Jumped The Track

Fremont, O., Aug. 7. - A serious wreek occurred Saturday night shortly after 10 o'clock at Lindsey, a village of about 500 inhabitants 8 miles west of this place, on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern raüway. An engine and three sleepers were demolished and three persons killed outright, while twenty-five were mjured. The wreek was caused by the collision of a west-bound passenger train and an eastbound freight. Passenger train No. 9 pafised, at Lindsey, a local freight, No. 74, whicli had been sidetracked to await the passing of train No. 9. The train wm running . at full speed and passed safely until the sleepers neared the switch close to the freight, when the first three sleepers jumpcd the track and ran into the engine of the freight. The engine was wrecked and the sleepers crushed like egg shells. It was later learned that the dead were: Engineer Edward Lafferty of the local freight; Charles Span, a brakeman on the same train; Porter Robertson (colored) of the sleeper Eric of Chicago. The seriously injured are as follows: Prof. Emerson, of Amherst college, (jloucester, Mass., chest crushed, will die; .1. A. Hamilton, of Pittsburgh, injured internally, perhaps fatally; Porter Stevens (colored), New Yorft, extent of injuries not knwn; Porter Pelham (colored), of the sleeper Orinoco, Chicago, iujured internally, Tery serious; A. H. West, of Chicago, badly cut, not seriously.