A FEARFUL CRASH

An Excursion Train Rear-Ended by a Fast Freight.

Seven Persons Killed and a Large Number Injured by a Collision at Middleton, O. --- A Mass of Dead and Crippled Humanity.

CINCINNATI, July 26. --- News has been received by telephone from Hamilton of a collision of trains at Middleton, attended by a serious loss of life. The circumstances are as follows: The Dayton Cash Register Co. yesterday gave their employes[sic] and friends a picnic excursion to Woodsdale island, a popular resort on the Great Miami river, about 4 miles north of Hamilton. The excursionists went by railway train on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton road. They filled all the cars of a very long train and spent the day at Woodsdale.
It was after 9 o'clock when the train with its load of happy occupants started to return to Dayton. Shortly after 10 o'clock the train stopped at Middletown to let off excursionists who lived there. While the train was standing there a freight train running at high speed ran into the rear end of it. Three cars full of people were overturned and wrecked. Seven corpses are lying at the depot at Middletown and twenty or more wounded people, many of them fatally hurt, are being cared for at Carlisle, which is nearer the railway station than Middletown.
The list of killed and wounded at Middletown as given by the officials of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton road in this city is as follows:
FRANK SIMONE, of Dayton.
LILLIE TRICE, of Dayton.
YOUNG PATTERSON, boy 13 years, cut into pieces.
These three are the only ones of whom we have any definite account as being killed.
The injured are:
R. O. PAPPLER, of Dayton, slightly hurt;
PEARL SHORTHILL, of Dayton, collar bone broken;
FRANK PATTERSON, of Dayton, left arm badly injured;
WM. AMMON, of Dayton, foot crushed:
H. SCHLERIN, of Dayton, foot crushed;
MARY REESE, of Dayton, arm crushed;
MARK EMERICK, of Dayton, hip injured;
ALLEN BERNARD, of Dayton, slightly injured;
W. THOMPSON, of Dayton, slightly injured;
MARY GRAIN, of North Dayton, foot crushed;
NELLIE FRITZ, of Dayton, slightly injured;
MRS. REASON, of Dayton, slightly injured;
SIMON MURPHY, of Dayton, slightly injured;
JOSEPH CLEAL (not sure), of Chicago, left arm severely injured.
JOS. SWARTBELIE, of Pottsville, Pa., slightly injured.
EDITH M. TUTT, of Dayton, slightly injured.
Superintendent NEILSON sent two Pullman cars from Cincinnati last night to take the injured to Dayton. Many who received severe bruises are not enumerated among the injured.

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