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(erielack) Careless Flagman in NYP&O Wreck - Tallmadge, OH.

 
Talmadge, OH Train Wreck, Jan 1889 - Death on the Siding
Posted  October 27th, 2007 by _Linda Horton_ 
(http://www3.gendisasters.com/users/linda-horton)   
 
DEATH ON THE SIDING. 
CAUSED BY THE CARELESSNESS OF A FLAGMAN. 
EIGHT PERSONS INSTANTLY KILLED 
And Over a Dozen Severely Injured---A Horrible Accident on the New York,  
Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad. 
YOUNGSTOWN, January 14.---Passenger train No. 8, bound for New York, on the 
 New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio railroad, while running fifty-miles an 
hours  this morning, struck a freight train, head end, near Talmadge, Ohio. 
Both  engineers, both firemen, and eight passengers were killed and fourteen  
passengers were badly injured. The freight train was attempting to make a  
siding, and had sent out a flagman who failed to signal the passenger train. 
The  wreck is more serious than the one at Rittman, when the Grand Army train 
was  wrecked. 
ANOTHER DISPATCH. 
CLEVELAND, O., January 14.---Particulars of the accidents on the New York,  
Pennsylvania and Ohio road, near Kent, as far as known at the general 
office in  this city, are that the third section of freight train No. 81, west, 
broke in  two between Kent and Talmadge. The front end of the train was put 
on a side  track and a flagman was left at Talmadge to flag passenger train 
No. 8, east  bound, then nearly due. The flagman imagined he heard a whistled 
signal from his  engine to return to the train, and did not perform the 
duty required of him. The  engines came together with fatal results to eight 
persons and injuries to six  others. Those reported killed are: 
Engineer HUNTINGTON, Fireman WALTERS, Brakeman BRASHFORD, Express Messenger 
 LANDY, MARY LYON, little six-year-old GIRL of Cherrytree, N. Y., and three 
 CHINAMEN. 
The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, GA15 Jan  1889


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