NEWSPAPER EXCERPTS.

A young man named Orrin Thomas, engineer on the new steamboat Cleaveland, was instantly killed on Monday evening, just as the boat was leaving Conneaut for Detroit.  While engaged in fixing some part of the machinery, his head came in contact with one of the ponderous cranks, by which it was crushed to pieces.  His age was only 18 years.

Source: Ashtabula Weekly Telegraph
Dated: Mar. 27, 1850

DIED:
     (Death of Capt. John Edmonds - We learned that Capt. Edmonds, master of the steamer Southern died at Buffalo on Sun. morning, Capt. E. was a resident of Monroe.  We understand his disease was cholera morbus, strongly resembling the cholera of last season.

DIED:
     At Conneaut, on the 2d. inst. of consumption, Capt. J. L. Wood, aged 35.

DIED: In Bristol, Vt. Mar. 24th, of Lung Fever, Capt. David Kellogg, a resident of Monroe, in this county aged 84 yrs.

DIED:
In Monroe, on the 15th inst. Mrs. Anna Kellogg, wife of Martin Kellogg, Esq. in 71st year of her age.

DIED:  In Williamsfield, N. Y. on the 20th inst. Leonard STEVER, aged 91 yrs. father of J. G. STEVER of this place, a soldier of the Revolution.

CONNEAUT, OHIO - By the recent census, it appears that the population of this town is 2813.  Increase 300 since 1840.

DIED:
     In Conneaut, Jan. 30, 1877, Earnest, only son of Isaac and Hanna M. Van Gorder, aged 9 yrs.

Nathan Daugherty, an Ashtabula lad, was killed at Conneaut, by falling between car platforms.

Wife of Virgil P. Kline, Esq., became the mother of twins Sept. 28, and shortly after was attacked by peritonitis from which she died at 4 o'clock Monday morning.  The children are doing well.  The maiden name of Mrs. Kline was Cozzens.  Her home before marriage was in Conneaut.

Wife of Virgil P. Kline, Esq., became the mother of twins September 28, and shortly after was attacked by Peritonitis from which she died at 4 o'clock Monday morning.  The children are doing well.  The maiden name of Mrs. Kline was Cozzens.  Her home before marriage was in Conneaut.

A BRIDGE COLLAPSES.
ON THE NICKEL PLATE ROAD WITH THREE HEAVY LADEN CARS.
WITH AN AWFUL CRASH AND WITHOUT WARNING.

ON THE HELPLESS WORKMEN ENGAGED IN MAKING REPAIRS BELOW - ELEVEN KILLED AND TEN SERIOUSLY INJURED - THE LIST OF DEAD.
Conneaut, O., July 11 - Just after 10 o'clock today three cars of the east end local freight went through the Nickel Plat bridge at Springfield, PA.  The train left Conneaut only a few minutes before the accident in charge of Engineer Wm. Griffith of Buffalo and Conductor Phil A. Moore of Buffalo.  The latter was killed outright.  The bridge crew was at work on the bridge and the 11 men killed and 10 men injured are mostly working men.  A fill was being made at the bridge and about 25 workmen were about the structure.  The Conneaut wrecking train with local officials and doctors left for the scene at 11 o'clock.
     The horrible affair occurred just after passenger train NO. 3 had pulled through.  The local, after the passing of the passenger train, pushed three cars heavily laden out on the structure to unload stone for the masons working beneath on the large stone abutments.  The unloading had hardly been begun when without warning the whole structure bearing the three laden cars filled with laborers fell with an awful crash into the valley.  So sudden was the affair that only one man, a mason named George Smith, had a chance to leap in time to save himself from injury.  The list of dead include:
     Conductor Phil A. Moore, Conneaut.
     J. Zaboss, workingman, Cleveland
     George Swartz, workman, Springfield.
     Homer Beckwith, foreman, Conneaut
     Five Italians, names as yet unknown.
     Randall West, Springfield.
     The men as the train fell had all leaped as far as possible so that only two or three were buried beneath the awful mass of debris at the bottom of the ravine.  These were easily pulled out and carried to the top of the hill and placed on the lawn awaiting the arrival of medical assistance, which came promptly.  As soon as news of the accident reached Conneaut, a wrecking train and a hurriedly constructed ambulance train were dispatched to the scene.  The wounded were first attended to.  They were placed in cots and all were brought to Conneaut with the exception of the men named Randall, Beckwith and Swartz, who were taken in charge of by their parents at Conneaut.  The living were conveyed to the hospital.  The remains of the dead were transferred to the morgue to await identification.

LOFTY RAILWAY BRIDGE CRASHES DOWN WITH CARS
TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE NEAR SPRINGFIELD, PENN
CAUSED BY FALL OF STRUCTURE ON WHICH THREE HEAVILY LADEN CARS WERE STANDING.
Men Working Below buried in debris
Cleveland, O., July 11 - Just after 10 o'clock today three cars of the east end local freight went through the Nickel Plate bridge at Springfield, Pa. 
     The train left Conneaut only a few minutes before the accident, in charge of Engineer William Griffith  of Buffalo and Conductor Phil A. Moore of Buffalo.  The latter was killed outright.  The bridge gang was at work on the bridge and the 10 men injured are mostly workmen.
     A fill was being made at the bridge and about 25 workmen were about the structure.
     The horrible affair occurred just after passenger train No. 3 had passed, pushed three cars heavily laden on to the structure to unload stone for the masons working beneath on the large stone foundations.  The work of unloading had hardly begun, when, without any warning, the whole structure bearing the laden cars, filled with laborers, fell into the valley.  So sudden was the accident that only one man, a mason named George Smith, had a chance to lean in time to save himself from death.
     The dead:
     Homer Beckwith, foreman, Conneaut
     Phil A. Moore, conductor, Conneaut
     George Swartz, laborer, North Springfield, Pa.
     John Cenos, laborer, Cleveland
     Carl Randall, West Springfield
     Five Italian laborers, names unknown.
     The injured: -
     J. J. McDermott, a brakeman, Ashtabula, jaw broken, badly bruised.
     Five Italian laborers, names unknown
     The place where the accident occurred was at Crooked Creek, directly north of East Sprinfield, Pa.
     For many years the creek has been spanned by a heavy structural steel bridge.  On May 1 the work of filling up the valley was commenced.  Down in the ravine 55 feet below, masons were at work building a large stone abutment.
     The wreck presented a terrible appearance.  The steel was wrenched and distorted into one huge mass.  The three cars containing stone were broken to bits and the railway track was obliterated in the pile.
     The cause of the wreck can be laid only to accident.  For a long time all the trains have been required to reduce their speed to four miles an hour in passing over the bridge.  The railroad men regard it as little less than miraculous that the structure withstood the strain of heavy laden passenger train No. 3, which passed over it a short time before, and then fell with three loaded cars standing upon it.
     Conductor Moore was on one of the cars while the crew of workmen was waiting underneath to level off the stone as it was dumped off.  Without a word of warning the bridge gave way.  The three cars with their heavy loads were buried into the gulley a distance of about 80 feet.
     Into the very midst of the workmen the train tumbled and many were crushed.
     Special trainsfrom Conneaut and Erie carried physicians to the scene of the accident.  The work of recovering the dead and rescuing the injured, was difficult, as they were buried under the heavy cars.  It appears from later reports from the scene of the accident that the engine did not go down with the wrecked bridge.  Only the cars heavy loaded with stone, were carried down.  It was at first reported that engineer Griffith had been killed but this now seems to have been erroneous.

SUICIDE'S BODY FOUND
Washed ashore at Conneaut Harbor after Lapse of Ten Weeks.
GREENVILLE, Pa., Sept. 30. - After having been in the water for over ten weeks, the body of Chambers Tunnison, of this city, who jumped overboard from the Lake Erie Steamer St. Ignace in mid-lake between Cleveland and Detroit on the night of July 16, was washed ashore at the Conneaut harbor today.  Tunnison left his family without giving any inkling of his intention.  He was reported to have leaped from the steamer when his cap was found on the water.

Killed by Falling Timbers.
     Conneaut, O., July 24 - Two men were killed and five seriously injured by the falling of scaffolding upon some work at the Pittsburg and Conneaut dock today.
     The dead are:  A. Matson and B. Huick  of Cleveland, constructural iron workers.

NINE MEN IN YAWL FROZEN TO DEATH
THIRTY-TWO BELIEVED LOST WITH FOUNDERING OF CAR FERRY ON LAKE ERIE
RESCUE COMES TOO LATE
Suite of Clothes Found in Bow Indicates Tragedy That Can Be Only Guessed - Single Overcoat All-Insufficient.

ERIE, Pa.  Dec. 12 - With her flag at half-mast the state fisheries boat, Commodore Perry, Captain Gerry Driscoll, commanding, brought to this port late today the dead bodies of nine of the crew of the Bessemer & Marquette ferry No. 2, which left Conneaut, Ohio, Tuesday morning carrying 32 men.  The ferry has probably foundered in the middle of Lake Erie.
     For 48 hours the Commodore Perry has been scouring Lake Erie for traces of the car ferry, but, until the tiny yawl was sighted 15 miles off this port at 11 o'clock today, the men in the little state fisheries craft had almost given up hope of being able ever to hear even a portion of the story of the fate of the big car ferry.

MEN FROZEN IN BOAT.
     As the Perry came abreast of the drifting and half-water-logged yawl the men on the fishboat saw that they had arrived too late.  The nine occupants of the boat, which was marked "Bessemer & Marquette NO. 4," were frozen stiff.  Taking the yawl in tow, the Perry made all team for this port.
     News of the finding of the bodies had reached the city and thousands of persons swarmed the wharves.  As soon as the fishboat made fast a force of men with tackle set to work raising the bodies to the dock. 
     Conneaut, Ohio, where all but one of the dead men had lived, was notified and relatives and friends came to this city.  They were taken directly to the morgue, where the men were identified as follows:  Thomas, second cook, Port Stanley; William Ray; J. W. Sours, waiter; G. R. Smith, steward; J. Hart, oiler and Charles Allen.
All except Thomas lived in Conneaut.

One Overcoat Among Nine.
     The cook of the car ferry was the only man to wear an overcoat.  The others were dressed in overalls and jumpers, indicating that departure from the car ferry had been hurried.  In the bow of the boat was found complete clothing for one man, and it is believed that the yawl originally contained ten men, and that one became crazed, discarded his clothing and jumped into the lake.
     Albert J. Weis, of this city, treasurer of the Keystone Fish Company and the Bay State Iron Works, was a passenger on the ferry.  His relatives and friends had not given up hope until the yawl containing the nine men was towed into port.  His body has not yet been found.
     Officers of the car ferry company gave up all hope Saturday, and since Thursday every available tug has been searching the lake for news of the wrecked craft.

Believed Lost Last Tuesday
     The ferry was of steel with a capacity of 34 loaded cars.  Last Tuesday morning, with 32 cars of coal aboard and carrying 32 persons, including passengers and crew, she left Conneaut.
     In the terrific storm that followed, in which at least 52 lives were lost on the lakes, the ferry foundered.  It is supposed that the tossing of the ferry in the sea troughs displaced the coal cars and that they pitched through the sides, admitting water to the hold.  It is supposed the vessel went down about Tuesday noon, sinking midway between Conneaut and Port Stanley.

Report comes from Conneaut, Ohio, of the sudden death of a woman at the age of 105, who had never been sick a day in her life.  The report is lacking in failing to state whether she had been a user of tobacco or not.

Golf Pro Killed.
CONNEAUT, Ohio, Jan. 1 (AP)
Douglas Orn, 25, golf professional at the Lake Shore Club at Ashtabula, was killed Sunday when the car in which he was a passenger collided with a truck driven by Leo Baltus of Howell, Mich.

     Miss Rozelle Zimmerman of Erie became the bride of Mr. Ira Edward Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Smith of Conneaut, Wednesday in a ceremony at St. Mary's Church here.

12 KILLED, 20 INJURED IN PILE-UP OF 3 TRAINS
List of Fatalities Expected to Grow.
     CONNEAUT, Ohio, March 28 (Saturday) (UP) - Two new York Central passenger trains and a freight train piled up in a three-way collision Friday night, and Ohio State Police counted twelve dead and at least twenty injured.
     The wreck occurred about 10:30 p.m. Ohio time, when a load of heave steel casings slipped off a westbound freight into the path of the "Southwest Limited," speeding from St. Louis, Mo. to New York.
     Sgt. John Gosling of the Ohio State Patrol said the 30-foot casings derailed both the freight and the "Limited," one of the fastest passenger trains on its line.
     The "Chicago Special," on route from Buffalo, N.Y., to Chicago, Ill., then smashed into the wreckage, Gosling said.
     The three trains piled up about two and a half miles east of here, scattering wrecked care near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border.
     The NYC office in Cleveland, Ohio, was sending a relief train of nine cars loaded with a Red Cross disaster unit carrying plasma.
     The NYC said a 15-ambulance caravan was on route from Erie, Pa.
     The accident happened on what is known as "State Line Curve" near the border between Ohio and Pennsylvania.  The wreck was a quarter mile from the nearest road and the injured had to be carried out to ambulances waiting on the road.
     It's raining like hell out there," a NYC spokesman said.
     Train No. 5 was made up of eleven cars and the NYC said all but the last car was derailed.  The Southwest Limited was made up of twelve cars and the first nine were derailed.
     The spokesman said it was "believed" that only the engines tipped over.
     All four tracks of the NYC were blocked and the road was rerouting other trains on Nickel Plate trackage nearby.
     Hospitals throughout the area were alerted for a "large number" of casualties.  Extra doctors were called in.  An emergency relief train was reported to have left Erie for the scene.
     Police said the number of fatalities possibly would rise as workers at the scene searched through the wreckage.
     Conneaut Police Chief J. A. Pounds said "A good many persons have been injured" in the wreck.  Railroad cars were scattered all along the border.
     The New York Central said an estimated 127 persons were aboard the Southwest Limited when it left St. Louis.
     Dr. George Stoney, at Hamot Hospital in Erie, said he heard reports from "railroadmen" not at the scene that the fatalities were estimated at from twelve to twenty-two."
     The wreck occurred just along U. S. Highway 20, the main artery between Columbus, Ohio and Buffalo.  The only access to the scene was a dirt road leading one mile from the highway.
     Some fifteen to twenty ambulances were reported at the scene, along with twelve police cars, including all of Ashtabula County's auxiliary unites, plus sheriff's cars and Pennsylvania patrolmen.
     The injured were being taken to the Ashtabula General hospital, to Brown Hospital at Conneaut and to the Hamot Hospital at Erie.
     Because of road conditions it was difficult for ambulances to reach the scene and they took a long time brining out the injured to hospitals.
     Stoney said he understood there were plenty of doctors available at the scene.