| Ort |
Zeit |
Firma |
Ereignis |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1885 |
Felt & Tarrant Mfg. Co. |
Die erste primitive Rechenmaschine ist fertig. Sie ist in eine alte Maccaroni-Kiste eingebaut |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1885 |
Griffin Wheel Foundry Company |
Bau eines neuen Werks in Chicago mit einer Kapazität von 250 pro Tag an der Robey Street, südlich von Blue Island |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1885 |
Griffin Wheel Foundry Company |
Bildung der Holding-Gesellschaft "Thomas F. Griffin & Sons", die nach einem Jahr wieder aufgelöst wird |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1885 |
Kellogg, Milo Gifford |
M. G. Kellogg scheidet bei der "Western Electric Company" aus |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1885 |
Marine Engine Works |
Tarrant erkennt die Notwendigkeit von höherwertigem Metallguß, und er entschließt, sich, einen Zweigebtrieb für diese zusätzliche Produktionslinie zu schaffen. Er verbindet sich mit John Ramsey, der den Ruf als bester Gießer im Westen hat, unter der Firma "Tarrant & Ramsay". |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1885 |
Western Electric Company of America |
M. G. Kellogg scheidet bei der "Western Electric Company" aus |
| Cleveland (Ohio) |
1885 |
Fairmount Pumping Station |
Erbaut |
| Connersville (Indiana) |
1885 |
P. H. & F. M. Roots Company |
Edgar Dwight Johnston tritt in das Unternehmen ein |
| Dennison (Ohio) |
1885/86 |
Rice & Sargent Engine Company |
Richard Henry Rice ist Special Apprentice in den Werkstätten der "Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad" in Dennison, OH |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1885 |
Log Cabin / Palmer Park |
Thomas Palmer schenkt seiner Frau Lizzie Merrill Palmer den Plan zur Errichtng eines Blockhauses |
| Evansville (USA) |
1885 |
A. S. Baker Company |
Ende der Präsidentschaft von Caleb Snashall |
| Grand Rapids (Michigan) |
1885 |
Fox Machine Company |
William R. Fox beginnt die Fox Machine Company an der Canal street, nahe Hastings |
| Grand Rapids (Michigan) |
1885 |
Fox, William R. |
William R. Fox beginnt die Fox Machine Company an der Canal street, nahe Hastings |
| Grand Rapids (Michigan) |
01.1885 |
Michigan Iron Works |
W. T. Powers & Son kauft das Unternehmen. - William T. Powers wurde am 08.07.1820 in Bristol, N.H., geboren; seit 1847 in Grand Rapids, dort zunächst als Möbelbauer und -händler, auch als Sägewerksbetreiber und Bauunternehmer, tätig; ab 1880 Schaffung eines Elektrizitätswerks in der Stadt. |
| Hawthorne (Chicago) |
1885 |
Western Electric Company of America |
M. G. Kellogg scheidet bei der "Western Electric Company" aus |
| Lansing (Michigan) |
01.1885 |
Lansing Iron & Engine Works |
Die Firma wird neu eingetragen, und J. Edward Roe wird Sekretär und Finanzleiter |
| Lansing (Michigan) |
1885/1886 |
P. F. Olds & Son |
Ransom Eli Olds erwirbt den Anteil seines Bruders an der väterlichen Schmiede und Maschinenwerkstatt. |
| Lima (Ohio) |
1885 |
J. T. Carmody Foundry & Machine Co. |
John T. Carmody ist erfahrener Maschinenbauer, als er aus Lima, Ohio, nach Cedar Rapids kommt. Er arbeitet in der Gießerei "Whiting Bros." als Vorarbeiter |
| Lima (Ohio) |
1885 |
Writing Brothers Manufacturing Co. |
John T. Carmody kommt als erfahrener Maschinenbauer aus Lima, Ohio, und arbeitet in der Gießerei als Vorarbeiter |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
1885-1886 |
B. V. Nordberg Manufacturing Co. |
Nordberg wendet sich bei der Gründung einer Gesellschaft an Jacob E. Friend aus Williams als Rechtsbeistand. Friend genießt den Ruf, weitsichtig zu sein und unternehmende junge Leute zu ermutigen. Er ist für Nordberg eine große Unterstützung und wird der erste Präsident der Firma. (vor 1886) |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
1885 |
Edw. P. Allis & Co., Reliance Works |
Beginn des Baues von großen Bandsägen mit 9' Raddurchmesser; das obere Rad besteht zur Gewichtseinsparung aus Holz |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
1885 |
Edw. P. Allis & Co., Reliance Works |
Bis 1885 werden mehr als 500 Reynolds-Corliss-Dampfmaschinen verkauft |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
1885-1886 |
Nordberg, Bruno Victor |
Nordberg wendet sich bei der Gründung einer Gesellschaft an Jacob E. Friend aus Williams als Rechtsbeistand. Friend genießt den Ruf, weitsichtig zu sein und unternehmende junge Leute zu ermutigen. Er ist für Nordberg eine große Unterstützung und wird der erste Präsident der Firma. (vor 1886) |
| Mount Vernon (Posey, Ind.) |
1885 |
Keck-Gonnerman Company |
Louis H. Keck, wohnhaft in Mt. Vernon und Bruder von John Keck, tritt in die Firma ein und kauft den Anteil von Henry Kuebler. |
| Muskegon (Mich.) |
1885 |
Muskegon Boiler Works |
Umwandlung aus "L. Turnbull". Um diese Zeit wird C. D. Stevens der Haupteigentümer. |
| Muskegon (Mich.) |
1885 |
T. Turnbull |
Umwandlung in "Muskegon Boiler Works" (lt. muskegonmemories) |
| Newark (Ohio) |
1885 |
Julius J. D. McNamar |
Julius J. D. McNamar übernimmt die Maschinenfabrik in Newark von seinem Vater John McNamar. Er baut eine vollständige Linie von Zug- und transportabelen Dampfmaschinen sowie Sägewerken für die nächsten 35 Jahre. McNamar baut weder so viele Maschinen wie Scheidler, noch erreicht er seinen Konkurrenten in seinem Talent für effektvolle Darstellung, aber die McNamar spricht für sich selbst. |
| Palmer Park (Detroit) |
1885 |
Log Cabin / Palmer Park |
Thomas Palmer schenkt seiner Frau Lizzie Merrill Palmer den Plan zur Errichtng eines Blockhauses |
| Racine (Wisconsin) |
1885 |
J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company |
Vergebene Fabriknummern für Dampfmaschinen: 2787 - 2981 (195 gebaute Einheiten) |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
1885 |
Charles Andrews & Co. |
Gründung |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
1885 |
Kauffman Bros. |
Gründung |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
1885 |
L. A. Weyburn Company |
Gründung |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
1885 |
Rockford Mitten and Hosiery Company |
Neu organisiert |
| Toledo (Ohio) |
1885 |
Union Manufacturing Company |
Erhöhung des Kapitals auf 1.000,000 Dollar |
| Evansville (USA) |
1885 |
A. S. Baker Company |
L. M. Mygatt wird Präsident |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
09.02.1885 |
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An accident occurred on the Milwaukee and Northern Railroad this afternoon four miles south of Chicago. A delayed freight train was run into by a snow plow, smashing the caboose. The accident was due to the blinding snowstorm. J. A. Annas, of Depere, had a leg broken, and received internal injuries. He will probably die. W. J. Bates, publisher of the Sunday Advance, of Green Bay, was hurt, but not seriously. The Indianapolis line, the Lake Erie, and the middle division of the Illinois Central have abandoned all trains to-night on account of the storm. |
| Toledo (Ohio) |
10.1885 |
Toledo Cot and Wringer Manufacturing Company |
Eintragung der Firma durch L. S. Halstead, L. K. Parks, J. A. Barber und L. S. Baumgardner, welche die Aktien und Anteile an der "Perfection Manufacturing Company" kaufen und das Unternehmen mit der Leitung durch: Präsident L. S. Baumgardner, Vizepräsident L. K. Parks und Sekretär H. S. Halstead betreiben. |
| Isle Royale (USA) |
07.11.1885 |
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Schiffbruch bei Isle Royale, 37 Tote. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
02.12.1885 |
C. Cretors & Co. |
Gegründet durch Charles Cretors. Er eröffnet ein Geschäft in Decatur (Ill.), wo Süßigkeiten im Schaufenster gemacht werden, so daß die Passanten sehen können, wie die später von ihnen gekauften Produkte hergestellt werden. Er kauft einen dampfbetriebenen Erdnuß-Röster. Er ist von seiner Erwerbung enttäuscht und macht sich daran, ein besseres Produkt herzustellen. Bald zieht er nach Chicago um, wo er auf einen wirtschaftlichen Erfolg hofft. Er erwirbt eine Verkaufserlaubnis und stellt seine neue Röstmaschine auf den Gehweg vor sein Geschäft. Bald darauf entsteht die Verbindung mit J. M. Savage, einem reisenden Geschäftsmann, der sich anbietet, die gerösteten Erdnüsse zu verkaufen; es entsteht die Firma ""C. Cretors & Co.". -
Bis 1893 schafft Cretors eine dampfbetriebene Maschine, die 12 Pfund Erdnüsse, 20 Pfund Kaffee und Popcorn herstellen kann. |
| Decatur (Ill.) |
02.12.1885 |
C. Cretors & Co. |
Gegründet durch Charles Cretors. Er eröffnet ein Geschäft in Decatur (Ill.), wo Süßigkeiten im Schaufenster gemacht werden, so daß die Passanten sehen können, wie die später von ihnen gekauften Produkte hergestellt werden. Er kauft einen dampfbetriebenen Erdnuß-Röster. Er ist von seiner Erwerbung enttäuscht und macht sich daran, ein besseres Produkt herzustellen. Bald zieht er nach Chicago um, wo er auf einen wirtschaftlichen Erfolg hofft. Er erwirbt eine Verkaufserlaubnis und stellt seine neue Röstmaschine auf den Gehweg vor sein Geschäft. Bald darauf entsteht die Verbindung mit J. M. Savage, einem reisenden Geschäftsmann, der sich anbietet, die gerösteten Erdnüsse zu verkaufen; es entsteht die Firma ""C. Cretors & Co.". -
Bis 1893 schafft Cretors eine dampfbetriebene Maschine, die 12 Pfund Erdnüsse, 20 Pfund Kaffee und Popcorn herstellen kann. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
12.12.1885 |
Griffin Wheel Foundry Company |
Gründung der "Griffin Wheel Foundry Company" mit Thomas A. Griffin als Präsident und Finanzleiter in einer gepachteten Fabrik an der Roby Street in der Nähe von Blue Island |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1886 |
Crane Elevator Co. |
Eintragung der "Crane Elevator Co." als selbständige Firma |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1886 |
Griffin Wheel Foundry Company |
Es werden täglich 160 Räder hergestellt |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1886 |
Kellogg, Milo Gifford |
M. G. Kellogg wird Präsident der "Great Southern Telephone & Telegraph Company" (bis 1888) |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
1886 |
Emery Industries Inc. |
Bei der Firma Emery beginnt der Chemiker Ernst Twitchell mit intensiver Forschung im Bereich der Fettchemie. |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
1886 |
William Powell Company |
Eintragung der Gesellschaft |
| Circleville (Ohio) |
1886 |
Scioto Machine Company |
Übernahme durch John McEving |
| Cleveland (Ohio) |
1886 |
Fairmount Pumping Station |
Inbetriebnahme |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
1886 |
Smith, Vaile & Co. |
Umwandlung der Firma mit einem Kapital von 250.000 Dollar |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1886 |
Detroit Waterworks |
Der Board of Water Commissioners bezieht sein erstes dauerhaftes Geschäftsgebäude in der Old Fireman's Hall an der Ecke Randolph und East Jefferson, erbaut 1850 durch die "Detroit Fireman's Association". |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1886 |
Detroit Waterworks |
Vergrößerung des Pumpenhauses zur Aufstellung einer dritten Pumpmaschine |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1886 |
Penberthy Injector Co. |
Beginn der Firma mit der Herstellung von Kesselspeise-Injektoren (auch genannt: Januar 1887) |
| Flint (Michigan) |
1886 |
Dort |
J. Dallas Dort gibt den Überredungskünsten des unternehmerischen Geschäftsmannes William Crapo Durrant nach und gründet mit diesem ein Unternehmen zur Herstellung von pferdegezogenen Wagen |
| Fremont (Ohio) |
1886 |
David June & Co. |
Die "D. June & Co." teilt einen Drittel-Anteil mit "S. A. June & Son", Martin Holderman und A. M. June |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
1886 |
B. V. Nordberg Manufacturing Co. |
Bruno Nordberg beginnt seine Tätigkeit mit sechs Leuten in der zweiten Etage eines Gebäudes in der Clinton Street. Sein erstes Produkt ist sein Expansionsregler. Der Regler begründet schnell den Namen des Unternehmens |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
1886 |
Edw. P. Allis & Co., Reliance Works |
Planung und Bau der Ausstattung der Milwaukee River Flushing Station durch Allis & Co., welche täglich 500 million gallons Wasser vom Michigansee in den Milwaukee River pumpt. - Die Spülstation ist noch nach über 100 Jahren in Benutzung - die originale Dampfmaschine ist durch einen 450 PS-Elektromotor ersetzt, ist aber sonst original erhalten. |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
1886 |
Nordberg, Bruno Victor |
Bruno Nordberg beginnt seine Tätigkeit mit sechs Leuten in der zweiten Etage eines Gebäudes in der Clinton Street. Sein erstes Produkt ist sein Expansionsregler. Der Regler begründet schnell den Namen des Unternehmens |
| Mount Vernon (Ohio) |
1886 |
C. & G. Cooper & Co. |
Bis 1886 wurden mehr als 1.000 Zuglokomobilen gebaut. |
| Mount Vernon (Ohio) |
1886 |
C. & G. Cooper & Co. |
Einführung von Lokomobilen mit Strohfeuerung |
| Racine (Wisconsin) |
1886 |
J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company |
Vergebene Fabriknummern für Dampfmaschinen: 2982 - 3163 (182 gebaute Einheiten) |
| Saginaw (Michigan) |
1886 |
Werner & Pfleiderer GmbH |
Gründung einer "Werner & Pfleiderer"-Tochtergesellschaft in Saginaw, Michigan, USA |
| Toledo (Ohio) |
1886 |
Witker Manufacturing Company |
Bau des Gebäudes an der Ecke Oak und Water Street |
| Water Works Park (Detroit) |
1886 |
Detroit Waterworks |
Der Board of Water Commissioners bezieht sein erstes dauerhaftes Geschäftsgebäude in der Old Fireman's Hall an der Ecke Randolph und East Jefferson, erbaut 1850 durch die "Detroit Fireman's Association". |
| Water Works Park (Detroit) |
1886 |
Detroit Waterworks |
Vergrößerung des Pumpenhauses zur Aufstellung einer dritten Pumpmaschine |
| Wellston (Ohio) |
1886 |
Milton Furnace and Coal Co. |
Außerbetriebnahme. - Nachdem der Plan von F. E. Hinkley, Grundstücke mit großem Profit zu verkaufen, gescheitert war, wird die "First National Bank", Chicago, Eigentümerin. |
| Wellston (Ohio) |
1886 |
Milton Furnace and Coal Co. |
Die "First National Bank" verkauft um/nach 1886 das Werk an J. C. Clutts von Wellston Furnace, und die "Wellston Iron and Steel Company" betreibt es weiter bis 1916. |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
12.01.1886 |
Barney & Smith Manufacturing Co. |
Tod von Ebenezer Thresher |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
12.02.1886 |
Barney & Smith Manufacturing Co. |
Edward E. Barney tritt als assistierender Betriebsleiter zurück, und A. M. Kittredge wird zu seinem Nachfolger gewählt. |
| Toledo (Ohio) |
20.04.1886 |
Witker Manufacturing Company |
Gründung und Eintragung |
| New Castle (Indiana) |
12.05.1886 |
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An eastbound passenger train on the Indiana, Bloomington & Western railroad, which left at nine o'clock Wednesday night, ran into a washed out culvert near New Castle, Henry County toward midnight. The engine, baggage car and first passenger car plunged into the abyss. J. W. Trenary, the engineer, James Hudson, the fireman, both of this city, and an unknown passenger were instantly killed in the crush and the baggageman and the conductor were severely injured. All of the passengers were more or less bruised, but none seriously hurt. |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
14.05.1886 |
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Dayton and vicinity were visited Wednesday night by the most violent cyclone that has ever been known in Ohio. The storm, which gave long warning in tones of the loudest thunder, came swooping down on the city, the fury of the elements striking at all points, and causing damage and destruction everywhere. The railroads suffered badly. the Pan-Handle lost two bridges, one a heavy iron span in West Dayton, the other a three-span bridge near Dodson. Its track is torn up for miles and traffic will be interrupted for many days. The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis, and New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio lost two or more bridges and culverts innumerable. Not a train passed through the city Wednesday night or yesterday. |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
14.05.1886 |
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One serious wreck occurred on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton several miles west of Dayton, where a freight train dashed through an open bridge into a swollen stream. The engine, fifteen freight cars and the freight are almost a total loss. Engineer John McCutcheon and others were seriously wounded. A New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio special containing officials of the road on an inspection tour dashed down an embankment and all were more or less injured, none seriously, unless it be Brakeman John Slick, who received a ghastly scalp wound and internal injuries. A Dayton & Ironton round-house. 250 feet long, collapsed and buried in its ruins nine locomotives, wrecking them all. |
| Grand Rapids (Michigan) |
07.1886 |
Phoenix Iron Works |
Die Partnerschaft zwischen Hartmann und Dietz wird aufgelöst und die Firma "F. Hartmann & Company" gebildet, mit Frederick Hartmann, H. J. Hartmann und Edward Tannewitz als Mitglieder. |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
30.07.1886 |
Barney & Smith Manufacturing Co. |
Thomas A. Bissell scheidet ausl Betriebsleiter aus und trennt sich von der Gesellschaft. |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
06.08.1886 |
Barney & Smith Manufacturing Co. |
Edward E. Barney wird zum Betriebsleiter ernannt, um die Stelle von Thomas A. Bissell einzunehmen. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
01.10.1886 bis 31.12.1885 |
Felt & Tarrant Mfg. Co. |
Im Herbst wird die erste Metall-Rechenmaschine fertiggestellt |
| East Rio (USA) |
05.11.1886 |
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Thirteen Persons Burned Alive in a Blazing Car.
A terrible railroad accident occurred the other night at East Rio, Wis., thirteen miles from Portage. The limited passenger train on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, which left Milwaukee at 10 P. M., was derailed at East Rio and thrown into an old stone quarry. The engine and tender, a baggage car and two coaches, were hurled from the track, into the quarry. The engine left the track, ran a short distance, and brought up against the side of the cut and then toppled over. The baggage car and the coaches followed, while four sleepers kept the rails. The engine and the cars that went off the track were badly smashed, and soon took fire from the stoves. Engineer LITTLE and Fireman EAGAN crawled out from under the locomotive badly bruised and scalded. The baggageman had a leg broken. All passengers in the sleepers got out uninjured, except by slight bruises. In one of the day coaches thirteen people were penned in and literally burned to cinders. Many others were injured, by the severe shaking. Only three persons escaped from this car. The whole train, with the exception of one sleeper, which they were unable to uncouple and draw away, was burned up. |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
09.11.1886 |
Bourbon Copper & Brass Co. |
Patent auf einen Hydranten |
| Grand Rapids (Michigan) |
30.12.1886 |
Edison Light and Fuel Company of Grand Rapids |
Gründung |
| Calumet (Michigan) |
1887 |
Calumet and Hecla Mining Company |
Die Kupferschmelze wird von Hancock, Michigan, zu einem neuen Schmelzwerk in Lake Linden verlegt. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1887 |
Chicago City Railway |
Erweiterung von State Street zur 63rd Street |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1887 |
Rice & Whitacre Mfg. Co. |
Eingetragen |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1887 |
Winslow Brothers Company |
Gründung durch die Brüder William und Francis Winslow |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
1887 |
Bickford Drill and Tool Co. |
Gründung der "Bickford Tool Company" durch Charles Hoefinghoff, Präsident der "Hoefinghoff & Lane Foundry"; A. H. Kerkhoff, Vorarbeiter bei Bickford, uand George K. Kerkhoff, vorher bei den "Blymyer Iron Works", Cincinnati, tätig |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
1887 |
Laidlaw & Dunn Manufacturing Co. |
Gründung durch die aus Schottland eingewanderten Brüder Robert (Präsident) und Walter (Vizepräsident) Laidlaw sowie John Wesley Dunn (* 23.03.1854 in Lockland, Ohio) als Sekretär und Schatzmeister |
| Cleveland (Ohio) |
1887 |
Cleveland Shipbuilding Co. |
Henry Coffinberry und James Wallace (Eigentümer der "Globe Iron Works" erwerben die "Cleveland Steam Furnace Company" und eröffnen eine zweite Werft. |
| Cleveland (Ohio) |
1887 |
Cleveland Shipbuilding Co. |
Übernahme der "Cuyahoga Steam Furnace Co" |
| Cleveland (Ohio) |
1887 |
Cuyahoga Steam Furnace Company |
Übernahme durch die "Cleveland Shipbuilding Co" |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
1887 |
Graves & Marshall |
Umwandlung des Unternehmens |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1887 |
Detroit Dry Dock Engine Works |
Herstellung von vier Schiffs-Dreifachexpansionsmaschinen |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1887 |
Log Cabin / Palmer Park |
Das Blockhaus für Lizzie Merrill Palmer wird nach den Plänen von George D. Mason und Zachariah Rice fertiggestellt |
| Evansville (USA) |
1887 |
A. S. Baker Company |
Die "Baker Manufacturing Company" liefert dampf-erzeugte Elektrizität an die Stadt Evansville für die Straßenbeleuchtung und für Häuser, bis 1901 ein städtisches Elektrizitätswerk gebaut wird. Ds Werk wird nur von der Dämmerung bis 23.00 Uhr betrieben. Danach wird es für die Nacht geschlossen, und die Bürger sind gezwungen, ins Bett zu gehen oder ihre Kerosinlampen zu nehmen, die immer für Notfälle zur Hand sind. |
| Evansville (USA) |
1887 |
A. S. Baker Company |
Ende der Amtszeit von L. M. Mygatt als Präsident |
| Ferrysburg (USA) |
1887 |
Dake Engine Company |
Gegründet mit einem Kapital von 100.000 Dollar |
| Ferrysburg (USA) |
1887 |
Johnston Boiler Works |
Die Gebäude der vier Jahre zuvor geschlossenen "Ottawa Iron Works" (im Eigentum der Familie Ferry) werden erworben. |
| Ferrysburg (USA) |
1887 |
Ottawa Iron Works, Wm. M. Ferry, jr. |
"Johnston Boiler" kauft die Gebäude |
| Manistee (Michigan) |
1887 |
Manistee Iron Works Co. |
Errichtung eines Neubaus an der Ecke Ashland und Jones Street |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
1887-1890 |
B. V. Nordberg Manufacturing Co. |
Innerhalb der ersten vier Jahre nach der Gründung zieht Nordberg mit seinen Leuten und den Werkzeugen in eine Gebäudegruppe in der Virginia Steet. Nordberg baut nun größere Maschinen: Dampfmaschinen, Kompressoren, Fördermaschinen, Dampfstampfer für festes Kupfer |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
1887-1890 |
Nordberg, Bruno Victor |
Innerhalb der ersten vier Jahre nach der Gründung zieht Nordberg mit seinen Leuten und den Werkzeugen in eine Gebäudegruppe in der Virginia Steet. Nordberg baut nun größere Maschinen: Dampfmaschinen, Kompressoren, Fördermaschinen, Dampfstampfer für festes Kupfer |
| Mount Vernon (Ohio) |
1887 |
C. & G. Cooper & Co. |
Es werden Zuglokomobilen mit zwei Gängen (Leistung: 15 PS) dem Produktionsprogramm hinzugefügt. |
| Muskegon (Mich.) |
1887 |
T. Turnbull |
G. T. Jones kauft die die Kesselfabrik und nimmt drei Partner, C. D. Stevens und die Gebrüder Johnston, auf. |
| Palmer Park (Detroit) |
1887 |
Log Cabin / Palmer Park |
Das Blockhaus für Lizzie Merrill Palmer wird nach den Plänen von George D. Mason und Zachariah Rice fertiggestellt |
| Racine (Wisconsin) |
1887 |
J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company |
Vergebene Fabriknummern für Dampfmaschinen: 3164 - 3399 (236 gebaute Einheiten) |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
1887 |
Henry Ulrici |
Bau der Fabrik |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
1887 |
Hess & Hopkins' Leather Company |
Erweiterungsbauten |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
1887 |
Rockford Clothing Company |
Gründung |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
1887 |
Rockford Oatmeal Company |
Bau der Haupt-Mühle |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
1887 |
Rockford Standard Furniture Company |
Gründung |
| Springfield (Ohio) |
1887 |
Foos Gas Engine Co. |
Gründung |
| Terre Haute (Indiana) |
1887 |
Terre Haute Car and Manufacturing Company |
Ein Brand zerstört das Werk mit Ausnahme der Gießerei. Der Schaden beträgt $100.000, wovon 50.000 - 60.000 durch die Versicherung gedeckt sind. |
| Toledo (Ohio) |
1887 |
American Hand-Sewed Shoe Company |
Infolge eines Brandes zieht die Firma in die 232 and 234 Summit Street. |
| Upper Sandusky (USA) |
1887 |
Ohio Thresher & Engine Co. |
Gründung |
| Urbana (Ill.) |
1887 |
University of Illinois |
Offizelle Umbenennung aus "Illinois Industrial University" in "University of Illinois" |
| Evansville (USA) |
1887 |
A. S. Baker Company |
Almeron Eager wird Präsident |
| Tiffin (Ohio) |
04.01.1887 |
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The fast train on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, at an early hours this morning, collided with an East-bound freight near this city, wrecking both trains. Nineteen bodies have been taken from the wreck; more are injured. Three coaches are burned. Physicians have gone to the scene from here. The weather is very cold, the thermometer about 10 degrees below zero.
PARTICULARS OF THE DISASTER.
The fast train on the Baltimore & Ohio, which left New York about 9 o'clock yesterday for Chicago with five coaches and four sleepers, all well-filled with passengers, collided with an Eastern-bound freight seven miles east of this city, about 4 o'clock this morning. The fast train was about fifty minutes late and was running at the rate of sixty miles an hour. Passing Republic, a small station, like a flash, they rushed along to the curve one mile west of the town, when suddenly the engineer saw the freight train, under full headway within one hundred yards of him. He at once applied the brake, reversed his engine, but it did no good and the next instant
THE CRASH CAME telescoping the coaches and piling them up on each other. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
03.1887 |
Chicago Edison Company |
John M. Clark (Präsident der "Western Edison"), Robert Todd Lincoln und John B. Drake erhalten eine Lizenz von Chicago, um Elektrizität im innerstädtischen Bereich, begrenzt durch North Avenue, 39th Street und Ashland Avenue, aufzunehmen. |
| Virden (Illinois) |
11.03.1887 |
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The south-bound passenger train on the Jacksonville Southern Railroad jumped the track between Virden and Girard this afternoon. The two passenger coaches were ditched, and 30 passengers more or less hurt. Among the injured were State Seanator E. SOUTHWORTH, who was returning from the Legislature at Springfield to his home in Litchfield. Seanator SOUTHWORTH received internal injuries in the right side of his body and it is feared that they may result fatally.
Trainmaster L. M. SMITH, of the Wabash Road, and an old lady, whose destination was this point, were also seriously hurt. It is said that the wreck was caused by running at too high a rate of speed. The train on the Jacksonville Road and one on the Chicago and Alton Road, which run parallel for a distance of four miles, were racing. A similar wreck occurred a month or two ago. |
| Girard (Illinois) |
12.03.1887 |
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The south-bound passenger train on the Jacksonville and Southeastern Railroad, consisting of engine, baggage car, and two coaches, was thrown down an embankment near Girard last night, injuring State Senator E. Southworth so severely that he will probably die, and seriously wounding 12 or 15 other persons. The train was running at a high rate of speed alongside a train on the Chicago and Alton, it being the intention of both trains to gain the crossing at Girard. While crossing the bridge two miles north of Girard the Jacksonville and Southeastern train broke a wheel on the second coach, spreading the rail so that the rear coach followed on the ties, displacing them and tearing the trestle bridge to pieces. Efforts to stop the train by pulling the bell rope failed, and on reaching the further side, both coaches were thrown down an embankment of 15 feet, one coach being imbedded in mud and water. There were nearly 30 passengers in the two cars. |
| Toledo (Ohio) |
04.1887 |
Toledo Cot and Wringer Manufacturing Company |
L. S. Baumgardner wird durch Kauf zum Alleingeigentümer. Er vereinigt seinen Anteil mit dem von W. W. Griffith, Eigentümer der "Griffith Cot Company". Die Gesellschaft wird durch folgenden Vorstand geleitet: L. S. Baumgardner, W. W. Griffith, R. V. Boice, E. W. Baumgardner, J. H. Baumgardner. |
| Palatine (Illinois) |
18.04.1887 |
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About half-past five o'clock last evening five persons --- three men and two boys --- lost their lives in a most remarkable mannor [sic]. Two freight trains on the Chicago & Northwestern railroad had collided here in the morning, and the scene of the wreck was surrounded by a great crowd of country folks. The freight wreck was a serious one, the trains having by some misunderstanding or misconstruction of orders met right abreast the great water tank and demolished each other.
The crowd viewing the wreck completely surrounded the great tank, which contained nearly a hundred thousand gallons of water. It is supposed that the jar of the collision, which was a violent one, had loosened or broken some of the hoops of the immense tank. However, there was no indication of any thing wrong or any intimation of any danger. The scene of the wreck was the center of attraction for the people of the town and the country round about and all day long there was a great throng of people about the locality. |
| Grand Rapids (Michigan) |
06.1887 |
Fox Machine Company |
Umzug in die Erie street |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
02.07.1887 |
Chicago Edison Company |
John M. Clark, Robert Todd Lincoln und John B. Drake bilden die "Chicago Edison Company", welche den Geschäftsbetreib der "Western Edison Light Company" am 2. Juli übernimmt. |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
05.07.1887 |
Bourbon Copper & Brass Co. |
Patent auf einen Hydranten |
| Hopedale (Illinois) |
27.07.1887 |
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A south bound freight train on the Chicago and Alton Railroad came into collision with a construction train between Hopedale and Delavan, Ill., today, killing four men outright, fatally crushing a fifth, and injuring ten others.
The accident occurred at Very, near the Orendorf Bridge, which was on fire this afternoon, and the flames of which the construction train had been sent out to extinguish. It had finished the work, and had started back when the freight train dashed down upon it. Both trains were torn to pieces.
The responsibility for the accident has not been ascertained. The engineer of the construction train claims that the freight train disregarded a signal to stop which he had shown at Hopedale. |
| Chatsworth (Illinois) |
10.08.1887 |
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Eine durch Brand zuvor beschädigte Holzfachwerkbrücke bricht zusammen, als sie ein Zug der Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad (TP&W) mit etwa 65 km/h überquert, der von Peoria mit 700 Reisenden zu den Niagarafällen unterwegs ist. Die erste Lokomotive hat die Brücke gerade überquert, als diese, bedingt durch den Brandschaden, zusammenbricht. Die zweite Lokomotive schlägt auf dem Hang unter der Brücke auf und die folgenden Fahrzeuge stürzen hinterher und schieben sich ineinander. Lediglich die Schlafwagen am Schluss des Zuges kommen noch vor der Brücke in den Gleisen zum Halt. Der Unfall hat zwischen 81 und 85 Toten zur Folge und die Zahlen zu den Verletzten schwanken zwischen 169 und 372. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
09.1887 |
Felt & Tarrant Mfg. Co. |
Die ersten 7 Rechenemaschinen liegen vor. |
| Fern (Indiana) |
19.09.1887 |
---- |
The engine of the east-bound Bee Line Limited express left the rails and turned over at Fern, Ind. this morning, killing Engineer MIKE REDDINGTON and his son, who fired for him.
The passengers escaped without serious injury. REDDINGTON was one of the bravest and safest men in the employ of the company. |
| Forest (Ohio) |
19.09.1887 |
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Early this morning the second section of fright train No. 11, on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway ran into the rear of the first section, badly breaking up two locomotives and about ten cars loaded with freight. A dense fog prevailed at the time, and the accident occurred one mile west of this place. No person was hurt by the accident, but about five minutes afterward, when both trains had stopped, and the trainmen were examining the cars to ascertain what damage was done and what help would be needed to clear the track, a terrible explosion occurred, caused by dynamite in one of the cars.
EDWARD BOUGH, a fireman of one of the engines, was instantly killed, the body being thrown a distance of 100 feet, and horribly mangled. J.R. Lyon, an engineer, was badly cut, but not fatally, injured a few hours after |
| Lansing (Michigan) |
Herbst 1887 |
P. F. Olds & Son |
Ransom Eli Olds baut den ersten Dampfwagen. Seine Leistung ist zu gering. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
30.09.1887 |
Creamery Package Manufacturing Company |
Umwandlung der "Creamery Package Co." in "Creamery Package Manufacturing Company" |
| Boone Grove (USA) |
12.10.1887 |
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Erie express No. 12 pulled out of the Polk street depot on the Chicago & Atlantic road at 7:45 o'clock Monday evening. Conductor PARKS was in charge, and Engineer CONNOR and Fireman WILLETTS were on the locomotive. The train was made up of two Pullman sleepers, a day coach, a fruit car and a baggage car. The night was dark and misty and the rails were slippery. The train had been out of Chicago but a few moments when Engineer CONNOR discovered that his engine had broken her eccentric strap. As this mishap is of frequent occurrence CONNOR continued on his trip by working one side of his locomotive.
The mishap lessened the speed of the train to such an extent that when it swept by Boone Grove, a dismal prairie station, five miles west of this place, it ws two hours late. While the crippled passenger train was running through this bleak strip of country a heavy refrigerator train, with tons of fresh meat packed in its long line of cars, was thundering along at a great speed a few miles behind. JOHN DORSEY was the engineer of the freight engine, and it is said had orders to look out for the passenger train.
After passing Boone Groove, Engineer CONNOR stopped his train at a water tank two and a half miles west of this village, or midway between here and Boone Grove. As sooon as he had leaped from his engine he threw up the distant semaphore lamp, nearly half a mile in his rear. This was to warn the freight that the express train had stopped for water. He had not been at the tank more than two minutes when he heard the freight thundering behind. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
11.1887 |
Felt & Tarrant Mfg. Co. |
Gründung der Firma Felt & Tarrant |
| Sycamore (Ill.) |
23.12.1887 |
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Assistant General Superintendent Russell, of the Minnesota & Northwestern railroad, who went out on a special from Chicago, telegraphs the general office here that there was quite a number of persons injured in the accident near Sycamore, but none of them fatally or even seriously. Those who did receive injuries were in the second class coach and were bruised or cut mostly by broken glass. The passengers in the first class coaches and sleepers were uninjured. The sleepers did not leave the track. It is not known exactly how many persons were injured, but estimate places it about twenty-five. The names of the injured are also unknown. Of those known to be on the train were George Wood, wife and child, of Winnipeg, and Dr. G. F. Andrews, of St. Paul. The latest report from the wreck says that the passengers have all been taken to Chicago except one woman, who was left at a farm house. |
| Aurora (Indiana) |
1888 |
Stedman & Co. |
Tod des Gründers Nathan R. Stedman |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1888 |
E. H. Wachs & Co. |
Der älteste von E. H. Wachs' sechs Söhnen, Charles, tritt in die Firma ein. Er studierte bei Armor Tech in Chicago und lernte dann Mechaniker bei "Filer & Stowell" in Milwaukee. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1888 |
Goodrich Line |
Eingetragen unter den Gesetzen von Wisconsin |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1888 |
The Oliver Typewriter Co. |
Reverend Thomas Oliver beginnt seine Schreibmaschinen-Experimente |
| Cleveland (Ohio) |
1888 |
American Shipbuilding Co. |
Beginn als "Cleveland Shipbuilding" |
| Cleveland (Ohio) |
1888 |
Brush Electric Light & Power Company |
John R. Barber bestellt für seine Papierfabrik in Georgetown (b. Toronto) einen 60-PS-Motor und einen 100-PS-Generator für sein Barber Paper Mill am Credit River. Es ist die erste elektrische Fernübertragung für industrielle Zwecke in Nordamerika. |
| Cleveland (Ohio) |
1888 |
Kilby Manufacturing Co. |
Gründung des Unternehmens mit Jospeh W. Lee als Präsident, J. F. Kilby als Vizepräsident sowie W. S. Dodge als Sekretär und Finanzleiter |
| Columbus (Ind.) |
1888 |
Reeves & Company |
Eintragung als Aktiengesellschaft |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
1888 |
Martin Schneble's Sons |
Gründung |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
Jan. 1888 |
The Brownell & Co. |
Der Werk brennt ab (vmtl. mit Ausnahme der Kesselschmiede) und anschließender Wiederaufbau |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
Jan. 1888 |
The Brownell & Co. |
Eingetragen |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1888 |
Detroit Dry Dock Engine Works |
Herstellung von 13 Schiffs-Dreifachexpansionsmaschinen |
| Evansville (USA) |
1888 |
F. Grote Manufacturing Co. |
Eintragung als "F. Grote Manufacturing Co." |
| Grand Rapids (Michigan) |
1888 |
John Himes & Co. |
Brobst zahlt Petersen aus, und die Firma wird in "Brobst & Himes" geändert. |
| Joliet (Illinois) |
1888 |
Fox, Samson |
Gründung der "Fox Solid Pressed Steel Company" zur Herstellung von Eisenbahn-Fahrgestellen in Joliet, Illinois |
| Litchfield (Montgomery, Ill.) |
1888 |
Litchfield Foundry and Machine Co. |
Schacht 11 wird abgeteuft |
| Menomonie (Wisconsin) |
1888 |
Knapp, Stout & Co. |
Tod von John Holly Knapp |
| Muskegon (Mich.) |
1888 |
T. Turnbull |
Die "Turnbull Boiler Works" stellen Kessel, Holzabfallfeuerungen, Heiß- und Kaltwassertanks, schere Bleche und Öfen für Holzfeuerung her. Reparaturarbeiten sind eine Spezialität. |
| Racine (Wisconsin) |
1888 |
J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company |
Vergebene Fabriknummern für Dampfmaschinen: 3400 - 3679 (280 gebaute Einheiten) |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
1888 |
Rockford Clothing Company |
Bau der Fabrik |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
1888 |
Rockford Construction Company |
Gründung |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
1888 |
Shoudy Manufacturing Company |
Gründung |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
1888 |
Trahern Pump Company |
Neugründung |
| Sandusky (Ohio) |
1888 |
Barney & Kilby |
J. F. Kilby gründet sein Nachfolge-Unternehmen "Kilby Manufacturing Co." |
| Toledo (Ohio) |
1888 |
Craig Shipbuilding Co. |
John F. Craig, der Gründer der "Craig Shipbuilding Company", verlegt seine Werft von Trenton (Michigan) nach Toledo. |
| Toledo (Ohio) |
1888 |
Union Manufacturing Company |
W. S. Walbridge wird Vizepräsident |
| Trenton (Michigan) |
1888 |
J. Craig & Sons |
John F. Craig, der Gründer der "Craig Shipbuilding Company", verlegt seine Werft von Trenton nach Toledo. |
| Washington (Lawrence, Ohio) |
1888/1889 |
Washington Furnace |
Außerbetriebnahme in den späten 1880er Jahren |
| Youngstown (Ohio) |
1888 |
Youngstown Iron Sheet and Tube Company |
Die in Youngstown ansässigen Industriellen George D. Wick und James A. Campbell gründen die "Mahoning Valley Iron Company" mit Wick als Präsident |
| Grand Rapids (Michigan) |
02.01.1888 |
Edison Light and Fuel Company of Grand Rapids |
Ein von der anderen, bereits tätigen Elektrizitätsgesellschaft angestrengter Prozeß wegen derer Monopolstellung geht zugunsten der Edison-Gesellschaft aus, und die unterbrochenen Arbeiten werden wieder aufgenommen. |
| West Lebanon (Indiana) |
14.01.1888 |
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Additional particulars of the collision on the Wabash at West Lebanon were ascertained Tuesday. No lives were lost. The engineer of the passenger train was Joe Watkins. He caught sight of the freight train while rounding a curve, and had barely time to reverse his engine, apply the ail brakes and jump, before the trains met. He and his fireman, Lewis Isley, escaped uninjured. The freight train being the heavier, the tender and locomotive were driven back into the mail car, which was broken into kindling wood. Chief Mail Clerk Helm, was very painfully bruised, but, remarkable as it may seem, neither he nor any of his assistants was seriously injured. Among the passengers injured was Mrs. W. L. Pettitt, wife of the cashier of the First National bank of Ft. Wayne, who was on her way to visit friends in Effingham. At the time the shock came she was coming from the toilet room, and she was thrown with great force against the side of the car, causing a hemorrhage. The cause of the collision was that the freight train was too heavy. It was sent out of Tilton at 10 o'clock and it was helped up Danville grade by a switch engine. The engineer was unable to make up any time, and a long delay was caused by the breaking in two of the train. Having had orders to run to West Lebanon siding the engineer attempted to do so, but the delays had more than consumed the margin of time allowed him. |
| Germantown (Montgomery, Ohio) |
18.01.1888 |
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A frightful wreck occurred on the Mackinaw Road this morning near Germantown, Ohio. As train No.1, in charge of Conductor Pierce, was rounding a sharp curve near the farm of Samuel Sliver, Jr., and near a high trestlework, the track spread and the baggage and smoking car left the track. They ran about 200 yards on the ties, when the coupling broke and the smoker was thrown from the track at right angles with it. The baggage car was carried fully 100 yards further, where it went over the trestle, a distance of 20 feet. The car was completely demolished, though, strange to say, none of the occupants of the car were killed. Harry Gay, express messenger and baggage master, was severely cut and bruised about the head and face. J. A. Garber, brakeman, had both feet and legs crushed. All the passengers received a good shaking up, and a number were badly cut and bruised. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
19.01.1888 |
Felt & Tarrant Mfg. Co. |
Einreichung des ersten Patents für den "Comptograph" |
| Muncie (Ind.) |
30.01.1888 |
---- |
The east bound Bee Line express, due Muncie at 4:30 in the morning, came into the city at the rate of fifty miles an hour and crashed into a freight engine standing east of the depot. The air brakes of the express werer unmanageable and the train could not be checked. Both engines were almost entirely ruined, together with two palace cars, several coaches and freight cars. Fire immediately broke out in the palace cars. The city fire department was summoned and did all the service possible, but the cars were ruined. The tracks were torn up for rods and the gates and station house smashed to the ground. Miraculously no one was hurt except the freight engineer, who is seriously injured. |
| Pine (Lake, Indiana) |
31.01.1888 |
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A freight train on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroad, going east, went through a bridge at Pine, Ind., twenty miles east of Chicago. The engine and ten cars were wrecked. One car loaded with naphtha and the others laden with coal, caught fire, and at last reports were burning. The flames communicated to surrounding property and a call for hose carts was sent in to the Chicago fire department. A brakeman named COULTER, of Fort Wayne, Ind., is reported to have been killed. An engineer is authority for the belief that several bodies are under the wreck. The disaster occurred, it is said, on Sunday at nine a.m., and the railroad authorities tried in vain to control the fire until compelled at last to appeal to the Chicago fire department.
Another story says that this alleged attempt to keep the accident a secret caused a double disaster. A second freight train is said to have attempted to cross the broken bridge and plunged down on the first wreck, killing several men at work there, and also the entire crew of the last train. The latest report says that four men are known to be dead and as many more believed to be buried beneath the wreck. |
| Indianapolis (Ind.) |
14.06.1888 |
Monarch Governor & Machine Co. |
Erteilung eines U.S.-Patents auf einen Dampfmaschinenregler. Es ist ein drehzahl-verstellbarer Drosselregler (ähnlich dem Pickering-Regler), dessen Schwingkugeln in Blattfedern geführt werden. |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
07.1888 |
Lodge & Davis Machine Tool Company |
Erneute Gründung, verbunden mit einer Reorganisation |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
2. Hälfte 1888 |
Clingman Gas Machine Co. |
Eintragung der Gesellschaft |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
08.1888 |
Chicago Edison Company |
Der Chefingenieur Frederick Sargent plant das erste Elektrizitätswerk, das in der 139 (später: 120) West Adams Street im August eröffnet wird. Es soll den Bereich Harrison Street, Market Street und Water Street (beide später: Wacker Drive) und Michigan Avenue versorgen und bedient diesen Bereich mit Gleichstrom nach dem Edison-Patent |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
21.08.1888 |
Burroughs Adding Machine Co. |
Burroughs erhält sein erstes Rechnemaschinen-Patent |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
04.09.1888 |
Barney & Smith Manufacturing Co. |
Edward E. Barney trennt sich aus gesundheitlichen Gründen von der Gesellschaft und scheidet als Geschäftsführer aus. Sein Nachfolger wird A. M. Kittredge. |
| Corwin (Ohio) |
09.09.1888 |
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At 2:30 o'clock this morning a train containing John Robinson's circus, while stopping to take water at Corwin station on the Little Miami Railroad, 51 miles from this city, was crashed into by a heavy freight train, and a scene of terror seldom equaled ensued. The circus train was composed of about 50 cars. At 12:10 A. M. the second section of freight train No. 53 left Xenia . The circus train had its caboose protected with danger signals. While the engine was taking water at Corwin the fireman saw the headlight of the train following flash around the curve to the rear and called to the engineer, who instantly gave his engine all the steam he could and did all in his power to prevent of lessen the force of the collision. The cause of the collision was due to the extreme carelessness of the train men. The question whether both crews are to blame or only one, and if one crew, which one, has not been settled. |
| Ankenytown (USA) |
15.09.1888 |
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The Baltimore and Ohio north bound passenger train on No. 9, due Mansfield at 5:55 a.m., jumped the switch at Ankenytown siding, 25 miles south of Mansfield, and collided with a freight train on the siding. The mail car, followed by the express car and two day coaches, struck the engine and rolled over on their sides, badly wrecked. Almost immediately the freight engine exploded, throwing wreckage in all directions. The two coaches contained 110 passengers, nearly all returning from the encampment at Columbus. The hot water and steam from the boiler poured into the coaches and the passengers that had not been hurt by broken timbers were scalded. The engine on the passenger train, which, with two express cars had safely passed the switch, was immediately taken to Independence and Bellevue, and all the doctors in these places were taken to the wreck. |
| Grand Rapids (Michigan) |
01.10.1888 bis 30.10.1888 |
Fox Machine Company |
Umzug von der Erie street in ein zweistöckiges Ziegegebäude in der Front street |
| Port Hope (USA) |
08.10.1888 |
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Schiffbruch bei Port Hope, Michigan |
| La Grange (Cook, Illinois) |
11.12.1888 |
Blomberg, Martin |
Geburt von Petrus Fredrik Martin Blomberg in Östervåla (Schweden) als Sohn von (Petrus) Andersson Blomberg und Dina Josefina Carolina Blomberg (geb. Lindström). - Er besucht zunächst das Technische Institut in Örebro. |
| Lorain (USA) |
17.12.1888 |
Johnson Company |
Umwandlung des Firmennamens von "Johnson Steel Street Rail Company" in "The Johnson Company" |
| Anderson (Indiana) |
1889 |
The Hill Machine Company |
Gründung und Eintragung der Gesellschaft mit Forrest J. Hill als Präsidenten und weiteren Familienmitgliedern als deren Beamten. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
01.1889 |
Felt & Tarrant Mfg. Co. |
Eintragung der Firma Felt & Tarrant im Januar |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1889 |
Griffin Wheel Foundry Company |
Eintritt von Franklin L. Whitcomb |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1889 |
Illinois Steel Company, South Chicago Works |
Übernahme der "South Chicago Works" durch die "Illinois Steel Company" |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1889 |
M. Brand & Co. |
Die Brauerei in der Elston Avenue wird an die "United States Brewing Company" verkauft |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1889 |
Union Special Machine Company |
Fritz Wever ist als Generalvertreter in Deutschland tätig |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1889 |
Weir & Craig Manufacturing Co. |
Eintragung unter "Weir & Craig Mfg. Co." |
| Chillicothe (Ohio) |
um 1889 |
Taylor Switch & Signal Co. |
Gründung |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
1889 |
Blymyer Manufacturing Co. |
J. S. Blymyer ist bis 1889 als Präsident der "Cincinnati Ice Machine Co." genannt. |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
um 1889 |
Blymyer Manufacturing Co. |
Die "Cincinnati Bell Foundry Co." wird Nachfolger der "Blymyer Mfg. Co.", aber die "Blymyer Iron Works Co." setzen den Bau von Zuckerrohrfabriken fort. |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
1889 |
Lane & Bodley Co. |
Tod von Philander P. Lane. - Er hatte sich bereits einige Jahre zuvor aus dem Unternehmen zurückgezogen, und die Leitung liegt in den Händen von seinem Sohn, Henry M. Lane. |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
1889 |
The Lunkenheimer Co. |
Eingetragen |
| Cleveland (Ohio) |
1889 |
Brush Electric Light & Power Company |
Das Unternehmen geht in der "Thompson-Houston Electric Company" auf (seit 1891: "General Electric Company") |
| Connersville (Indiana) |
1889 |
P. H. & F. M. Roots Company |
Edgar Dwight Johnston wird Vizepräsident |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1889 |
Detroit Dry Dock Engine Works |
Das Grundstück 5 an der Ecke Dequindre und Guoin Streets kommt für $4,000 in den Besitz der Gesellschaft. |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1889 |
Penberthy Injector Co. |
Auszeichnung durch die erste Medaille auf der Internationalen Ausstellung in Detroit |
| Grand Rapids (Michigan) |
1889 |
Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co. |
Tod von Melville R. Bissell. - Seine Frau Anna setzt das Geschäft fort. Sie verteidigt aggressiv die Patente des Unternehmens und vermarktet die Teppichreiniger erfolgreich in ganz Nordamerika und Europa. |
| Iron Mountain (Mich.) |
01.01.1889 bis 31.01.1893 |
Chapin Mining Co. |
Aufstellung einer Cornwall-Pumpmaschine für die Wasserhaltung (Förderung: 5.000.000 Gallonen/Tag) von E. P. Allis |
| Joliet (Illinois) |
1889 |
Illinois Steel Company, Joliet Works |
Übernahme der "Joliet Iron and Steel Works" durch die "Illinois Steel Company" bald nach deren Gründung 1889 |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
1889 |
Pabst Brewing Company |
Umfirmierung aus "Phillip Best Brewing Company" in "Pabst Brewing Company" |
| Oshkosh (Wisc.) |
1889 |
Carlton Foster & Co. |
Verkauf an die Morgan Co. |
| Peoria (Ill.) |
1889 |
Avery Manufacturing Machinery Co. |
Einragung als Aktiengesellschaft unter der Firma "Avery Manufacturing Company" mit einem Kapital von $600.000 |
| Racine (Wisconsin) |
1889 |
J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company |
Vergebene Fabriknummern für Dampfmaschinen: 3680 - 3976 (297 gebaute Einheiten) |
| Richmond (Indiana) |
1889 |
Robinson & Co. Machine Works |
Eingetragen |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
1889 |
Hess & Hopkins' Leather Company |
Erweiterungsbauten |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
01.1889 |
J. G. Chick Milling Company |
Eingetragen |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
1889 |
Rockford Machine Company |
Eingetragen |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
1889 |
Rockford Manufacturing Company |
Gründung |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
1889 |
Skandia Furniture Company |
Gründung |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
1889 |
Ward Pump Company |
Gründung mit einem Kapital von $59.000 |
| Springfield (Ohio) |
1889-1890 |
O. S. Kelly Co. |
Änderung des Firmennamens aus "Springfield Engine and Thresher Company" |
| Springfield (Ohio) |
1889-1890 |
The Springfield Engine and Thresher Company |
Änderung des Firmennamens in "O. S. Kelly Co." |
| Tallmadge (Ohio) |
15.01.1889 |
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A frightful wreck occurred on the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio railroad, near Tallmadge, O., at half-past two o'clock yesterday morning, an east-bound passenger train coliding [sic] with one section of a frieght [sic] train which had broken in two. Eight persons were killed and a dozen injured. The freight train had broken in two and the crew resorted to the common expedient of â??doublingâ? the grade. The flagman who had been sent to guard the rear section misunderstood the signals and came in before the track was clear. The freight had barely got under motion when the express came along. The passenger engine was crushed into bits and Engineer HUNTINGTON and Fireman WALTERS were terribly crushed.
A combination baggage and smoking car and a coach took fire immediately after the crash. In the smoker were eight Chinamen. Five were pulled out alive, but half-dead from freight. Three were never seen after the collision. Bones and bits of charred flesh gathered up in a bag were all that were found of them. |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
01.04.1889 |
Allis, Edward Phelps |
Tod von E. Ph. Allis |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
01.04.1889 |
Edw. P. Allis & Co., Reliance Works |
Tod von E. Ph. Allis |
| South Chicago (USA) |
08.04.1889 |
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A defective switch derailed the four rear coaches of an inward-bound Baltimore & Ohio passenger train between Colehour and South Chicago about eight o'clock yesterday morning. The coaches were thrown with terrific violence against several coal oil tank-cars standing on the side-tracks and broken to pieces. One man was killed and a dozen others injured, two or three of them very severely. The train was a mixed passenger train, composed of ten cars --- three express cars, three emigrant coaches, one combination smoker, a passenger coach, a Pullman sleeper and an ordinary passenger car. The train was an hour and three-quarters late, and was running fast in order to make up time.
Just north of One Hundredth street, near the great tanks of the Standard Oil Company, as the train went flying over the many switches, the seventh coach was suddenly wrenched loose from its couplings and shot diagonally across the track to the left. The ordinary day coach, following just after, was thrown from the track and with awful force against the oil-tank cars to the right. The entire side of the car was ripped and torn and smashed into a pile of twisted iron, splintered wood and broken seats. |
| Lorenzo (Illinois) |
10.04.1889 |
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An accident occurred on the Chicago, Sante Fe & California railroad, near Joliet, in the morning. The regular east-bound train was just leaving Lorenzo station, which is fifty miles from Chicago, at half-past four o'clock, when the accident occurred. Attached to the rear of the train was a private car occupied by MR. J. F. HART, mayor of Brookline, Mass., and a director of the California Central railroad. The party in the car consisted of MR. HART and his wife, his son, HENRY ROBERT HART; his niece, MISS WINSLOW; a porter known only as HARRY, and a cook. Just as the train was pulling out of the station an extra stock train following ran into the rear of the passenger train at a good speed, demolishing the private car and damaging the freight engine so that large quantities of steam escaped, scalding those who had escaped from the effects of the crash.
The passenger train was running on time, and the extra freight, through some inexcusable error of the train-dispatcher, was allowed to follow. At Lorenzo the grade is very steep, and the engineer of the extra saw that his train was unmanageable just as he perceived the tail lamps of the passenger.. He whistled for brakes. It was too late. His engine crashed into the private car, driving it upon the steps of the Pullman car Santa Anna. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
01.05.1889 |
Chicago Edison Company |
Das Werk in der Washington Street geht in Betrieb |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
01.05.1889 |
Chicago Edison Company, Washington Street Station |
Inbetriebnahme |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
24.05.1889 |
Endres, John J. |
John Endres, Chefingenieur der "North Hudson County Railway", stirbt plötzlich in Hoboken N.J. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
11.06.1889 |
Felt & Tarrant Mfg. Co. |
Erteilung des ersten Patents für den "Comptograph" |
| Steubenville (Ohio) |
28.06.1889 |
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The New York and St. Louis mail train met with disastrous accident at Cumberland Junction, three miles east of Steubenville, Ohio., Owing to imperfect connections with the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Pan-Handle section was nearly two hours late in leaving Pittsburg, and had orders to make up an hour of the lost time between Pittsburg and Columbus. Just east of Cumberland Junction is a steep down grade over a sharp reverse curve. On this the train, consisting of an engine, express and four mail cars, plunged at the rate of sixty miles an hour. The last car was whipped from the track like the end of a whip lash and ploughed along the embankment on its side for a distance of over one hundred foot. In leaving the track it drew with it the two mail cars in front, and the forward car struck a car loaded with steel rails, crushing in the side and throwing both cars, which were not uncoupled, down an embankment twenty-five feet high and landing them, bottom up, in the ditch.
In these cars were the conductor and brakeman and twelve postal clerks. Two of the postal clerks were killed outright, and also injured. They were JOHN G. PAYNE, of Indianapolis, and JAMES RINEHART, of Effington, Indiana.
LEE BURRIS, of Columbus, the conductor, had his right hip crushed and his thigh split open from the hip to the knee. JOHN MacFARLAND, a brakeman, had his left leg completely severed from his body and his right leg crushed to a jelly. Both men were fatally injured and died during the night. |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
07.1889 |
Rockford Lubricating Company |
Gründung mit einem Kapital von $10.000 |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
07.1889 |
Skandia Shoe Manufacturing Company |
Gründung mit einem Kapital von $50.000 |
| Pontiac (Illinois) |
19.07.1889 |
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The pluck and presence of mind of Mrs. NELLIE SULLIVAN prevented a disastrous wreck on the Chicago and Alton Railroad this morning. Mrs. SULLIVAN lives near the track two miles north of Pontiac. She is the wife of a farmer, and was alone when she awoke early yesterday morning and noticed that there was a fire on the railway right of way at a gulley near her home.
It was yet dark, but a faint streak in the eastern sky proclaimed the hour when the early morning train would arrive. It was hardly possible that the railroad people had received warning of the fire, and if the bridges had burned, the passenger train would dash into the gulley with it load of human freight.
Engineer SID SMITH, who was pulling the night mail train had his engine running at high speed. The light, moving now backward and forward, the engineer knew to be a signal. As quickly as possible he began to slow down the engine. The fire man thrust his head out of the cab and exclaimed:
â??Lord, man it looks like a ghost.â? Then the engineer looked again as the engine slowed down and saw that the signal was being wielded by the spectral-appearing figure of a woman.
The engineer brought his train to a stop, and then Conductor ROBERTS hastened forward to ascertain the cause of the stop. In the meantime Mrs. SULLIVAN hastened home to dress. It is announced that the Alton handsomely rewarded Mrs. SULLIVAN. |
| Columbus (Ohio) |
16.08.1889 |
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A freight wreck occurred on the Cincinnati, St. Louis and Pittsburg Road two miles west of Columbus at 2:35 this morning. The first section of train No. 42 stopped to shift cars to a siding. The caboose and most of the cars composing the train were left standing on the main track. The second section ran into the caboose, wrecking five cars and the engine.
James Mears, stock dealer of Steubenville, was sleeping in the caboose, and is fatally injured, his neck being broken. Engineer Ed Stolz of Bradford and Fireman John Gardner of Columbus were slightly scalded and bruised. The company's loss will probably exceed $8,000. |
| Ferdinand (Indiana) |
20.08.1889 |
Ferdinand Foundry and Machine Works |
Nach der Perfektionierung seiner Entwürfe reicht Kitten ein Patent beim United States Patent Office am 29. Mai 1889 ein, um die Patentrechte für seine Dampfmaschine zu erhalten. Das Patent wird unter der Nummer 409.594 am 20. August 1889 gewährt. |
| Canton (Ohio) |
27.09.1889 |
The Canton Steam Pump |
Cassius M. Miller erhält das U.S.-Patent Nr. 448.856 für eine Duplexpumpe |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
Okt. 1889 |
Edw. P. Allis & Co., Reliance Works |
Auftrag zum Bau von sechs Dreifach-Expansions-Corliss-Reynolds-Dampfmaschinen für die Central Power Station der Straßenbahn in Boston |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
10.1889 |
Larson & Lundstrom |
Gründung als Hobelwerk |
| Akron (Ohio) |
Okt 1889 |
Webster, Camp & Lane Machine Co. |
Das Unternehmen erwirbt die Baptisten-Kirche am North Broadway für $2.500 zur Werkserweiterung (Modellwerkstatt) |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
15.10.1889 |
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Ten persons are reported killed by the breaking loose of a car on the Auburn incline plane. The rope broke just as the car reached the top and it went crashing down and ran into a passenger station and into the office below. Three are killed, and five probably fatally injured.
The most appalling accident ever known of the inclined plane railways in this city happpened [sic] to-day between 12 and 1 o'clock on the Mount Auburn inclined plane.
It lies at the head of Main street and reached to a hight [sic] between 250 and 300 feet in the space of 2000 feet. Two cars are employed, one on each track, drawn by two steel wire cables, wound upon a drum at the top of the hill, by an engine located there. Nine passengers had entered the car at the foot of the plane and a mumber [sic] of others in the car at the top.
The passage of the ascending car was all right until it reached the top, when, to his sorrow, the engineer found the machine would not respond and he could not stop the engine. Only one result was possible. The car was arrested by a strong bumper, which stops its progress and as the engine continued all its force was expended on the two cables and snapped them like wrapping thread. Then the car, with its nine inmates locked within, began its descent of the slope.
The crash at the foot of the plane was frightful. The iron gate that formed the lower end of the track on which the car rested was thrown sixty feet down the street. |
| Connersville (Indiana) |
25.10.1889 |
P. H. & F. M. Roots Company |
Tod von Francis Roots in Connersville |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
12.1889 |
Felt & Tarrant Mfg. Co. |
Der "Comptograph", die erste schreibende Rechenmaschine, wird herausgebracht |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
10.12.1889 |
Rockford Baking Company |
Gründung mit einem Kapital von $25.000 |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
13.12.1889 |
Globe Clothing Company |
Eingetragen mit einem Kapital von $50.000 |
| Aurora (Ill.) |
Anfang 1890 |
Hinckley Manufacturing Company |
Gründung mit einem Kapital von $10.000 |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1890 |
Griffin Wheel Foundry Company |
Es werden täglich 250 Räder hergestellt |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1890 |
Munson Typewriter Co. |
Die erste Schreibmaschine wird hergestellt |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1890 |
Wells & French Company |
Charles F. Scoville bleibt bis zu seinem Tode der Leiter des Waggonbaus. |
| Cleveland (Ohio) |
1890 |
Standard Oil Co. |
Der Sherman Antitrust Act (Gesetz gegen die Dominanz der Monopole im Handel) führt zu einer Umorganisation von Standard Oil. Es wird die "Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) Holding" gegründet, so daß der Sherman Antitrust Act keine Auswirkungen auf Stadard Oil hat |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
1890 |
A. W. Gump & Co. |
Die erste Schreibmaschine wird gebaut. Konstrukteur: Bern. Granville in Dayton, Ohio |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1890 |
American Blower Company |
James Inglis erwirbt Anteile und wird 1890 der Finanzleiter. - Als Vorstandsvorsitzender schließt er die meisten Verträge über Smith's Erfindungen und ausländische Lizenzvergaben. |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1887-1890 |
Penberthy Injector Co. |
Seit Beginn der Fertigung (Januar 1887) wurden bisher 40.000 Injektoren gebaut. |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1890 |
Penberthy Injector Co. |
Das Unternehmen erhält das einzige Diolom für Injektoren auf der Internationalen Ausstellung in Detroit |
| Evansville (USA) |
1890er |
A. S. Baker Company |
Es werden bis in die 1890er Jahre große Zylinderpumpen, Wassertanks aus Kiefernholz und rotierende Windmühlen mit Dreiecks-Antrieb, patentiert durch Allen Baker, der Produktionslinie hinzugefügt. |
| Fremont (Ohio) |
1890 |
David June & Co. |
S. A. June und Peter June, sein Sohn, übergeben ihre Anteile an "D. June & Co.". Seitdem besteht die Firma aus D. June, O. S. French, M. Holderman und A. M. June. |
| Galesburg (Ill.) |
1890 |
Frost Manufacturing Co. |
Tod von A. Harrington |
| Illinois |
1890 |
---- |
In Illinois sind 1890 268.486 Dampfmaschinen-PS vorhanden. |
| Iron Mountain (Mich.) |
1890 |
Chapin Mining Co. |
Die Grube beschäftigt 1.800 bis 2.000 Männer, und 742.843 t Erz werden gefördert. |
| Lafayette (Indiana) |
1890 |
Goss, William Freeman Myrich |
W. F. M. Goss wird wird Prodfessor für Expermental-Mechanik an der Purdue University. Er gründet ein Maschinenlaboratorium |
| Lorain (USA) |
1890 |
Johnson Company |
Bau der Anlage am Black River [fraglich, da Johnson sein Stahlwerk erst 1894/95 baute] |
| Martins Ferry (Ohio) |
1890 |
Lavosier Spence |
Der Sohn des Gründers, George Spence, wird Teilhaber in der "L. Spence Co." |
| Michigan |
1890 |
---- |
In Michigan sind 1890 216.536 Dampfmaschinen-PS vorhanden. |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
1890 |
Edw. P. Allis & Co., Reliance Works |
Die Erben von E. P. Allis tragen die Firma als "Edward P. Allis Company" ein. |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
1890 |
Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company |
Gründung der Vorgänger-Gesellschaft "Milwaukee Street Railway Company" |
| Muskegon (Mich.) |
1890 |
Muskegon Boiler Works |
Mr. Stevens, Inhaber der "Turnbull Boiler Works", übernimmt in Verbindung mit Mr. Behrens die Kesselbauabteilung der "Novelty Iron Works" und führt die Kesselproduktion unter der Firma "Muskegon Boiler Works" fort. |
| Muskegon (Mich.) |
1890 |
T. Turnbull |
Mr. Stevens, in Verbindung mit Mr. Behrens, übernimmt die Kesselbauabteilung der "Novelty Iron Works" und führt die Kesselproduktion unter der Firma "Muskegon Boiler Works" fort. |
| Ohio |
1890 |
---- |
In Ohio sind 1890 387.840 Dampfmaschinen-PS vorhanden. |
| Quincy (Ill.) |
1890 |
The Gardner Governor Company |
Baubeginn von Dampfpumpen |
| Racine (Wisconsin) |
1890 |
J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company |
Vergebene Fabriknummern für Dampfmaschinen: 3977 - 4432 (456 gebaute Einheiten) |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
1890 |
A. Hammill |
Gründung |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
1890 |
Globe Clothing Company |
Bau der Fabrik |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
1890 |
Love Manufacturing Company |
Gründung mit einem Kapital von $10.000 |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
Frühjahr 1890 |
Mechanics' Furniture Company |
Gründung mit L. M. Noling, Präsident; John Ek, Vizepräsident; Jonas Peters, Sekretär; A. P. Floberg, Finanzleiter; Alfred Kjerner, Betriebsleiter, als Unternehmensleitung |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
1890 |
Rhoades, Utter & Co. |
Umwandlung aus "Rhoades & Utter" in "Rhoades, Utter & Co." |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
1890 |
Rockford Brass Works |
Gründung |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
1890 |
Rockford Malleable Iron Works |
Eingetragen |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
1890 |
T. J. Derwent Company |
Eingetragen mit einem Kapital von $10.000 |
| Springfield (Ohio) |
1890 |
Common Sense Engine Co. |
Eingetragen |
| Terre Haute (Indiana) |
1890 |
Terre Haute Car and Manufacturing Company |
Die gute Auftragslage erfordert Tag- und Nachtschichten |
| Toledo (Ohio) |
1890 |
National Supply Company |
Umfirmierung des Vorgänger-Unternehmens aus "Bayne & Wilson" in "Bayne, Wilson & Pratt" |
| West Lafayette (USA) |
1890 |
Purdue University |
W. F. M. Goss wird wird Prodfessor für Expermental-Mechanik an der Purdue University. Er gründet ein Maschinenlaboratorium |
| Wisconsin |
1890 |
---- |
In Wisconsin sind 1890 121.149 Dampfmaschinen-PS vorhanden. |
| College Hill (Hamilton, Ohio) |
17.01.1890 |
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At 7:10 this evening, as the Glendale accommodation, bound for Cincinnati, was leaving the station at College Hill junction, the Chicago vestibuled train ran into the rear of the accommodation.
There were three passenger cars on the Glendale train, containing about seventy-five persons.
The locomotive of the Chicago vestibuled train ran half way through the rear car of the accommodation, piling the passenger cars in a heap and setting them on fire. At present writing four persons have been taken out dead from the wreck.
The wounded are now on their way to this city, where they will be taken to the hospital. The number of fatalities and injuries, considering the completeness of the wreck and the number of passengers, is reported to be comparatively small. Several persons were rescued fatally injured.
BOB STEVENSON, baggagemaster of the vestibuled train, was badly hurt and died shortly after being placed in the patrol wagon.
The body of JOHN WILSON, superintendent of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, has been identified as one of those burned up.
The engineer of the vestibuled train is seriously hurt. |
| Glendale (Hamilton, Ohio) |
17.01.1890 |
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A vestibule express plunges inato the rear of annother train and the shattered cars take fire.
Glendale, a suburb fifteen miles out from Cincinnati, is largely inhabited by leading business men and prominent citizens. A special accommodation train is run for the town by the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Road, stopping only at Winton-place. It was at this point to-night that a shocking collision occured. The accommodation had just begun to move away from the station when the Chicago vestibule train, drawn by one of the new strong engines and running from fifty to sixty miles an hour, plunged into its rear. In making up the accommodation the baggage car had been put on the rear end. To this is due the comparatively small loss of life.
The big engine plowed half way through the baggage car, pushing it and the two coaches in front off the track into a ditch. The stove in the baggage car set fire to it and the three cars were soon in a blaze, while a number of helpless people, pinned in the debris, were screaming for relief, or in their madness cursing their fate. |
| Carmel (Indiana) |
26.01.1890 |
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The passenger train on the Monon route, which left Chicago Sunday night at 11 o'clock, was wrecked at 7:50 this morning one mile above Carmel. The tender jumped the track. The engineer reversed the engine but, before the air brakes could stop the train, the locomotive and baggage car cleared the trestle. The sleeper and smoking coach went over into the creek, both taking fire almost immediately and being consumed in a remarkably short time.
The killed are seven in number:
MRS. ENBANK, Brood Ripple, Indiana; burned.
TWO CHILDREN of D. S. OLDHAM, Sheridan, Indiana; burned.
An UNKNOWN MAN who died soon after being rescued.
MRS. LIZZIE FITZPATRICK, of Indianapolis; missing, and is supposed to have been burned.
The injured are:
M. E. INGALLS, president of the Big Four line; injured about the head and arms.
Engineer SCHOPE, of Indianapolis; seriously hurt.
JULIUS PEARSON, of Sheridan, Indiana; seriously hurt.
A. L. CLARK, of Westfield, Indiana; commercial traveler, cut on the forehead.
Express Messenger MUNGER; badly hurt.
Those who escaped uninjured busied themselves in taking the dead and injured from the wreck, but, before this could be accomplished, the heat of the burning cars became so intense that they had to withdraw. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
29.01.1890 |
Crane Elevator Co. |
Änderung der Firma "Crane Bros. Manufacturing Company" in "Crane Company" |
| Bellevue (Ohio) |
13.02.1890 |
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The Lake Shore accommodation train from the west, due in Cleveland at 9:40 ran into an open switch at Bellevue, Ohio, this evening and a serious wreck was the result. A light engine had backed on the siding to allow the express train to pass, but the brakeman failed to close the switch. The passenger train was running thirty miles an hour when it struck the switch, and there was no time to avert a collision. The engine of the passenger train crashed into the standing locomotive and both were demolished. The victims are:
Fireman YOUNG, of the light engine, instantly killed.
Engineer PHELPS, of the passenger train, both legs broken and hurt internally.
Lady Named WOOSTER, several ribs broken but not fatally hurt.
Conductor HOYT, of the passenger, scalp wound and badly bruised.
The loss to the company will be heavy. The accident was caused by negligence. |
| Newark (Ohio) |
13.02.1890 |
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Passenger train No. 12 on the Panhandle Railroad struck a street car containing several persons at Union street crossing in Newark this evening, fatally injuring J. S. Smarts, proprietor of the Newark Paper Mill, and Mrs. Elizabeth Shultz. The latter's ten year old boy, Carl, was saved by the coolness of Dr. E. S. Brown, who threw the little fellow out of his window on the approach of danger. The car was smashed to pieces. |
| Stanton (Montcalm, Mich.) |
14.02.1890 |
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Twenty-three freight cars broke loose from a train at Stanton Junction this morning, rushed down a heavy grade toward Ionia (Mich.) at a speed of forty miles an hour, and crashed into a freight train standing on the track in the yards. Twenty-three cars were smashed and many of them thrown from the track. A brakeman who was standing on the train in the yard was buried to the ground and had a leg broken. A man and two horses which he was shipping in one of the runaway cars were taken from the wreck uninjured. |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
17.02.1890 |
Sholes & Glidden Typewriter |
Tod von Christopher Latham Sholes in Milwaukee. Er litt neun Jahre an Tuberkulose |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
03.1890 |
Grant Locomotive Works |
Eintragung der Firma |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
03.1890 |
Diamond Furniture Company |
Gebildet als Nachfolge-Unternehmen von Fred Bigalow |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
März 1890 |
James Rogers, Rockford Galvanizing Works |
James Rogers erwirbt die Rockford Galvanizing Works |
| Lakeville (Ohio) |
07.03.1890 |
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A wreck that caused the death of three men and resulted in the destruction of property valued at $100,000 has occurred on the Pittsburg, Chicago and Fort Wayne Railroad, near Lakeville, Ohio. Freight train No. 93 was running in several sections, and at Lakeville the third section broke a coupling, and the detached portion of the train, consisting of a dozen cars and three tank cars filled with gasoline, came to a stand. The conductor and brakeman of the third section said they at once started back to warn the the fourth section. They ran for half a mile, placing many torpedoes on the track. But the warning was not heeded and the train, running down grade at the rate of thirty miles an hour, crashed into the third section, ploughing half through the detached portion.
As the collision occurred the tank car exploded with a noise that could be heard for a mile away, and, the blazing gasoline spreading, the wrecked cars were soon enveloped in flames. The trainmen of section No. 3 say those of section No. 4 must have been asleep. It is believed, however, the warning was not as timely as these men claim. |
| Toboso (USA) |
14.03.1890 |
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This morning a wreck occured at Black Hand, on the Central Ohio Division of the Baltimore and Ohio. One man was killed outright, two were dangersously, and five slightly injured. A large rock had rolled on the track two miles west of the point named, and the fast Chicago vestibule train, due here at 12:30, struck the rock, which was half as large as a passenger coach. The train was in charge of Engineer John Moore and Conductor Raymond.
At the place where the accident occurred there is a high hill on one side of the road and the river flows on the other. The train was making probably forty miles an hour when the engine struck the rock, and in an instant an awful scene ensued. The engine was turned completely around and thrown into the water, while the baggage, mail, smoker, first-class coach, and the sleeper were all ditched, the trucks being knocked out from under them. There were about 100 passengers on board, and the accident was a remarkably fortunate one in its results, considering the speed of the train and the weight of the obstruction. |
| Aurora (Ill.) |
05.1890 |
Monitor Manufacturing Company |
Gründung |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
10.05.1890 |
Rockford Mantel and Furniture Company |
Eintragung |
| Marion (Indiana) |
31.05.1890 |
---- |
Two women and two children were killed near the eastern limits of the city, where the Panhandle track crosses the Jonesboro pike. The Chicago, St. Louis, and Pittsburg express, west-bound, running fully fifty miles an hour, collided with a buggy and killed MRS. O. J. STONE and her two children and MRS. POE WIMMER. The horse was killed and thrown a hundred feet. The engine struck the vehicle so squarely that it was caught upon the pilot and carried a quarter of a mile, when the train stopped. MRS. STONE was still in the buggy. Her neck was broken and her body was terribly mutilated. |
| Cleveland (Ohio) |
13.06.1890 |
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A passenger train on the Connatton Valley Railroad, was run into this morning by a switch engine at Newburg, a suburb two miles from Cleveland. Nobody was killed, but twelve or thirteen were wounded, some seriously. A freight train ploughed through the passenger train at a crossing.
The accident was caused by a misunderstanding as to signals. The engineers of both trains thought the signals were for them to "go ahead." The result was that the passenger train got part of the way over the crossing when the freight dashed into it, wrecking one car. It was almost miraculous that no lives were lost. It is not believed that any of the wounded will die. |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
01.07.1890 |
Phoenix Furniture Factory |
Gründung mit einem Kapital von $50.000 |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
07.1890 |
Royal Sewing Machine Company |
Gründung |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
07.1890 |
S. B. Hendricks |
Gründung |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
07.07.1890 |
West End Furniture Company |
Gründung mit einem Kapital von $50.000 |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
08.1890 |
Munson Manufacturing Company |
Gründung mit einem Kapital von $3.000 |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
09.1890 |
Van Wie Gas Stove Company |
Zuzug von Cleveland, Ohio |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
21.09.1890 |
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As the result of "somebodys" criminal carelessness five human beings were crushed to death and nearly a score of others more or less badly hurt in a railway smash-up on the Burlington tracks at Kedzie avenue and Eighteenth street Sunday evening. Sunday morning sixty-five car-loads of German Lutherans, representing the church patrons of the German Lutheran Orphan asylum, embarked for Addison, a station some fifty miles from this city to hold their annual picnic. They went via the Illinois Central, the train being divided into four sections. The Illinois Central trains run over the "Q" tracks as far as Forreston. At about 5 o'clock the picnickers embarked for home, the four sections starting within a few minutes of each other.
The Fatal Crash.
The fourth section, in charge of Conductor CARRINGTON and Engineer SEAVERS, reached the Kedzie avenue station at about 7 o'clock. A freight train being on the track ahead SEAVERS brought his train to a stop. He was obliged to wait about fifteen minutes for a clear track. Just as he started his engine the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy suburban train known as "Downers Express" came dashing down the line at the rate of thirty miles an hour and crashed into the rear of the excursion train. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
26.09.1890 |
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A Chicago, Burlington and Quincy freight train crashed into the rear of an excursion train on the Illinois Central Railroad, near Eighteenth street, in Chicago, Ill., about eight o'clock the other night. The collision resulted in the loss of four or more lives.
The first reports from the police were to the effect that forty persons had been killed. Within half and hour four mangled corpses had been dragged out of the wreck.
The collision occurred near Douglass Park, and the victims were Sunday excursionists just reaching the city on their way home from an afternoon's outing. They were on the third section of a train homeward bound from Addison, Ill., a town eighteen miles from Chicago, where there are picnic grounds much frequented by Germans. Two Illinois Central coaches were telescoped and a third badly shattered.
At the Illinois Central train-master's office at ten o'clock that night it was stated that only four persons had been reported killed and about eight wounded. The killed were; MISS GINAN, of Chicago; ____ GINAN, sister of the above, two unknown young men.
Conductor HENRY CARRINGTON, of the passenger train, and one of the brakemen have been arrested. They refuse to talk, but it is claimed that the signals were burning too dimly to be seen. Eleven passengers were injured. |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
10.1890 |
Manny Lemon Juice Extractor Company |
Gründung mit einem Kapital von $25.000 |
| Barnesville (Ohio) |
03.10.1890 |
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Two passenger trains were in collision one mile west of Barnesville, Ohio, demolishing two express cars, both engines and the mail car.
Engineer JOHN WHEELER and a baggageman, "ED." MURDOCK, had their legs broken. The accident was due to disobedience of orders on the part of one train. The officials announce that one was killed. |
| Pleasant Valley (Ohio) |
03.10.1890 |
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Eight persons killed, two wounded and a large amount of property destroyed are the results of one of the worst collisions that ever happened on the Central Ohio Division of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The accident occurred on a sharp curve, one mile west of Pleasant Valley, Ohio, midway between Newark and Zanesville, at about twelve o'clock at night. It is attributed to the criminal negligence of the operator, a young man named KEELTY. The trains in collision were a westbound freight train, on which the engineer was JOHN S. BUCKINGHAM; the fireman, W. M. FIRESTONE; conductor, BASH, and an eastbound freight, with JOHN CAMP, engineer; HARRY WILSON , fireman, and WILLIAM CROUSE, conductor. The dispatcher had orders at Black Hand to hold the eastbound train, and in addition an order was made for two trains to meet at that point. BUCKINGHAM called for orders and was given a clean block by the operator, who claims to have overlooked the two orders. He has not been seen since, but evidently has decamped. The engines are total wrecks, being locked together so that it is impossible almost to separate them. Twenty-five cars filled with wire nails, iron, steel, oats, middlings, corn, flour, lumber, ore and empties were jammed and splintered, all being crowded in the space of seven or eight car lengths. The wrecking trains were sent down and the debris cleared away. The loss to the company will be not less than $9,000. |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
11.1890 |
Forest City Knitting Co. |
Gründung mit einem Kapital von $60.000 |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
11.1890 |
Searle Sons & Company |
Gründung |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
Dez. 1890 |
Griffin Wheel Foundry Company |
Errichtung eines neuen Gebäudes an der Sacramento Avenue, genannt Sacramento Square, für $700.000; Fertigstellung im Dezember. Der tägliche Ausstoß beträgt 300 Räder |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
Dez. 1890 |
Charles Andrews & Co. |
Verlegung nach West End |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
01.12.1890 |
Taylor & Worsley |
Gründung |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
16.12.1890 |
Smith, Myers & Schnier |
Erteilung eines Patents auf die Verbesserung von Bandsägen |
| Battle Creek (Mich.) |
1891 |
Upton Manufacturing Company |
Änderung der Firma in "Port Huron Engine & Thresher Company" |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
1891 |
Ahrens-Fox Manufacturing Company |
Die "Ahrens Manufacturing Company" schließt sich mit drei der größten Wetbewerber, "Silsby" (Seneca Falls, NY), "Button" (Waterford, NY) und "Clapp & Jones" (Hudson, NY) zusammen, um die "American Fire Engine Company" zu bilden" |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
1891 |
Blymyer Manufacturing Co. |
D. W. Blymyer ist sowohl Präsident der "Cincinnati Ice Machine Co." als auch der "Blymyer Iron Works Co." |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
1891 |
C. Ahrens & Co. |
Zusammenschluß der "Ahrens Manufacturing Co." mit dem Konkurrenten Silsby, Button und Clapp & Jones zur "American Fire Engine Co." |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
1891 |
The Blymyer Iron Works Co. |
D. W. Blymyer ist sowohl Präsident der "Cincinnati Ice Machine Co." als auch der "Blymyer Iron Works Co." |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1891 |
Ford, Henry |
Henry Ford wird als Ingenieur bei der "Edison Illuminating Company" eingestellt, benannt nach dem Gründer und Direktor Thomas Alva Edison. Mit diesem ist er in späteren Jahren noch freundschaftlich verbunden. |
| Evansville (USA) |
01.1891 |
A. S. Baker Company |
Die "Baker Company" gibt ihre erste Dividende von 1 Prozent bekannt. |
| Hamilton (Ohio) |
1891 |
Hooven, Owens & Rentschler Co. |
Bisher wurden 750 Corliss-Dampfmaschinen gebaut, von 35-PS-Einzylindermaschinen (d= 10", h= 24") bis zu 2000-PS-Verbundmaschinen mit Kondensation |
| Lansing (Michigan) |
1891 |
Olds Motor Works |
Bau eines zweiten Dampfwagens (der erste entstand 1887), der nach Indien exportiert wird. |
| Lansing (Michigan) |
1891 |
P. F. Olds & Son |
Bau eines weiteren Dampfwagens, der nach Indien exportiert wird. |
| Lima (Ohio) |
1891 |
Lima Locomotive Works |
Die Gesellschaft wird reorganisiert und wird die "Lima Locomotive & Machine Company". |
| Mansfield (Ohio) |
1891 |
Aultman & Taylor Machinery Co. |
Eintragung |
| Oscoda (USA) |
1891 |
Henry M. Loud's Sons |
Übernahme der "J. E. Potts Salt & Lumber Company" und Ausbau durch Loud |
| Peoria (Ill.) |
1891 |
Avery Manufacturing Machinery Co. |
Baubeginn von Dreschmaschinen und Dampftraktoren |
| Port Huron (USA) |
1891 |
Port Huron Engine & Thresher Co. |
Änderung der Firma von "Upton Manufacturing Company" in "Port Huron Engine & Thresher Company" |
| Racine (Wisconsin) |
1891 |
J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company |
Vergebene Fabriknummern für Dampfmaschinen: 4433 - 4894 (462 gebaute Einheiten) |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
1891 |
Hess & Hopkins' Leather Company |
Erweiterungsbauten |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
01.01.1891 |
Rockford Suspender Company |
Eingetragen mit einem Kapital von $520.000 |
| Terre Haute (Indiana) |
1891 |
Terre Haute Car and Manufacturing Company |
Tod von James Seath |
| Upton Works (Battle Creek) |
1891 |
Upton Manufacturing Company |
Änderung der Firma in "Port Huron Engine & Thresher Company" |
| Zanesville (Ohio) |
1891 |
H. & F. Blandy |
Umwandlung in "Blandy Machine Co." |
| Green Springs (Ohio) |
13.01.1891 |
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A terrible accident occurred Tuesday evening about seven o'clock, four miles east of this city, at a place know as Green Creek crossing, where the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad crosses the creek by that name. Along the creek is a wagon road and while returing to their homes on this road and while returning to their homes on this road four men were hurled into eternity.
Their names were Charles Ream, Milton Gilmore, Rube Babcock, and Grant Fleming, all of the vicinity of Green Springs, OH.
They had been in this city during the afternoon and towards evening started home on a bob sled drawn by a team of horses owned by Daniel Ream. As they neared the railroad, heedless of the approaching express train, they attempted to cross the track. Instead, the engine struck the rig and men, sled and horses were hurled in all directions.
The train was stopped, and then a sickening sight was revealed. Two men were found on the south side of the track and two on the north side, while both horses were killed. Two of the men were killed outright and the other two were in a unconcious condition and died within an hour. The bodies were placed on the train which backed to Clyde with them.
Fleming was thrity years old and leaves a wife and two small children with no support. gilmore was forty-six, Ream nineteen and Babcock seventeen years old and all were unmarried.
There are many theories advanced as to the cause of the accident, a very plausable one of which is that whisky played an important part in the affair. |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
01.02.1891 |
Royal Sewing Machine Company |
Beginn der Fabrikation |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
01.02.1891 |
Spengler Brothers |
Gründung |
| Havana (Illinois) |
08.03.1891 |
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A terrible railroad wreck occurred this morning on the Jacksonville Southeastern, which resulted in the total destruction of all the cars by fire, the smashing of the engine, the loss of one life outright, and the serious injury of several persons, one or two of whom lie in a precarious condition.
The south-bound express, due here at 4 A. M., was nearing Havana, when a broken rail was encountered, ditching the entire train, which consisted of a baggage and express car, smoker, chair car, and two sleepers. As soon as the engine struck the defective rail it at once careened into the ditch, and the baggage car was piled on top of the tender. Fire from the engine or a stove in the car at once set fire to the former, and it was speedily consumed. The baggageman by some means managed to get out without being seriously injured, and he at once began rescuing the others. He found the express messenger pinned fast under a heavy box, and with a superhuman effort extricated him, but the poor fellow had lost his left foot. Others who were not hurt looked after the passengers on the train. The chair car was set on fire by the pstent heater, and the flames communicating with the sleepers, all were destroyed.
Fireman JAMES N. SADDLE was caught in the wreck of the baggage car and tender and was burned to a cinder. FRANK BIRKENHEAD, the engineer, was stunned and caught fast in the wreck, but fortunately was found and saved, though his left arm and leg were broken. |
| Canton (Ohio) |
17.03.1891 |
The Canton Steam Pump |
Cassius M. Miller erhält eine Spezifikation auf das U.S.-Patent Nr. 448.856 für eine Duplexpumpe |
| Racine (Wisconsin) |
25.03.1891 |
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A serious wreck occurred on the Northwestern Road at Racine Junction last night, by which one man was killed, two dangerously hurt, and three others more or less injured. A mail car, baggage car, and five freight cars were destroyed by fire. The pecuniary loss is estimated at 50,000. The collision occurred at midnight between a north-bound Chicago and Northwestern passenger train and a south-bound freight train on the same line. The latter train consisted of sixty-four cars and was under such headway that it could not be checked sufficiently to allow side-tracking. Both trains came together on the main track at the station. Following is a list of the vicitims:
WILLIS ANDREWS of Fond du Lac, fireman on freight train, killed.
MARTIN RAE of Milwaukee, freight engineer, probably fatally injured.
DENNIS E. BURKE of Milwaukee, passenger engineer, dangerously injured.
I. T. DE SILVA of Chicago, express messenger, badly bruised.
JOHN GROBBEN of Milwaukee, passenger fireman, badly scalded, and died soon afterward.
J. BOWER of Evanston, Ill., assistant express messenger, burned and cut.
In the safe of the American Express Comapny was 10,000 in currency for Northern banks from Chicago. So intensely hot did the fire become that when the safe was opened at noon to-day half the currency was found burned to ashes and the other half partially burned. The express company will lose about $5,000 of the money, enough being saved of the other half to insure its redemption. Several thousand dollars' worth of jewelry was melted and run into one lump. The United States Express Company also lost a large amount of money. Not a pound of express or mail matter was saved. |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
04.1891 |
Ingersoll Milling Machine Company |
Gründung mit einem Kapital von $80.000 |
| Kipton (USA) |
18.04.1891 |
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A frightful wreck occurred on the Lake Shore railroad at Kipton station, about forty miles west of Cleveland, this evening, in which six postal clerks and two engineers were killed. The fast mail, No. 14, bound east, collided with No. 21, Toledo express, just as the latter train was about to pull on a side track to let the fast mail pass. The fast mail was running at full speed, and the force of the collision was so great that both engines, three mail cars and one baggage car were completely wrecked. It was the custom for these two trains to pass at Kipton, the Toledo express taking the side track for the fast mail, which generally went through Kipton without slackening speed. The Toledo express was a few minutes late this evening and had just come to a stop at the switch when the fast mail came in sight. There is scarcely any curve at the station, but on one side of the track was a line of freight cars and on the other the station, and these might have obstructed the vision of the engineer of the fast mail. He applied the air brakes when he saw a collision was inevitable, but the speed was not checked materially. The engine of the Toledo express was knocked squarely across the track and that of the fast mail reared in the air, resting on top of the other. The first and second mail cars were telescoped and smashed to kindling wood, and the third crashed into the first two and rolled over on the station platform, breaking the windows of the building. |
| Indianapolis (Ind.) |
26.04.1891 |
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At 3:30 Sunday morning the "Big Four," mail train No. 10, east-bound from St. Louis, met with a remarkable accident three miles west of this city. The train was running at fully sixty miles an hour down a heavy grade six miles in length, when the rear trucks of the last car but one struck a broken rail. The last coach, a Pullman, struck the break and jumped the track, entirely breaking away from the body of the train. The coach rolled over upside down in the ditch and ran on of its own momentum for more than a hundred feet. There were six male passengers in the Pullman, all of whom were more or less injured. An examination of the defective rail after the wreck showed that it was an old one and cracked from the end a distance of eight feet. At the end of the crack there was a perceptible break which must have been existing for weeks before the accident. With the exception of Passenger McMILLAN the injured men will all recover, and there is a possibility that he, too, may survive. |
| Salem (Ohio) |
26.05.1891 |
The Buckeye Engine Company |
Patent |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
06.1891 |
Rockford Linen Fibre Company |
Gründung |
| Dover (Ohio) |
23.06.1891 |
---- |
Ein Eilzug entgleist in Dover (Ohio); eine Person getötet, an die 50 verwundet |
| Ravenna (Ohio) |
03.07.1891 |
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At 3 o'clock this morning a frightful wreck occurred at Ravenna on the New York, Lake Erie and Western railroad. Train No. 8, fast express, bound for New York, while standing at the depot waiting for orders, was crashed into from the rear by a freight train. A day coach on the rear of the train was completely telescoped and two sleepers forward took fire and were burned up. Nineteen passengers were killed and thirty-eight badly injured. Many of the victims were so badly burned that they are almost unrecognizable. A special train conveying surgeons was sent from this place. The freight train that telescoped the express in the dressed meat express from Chicago and was running at about thirty miles an hour when it struck the passenger train. The accident was due to carlessness in leaving a switch open. It is rumored that three of the members of the Pittsburg base ball team were killed in the wreck. |
| Middletown (Butler, Ohio) |
25.07.1891 |
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Seven persons were killed and a large lumber injured by a collision at Middleton, O. The "Dayton Cash Register Co." gave their employees 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 excursion train run into at Middletown broke a draw bar while pulling onto the switch, and during the delay of re-coupling the freight train came along. The cars into which the freight train plowed were turned into a mass of debris and dead and crippled human beings. It is said the wounded number fifty. Scores have their legs or arms broken or are otherwise horribly injured. 3 Tote, 40 Verwundete |
| Bellaire (Ohio) |
31.07.1891 |
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At about 10 o'clock this morning, passenger train No. 4, on the Bellaire, Zanesville & Cincinnati narrow gauge railroad left the track three miles south of Bellaire, two cars being overturned and dragged some distance by the engine. There were 70 passengers on the train and the two cars that turned over in the ditch were crowded with young people from this section. When the train left the track somebody cried out that everybody should cling to their seats, but the shock was so awful, many were hurled from one side to the other. Those not badly injured being terribly shaken up. |
| West Lafayette (USA) |
Sept. 1891 |
Purdue University |
Erwerbung der 85.000 pound schweren Lokomotive Schenectady No. 1 |
| Ravenna (Ohio) |
30.09.1891 |
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At 1:40 o'clock the third section of freight train No. 85 left Ravenna for Kent. The train was in charge of E. Biegert of Meadville, and the engine was manned by Engineer C. E. Brown of Meadville and Clayton Glass of Kent as fireman. The conductor had been told to wait at Ravenna for the last section of the eastern excursion. The fifth section carried no lights to show that a passenger was following and Conductor Biegert gave the signal to leave the siding. Traveling at a good rate of speed, the freight left the Ravenna yards. Nothing unusual was noticed, and in a few minutes more the freight would have been safe at Kent.
Suddenly a headlight appeared through the fog in front. With a cry of alarm Engineer Brown reversed his engine. On the grade the train would not stop. It was a fearful place for a wreck, and is justly named Breakneck Yards. At this point the Pittsburg and Western passes under the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio tracks, and a fall of at least forty feet exists leaving a sheer descent to the Pittsburg and Western tracks of thirty-nine feet. Both approaches to the trestle are banked high, and just to the west of this trestle the two huge engines crashed together. Vier Tote, 19 Schwer-, 5 Leichtverletzte |
| Hicksville (Ohio) |
14.10.1891 |
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A train on the Baltimore & Ohio, which left Chicago to-day [sic] at 10:10 a.m. Met with a serious accident at 2:31 p.m. At Hicksville, twenty miles from Garrett, Indiana. The train consisted of an engine, tender, baggage car, smoker, ladies' coach and the private car of Vice-President KING. The whole train left the track, and the sleeper, ladies' coach and private car went over an embankment. The smoker and baggage car hung on to the engine and were kept on the bed of the road.
Two passengers were killed, five seriously and several slightly injured. The cause of the Baltimore & Ohio wreck was the spreading of rails while the train was passing through Hicksville at a high rate of speed. Besides two killed, fifty other passengers were badly injured, of whom ten may die. |
| Isleta (Ohio) |
14.10.1891 |
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A fast Pennsylvania railroad passenger train ploughed into the rear of a standing troop train during a heavy fog early today, killing at least 21 National Guardsmen.
LT. COL. FRANK TOWNSEND, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., commanding officer of the Pennsylvania National Guard troops aboard the train, said 13 bodies were carried from the wreckage, four died at hospitals, and the bodies of four more soldiers were still in the wreckage. The state highway patrol, however, placed the death toll figure at 25. COL. TOWNSEND said 44 were injured. Witnesses said the troop train stopped west of a signal when a steam valve controlling the train's air brake system apparently snapped. Crewmen had just placed flares at the rear of the disabled troop carrier when the Spirit of St. Louis plunged out of the dawn and smashed into the end of the standing train.
The first unit of the Diesel knocked the rear coach into the air, then struck the second coach, shearing it to floor level. The Diesel's second unite then crashed into the rear of the third coach, knocking it at right angles to the track, before coming to rest against the fourth coach. |
| Monmouth (Illinois) |
21.10.1891 |
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The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy fast passenger train, No. 5, which left Chicago at 10:30 o'clock last night, met with a terrible accident at the pottery switch near Monmouth, sixteen miles west of here. Twenty-five minutes later the train was running at a high rate of speed. The facts show that the switch was partly turned and the locomotive left the main track and started on the side track. Some of the cars kept on the main track, and as a result the whole train of seven cars, save the sleeper, were derailed and turned over on their side, the cars being scattered around in great confusion. There was no telescoping.
F. C. RICE, superintendent of the Illinois lines of the C. B. & Q., expressed the opinion that the switch had been tampered with. After the wreck the switch was found half turned with the pin hanging down and the switch locked. A switch engine had been working on the sidetrack during the afternoon, but subsequently seven trains passed over the switch in safety. Just a year ago the fast mail ran off the same switch and several were injured. It is a standard split switch and was regarded as perfectly safe. |
| Homewood (Illinois) |
22.10.1891 |
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At 7:40 in the morning a wreck occurred at Homewood, Ill., a little station on the Illinois Central Railroad, near Champaign. A wild train, north bound, broke in three places. The middle string crashed into the head end, completely demolishing six freight cars and piling many others on the tracks. The tracks are double at this point, and so scattered were the cars that both tracks were blocked. It was reported that a man was killed, but the story was without foundation. |
| Toledo (Ohio) |
29.11.1891 |
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The Lake Shore was the scene of a serious run-in accident this evening on the Boston and Chicago special going East, which left Chicago at 10:30 A. M. On the edge of the city the road runs under the Miami and Erie Canal, through the tunnel some seventy-five feet long. Some 200 yards east of the tunnel is a target. The Lake Shore train passed through the tunnel, but not getting the signal at the target to come ahead, put on the brakes and backed up. The south-bound express on the Flint and Pere Marquette Road, which goes over the Lake Shore tracks to Union Station, came through the tunnel immediately after the Lake Shore train and plunged into the rear coach.
The Lake Shore train was vestibuled, but an ordinary coach for the accommodation of way passengers was attached at the rear, and it was this which suffered. The Flint and Pere Marquette engine plowed its way through the car until the pilot was more than midway of the coach. The seats and floor were torn up, and the passengers, bruised and maimed, were badly scalded by the escaping steam from the broken pipes. The crash is described by those who heard it as terrific, and was followed by screams of agony from the wounded.
The time of arrival of the Flint and Pere Marquette train is 4:53, that of the Lake Shore train 4:55 - thus giving but two minutes between them. The former train seems to have been a couple minutes behind time. The engineer of the former train says that just as he was coming to the tunnel, running fast, he saw the rear lights of the Lake Shore train and believed it to be in the tunnel. Knowing a collision inevitable, he shut off steam and both he and his fireman jumped, escaping with a few bruises, they knowing that a collision in the tunnel would give them no chance for life. |
| Evansville (USA) |
12.1891 |
A. S. Baker Company |
Die Statuten der Gesellschaft werden geändert, um zu erklären, daß das Gesellschaftskapital durch Zurückhaltung bei den Gewinnen voll eingezahlt wird. |
| Homewood (Illinois) |
11.12.1891 |
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Two women and an infant were instantly killed at Homewood this evening by a "Big Four" express train on the Illinois Central tracks and another woman just escaped a similar fate. Those killed were: Mrs. MARY WITT and Mrs. ANNA GOTSCHALK and the infant child of the latter, while Mrs. WITT's sister-in-law, AUGUSTA WITT, was only saved by throwing herself from in front of the train. The three women were caught in the dusk on the track just outside of the village returning home after a visit during the day with a friend. |
| Lima (Ohio) |
vor dem 25.12.1891 |
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A fatal accident occurred on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad near Lima, Ohio, a few mornings ago. About 9:30 A. M. the dining car in passenger train No. 25 (the Columbian express) left the track 200 feet east of the east end of the passing siding at that place, and the two following sleeping cars went with it.
The dining car was wrecked and the two sleepers were badly damaged by being thrown against the engine of east-bound train second 72, which was waiting on the siding for No. 25 to pass. Four persons died and seventeen persons were badly injured. The train was running at the rate of sixty miles an hour. The engine, baggage car and day coach passed over in safety, but the train parted in the rear of the day coach, and the dining car and two sleepers were thrown over to the north track with terrific force. The accident happened at the east end of the long siding which is north of the main track. The broken rail was found about forty rods east of the switch used by the freights east bound. The freight train was standing on the siding with the engine almost up to the switch. The dining car of the wrecked train jumped to the side track and ran into the freight engine, which telescoped the car half a length. Little was visible of the engine besides the cab and tender. |
| Racine (Wisconsin) |
22.12.1891 |
Case, Jerome Increase |
Tod von J. I. Case. Stephen Bull, einer der ersten Partner, wird Präsident der Dreschmaschinengesellschaft |
| Racine (Wisconsin) |
22.12.1891 |
J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company |
Tod von J. I. Case. Stephen Bull, einer der ersten Partner, wird Präsident der Dreschmaschinengesellschaft |
| Alton (Illinois) |
1892? |
Duncan Foundry and Machine Works |
Gründung (auch genannt 1874) |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1892 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Baldwin baut 25 Forney-Verbundlokomotiven für die "South Side Elevated Railroad of Chicago". Es sind kleiner Tenderlokomotiven mit einem Drehgestell unter Führerhaus und hinterem Kohlen- und Wasserkasten. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1892 |
Chicago Edison Company |
Die Leistung des Elektrizitätswerks in der West Adams Street wird auf 3.200 kW gesteigert. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1892 |
Forney, Matthias Nace |
Baldwin baut 25 Forney-Verbundlokomotiven für die "South Side Elevated Railroad of Chicago". Es sind kleiner Tenderlokomotiven mit einem Drehgestell unter Führerhaus und hinterem Kohlen- und Wasserkasten. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1892 |
Siemens & Halske AG |
Der Versuch von Werner von Siemens, den amerikanischen Markt zu erobern, bleibt erfolglos. Die 1892 in Chicago gegründete Niederlassung "Siemens & Halske Electric Company of America" wird nach wenigen Jahren wieder gelöscht. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1892 |
Weltausstellung Chicago 1893 |
Die Firma Franck beteiligt sich an der Weltausstellung in Chicago |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1892/93 |
Weltausstellung Chicago 1893 |
Bau des Ferris-Wheels (Riesenrads)auf der Weltausstellung in Chicago durch Ferris und S. Diescher |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
1892 |
A. W. Gump & Co. |
Die "New Rapid"-Schreibmaschine wird gebaut. |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
1892 |
Smith, Vaile & Co. |
Vereinigung mit der "Stilwell & Bierce Mfg. Co." |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
1892 |
Stilwell & Bierce Mfg. Co |
Vereinigung mit der "Smith-Vaile Co." und Umzug nach North Dayton |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
1892 |
Stilwell-Bierce & Smith-Vaile Company |
Die Firma entsteht durch Vereinigung der "Stilwell & Bierce" und "Smith, Vaile & Co." |
| Decatur (Ill.) |
um 1892 |
William L. Oakes |
William Leonard Oakes ergreift den Mechaniker-Beruf |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1892 |
Detroit Dry Dock Engine Works |
Die "Berlin Iron Bridge Company" plant und baut eine neue Maschinenwerkstatt in Stahlfachwerk und eine neue Kesselschmiede. |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1892 |
Detroit Dry Dock Engine Works |
Senator James McMillan wird Präsident. |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1892 |
Michigan-Peninsular Car Company |
Gründung durch Zusammenschluß von fünf zumeist Waggonbauunternehmen unter der Leitung von Russell A. Alger als Präsident. Das Unternehmen wird geleitet und finanziert durch ein Syndikat unter der Leitung von James A. McMillan. |
| Grand Rapids (Michigan) |
1892 |
Fox Typewriter Co. |
Gründung durch William Ross Fox mit einem Kapital von 150.000 $ |
| Hillsboro (Ohio) |
1892 |
C. S. Bell |
Bau eines neuen Werks |
| La Porte (Indiana) |
1892 |
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Mit der Vorform des Hebdrehwählers entsteht das erste Versuchsamt in Laporte (Indiana). |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
1892 |
Edw. P. Allis & Co., Reliance Works |
Bau von Zweikurbel-Dampfmaschinen mit Schwungradgenerator für die "Narragansett Electric Co." in Providence, R.I. |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
1892 |
Weisel & Vilter Mfg. Co. |
Die Ammoniaktanks im "Weisel & Vilter"-Gebäude am Broadway und Detroit [Street?] explodieren beim Großen Brand in Chicago. |
| Muskegon (Mich.) |
1892 |
Muskegon Boiler Works |
Bau des Kessels für die Muskegon Water Works am Michigansee |
| Peoria (Ill.) |
1892 |
Peoria Water Works Company |
Bau der Pumpstation Nr. 1 an der Lorentz Avenue mit zwei stehenden Worthington-Pumpen |
| Racine (Wisconsin) |
1892 |
J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company |
Die Firma kündigt den ersten Gas-Traktor der Welt an, genannt "Patterson tractor" |
| Racine (Wisconsin) |
1892 |
J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company |
Vergebene Fabriknummern für Dampfmaschinen: 4895 - 5466 (572 gebaute Einheiten) |
| Upper Sandusky (USA) |
1892 |
Stevenson Engine Works |
Übernahme durch die "Comins Mfg. Co." |
| West Lafayette (USA) |
1892 |
Purdue University |
Die Universität errichtet den "Purdue Locomotive Testing Plant", eine Testanlage und Laboratorium im Zentrum von Heavilon Hall |
| Youngstown (Ohio) |
1892 |
National Steel Company |
Gründung als "Ohio Steel Company" |
| Youngstown (Ohio) |
1892 |
Ohio Steel Company |
Gründung durch Joseph G. Butler jr. (21.12.1840 - 20.12.1927) und dem örtlichen Industriellen Henry Wick |
| Aladdin (Ill.) |
05.01.1892 |
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Six men were killed outright, two probably fatally injured and many others badly hurt in a collision in the morning between the east and westbound cannon-ball trains on the Wabash road, at Aladdin, Mo., a small station, near Hannibal.
The victims are: A. S. BOUCHARD, engineer, killed outright.
JAMES WILSON, engineer, killed.
Four Italian emigrant passengers, names unknown, killed and cremated.
HENRY WARBOYS, fireman, of Springfield, fatally injured.
ED CONWELL, fireman, not expected to live.
The trains were the eastbound and westbound cannon-ball trains. The eastbound had the right of way, and was waiting at Aladdin for the other train, No. 41, to take the siding. The night was foggy, and Engineer BOUCHARD was not very well acquainted with the run and failed to stop at the switch, but went rushing by into the station at a high rate of speed.
He was unable to see anything ahead of him, at least this is the supposition. The engines came together with a terrific crash, and in an instant all was confusion. To add to the horror of the scene the trains took fire consuming the baggage and smoking cars and one chair car. The remainder of the cars were saved.
The body of BOUCHARD was found pinned to the ground under his engine, and his fireman was fatally injured. CHARLES WILSON, the engineer of the eastbound train, was buried in the wreck and his body has not yet been found. His fireman was severely injured, but may recover.
Besides the four Italian emigrants killed, several more were wounded. The belated train passed through here at 11 o'clock. |
| Crawfordsville (Indiana) |
12.01.1892 |
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Two passengers killed and forty-one injured. The fast mail running between Louisville and Chicago on the Monon route, consisting of a mail car, an express car, three coaches and a chair car, was wrecked two miles north of Crawfordsville, at Nicholson's Crossing early yesterday afternoon. The train was rounding a sharp curve when the outer rail broke and precipitated the cars down an embankment twenty feet deep. The stove in the first coach was overturned and the car was soon destroyed, but the passengers escaped. The next coach was torn to pieces. It was filled with people, not one of whom escaped injury. The parlor car toppled over on top of the coaches. |
| Lafayette (Indiana) |
März 1892 |
Lafayette Car Works |
Das verschuldete Unternehmen wird liquidiert |
| Odin (Illinois) |
23.03.1892 |
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The Ohio and Mississippi train from St. Louis, due here this morning, arrived several hours late owing to a wreck at Odin, Ill., where the Illinois Central Road crossed the Ohio and Mississippi.
While the Ohio and Mississippi train was crossing the Illinois Central tracks, a freight train on that road tore through it, carrying away the day coach and the front end of the sleeper. There were seventeen passengers in the day coach, all of whom were injured. It was at first thought some were fatally hurt, but later investigation shows they will all recover.
The Illinois Central engineer claimed that he could not control his train. |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
05.1892 |
Detroit Dry Dock Engine Works |
Das Grundstück Nr. 6 an der Ecke Dequindre und Atwater Streets (bebaut mit dem zweigeschossigen Dry Dock Hotel, erstmals 1883 in den Adreßbüchern erwähnt, das Grundstück 1867 durch Peter und Anna Marie Klintwort erworben und das Hotel in den 1880er Jahren an verschiedene betreiber verpachtet) wird von Anna Marie Klintwort für $11,000 verkauft. |
| Cleveland (Ohio) |
05.05.1892 |
Arctic Machine Company |
Eingetragen |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
05.05.1892 |
Burroughs Adding Machine Co. |
Erteilung des Patents für die erste brauchbare Rechenmaschine |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
26.05.1892 |
Chicago Edison Company |
Samuel Insull wird zum Präsdenten der Gesellschaft gewählt. |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
27.05.1892 |
Barney & Smith Manufacturing Co. |
Die Gesellschaft wird in die "The Barney & Smith Car Company" mit einem Kapital von $3,5000,000.00 (geteilt in 2,5000,000.00 Vorzugsaktien und 1,000,000.00 gewöhnliche Aktien) umgebildet. Der Vorstand besteht aus neun Direktoren: E. J. Barney, J. D. Platt, F. E. Smith, A. M. Kittredge, F. A. Moss, Charles Francis Phillips, Mortimer J. Brown, Daniel R. Hendricks und Ernest W. Combs. |
| Lemont (Illinois) |
30.05.1892 |
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The wreck of the Red Express, from St. Louis to Chicago on the Santa Fe Road, which occurred a mile and a half south of Lemont, a small quarry town abut twenty miles from Chicago, last night, resulted in the instant killing of the engineer W.A. ISABELLE, the serious injury of ten passengers, and the light injury of five more.
"The accident was altogether unavoidable," said Superintendent Ives to-day, "and not an iota of blame can possibly attach to anybody. A cow and calf got caught in a cattle guard just at a curve. It was impossible to stop the train and it was derailed. The engineer staid at his post and died bravely. We deplore the accident and have done everything in our power for all the injured. The money loss is hard to estimate, but it does not amount to much."
It is stated by the passengers that at the time of the accident the train was running at a high rate of speed to make up lost time. At the point before mentioned the engine struck a cow and calf, which were on the track. The engine and tank jumped the track, and, after running a short distance on the ties, rolled down the embankment into the Desplains River. The baggage car was landed on its side, the smoker followed, breaking the coupling, with the sleeper. The latter tumbled with fearful rapidity down into the tender with the engine and tender. |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
02.07.1892 |
Barney & Smith Manufacturing Co. |
Charles Francis Phillips, Daniel R. Henricks, Mortimer J. Brown und Ernest W. Combs treten als Direktoren zurück. Ihre Nachfolger werden: Briggs S. Cunningham, William A. Procter, W. T. Anderson und R. Somers Hayes. |
| Moro (Illinois) |
08.07.1892 |
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An accident occurred at Moro, Friday, which cast a pall of sadness over the entire community. MISS ALICE BIVENS, a popular young lady who was living in the family of MRS. M. B. MITCHELL, who lives on the west side of the Big Four track, west about 10 o'clock to the east side to a garden to get some vegetables. When she was returning, freight train No. 43, FRANK CARENS conductor, was coming from the north and as she stepped on the track the train struck her, breaking her neck and instantly killing her. She wore a sun bonnet and a shawl, and it is presumed, did not notice the train approach. The train was running at a speed of 18 to 20 miles an hour, and every effort was made to stop it when the lady was noticed, but it was too late. Coroner BONNER held an inquest at which the facts brought out showed that the train men were in no wise to blame, her death being one of those sad mishaps beyond the ken of human powers. The young lady was 24 years old and a daughter of DALLAS BIVENS, of Ft. Russell, who died in 1867. Her mother is living, and is the wife of GEORGE MORGAN, of Moro. The funeral took place Saturday, and was largely attended. Rev. WEBB, of the Baptist church, of Bethalto, conducted services. |
| Cold Springs (Ohio) |
02.08.1892 |
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While west-bound freight No. 65 on the Big Four road, was running at a rate of twenty-five miles an hour at Cold Springs, near here, shortly after noon yesterday, a truck or some part of the running gear of one of the cars broke. In an instant thirteen cars, all loaded, were piled in indescribable confusion, completely blocking the track. Four of the cars were loaded with naptha[sic], which caught fire, and the entire wreck was destroyed. The financial loss is estimated at $73,000 or over. Four persons were burned fatally. |
| Peoria (Ill.) |
13.08.1892 |
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The fast train on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy due to leave here at 3:20 p.m. was fifteen minutes late in departing this afternoon. As the train shot around a curve abut three miles from the station at the rate of forty miles an hour the front trucks of the locomotive jumped the rails and a moment late the train was piled up in the ditch. The engine was turned completely around and is a total wreck. The cars all left the track but were not badly smashed up.
Engineer, GEORGE BONE, married of Galesburg, after reversing the engine was caught in the lever and sustained injuries from which he died.
JOHN MAXWELL, fireman, also of Galesburg, jumped after putting on the air brakes. He was quite badly injured, one leg being broken, besides sustaining internal injuries.
None of the passengers was injured though all were shaken up and a number bruised. It is believed that boys placing a spike on the rail to see the engine smash it caused the accident. |
| Shirland (USA) |
06.09.1892 |
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A freight train on the Racine and Southwestern division of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul road was ditched at Shirland, Ills. Five cars were smashed, one of which contained the race horses from the J. I. Case stables, Racine, including the great Jay Eye See, but none of the horses were hurt. |
| Peoria (Ill.) |
13.09.1892 |
Avery Manufacturing Machinery Co. |
Tod von Robert Hanneman Avery in Peoria, Illinois |
| Peoria (Ill.) |
13.09.1892 |
Avery, Robert Hanneman |
Tod von Robert Hanneman Avery in Peoria, Illinois |
| Shreve (Ohio) |
21.09.1892 |
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Fifteen people were killed and five injured, five passenger coaches burned up, two engines and five freight cars demolished in a terrible head-on collision at Shreve, O., on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad about 3 o'clock Wednesday morning. The colliding trains were section No. 1, of freight train No. 75, and express train No. 8, due in Pittsburg from Chicago at 8 o'clock. The cause was the neglect of orders upon the part of the freight crew. Details of the accident were meager and local officials of the railroad company could only give out a general statement.
From the latter source it was learned that the limited mail No. 8 was speeding past Shreve with a supposed clear track. The freight had been ordered to lay on a siding at Wooster to allow the express to pass. For some reason the order was disregarded and the freight pulled out and was under full headway when the flash of the headlights was the firsts warning received by the engineers, who simultaneously reversed their engines.
This was too late, and the huge engines plunged into each other almost at full speed. The crash was terrible as the trains came together. The engines reared high from the track, while their momentum drove them fairly through each other, and then with the hissing steam and scalding water pouring from every seam and rivet they fell into the ditch alongside the track The freight cars telescoped one another until little but a jumble of wood and iron remained. |
| Peoria (Ill.) |
1892 |
Avery Manufacturing Machinery Co. |
Nach dem Tod von R. H. Avery wird sein Bruder Cyrus Präsident. John B. Bartholomew (seit 1879 in der Firma und Schwager von Cyrus) wird Vizepräsident |
| Martins Ferry (Ohio) |
12.10.1892 |
Lavosier Spence |
George Spence heiratet Flora A. McCord. - Das Paar hat zwei Töchter, Emma and Gertrude |
| Port Hope (USA) |
18.10.1892 |
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Durch Feuer zerstört in Port Huron Michigan |
| Cleveland (Ohio) |
25.10.1892 |
King Iron Bridge & Manufacturing Company |
Tod von Zenas King, 18 Monate nach dem Tod seiner Frau. Das Unternehmen wird von seinen Söhnen James A. King und Harry W. King und seinem Enkel Norman C. King fortgesetzt. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
14.12.1892 |
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By being pushed off the platform of a crowded Wells street car at the tunnel entrance, last evening, Lewis Berman, a 15-year--old American District messenger boy, sustained injuries which may prove fatal. The boy lived with his parents at No. 417 South Halsted street, and was on his way to the North Side with a message. He barely managed to secure a foothold, and just as the car passed into the tunnel he was forced from the platform by a movement of the crowd behind him. The boy fell between the car and the masonry and was severely crushed. He was taken to the Alexian Brothers' Hospital. |
| Bucyrus (Ohio) |
1893 |
Bucyrus Foundry & Manufacturing Co. |
Die Firma zieht nach South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, und ändert ihren Namen in "Bucyrus Steam Shovel and Dredge Company" |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
Anfang Januar 1893 |
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Four persons were killed and eight injured a few mornings ago by the collision of a street car and locomotive at Forty-seventh street and Stewart avenue, Chicago, Ill. The street car was crowded and was passing the Fort Wayne Railway tracks when a Fort Wayne train crashed into it so suddenly that the occupants had no time to escape. The dead are GEORGE BLAKE, ARCHIBALD McANDREWS, unknown man found under the tender of the engine. Unknown woman died in a patrol wagon on the way to Mercy Hospital, supposed to be MRS. CARSON, as a card bearing that name was found in her pocket.
The accident happened when the street car traffic was at its heaviest and the cars were crowded to the doorways with people standing and sitting. The car was going east on Forty-seventh street to State street, where it was to be hitched to a grip car, which was to bring it to the business centre of the city. As it approached the tracks of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago, at Forty-seventh street and Stewart avenue, an engine came backing down the tracks at a rate of about fifteen miles an hour, the railroad people say. For some reason the occupants of the cab did not see the car approaching, and, on account of the heavy coating of frost on the windows of the car, the passengers did not see the engine bearing down upon them. In an instant the engine struck the car and passed on. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1893 |
Aktiebolaget de Lavals Angturbin |
Die Laval-Dampfturbine wird durch die Weltausstellung in Chicago zuerst weiten Kreisen bekannt |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1893 |
Brenzinger & Cie. |
Brenzinger & Cie. errichtet ein Gebäude für die Weltausstellung in Chicago im Auftrag der "Portland-Zementwerke Heidelberg-Mannheim" |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1893 |
C. Cretors & Co. |
Charles Cretors zeigt seinen dampfbetriebenen Popcorn-Wagen auf der Columbischen Ausstellung in Chicago |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1893 |
Dr. C. Otto & Co. |
Ausstellung der Otto-Ofenkonstruktion auf der Weltausstellung in Chicago |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1893 |
Fairbanks, Morse & Co. |
Baubeginn von Kerosin-Motoren |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1893 |
Friedrich Lux, Wassermesser-Fabrik |
Lux erhält Auszeichnung in Chicago |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1893 |
Grant Locomotive Works |
Nach dem Umzug nach Chicago bauen die "Grant Locomotive Works" nur noch 24 Lokomotiven. Die Panik 1893 zwingt sie in Konkursverwaltung |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1893 |
Kellogg, Milo Gifford |
M. G. Kellogg wird Präsident der "Central Union Telephone Company of Chicago" (bis 1898) |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1893 |
L. & C. Hardtmuth |
Der "Koh-I-Noor"-Bleistift wird auf der Weltausstellung präsentiert |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1893 |
L. F. Deardorff & Sons |
Laben F. Deardorff begint eine Kamera-Reparaturgesellschaft |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1893 |
Liberty Iron Works. Fraser, Chalmers & Co. |
O. Lasche ist bei "Fraser & Chalmers" in Chikago tätig |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1893 |
Siemens & Halske AG |
Auf der Weltausstellung in Chicago erregt der Drehstrommotor der Siemens-Versuchslokomotive Aufsehen. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
01.01.1893 |
Weltausstellung Chicago 1893 |
Schuckert präsentiert zur Weltausstellung in Chicago den größten Scheinwerfer der Welt (Speigeldurchmesser: 1,50 m, Leistung: 9000 W) |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1893 |
Weltausstellung Chicago 1893 |
Alois Riedler und Johann Stumpf besuchen die Columbianische Weltausstellung in Chicago |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1893 |
Weltausstellung Chicago 1893 |
Auf der Weltausstellung von Chicago werden die Konstruktionen von Dampfkranen Mohr & Federhaff's mit einer goldenen Medaille ausgezeichnet |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1893 |
Weltausstellung Chicago 1893 |
Charles Cretors zeigt seinen dampfbetriebenen Popcorn-Wagen auf der Columbischen Ausstellung in Chicago |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1893 |
Weltausstellung Chicago 1893 |
Die AG für Chemische Industrie erhält auf der Weltausstellung in Chicago die bronzene Medaille |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1893 |
Weltausstellung Chicago 1893 |
Eine andere Erfindung Elisha Grays ist der Telautograph (erfunden 1888), vorgeführt auf der Chicagoer Weltausstellung 1893, an dessen Verbesserung sowie der Entwicklung eines Unterwasser-Schallsignalsystems Gray bis zu seinen letzten Lebensjahren arbeitet |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1893 |
Weltausstellung Chicago 1893 |
Eugen Brückmann ist Vertreter der Sächs. Maschinenfabrik vorm. R. Hartmann und des Vereins Deutscher Ingenieure auf der Weltausstellung von Chicago |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1893 |
Weltausstellung Chicago 1893 |
Friedr. Dick erhält eine Medaille [auf der Weltausstellung?] in Chicago |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1893 |
Weltausstellung Chicago 1893 |
Hermann v. Littrow wird als Kenner des Lokomotivbaues zum Referenten für das Eisenbahnwesen auf der Weltausstellung in Chicago bestellt. Von dort bringt er das Hochhub-Sicherheitsventil Bauart "Coale" mit, das bald bei den österreichischen Lokomotiven allgemein eingeführt wird. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1893 |
Weltausstellung Chicago 1893 |
Hohner erhält eine Auszeichnung auf der Ausstellung in Chicago [die Quelle gibt "1895" an - die Weltausstellung war 1893] |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1893 |
Weltausstellung Chicago 1893 |
Otto Müller reist gemeinsam mit Alois Riedler (1850?1936) und Karl Georg Busley (1850?1928) nach Amerika und veröffentlicht seine Eindrücke in dem Aufsatz "Amerikanische Dampfschiffahrt". |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1893 |
Weltausstellung Chicago 1893 |
Prämierung von Cocchi, Baciagalupo & Graffigna [auf der Weltausstellung] in Chicago |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1893 |
Weltausstellung Chicago 1893 |
Riedler reist im Auftrag des preußischen Kultusministeriums und des VDI gemeinsam mit Otto Müller und Karl Georg Busley (1850?1928) zur Weltausstellung nach Chicago, wobei er Gelegenheit erhält, zahlreiche technische Lehranstalten zu besuchen. Daraus folgt sein Bericht "Über amerikanische technische Lehrstätten", die er insgesamt als tauglicher als deutsche Einrichtungen bezeichnet |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1893 |
Weltausstellung Chicago 1893 |
von Borries ist Mitglied des internationalen Preisgerichtes der Weltausstellung in Chicago |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1893 |
Weltausstellung Chicago 1893 |
Westinghouse beleuchtet die Weltausstellung mit 250.000 elektrischen Lampen |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1893 |
Winslow Brothers Company |
Auszeichnung durch acht Medaillen auf der World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
1893 |
Ohio and Mississippi Railway |
Zusammenschluß mit der "Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway" |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
um 1893 |
The Blymyer Iron Works Co. |
Blymyer errichtet das "Blymyer Buildung" in der 216 Main Street |
| Connersville (Indiana) |
1893 |
P. H. & F. M. Roots Company |
Ein Ingenieur trennt sich on Roots und gründet die "Connersville Blower Company" |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1893 |
Ford Motor Company |
Henry Ford baut seine erste Dampfmaschine. |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1893 |
Ford, Henry |
Henry Ford baut seine erste Dampfmaschine. |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1893 |
Ford, Henry |
Nach seiner Beförderung zum Chefingenieur bei der "Edison Illuminating Company" hat Henry Ford nun genügend Zeit und Geld, um sich seinen persönlichen Experimenten mit Verbrennungsmotoren zu widmen. |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1893 |
Log Cabin / Palmer Park |
Thomas Palmer gibt der Stadt 140 acres seines Landes, einschließlich der Log Cabin, zur Nutzung als öffentlicher Park "Log Cabin Park" |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1893 |
Michigan-Peninsular Car Company |
Infolge der Wirtschaftsdepression schwinden die Aufträge, und das Unternehmen wird für fünf Monate geschlossen. |
| Evansville (USA) |
1893 |
A. S. Baker Company |
Allen S. Baker hat bis 1893 zehn Patente, die auf seinen Namen herausgegeben wurden, und drei weitere im Partnerschaft mit Levi Shaw, Caleb Snashall und John Baker. Sie beginnen 1873 mit dem auf die rotierende Dampfmaschine, die anderen betreffen Windmühlen, Pumpen, mechanische Bewegungsmechanismen, Mühlstein-Schärfen und Kraftübertragungen für Mindmühlen-Wellen und das letzte einen Turm in Skelett-Konstruktion. Sie werden alle Eigentum der Gesellschaft. |
| Evansville (USA) |
1893 |
A. S. Baker Company |
Auf der Columbianischen Weltausstellung in Chicago wird die "Baker Manufacturing Company" mit einer Goldmedaille für die Effizienz und de Einfallsreichtum ihrer Windmühlen ausgezeichnet. |
| Evansville (USA) |
1893 |
A. S. Baker Company |
Die Depression von 1893 führt zu einer Verringerung der Gehälter und zum Verzicht auf Dividenden für zwei Jahre. |
| Ferrysburg (USA) |
1893 |
Dake Engine Company |
Die Dake-Dampfmaschine gewinnt eine Medaille auf der Columbianischen Ausstellung in Chicago. |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
bis 1893 |
Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company |
Die "Milwaukee Street Railway Company" übernimmt folgende Gesellschaften: "Milwaukee City Railroad Company", "Cream City Railway Company", "West Side Railroad Company", "Milwaukee and Whitefish Bay Railway Company", "Edison Electric Illuminating Company", "Badger Electric Illuminating Company" und "Milwaukee Electric Light Company". |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
1893 |
Pabst Brewing Company |
Pabst gewinnt den Wettbewerb auf der Columbischen Welstausstellung in Chicago |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
1893 |
Vilter Manufacturing Co. |
Peter Weisel tritt zurück, und Theodore Vilter, Ernst Vilters Sohn, wird Präsident. |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
1893 |
Weisel & Vilter Mfg. Co. |
Peter Weisel tritt zurück, und Theodore Vilter, Ernst Vilters Sohn, wird Präsident. |
| Muskegon (Mich.) |
1893 |
Muskegon Boiler Works |
Die Firma kauft den modernsten Kessel, der auf der Weltausstellung in Chicago gezeigt wird. Die Gesellschaft stellt Kessel für alle Gebäudearten her, ferner Lokomotivkessel und Kessel für Binnensee-Dampfer. |
| Palmer Park (Detroit) |
1893 |
Log Cabin / Palmer Park |
Thomas Palmer gibt der Stadt 140 acres seines Landes, einschließlich der Log Cabin, zur Nutzung als öffentlicher Park "Log Cabin Park" |
| Pontiac (Oakland) |
1893 |
Pontiac Buggy Company |
Gründung durch Edward M. Murphy |
| Racine (Wisconsin) |
1893 |
J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company |
Vergebene Fabriknummern für Dampfmaschinen: 5467 - 5948 (482 gebaute Einheiten) |
| South Milwaukee (USA) |
1893 |
Bucyrus Steam Shovel and Dredge Company |
Die "Bucyrus Foundry & Manufacturing Company" in Bucyrus, Ohio, verlegt ihren Sitz nach South Milwaukee und nimmt die vorliegende Firma an. |
| Youngstown (Ohio) |
1893 |
Youngstown Iron Sheet and Tube Company |
Die "Mahoning Valley Iron Company" werden von der "Republic Iron and Steel Company" übernommen, und George D. Wick und James A. Campbell scheiden aus. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1893 |
Liberty Iron Works. Fraser, Chalmers & Co. |
Nach dem Besuch der Weltausstellung in Chicago bleibt J. Stumpf in den USA und ist als Oberingenieur bei der Firma "Fraser & Chalmers" in Chicago tätig, wo der den Pumpen-, Verdichter- und Corliss-Dampfmaschinenbau leitet |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
13.01.1893 |
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The Crete accommodation on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois road, leaving Dearborn station at 7:20 o'clock in the evening, was telescoped at Fifty-fifth street by a Chicago and Erie through train to New York. The accommodation train consisted of three coaches filled with suburban residents on their way to their homes. Fifteen people were severely injured in the wreck, and scarcely any one of the 150 or more passengers escaped some bruises or minor injury.
To add to the horror of the scene, the center coach of the accommodaton train caught fire from the overturned stove, while three passengers, two women and one man were caught in the wreckage close to the flames, and were cut away from their perilous position by the heroic efforts of their fellow passengers. |
| Jessup (Indiana) |
13.01.1893 |
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A serious wreck occurred about fifteen miles north of Terre Haute at noon on the Minshall coal branch of the Vandalia railroad. An engine hauling seven coal cars and a caboose jumped the track at the switch connection at Jessup's station. The engine ran fifteen feet clear of the rails, buried its front end in an embankment and turned over, instantly killing GEORGE SMITH, engineer, and WILLIAM WARREN, fireman. Both men were imprisoned under the fire box and received the full force of escaping steam and coal cinders, which burned their faces beyond recognition. The engine was thrown into such a position as to leave her driving-wheels extended in the air, and kept in motion until the steam ran out. The accident was caused by the driving-wheels striking the stub end of a switch rail. Smith leaves a wife and three children. Warren was unmarried. |
| Peru (Indiana) |
20.01.1893 |
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One of the most disastrous wrecks ever recorded in the history of the Lake Erie and Western Railroad occurred early this morning at the Wabash River Bridge, south of Peru. Train No. 16, the fast north-bound express, struck a broken rail at the southern part of the bridge, derailing the cars. The engine reached the abutment of the second span, when the whole thing collapsed, taking the train down to the bed of the frozen river, thirty feet below. The bridge span of over 100 feet also fell with a crash.
The train immediately took fire and was consumed. One persons was killed instantly, GEORGE C. DORLAND of La Porte, whose back was broken. HENRY GRIFFIN, the engineer, was so badly scalded that he died to-night.
There were fourteen passengers, and not one of them escaped injury. That the loss of life was not greater is miraculous.
The loss to the company is fully $25,000. The train was running forty miles an hour when the rail was struck. The engine hangs to the abutment of the second span.
Another serious wreck was averted by the coolness of NEFF, who, despite his injuries, ran back and signaled a freight, which was following, and which was stopped almost at the edge of the bridge. |
| Alton (Illinois) |
21.01.1893 |
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Nine persons killed outright, twelve fatally injured, and nearly a hundred more or less seriously injured is the appalling result of a series of accidents at Alton Junction today.
An open switch on the Big Four main track was the cause of the disaster.
A Southern Limited ran through the switch into a freight train standing on the siding, and Engineer WEBB ROSS of the Limited was instantly killed.
The wreck took fire, and, while a great crowd was watching the spectacle, an oil tank car exploded with terrible force, enveloping the spectators in a sheet of burning oil.
Nine of them were instantly killed, and scores of them were frightfully burned, a dozen of whom at least, will die.
The fast through train, known as the Southwestern Limited, was coming out of St. Louis at 9 oâ??clock this morning thirteen minutes late, and making up lost time at a forty-seven-mile-an-hour speed, when it ran into a switch and collided with a long freight train consisting mostly of loaded tank cars.
Engineer WEBB ROSS of Mattoon, saw the danger too late, but he threw on the air brake and staid (sic) with his machine, being buried in the wreck and burned to a crisp. Fireman WHITE jumped and escaped uninjured. The passengers were fearfully shaken up, but none was seriously hurt.
An eyewitness of the collision says that the shock was such as to split two loaded tanks wide open, and the oil immediately caught fire, the flames shooting fifty feet into the air.
The locomotive and baggage car were totally wrecked, but the remainder of the passenger train was removed beyond the reach of the flames. In an incredibly short time the freight train was a mass of flames. |
| Wann (Illinois) |
21.01.1893 |
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The southwestern limited express, westbound on the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and St. Louis railroad due in Alton at 9 'clock Saturday morning ran into an open switch at Wann, four miles east of here, causing the death of Engineer Ross and injuring several passengers. The passenger train was late and running at the rate of forty miles an hour. Approaching Wann Station the engine ran through an open switch and crashed into a train of freight cars standing on the siding.
The locomotive split the caboose of the freight train and plowed it [sic] way through several freight cars.
The Wreck Catches Fire
Three oil tanks exploded and scattered oil over the wreck which immediately caught fire. The flames quickly spread and before they could be subdued or the remaining cars drawn away, four freight cars, three oil tanks, baggage car, smoker and the locomotive of the ex press train were completely destroyed. |
| Amboy (Indiana) |
22.01.1893 |
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A rear-end collision between the two sections of the fast express meat train on the Pennsylvania occurred Sunday morning at Amboy, near Peru. The second section was running at the rate of forty-five miles an hour and telescoped four cars. Engineer Mike Maloney of the second section was killed and Fireman E. J. Prize was seriously injured. |
| Kent (Illinois) |
30.01.1893 |
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More people were injured in the wreck of the lumberman's special train on the Chicago Great Western at Kent, Ills., Saturday afternoon than have been reported. At least fifty of the escursionists were cut and bruised, but the injuries of many of them are only slight. The train bearing the lumbermen arrived here in three sections Sunday afternoon, the first at 2:10, the second at 3:10 and the last at 3:45. Fourteen men had received such severe injuries that they were taken to St. Luke's hospital.
Some of the passengers say the wreck was not caused by a broken rail, but by spreading of the rails. J. H. TENNANT, who resides at 422 Sixth street, South Minneapolis, was in the fifth coach from the engine. He said the first intimation the passengers had was a jar, and then, as the coach left the track, a jolting over the ties, and the car fell over the embankment. It all came so suddenly that the first he knew he and the passengers were climbing out of the windows, the car being on its side. The scene that followed, MR. TENNANT said, could not be described. |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
01.02.1893 |
Bickford Drill and Tool Co. |
Neugründung der "Bickford Tool Company" als "Bickford Drill & Tool Company" mit Charles Hoefinger als Präsident, August H. Tuechter als General-Manager und Anton Mill als Superintendent |
| North Manitou Island (USA) |
15.02.1893 |
North Manitou Island Lighthouse |
Regierungsbeschluß zum Bau des Leuchtturms |
| Lorain (USA) |
13.04.1893 |
Johnson Company |
Es entsteht eine neue Gründungsurkunde unter den Gesetzen des Staats Pennsylvania. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
01.05.1893 |
Weltausstellung Chicago 1893 |
Eröffnung der Ausstellung |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1893 |
Weltausstellung Chicago 1893 |
Moritz Lochner besucht die Weltausstellung in Chicago, um besonders den Fortschritt in der Bauart der Eisenbahnwagen eingehend zu studieren |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
ab Mai 1893 |
Weltausstellung Chicago 1893 |
Die Lokomotivfabrik Baldwin (Philadelphia) stellt auf der Weltausstellung 17 Lokomotiven aus: eine Decapod-Lokomotive von 1891 für die "New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad". Hochgeschwindigkeitslokomotiven mit Vauclain-Verbundzylinder, Achsfolge 1'B1' mit dem Namen "Columbia", der auch für die Bauart verwendet wird. Eine Schnellzuglokomotive für die "Central Railroad of New Jersey" und eine die von der "Philadelphia and Reading Railroad" verwendet wird, und eine für die "Baltimore and Ohio Railroad". Diese drei Bahnen betreiben die "Royal Blue Line" zwischen New York und Washington. Eine Sattetank-Doppelender-Lokomotive mit Dampfwinde. Eine Lok mit einfacher Dampfdehnung "American" mit Zylindern 18 x 24
inches. Eine Mogul-Lokomotive mit Zylindern von 19 x 24 inches. Eine fünffach gekuppelte Güterzuglokomotive 20 x 24 inches für die "Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railroad". Eine fünfachsige Verbund-Personenzuglokomotive, gezeigt in Verbindung mit einem Zug der "Pullman Car Company". Eine "Consolidation"-Verbundlolomotive für die "Norfolk and Western Railroad". Drei Lokomotiven werden gezeigt in Verbindung mit der besonderen Ausstellung der "Baltimore and Ohio Railroad": 1 Verbundlok, 1 mit einfacher Dampfdehnung und 1 fünfachsige Personenzuglokomotive. Ferner eine Metersprulok für die "Mexican National Railroad" und eine Satteltank-Industrielokomotive |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
03.05.1893 |
Grant Locomotive Works |
Das Unternehmen ist in Zahlungsschwierigkeiten und wird durch die "French Spring Company" und die "Otis Steel Company" wegen Schulden von 2.646 bzw. 20.000 angeklagt. Es steht kein Geld zu Begleichung der Schulden zur Verfügung, und es ergeht ein Aufruf an die Aktionäre, Mittel für die Überwindung der gegewärtigen Gefahr aufzubringen. W. H. Fenner bezeichnet die Zahlungsschwierigkeiten als nur vorübergehend, da genug Material in den Werkstätten vorhanden sei, um die Schulden zu bezahlen. |
| Lafayette (Indiana) |
1. Maihälfte 1893 |
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A terrible accident occurred on the Big Four Road in Lafayette, Ind., at 1:15 a few mornings ago, as a result of which ten men were killed and many more injured. The train was the east-bound passenger leaving Chicago at 9 p. m. The accident was caused by the failure of the air-brake to work. The engineer undoubtedly discovered this before reaching the cut beyond the Wabash River, as the vigorous whistling of the engine for brakes could be heard when the train was still a mile west of this city. The engineer's desperate efforts to stop the train were shown by the large amount of sand thrown by him on the bridge through which the train came just before the fatal crash. The engine dashed out of the bridge over the Wabash River at a speed of not less than sixty miles an hour, crashing into the depot building, tearing off a portion of the depot and train sheds, and carrying them several hundred feet. The engine when it left the track was followed by the baggage car, two postal cars and the express, and all were piled in a heap, burying a score or more victims. The trucks of the first day coach were dragged out and the side of the car knocked into fragments, but no passengers in this car were injured. The chair car and two Pullman sleepers remained on the track. Fire started from the stove in the baggage car, but the Fire Department rapidly extinguished the flames. |
| Piqua (Ohio) |
24.05.1893 |
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South bound freight train No. 43 on the C H & D ran into two large trees which were blown across the track a mile and a half south of Peterson's station, south of Piqua.
The train was in charge of conductor Tom Durbin, engine 266 controlled by engineer Sam Hartsing, and was running at a high rate of speed when the trees were discovered by engineer Hartsing, who whistled down brakes, opened the sand pipes, reversed his engine and told fireman Finnicle to jump, at the same time leaping him self. Finnicle receive a cut in his right eye ball and several bruises by falling. Engineer Hartsing had his left leg bruised, and Brakeman Geo. Critten was badly stoved up by jumping.
The three injured men are at their homes in this city, and will be laid up for several days. The engine dragged the tree several hundred feet when the front brakes left the track. The pilot was broken into kindling wood, together with the headlight and markers. After some delay the engine was gotten back onto the track, and she is now, in the repair shop being fixed up. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
30.05.-05.08.1893 |
Weltausstellung Chicago 1893 |
Georg von Ebermayer unternimmt zusammen mit Georg Ehrne von Melchthal und Valentin Zehnder im amtlichen Auftrag eine Studienreise zur Weltausstellung in Chicago und zum Studium der amerikanischen Eisenbahnen |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1893 |
Grant Locomotive Works |
Die Firma muß aufgrund der Zahlungsschwierigkeiten schließen. Das geschieht so schnell, daß 20 Lokomotiven unfertig in der Montagewerkstatt lagern. |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
Sommer 1893 |
Ford Motor Company |
Henry Ford zündet sein erstes Ein-Zylinder-Motorchen. |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
Sommer 1893 |
Ford, Henry |
Henry Ford zündet sein erstes Ein-Zylinder-Motorchen. |
| Lima (Ohio) |
23.06.1893 |
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Charley Keller and his wife were driving over the railroad tracks Tuesday night when a switch engine backed upon them, demolishing the buggy and killing them both. Wednesday morning John Steinbaugh and his son were driving across the same track when a train struck them, killing the horses, hurling the occupants about 30 feet and seriously injuring Steinbaugh and killing the boy. |
| Terre Haute (Indiana) |
Juli 1893 |
Terre Haute Car and Manufacturing Company |
Wegen der Börsenkrise der amerikanischen Eisenbahngesellschaften geht das Unternehmen in freiwilligen Konkurs, hauptsächlich wegen des Fehlers der Bank "Post, Martin & Company" in New York, die unfähig ist, Zahlungen für Waggonbestellungen durchzuführen. Die Schulden betragen $599.083, davon sind 195.000 die Fabrik, 110.000 Fahrzeuge und Material, der Rst ist ausstehend. |
| Terre Haute (Indiana) |
Aug. 1893 |
Terre Haute Car and Manufacturing Company |
Das Werk brennt völlig ab. |
| Lima (Ohio) |
07.08.1893 |
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A terrible wreck occurred at Lindsey, a small village of about 500 inhabitants eight miles west of Fremont, Ohio, on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern. An engine and three sleepers were badly demolished and three people killed outright, while fully 25 were more or less badly injured.
The wreck was caused by the collision of a west bound passenger train and east bound freight. Passenger train No. 9, the Pacific express, left here about 10 minutes late. The train consisted of an engine, baggage car, two express cars, three coaches and five sleepers. The coaches and sleepers were all well filled with people, many of whom were on their way to Chicago. |
| Terre Haute (Indiana) |
19.08.1893 |
Terre Haute Car and Manufacturing Company |
Bei einer Zusammenkunft der 1000 arbeitslosen Beschäftigten bieten diese an, das abgebrannte Werk aufzuräumen und wieder aufzubauen, und sie wollen ein Jahr auf ihre Gehaltszahlung warten. Wegen der unklaren Verhältnisse des Unternehmens - es würde fast vier Jahre dauern, bis es wieder normal arbeiten kann - muss die Firmenleitung das Angebot ablehnen. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
Herbst 1893 |
Tappan Steam Pump Works |
"Wheeler & Tappan" errichtet für $15.000 eine Fabrik in Woodstock (Ill.) |
| Lafayette (Indiana) |
Herbst 1893 |
Goss, William Freeman Myrich |
Inbetriebnahme des "Purdue Locomotive Testing Plant" unter Prof. W. F. M. Goss |
| West Lafayette (USA) |
Herbst 1893 |
Purdue University |
Inbetriebnahme des "Purdue Locomotive Testing Plant" unter Prof. W. F. M. Goss |
| Kingsbury (Indiana) |
23.09.1893 |
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At Kingsbury, Ind., a station on the Wabash road, sixty-five miles East of Chicago, the second section of the westbound passenger train No. 53, from Detroit to Chicago, ran into the eastbound freight train No. 92, standing on a siding at 5:20 o'clock this morning, wrecking both engines, coaches and sleeper of the passenger train. The accident was caused by the brakeman of the freight train turning the switch to let the freight train out of the siding after the first section of the passenger had passed and just before the arrival of the second section. 10 Tote, 12 Schwer-, zahlreiche Leichtverletzte.
Besides the fearful loss of life and the number injured, both engines are wrecked and two coaches, one baggage car and one sleeper are smashed and splintered. Most of the passengers hurt were in the day cars. One sleeper alone was not derailed. Fifteen doctors were soon at the scene of the wreck which was horrible in the extreme. Before the freight had gotten under motion the second section of the passenger came thundering along at a rate of forty-five miles an hour to make up lost time. Before the switch could be closed the passenger train ran in on the side track and crashed into the freight. The engines Jammed into each other clear up to the cylinders. The smoker and one day coach telescoped, crashing the sleeping passengers in the latter in a heart sickening manner. The second day coach was thrown across the tracks on top of the debris of the forward coaches. There were two sleepers and the head one crashed into the forward coach and for the length of three berths was torn to atoms, the passengers, six in number being badly injured, but none killed outright. |
| Edgewood (Ohio) |
02.10.1893 |
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At 5:30 Monday morning freight train No. 63 on the Big Four railroad ran into three loaded flat cars at Edgewood. The engine was lifted bodily from its trucks and the tender thrown down a thirty foot embankment. On the front of the first car in the train three tramps from Columbus were riding. They were pinned in the wreckage and two of them boiled to death by escaping steam. The other was fearfully crushed about the head and breast, and was taken from the debris only to die shortly afterward. The track was torn up for about two hundred yards. The wreck train was summoned and the crew began the work of clearing the track. While prying a car off the rails a tie flew up and struck WILLIAM HOBUSCH in the pit of the stomach. It is thought he is fatally injured.
The names of the killed are JOE JORDAN, a chainmaker of Columbus, Ohio: JAMES MURPHY, Columbus, foundryman, and JOSEPH BRANCH. Injured: FRANK BROFFERMAN, Van Wert, Ohio, both legs broken; R. M. HUGHES, operator at Edgwood[sic], leg broken; WILLIAM HOBUSCH, section hand, internally injured. Superintendent GIBSON, of the Big Four, places the blame on the switch engine crew. They had run three loaded cars on the main track and gone back on the siding for more cars, thus trespassing on the fast freight's time. |
| Battle Creek (Mich.) |
20.10.1893 |
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The worst accident this year occurred about 4 o'clock this morning in the yards of the Chicago & Grand Trunk close by the round house in this city by which at least twenty-five people lost their lives and about as many more were badly injured. It was a Raymond & Whitcomb special train with passengers from New York and Boston returning from Chicago. The train was in charge of Conductor SCOTT of this city, and Engineer WOOLEY and took orders at this station to meet at Nichols No. 9 Pacific express going west, due at this station at 1:35 o'clock, but which was nearly three hours late.
The conductor or engineer or both, of the Raymond special, disobeyed orders and passed Nichols station and collided with the Pacific express coming west at the rate of thirty miles an hour. The two engines were driven into each other and were a total wreck. The one on the express was No. 158, a new cook engine in use only two weeks. The engineer and fireman, when they saw that a collision was inevitable, shut off the steam, reversed the engines, put on brakes and all jumped and escaped without serious injuries. |
| Kankakee (Illinois) |
20.10.1893 |
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The New Orleans Limited over the Illinois Central Railroad was wrecked by colliding with a coal train three miles beyond Kankakee, at 11 o'clock last night.
Injured.
Mrs. T.F. BROWN, Newton, Ill. Left hip bruised and ankle cut.
J.W. BROWN, baggage man, hip bruised and left ankle sprained.
Mrs. B.B. CLAYTON, Wichita Falls, Texas, head bruised and left hip badly bruised.
J.D. DAVIS, Flippen, Ga., head cut, legs bruised, and back seriously injured.
C.F. LITTLE, Chicago, scalp wounds, right hip bruised, and right leg crushed.
J.E. LOISKU, Nashville, Tenn., cut on head.
J.M. MARLEY, Plano, Ill., right hip and leg bruised, foot cut.
L.B. SAFFER, Fisher, Ill., back hurt and serious internal injuries.
The New Orleans Limited was due at 7 oâ??clock. |
| Nameoki (Ill.) |
21.10.1893 |
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MRS. W. H. FRAME, New York City, internal injuries that may cause her death.
MISS KATE BECKLEY, of Pennsylvania, internal injuries.
MRS. J. B. HUNTER, of Nevada City, Cal., suffered an injury of the spine that may cripple her for life.
WILLIAM CARTER, Litchfield, Ill., leg broken, head cut, spine injured.
HELEN LITHGO DUNCAN, London, England, internally injured and may die.
A disastrous wreck occurred on the Wabash road seven miles north of East St. Louis, near the little town of Nameoki, at 7 o'clock last night. No. 5, the vestibule fast train from Chicago, over half an hour late, leaped the track while upon a 6-foot embankment and hurled its five coaches, baggage and buffet car into the ditch. The train was peopled with nearly 200 passengers from the World's Fair, and as she landed at the bottom of the incline four of the coaches caught aflame and lit up the scene of horror.
Though scores of the unfortunates were pinned beneath the heavy timbers of the cars, or were hurled healong[sic] from end to end of the coaches with weighty satchels, boxes and other movable articles carried as baggage, not a person perished. Considering the magnitude of the wreck this fact makes the occurrence seem little less than a miracle. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
30.10.1893 |
Weltausstellung Chicago 1893 |
Schließung der Ausstellung. Es findet keine Feier statt, da am 28. Oktober der Bürgermeister von Chicago, C. B. Harrison, erschossen wurde. |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
06.11.1893 |
Ford Motor Company |
Geburt von Edsel Bryant Ford in Detroit. Sohn von Henry Ford. Als einziges Kind Fords wird Edsel im Sinne erzogen das Familienunternehmen zu übernehmen und wächst mit der Entwicklung von Autos auf. |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
06.11.1893 |
Ford, Edsel Bryant |
Geburt von Edsel Bryant Ford in Detroit. Sohn von Henry Ford. Als einziges Kind Fords wird Edsel im Sinne erzogen das Familienunternehmen zu übernehmen und wächst mit der Entwicklung von Autos auf. |
| Mattoon (Ill.) |
30.11.1893 |
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The passenger train on the Illinois Southern Railroad was wrecked while running at a slow rate of speed through the city limits this morning. The following passengers were injured:
GOULEY, J.R., Terre Haute, Ind.; commercial traveler; severe sprain of back.
HERRON, MRS. HELEN, Odin, Ind.; bruised about face and shoulders.
HERRON, two children of Mrs. Herron, ages six and two years respectively; badly cut and bruised about face and head.
JOHN, EDWARD T., Mount Vernon, Ill.; sprained back.
Two coaches left the rails and were thrown into Beezer Creek, a shallow stream running parallel with the tracks. The accident was caused by a broken rail. |
| Salem (Ohio) |
05.12.1893 |
The Buckeye Engine Company |
Patent |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
14.12.1893 |
Barney & Smith Manufacturing Co. |
F. A. Moss tritt als Direktor zurück, und sein Nachfolger wird William Voss, im Vorstand tritt der Name Voss für Moss. |
