The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-05-29
A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.
Two Men Scalded to Death.
OTHERS SEVERELY INJURED.

From the Cumberland Daily News, Friday.
One ofthe most distressing accidents
that has ever occurred in this region
for some time happened Yesterday
about ten o'clock A. NJ. At that hour
engine No. ., of the Cumberland and
Pennsylvania railroad, with train OF
about twenty empty coal cars, was
going from the Potomac river wharf to
the main track in the Narrows. When
about two hundred yards above the
cement works The engine and tender
ran off the track, and, overturning on
their sides. broke the machinery OF the
engine into mingled and confused
mass, the steam rapidly escaping.
There were five men on the engine and
tender at the time they went over, Of
whom John Calvin, engineer, and
Andrew Warren, brakesman, were
fatally scalded. Scott Deal brakeman,
was badly scalded on the back and
,extremities, but his life is not dispared
of. Joseph MacEitee, fireman, was
thrown a distance of about ten yards,
but alighting on his feet was not hnrt.
Stephen Porter, conductor was thrown
against the hill, but escaped without
much injury. The unfortunate men
Calvin and Warren, were caught in the
engine cab and were unable to extricate
themselves from the steam and hot water
that was streaming out of the escape
pipe of the boiler, which pipe had been
broken when the engine fell upon its
side, and the rushing steam and water
is said to have been awful, beyond
description. The poor men could not
be reached for several minutes, and
were compelled to remain in the terrible
agony of being scalded alive. Numbers OF
people hocked to the place, and the
injured men were at last rescued from
the scalding, kissing wreck. They
presented horrible sight as their
clothing was removed preparatory to
alternating their pam; not particle
OF flesh from the top of their heads to
the tips Of their toes but was scalded-
the finger and toe nails came off and
the skin peeled from their bodies. DR..
G. B. Fundenburg was called to the
scene as speedily as possible, and did
all that surgical skill could devise for
the suffering men. Rev. Father Bren-
nan was present, and administered the
holy consultations of the church, and
assisted in doing all in his power for
their spiritual and physical relief. 1t
being about the starting hour for the
passenger train going to Mt. Savage,
Conductor Sheridan was notified Of the
accident, and promptly had his train
taken to the spot, when the injured men
in charge OF DR.. Fupdenburg were
placed in the baggage car and conveyed
TO Mt. Savage, where they resided. DR.,
Fundenburg did all in the power Of man
for the poor fellows, but they were hurt
beyond mis- skill, and, after enduring
three hours of awful agony, they both,
at about the same moment, breathed
their last, and ended their pains in the
sleep Of death.
The accident created much excite
ment both in this city and Mt Savage,
where the men resided. Calvin was
married. aud leaves wife and one
child. Warren was a single man.
The cause of the accident is as yet
unexplained. Men are at work clear
ing away the wreck, and the company
will make every effort to ascertain the
true cause of the catastrophe. The
train was not going faster than the
customary rate of speed at that point
the engine was apparently in good
order, and track in tolcrably good con
ditiOn.