Rail Road Accident. – We find the following particulars of the Railroad accident, below Carey last week:
Mr. William Wilshire, a citizen of this city [Cincinnati], and a Director of the above road, has given us an account of the accident whereby two men lost their lives, and a locomotive and several cars were smashed to pieces, on last Wednesday midnight, on the Cincinnati, Sandusky & Cleveland Railroad.
He says that at 11:45, Wednesday night, the night express, from Sandusky to Cincinnati, crossing a cattle guard on the south side of a county road, five miles this side of Carey, in the edge of Richland Township, Wyandot county, jumped the track suddenly without a warning whistle from the locomotive. The locomotive was badly used up; the tender was a complete wreck. Under it lay two brothers, Kuhn Scheifler and Conrad Scheifler, the only human victims of of the disaster, horribly mutilated.
Their bodies were extricated, dead, but warm. The former was engineer, and leaves a wife and seven children; the latter was a firemen, and was not married. Both made their homes in Sandusky. ….
The bodies of the men killed, were taken to Sandusky for interment on Thursday evening. When removed from under the engine, they presented a horrible sight. One was literally bursted open and crushed in front, and the other had a large hole in his forehead, his face was severely cut and in the left side of his abdomen, was a hole larger than a man's fist. Of course both met with instant death.
Foul play is suspected in this case but nothing definite has been found against any parties yet. Sunday last, the wreck was taken to Sandusky City; and the cars were as badly smashed as it was possible for them to be.
The Tiffin Tribune
Tiffin, Ohio
October 27, 1870 page 3
Contributor: Billy Walker (31535270) • [email protected]
Mr. William Wilshire, a citizen of this city [Cincinnati], and a Director of the above road, has given us an account of the accident whereby two men lost their lives, and a locomotive and several cars were smashed to pieces, on last Wednesday midnight, on the Cincinnati, Sandusky & Cleveland Railroad.
He says that at 11:45, Wednesday night, the night express, from Sandusky to Cincinnati, crossing a cattle guard on the south side of a county road, five miles this side of Carey, in the edge of Richland Township, Wyandot county, jumped the track suddenly without a warning whistle from the locomotive. The locomotive was badly used up; the tender was a complete wreck. Under it lay two brothers, Kuhn Scheifler and Conrad Scheifler, the only human victims of of the disaster, horribly mutilated.
Their bodies were extricated, dead, but warm. The former was engineer, and leaves a wife and seven children; the latter was a firemen, and was not married. Both made their homes in Sandusky. ….
The bodies of the men killed, were taken to Sandusky for interment on Thursday evening. When removed from under the engine, they presented a horrible sight. One was literally bursted open and crushed in front, and the other had a large hole in his forehead, his face was severely cut and in the left side of his abdomen, was a hole larger than a man's fist. Of course both met with instant death.
Foul play is suspected in this case but nothing definite has been found against any parties yet. Sunday last, the wreck was taken to Sandusky City; and the cars were as badly smashed as it was possible for them to be.
The Tiffin Tribune
Tiffin, Ohio
October 27, 1870 page 3
Contributor: Billy Walker (31535270) • [email protected]
Rail Road Accident. – We find the following particulars of the Railroad accident, below Carey last week:
Mr. William Wilshire, a citizen of this city [Cincinnati], and a Director of the above road, has given us an account of the accident whereby two men lost their lives, and a locomotive and several cars were smashed to pieces, on last Wednesday midnight, on the Cincinnati, Sandusky & Cleveland Railroad.
He says that at 11:45, Wednesday night, the night express, from Sandusky to Cincinnati, crossing a cattle guard on the south side of a county road, five miles this side of Carey, in the edge of Richland Township, Wyandot county, jumped the track suddenly without a warning whistle from the locomotive. The locomotive was badly used up; the tender was a complete wreck. Under it lay two brothers, Kuhn Scheifler and Conrad Scheifler, the only human victims of of the disaster, horribly mutilated.
Their bodies were extricated, dead, but warm. The former was engineer, and leaves a wife and seven children; the latter was a firemen, and was not married. Both made their homes in Sandusky. ….
The bodies of the men killed, were taken to Sandusky for interment on Thursday evening. When removed from under the engine, they presented a horrible sight. One was literally bursted open and crushed in front, and the other had a large hole in his forehead, his face was severely cut and in the left side of his abdomen, was a hole larger than a man's fist. Of course both met with instant death.
Foul play is suspected in this case but nothing definite has been found against any parties yet. Sunday last, the wreck was taken to Sandusky City; and the cars were as badly smashed as it was possible for them to be.
The Tiffin Tribune
Tiffin, Ohio
October 27, 1870 page 3
Contributor: Billy Walker (31535270) • [email protected]
Mr. William Wilshire, a citizen of this city [Cincinnati], and a Director of the above road, has given us an account of the accident whereby two men lost their lives, and a locomotive and several cars were smashed to pieces, on last Wednesday midnight, on the Cincinnati, Sandusky & Cleveland Railroad.
He says that at 11:45, Wednesday night, the night express, from Sandusky to Cincinnati, crossing a cattle guard on the south side of a county road, five miles this side of Carey, in the edge of Richland Township, Wyandot county, jumped the track suddenly without a warning whistle from the locomotive. The locomotive was badly used up; the tender was a complete wreck. Under it lay two brothers, Kuhn Scheifler and Conrad Scheifler, the only human victims of of the disaster, horribly mutilated.
Their bodies were extricated, dead, but warm. The former was engineer, and leaves a wife and seven children; the latter was a firemen, and was not married. Both made their homes in Sandusky. ….
The bodies of the men killed, were taken to Sandusky for interment on Thursday evening. When removed from under the engine, they presented a horrible sight. One was literally bursted open and crushed in front, and the other had a large hole in his forehead, his face was severely cut and in the left side of his abdomen, was a hole larger than a man's fist. Of course both met with instant death.
Foul play is suspected in this case but nothing definite has been found against any parties yet. Sunday last, the wreck was taken to Sandusky City; and the cars were as badly smashed as it was possible for them to be.
The Tiffin Tribune
Tiffin, Ohio
October 27, 1870 page 3
Contributor: Billy Walker (31535270) • [email protected]
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