injured.
The wreck was caused by the collision of a
west bound passenger train and east bound
freight. Passenger train No. 9, the Pacific
express, left here about 10 minutes late. The
train consisted of an engine, baggage car, two
express cars, three coaches and five sleepers.
The coaches and sleepers were all well filled
with people, many of whom were on their way to
Chicago.
The seriously injured are as follows:
Professor EMERSON,
Amherst college, Gloucester, Mass., chest
crushed, will die.
J. A. HAMILTON, Pittsburg, injured
internally, perhaps fatally.
Porter STEVENS (colored), New York,
extent of injuries not known.
Porter PELHAM (colored), of the
sleeper Orinoco, Chicago, injured internally,
very serious.
A. H. WEST, Chicago, badly cut, not
serious.
Center Fielder RYAN of the Chicago
Baseball club, bad cuts.
Catcher KITTRIDGE of the Chicago
Baseball club, cut about head and body.
E. K. FISHER, Ravine street,
Alleghany City, Pa., left foot cut off.
Those killed outright were:
ED LAFFERTY, engineer on local
freight No. 74, residence at Elyria, O., married
and leaves a widow and four children.
CHARLES SPANE, brakeman on freight,
residence at Clayville, N. Y.
Porter ROBERTSON (colored) of the
sleeper Erie, residence at Chicago.
Professor EMERSON
and Porter
PELHAM are now in an unconscious
condition, and their deaths are hourly expected.
Professor EMERSON Will Recover.
FREMONT, O., Aug. 8. -- The condition
of Professor EMERSON,
D. A. HAMILTON and Porter PELHAM, who
were injured in the Lindsay wreck of Saturday
night, is somewhat improved, and they are now in
a fair way to recovery.
The Ogdensburg Advance and St. Lawrence
County Democrat New York 1893-08-07
Submitted & transcribed by Stu
Beitler Thank you,
Stu!
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