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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1856
Abstracts 567 - 573
DISASTERS & ACCIDENTS - Railroads (Cont'd)
He was walking between the tracks, and as two trains approached he
stepped out of the way of one into the path of the other. (4)
567 - L Nov. 3: 3/2 - On the morning of Nov. 1 a train on the Pittsburgh
railroad arrived at the Cleveland depot. Before all the passengers could
get off, the train started to back out. A small boy about six years aid,
whose mother was assisting him in getting off, slipped, fell under the
train and had one of his legs smashed by the wheels. (2)
568 - L Nov. 4: 1/4 - Yesterday morning the Conneaut accomodation train
brought to the city the body of an Irishman who was run over by a gravel
train near Kingsville. (1)
569 - L Nov. 7:1/4 - A collision of the freight train going east with the
freight and emigrant train going west on the Cleveland, Painesville, and
Ashtabula railroad occured 45 miles east of Cleveland on the night of Nov.
5. Both locomotives were demolished, but no one was seriously injured.
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570 - L Nov. 8:3/5 - Charles Osborne, an operator on the Cleveland and
Erie rai lroad at the Springfield, Pa., station, was ki lIed today when he
fell beneath a freight train. Two cars loaded with stone passed over his
hips. His fami ly resides at Elmira, N. Y. (1)
571 - L Dec. 5: 3/2 - The passenger who had his leg broken by a collision
of the emigrant and freight trains on the Lake Shore railroad a few days
ago died yesterday morning. A wife and several children survive. (2)
572 - L Dec. 10; ed.2/1 - The railroad accident at Alliance is "the result
of criminal negligence, or recklessness, and is one of the thousands of
instances which meet the eye and ear every day, proving the truth of our
assertion a few days since, that something must be done to force railroad
companies to take measures which shall prevent the possibility of such
things. We repeat it, they are not necessary and we must have more
stringent legislation upon this point." (5)
573 - L Dec. 11; ed: 2/1 - "The HERALD is sorry to see the LEADER sti 11 so
hard in its denunciation of conductor Clelland, making him equally culpable
with conductor Leavitt."
On reading the above extract, we turned to our article on the Alliance
tragedy and found, as we supposed, that we did not mention Mr. Clelland's
name at all, and that all we said that could reflect on the latter person
was that the catastrophe could not have taken place had not the train on
the Cleveland and Pi ttsburgh rai lroad been running at great speed at a
point where it should have been at a dead halt. In this statement we
told the naked truth, and when the truth is harsh, we are not afraid to be
so. (6)