See end of this message for instructions on how to unsubscribe. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Ohio > Butler Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=25433 More articles for Butler can be found at: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=2567 Article Title: Albuquerque Morning Journal Article Date: July 5 1910 Article Description: Ninteen Dead In Train Crash Article Text: Middletown" Nineteen person were killed outright,three probably fatally hurt and half a dozen seriously injured in a head on collision between a freight train and passenger train on the Cincinnati,Hamilton and Dayton railroad here today. Of the killed, eighteen were passengers .the other victims being members of the passenger train crew. The identified dead were all residents of Ohio. The bodies of three men and one woman have not been identified ,but on the clothing of one of the men were the initials W A. The trains were the Cincinnati section of the 20th century limited on the Cleveland,Cincinnati,Chicago and St Louis(The Big 4) and the second section of a freight train on the Cincinnati,Hamilton and Dayton. The latter was attempting to make a siding to give the passenger train a clear track,when the limited traveling fifty miles an hour flashed around a curve and crashed into it. The big four train had been detoured to avoid a track blocked by a freight wreck earlier in the day. A misunderstanding of orders caused the disaster. Pilot Engineer George Wald of the C H and D who was in practical charge of the big four train had received orders to wait at Post Town,a siding station three miles north of the city. The freight train was to have passed him there,but was late in puffing out of Middletown. Instead of the seven minute margin which Wald thought he had to reach Middletown,the time was less than five minutes. The first section of the freight had taken the siding here and Conductor John Weaver in charge of the second section tried to reach the north end of the same siding. Before his train had cleared the switch points,the passenger train rounded a curve screened by the thickly wooded lots on each side of the track. The engine crew had to jump and all escaped serious injury. All the dead and injured were in the first two cars. Every seat in this coach was torn from its fastenings,the roof was thrown to one side and the heavy weight of massive timbers from a freight car hurled with full force struck among the women and men in the coach.Even before the engine came,rescuers were running to the wreck from the Middletown station. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IMPORTANT: To stop receiving these notifications, you need to know if you are receiving them through a mailing list or if you subscribed through the Newspaper Abstracts website. Either way, you had to have subscribed yourself, as we do NOT just add people randomly to our notifications. To determine what you subscribed to, look at the subject line of this message. If the subject line begins with the words 'Old-News' followed by 'New Article for', then you are receiving this notification through a mailing list. Look at the end of this message for instructions on how to unsubscribe. If the subject line says 'New Article for' - but does NOT have 'Old-News' in front of it - then you subscribed through the website. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.newspaperabstracts.com and login. Once logged in, click on 'Your Account' near the upper right corner of the screen. Once there, click on the 'Edit' button next to the statement 'Profile of your-username'. Then look at the line that reads ' Receive email notification of every new article added to the site?' and make sure it says 'No'. If it says 'Yes', then change it to 'No' and then click on 'edit profile'. Next click on 'Manage Subscriptions' to see if you subscribed to receive notifications of articles added to a specific state or county. If so, check the box next to the state or county and then click on 'Cancel Subscriptions'. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com