The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-07-20
COLuSlOI on THE ERlf RAILWAY.
Two Passenger Trains Wrecked
Lln Of lhe KllIed ana 1rIuL,d,

List Of the Killed and IBJured.
CASAsERAsA, July Is.-Tr1InS Nos. 8
eastward, and z, westward bound, both
through express trains on the Erie Rail
road, came into collision on the single
track 4 mile east OF CAnASerAga, al nine
o'cloek this morning, while going lrom
hleeen 10 twenty miles an hour. Both
engines were destroyed; also the baggage
aud smoking cars OF the west bound
train. A number Of passengers in the
westward smoking car Wers hurt.
One Van Horn, irom Philadelphia, had
bis left arm and leg broken, and seems 10
be Injured internally. A couple Of other
passengers who were in the same car
have their arms broken, and several have
been severely cut and bruised. The bag
gage master OF the western train, named
Atkins, was killed. A brakeman on the
same train had an ankle broken. The
fireman and engineer escaped with slight
cuts and bruises.
The engine Of the eastward train
plunged through the engine and the bag
gage and smoking Car Of the westward
Irain, and smashed the front platform
and the glass Ot the front end OF the for.
ward first class car, which was filed with
ladies' and children, who all escaped in
Jury. The baggage car Of the eastward
bound train had It's end and side burs,
out, but the baggage was uniDlured. The
westward baggage was destroyed, and the
msil soaked and torn.
II Is stated that the westward train
had the right OF way. The westward
train should have waited at Burns, the
neXt station out Of Canaserega. The
westward conductor says he had q new
engineer this morning; that he instructed
him at Burns TO pull up to the station
and wait for the other train, instead OF
which he plugged ahead. The road
curves sharply where the collision took
place, and the trains are invisible TO each
other hundred yards apart. The crash
OF the engines was the first warning TO
the passengers.
LATRR.
Van Horn, who was badly injured by
the railroad accident here, Is agent Of the
New York ard Erie Railway. The fire.
man on the east bound train had his ankle
broken, and was hurt internally. All the
passenger coaches Of both trains remained
on the Ieck except the westward smok-
ing car. The bnggsge.man killed Is Rob.
ert Atkinson, Of Jersey City. Fireman
Wm. Bergeman had leg broken, and
brakeman Z Hogle had leg broken; X
9. HoVey, Of Terre Haute, President Of
the Paris and Decatur Railroad, collar.
bone broken; O. W. Ganett, Of Chicago,
LEFT arm confused; W. G. Hooper, Of
HorDellville, head cut; ]. G. FitEgibbons,
aged about eighteen years, head cut; Geo.
Griswold, oi Hornellville, and Thomas
Stewart, OF Buffalo, head cut and severe
COntusions,
The boiler heads OF the engines were
smashed into each other. Both boilers
remain on their trucks, but arc swept
clear OF tenders and all the top and sides
OF the hamper Ol the westward baggage
car was torn to splinters and fell on the
east side Of the track. The forward first
class car ol tho westward train, which
was full oil ladies and children, lett ItS
trucks, swept everything above the flor
OF the smokiug-car and only stopped al
the wreck Of the engines, where It re-
mained exactly on the 4 ,or Of the smCk
ing car, nearly intact, while the body Of
seats and passengers OF the smoking car
and portion Of the wreck Of the baggage
car were piled on the west aide ol the
road.
The railroad company sent wagon
load Of trunks 10 the wreck Tor passen-
gers who had lost theirs, bat large
quantity Of baggage Is ruined.
The conductor Of the westward train
is named Demaire, and OF the eastward
train Goss. Railroad employees say the
eastward train was entitled 70 tho track
PORTAGE, N Y, July l9-Passengers
on the wrecked trains at CanaserAga were
transferred TO unipjured cars on either
side Of the wreck and forwarded, the
westward bound passengers getting away
al 1880 this afternoon.
ACCIDENT TO A CRAWL TRAIN--sRvRE
MEN KILLED AND A NUMBER INJURED.
DETROIT, July 1s-A serious accident
occurred near loni9, on the Detroit, Lam
sing & Lake Michigan Railroad 10 day.
A loaded gravel tram was backing up,
when buIniug tree fell across the end Of
fat car, throwing nearly the whole
train from the track. Six men were
killed outright, and one has since died OF
injuries. Fourteen or fifteen more are
seriously injured.