The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-07-16
NAN Roaaha1l Alive.

a The officers Of the Erie Railway fur.
nish the following account of the accl-
dent "at Mount Hope: The through
freight rbonndJ west, backed on the
switch TO get out OF the way OF the night
express att6:80xP. ~. &rom, New York,
but did not clear the main track before
the latter struck. The two engines COL
lidsdt setkInGthe rengtass Eaaih e1-
press. baggage and moking CARS OF the
train, all of which were. buried. There
were some0 emigrants in the smoking
car, five or six OF whom were killed
and their bodies burned. Rev. B. B.
Hallock, 1otI Mo- 829 East i14thI street
New York, was In o car and was burn
ed TO death. So far as q known .sixSor
seven. were killed. - The, passengers
were transferred to another train and
sent forward at 9 a. N. :: ~, N
Further accounts Of the disaster on
the Erie Road state that the Rev. Mr..
HalIock was not hurt by the collision,
but was jammedH in by the broken
timbers,, and was, sloWlyr burned TO
death. A. spassehget ,states' that the
freight train which should have walt
ed on q side track, on the q left Of the
road this side of the station, had start
ed before the arrival OF the express
The engine okth6 formerhad not reach.
ed the main track when 1t was struck
by the locomotive Of the express train,
which, was, running at the rate Of forty
miles an hour. The engine of the
freight train was standing on a frog,
so fifmlyi fixed that iC was not mis-
placed. The engine OF the express train
struck the station house, to which 1t set
fire, and then turned around and went
The tender went to the right, headed
west the express car went down hill, to-
ward the river, the FIRST passeuger car
te1escoped into the baggage car. The
whole train was burned except the
three rear sleeping cars. Only dozen
pieces oEibaggage Were I9nged: The
freight engine stood locked into q
passenger car. After a vain effort to
put out the flames with water carried
from the river the HpRsaengera noRed
the freight cars east Two scarss were
moved at a timsg Many of them were
loaded with oil. At half past one
o'clock this morning there was no
Some--;were suffering terribly from
theff dniuEfea, aolae were past all pain.
Ae8 6AelOeIs thIg morning nine bodies
were counted and some distressing
scenes of suffering occurred. There
were some remarkable escapes, the
engineer OF the express train stood
brayely- At shiS post, and Gtpr1ed oyeE
tunately escaped ihjuiY.A Row: MI.
Hallock told his brother-in-laW he-was
not hurt at all but was Wedged in.
His fellow pasaengers used every effort
TO save him Abnt he died aAsloW 'agoniz.
ing death in presence of sympathizing
friends who were unable 10 help him.
a young German Zhaid3 hla fatter
was burned, when the ruins Of
the smoking car was removed he re.
cognized the remains ofhis father by his
watch and some coins. The fault OF tine
disaster iS attrib1ted to the engineer OF
the freight train, hostatted out before
the express train passed him. He has
disappeared. A German lost his wife
and three children! he escaped with
out Injury. The through mail and
registered letters for Cleyeland were
destroyed. The way mail was saved
through the exertiohs Of the two agents,
Messrs. Spencer and Nicholson. Mount
Hope, the scene Of the catastrophe, Is In
Pike county, Pa, about seven miles
west OF Carr's Rock. About ten rods
from the Deleware river, at the right OF
the track going west, there is a rocky
declIvity of about fifteen feet.