The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-01-14
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
Wreck on the lsPan EFandIe'' Road.
"A Sleeping Chr Runs Over an Em'
bonkmenI.

bnnkmenI.
Three Killed and n Number wounded
From the Pittsburgh Dispatch
This morning before day light train
hurried out of the Union Depot, and
sped at the usual rate over the "Pan
| Handle" road.
| Nothing unusual occurred until u
point was reached about half mile
| from Cork's run, where 1iagman on
the road signalled and informed the
conductor that a land slide had occur
red few feet farther on. The train was
switched in on a side track, and antici-
pating no further delay, proceeded at
the ordinary speed.
The little stream known as COrk'a
run flows into, and is lost in, the now
swollen and muddy waters of the Ohio.
Its course lies at the bottom of ravine,
| from which the ground rises rather
abruptly on each side, perhaps hum
dred feet or more. The railroad crosses
this ravine at the height of from seventy
| to eighty feet. 1t WAS formerly sup
ported by trestle-work, but lately the
place has been filled up, and it now
| rests on what is supposed to he good
| and reliable foundation.
When the train arrived at this en-
bankmeut, no fear was entertained by
any of the officers on board. The loco
motive passed over as usual, the eX-
press, baggage and passenger cars fol-
| lowed. But now there is sudden snap,
IA jolting of the forward portion OF the
train, Il great rumbling noise in the
rear-a few moments more, fearfnl
crash down below, and then the grim
truth bursts oh the engineer, who at
| once stops the engine, and gave the
saved passengers an opportunity to see
the catastrophe for themselves. The
sleepinC coach had been detached and
| UrpPlS OlrnQnV
fire.
The passengers who escaped unhurt
| descended at once to the run 10 Ascer.
tain how affairs stood. They found
some of the inmates of the car already
moving, others lying around the wreck
wounded and grOaning, and two they
| discovered dead, though not very bad
| ly mutilated. Having extricated the
bodies OF the latter from where they
were caught, they turned their atten-
ton to those who were hnrt and found
that they suffered chiefly from fright,
save one gentlemAn,iwhOw was taken in
sensible from the debris, and who it
was supposed would scarcely survive.
| some hours subsequently the body OF "A
| third man was found i'll the water, into
which it had fallen and laid unperceiv-
ed during the darkness. Following is
| the list OF casualties, afterwards OBJ.
tanned
John c. Mcpherson, lawyer, Spring
field, Ohio, killed.
John Allen, q conductor in the sleep
ing car, a resident OF Pittsburg, killed.
Rev: j. G. Archer, clergyman of
Cleartield, Cleariield county, Pa, kill
ed.
Henry C. Barnett, manufacturer of
water wheels, Springfield, Ohio, seri-
ously injured; cut on the head, besides
| suffering severe internal iDj uries.
| RanDilEn 6rOVpr CVnthi4na.
Kentucky, cut on the face and right leg
hurt
There were others who suffered more
| or less. but inasmuch as they proceeded
| to Steubenville we were unable to learn
their names. The bodies of Mr.. Nc
| Pherson and Mr.. Allen we're taken to a
hotel at Mansfield, whittier also Mr..
| Barnett was carried.
Very soon the people residing in tho
| vicinity of the scene of the accident
| FASTENED there, and before three O'Clock
a large crowd had assembled, Efforts
were made 10 eXtinguish the fire among
| the timbers of the car, but they dld not
prove very successful, and they were
| burning until six o'clock last evening.
| There was considerable amount OF
money scattered around the place, bills
and fractional currency of every de-
nomination being picked up, and, II re-
| pOrt be true, they were not i'll all IN
|
Mr.. Renneke, the drOver noted above,
stated that "A book containing about
3, 900 fell from his pocket during the
| descent of the car, and he failed TO find
any trace Of it. Two gold watches and
two pocket books were found, all OF
which were handed over TO the owners.
While the Coroner and his party were
waiting at Mansfield, the following dis
patch was received from w. w. Card,
| Superintendent of the road at Steuben-
vile. 1t had been telegraphed to him
by o. Brnshear, agent at birmingham,
who viewed the wreck soon after the
accident had occurred. He said: "
think the accident was caused from the
embankment giving way while the
train was passing over it. 1t was ap-
parent from the condition of the track
when 1 got there, that nothing else
could have caused it. l think the track
was in IA proper state when the engine
crossed it, but ! believe it settled and
dropped while the last passenger car
was passing over. When the sleeping
car passed over this portion of the road
the sink was sufficient to throw 1t off,"
| BURGLARIRs are SO frequent in Wash