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Don’t Failto See OnrNEWDEATH AND DESTRUCTION.Continued From l'irot Page.latest. Wlieu the ferry boat mado her first trip, with some of the passengers of the ill-fated train and some of tho wounded, the grado was black with people. They stood aronnd for an hour or more in little JPgronps, discussing the matter. Many of the morecurious crossed the river and, affcor | them comfortable iu the sleopers.could hear people groauiug all about me. I ran forward to whore the wreck appeared to bo the worst. Just as I got to tho odgo of the embank-moot, I saw a man trying to crawl up out of tho dobris. I wont to help him. It was Stout, tho roadmastor. Ho was foarfully injured about tho head, aud could not talk. Ho diod in a few miu-utes. Tho other passengers oamo out and we got all tho injured and madem:inspc3tang the sleepers, fully fifty or seventy-five started out on a tramp to the scene of tho disaster. Many of these had kodaks and went prepared to get viows of the wreck.THE PORTSMOUTH PEOPLE. When the train pulled into South Portsmouth, five people from this city were waiting on tho platfrm. They were Oarl Rickor and Ora Finney, of the Portsmouth National bank; Richard Aladdock, Win. Wolfe, of the Portsmouth Heel Co., and William Kinni-son, a young man who works for Dr. L. D. AllardJ Thoy all entered the second day coach. Carl Rickor and Ora Finney, whon seen by the Times reportor, gave a graphic accouut of tho wreck. “We bad barely gotten comfortably 601116(1,“ eaid Mr,' Ricker; “Fitmoy was iu the second seat from the front aud I was in tho third seat, on the south side of tho coach. Kinni-6ou was sitting immediately behind ns. Just aftor wo pulled out of tho station, Maddock and Wolfo got up and said t-hov were going into the smoker to enjoy a cigar. Thoy had barely left tho coach, when I heard a bumping noiso . as the wheols struck the ties. Then we y were thrown up in the air and shaken Q I up. Thou the car ciimo to a stand still. It was standing on an incline, so that it was not possible to walk withoutfAnothor passcngor in tho sleeper was From .nt Oole, a woalthy merchant from New York City. Mr. Oolo was accompanied by his wife and littlo daughter, and they occupied a state room in tho forward sloopor. Thoy were sleeping souudly wheu the wrock occurred, aud Mr. Colo was not awakened. Mrs. Colo awoko, and hor littlo daughter was thrown out of the berth. While they were wondering what had happened, thoy hoard tho portor shouting out that, tho train had been wrecked and many killed. They dressed hurriedly and rushed out to view tho wreck. “It was tho most terrible sight 1 ever saw, said Mrs. Cole. “I1 vo travoled thousands of miles and been in small wrecks, but never saw anything like this. I never want to again, 0111101*.“Another passongor in the slooper was a tali old gentleman with a long, flowing board. Ho refused to give his name, but was in a beastly humor. He said all his baggage was lost iu tho wreck, and ho was going to make somebody pay for it. He’d be d—-d if jhe’d be imposed on by any railroad company. He did a lot of kicking at South Portsmouth.iran by -of i Uclncisianlt;stirthehiHiRiHiTHE FIREMAN’S STORY.I-I. Myers, fireman on tho ill-fated train, was seen in tho smoking apartment of one of tho Pullmans at Southpulling yourself by tho soat. I startedto work myself to the door,faud got out I Portsmouth by a Times reporter. Mr. byway of the platform—the regular payers lives in Covington. Ho was way. Finney did not stop to do this, wrapped up in a blanket, and was Ho 3mashed out tho window by his suffering from 11 bruised hip aud leg. seat and made his way out there in took the accidont very philosophic! I great haste. We went forward, then. h^Hy, however, and was pulling away The wreck was awful. The coaches a cigar.KcKeKcbe10twwi\vtgr‘(1Hrr(| were teloscoped so thoroughly that they “There ain’t much to say,” ho re-eslooked like one coach, aud tho engine marked- “We were pulling along at was buried out of sight. I about our usual speed. Were runningWhen wo went forward some of the a little slower than usual, and I was trainmen were helping the roadmastor, I keeping a sharp lookout. We woro Mr. Stout, out of the wreck. He was afraid of washouts. There wore three injured about the head and chest. He 0f us 0n the engine—Engineer Fair-asked for some whisky and somebody 1 bead, Roadmastor Stout and mysolf. wont to get it. Before they came back, gcout joined us up the river. All of a Stout was unconscious and died in a audden wo saw the ditch directly infew minutes. Ho was so badly hurt tbat he did not suffer much. No 0110 in our car was injured. ”William Kinuisou, who also got 011 at South Portsmouth, did not wait 011 the accommodation. Ho walked up from the wreck.front of us, and iu a second we woro in it and the mail and baggaga cars piling up on top of us. Tim next thing I remember I was getting out of there as fast as I could. I did not notice that I was hurt mnali at first, but I soon found that I was badlyAnothor passenger in tho day coaoh bruised. I tell you, it was lucky that was Mr. Hinch, cashier of the Fifth escaped with our lives. It was the National bank of Cincinnati. Ho was closest call I ever had.” uot hurt. This is the sooond wreck Mr. Engineer Fairhead was suffering Hinch has beon in during the past from bruises oh the hips and elbows twenty-four hours. Yesterday ho was aQ(j a bad scalp wound. Tho latter in a small wreck on the N. W. Hoi bad not been bandaged and was bleed-came back to Portsmouth and was eu- iugi He deoliued to talk, saying thattortained by the Portsmouth bank \ the fireman had told it all right.Warn “Tf T f'Plt hmilft all
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Portsmouth Daily Times
Portsmouth, Ohio, US
Mon, Feb 22, 1897
Page 7
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