The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-02-20
Six Passenger Cars Roll Over
an Embankment.
They Catch Fire and are To-
tally Destroyed.
General Mccullough Seriously In
iured-TheU. =. Mails and all the
Baggage DestrOyed-JOhn q.
SAKE Crushed Between the
Bumpers-NObOdyk Killed
but Many Slightly
Injured.

of the affair, we are indebted to tho Steu-
benville Gazette, of last evening:
This morning about q o'clock, there
was a terrible accident west of Mingo
Junction ut the stone wall on the Pan
| handle road, and were it not that the
wreck was so complete that the injured
and other passengers were compelled TO
90 to Steubcnville, perhaps We should
not have heard anything about the mat
ter, but us Il complete accident it was a
success.
No. ), fast line, from the vest, due here
ut II O'Clock NJ, encountered broken
rail in the curve west of Mingo. The
engine and baggage car passed over safe
, ". tut special car accompanied by Vice
President Mccullough, one sleeper, two
coaches, baggage and express cars rolled
down over the embankmcnt, n distance
of % feet, into the creek. When
the cars reached the bottom, they fell TO
pieces like a STAYED barrel. The passen-
| rcrs were thrown pell nell into heaps,
and il was with the greatest difficulty
that they were cxtricatcd from the ruins.
The cars took fire from the stoves, and
soon were all ablaZc. The CONSERVATION
and confusion which ut such times and
places is always cVinCed and inevitable,
was manifested in the extreme. 1t was
at first thought would cause the death OF
many; but fortunately the passengers
were soon out of the burning ruins with
very few wounded, and none seriously
injured. The passengers were
| frantic, and the shrieks OF
| those who imagined they were
very badly hurt were heart rcnding in
| deed. There were half dressed men run
ming around in the snow in their bare
| feet. ,hivrriug with cold. VIM. Stewart,
| freight agent of the road, lost his shoes
and cut open two pillows from one oil the
slecpcrs and put his feet into the Sits
and wore them for shoes. Another got
somebody's gum shoe on one foot and Il
slipper on the other, and the greatest
! confusion rcigned. Out of the whole
number we don't believe one man got
his own brccchc-; there was general
mix of everything. Mr.. Stewart, who
wore the pillows for shoes, got his feet
severely trost-bittcn, and his clothing
covered with feathers. He Is very
| short man. and when last seen ut the L..
/ :. House had on a pair of brcechcs own
| ed by II man who is ut Toast six feet tall.
John G.. Sake, the distinguished poet,
was in the wreck. He was the worse
/ case of injury in the whole list. John g..
/ j. the man who wrote II poet once about
riding on rail, but it wasn't the Pam
/ handle rails that he referred TO, for in
! that piece, if We remember correctly, he
sand it was pleasant riding on Il rail. If
that ride on a rail he INDUCED in this
/ morning was pleasant, he did not evince
that happiness which is characteristic of
pleasautncss. He just walled and tore
/ his hair. and said he was going to die
/ and all that sort of thing, in the most UNI
! pnrtic terms we ever heard. He got
/ instencd between the bumpers OF the cars
| in some hocus pOcus manner, that 1t was
! impossiblc for him TO eXtrlcatc himself
| but his cries brought to his assistance Mr..
/ +. G.. TRUMAN, of Texas, who liberated
| the distinguished man from his bondage,
else he would have been burned to death.
| In the cXtricaton he was pretty badly
| hurt about the kidneys. He was taken
/ to the st. Nicholas hotel, where he made
/ himself known and the clever proprie-
tor, cave him bed on the floor of the
office. The poet thought he was
going to pass through the
| Golden Gate III five min
u,c,, only he didn't call it Golden Gate.
lli> wailings were loud and his poetic
| rountcuacc was filled with Il look of
sadness. He was determined to die. The
only thing he thought would save the
treat poet, life would be a drink Of the
raging. There is no bar at the st, Mich
olas, and he was unhappy. Mr.. BasIer
succeeded finally in getting him half
pint of the desired liquor, which he drank
! lust like common people drink, out OF the
bottle. After which he felt better, and
left at : o'clock on the 7. ~ c. road.
Among the passengers who were at
the L. :. House, are William Hess of
the st. Louis Book and News Company;
/ c. \. Mitchell, Pittsburgh; ID. II, White
man. Worcester, Mass VIM. Stewart,
Freight Agent of the Panhandle and of
the p. ~. c. roads; p. Shurtz, llebana,
Ind, p. G. Truyman, Texas; B. 5. ID.
Lloyd. Philadelphia; Enoch Taylor, Gin
cnnat: j. r. Allen, Philadelphia; a lady
and two children, and Hon. !. y. Nc
Cullough. Vice President of the road.
Several of whom were slightly injured
about the head. Mr.. Mccullough was
pretty badly injured, reccivinga confusion
in the back and severe cash on his
head. and is confined to his room ut the
U. :. House.
Mrs. Catherine Fleming, dauhhter OF
Cromwell BUGGY, Esq, OF this city, who
lives in Clinton county, was in the wreck,
and received slight injuries She is now
at her fathers residence.
The most remarkable escape from be-
ing burned to death ut this accident. was
that of an infant, aged about six weeks.
Its mother was on her way from Texas
to Philadelphia; becoming frantic made
her escape with her little boy, who was
about five years of age, but forgot her in
FAINT which she left sleeping in the car.
After She realized what she had done, she
almost went insane, and cried: "Oh, my
God. my babe is burning in the car
Iltl ll'Il VI Nihlll-, ~ l'S NV bh'l'h ~ III
patty, and impcllcd search for the
child. The ear was burning at both ends
and the flames were rapidly nearing the
centre, where the woman said she had left
her child. Conductor Morrow went into
the car, and found the child wrapped up
and stepping As soundly as if nothing
had occurred, and it rcmaiucd a.lcep
untilthc passengers arrived Mt the hotel
in this city.
Why many Of the passengers were dot
seriously injured or killed, We cannot I'M
dcrstand. The cars ran of the track and
rolled over and over, and down into the
creek. where they fell to pieces and
caught fire before the occupants could
realize the fact that AN accident had hap
pencd, and were all abIaze before they
were out of the debris. Theaccidcnt will
be very disastrous to the road, both in
patronage and loss of property. All the
through mails were destroyed, together
with all the baggage, with the eXcep-
tion Of few valises, which the passen-