The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-10-06
BYTELEGRAPH.
ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT.
10 THE DAILY LNTELLLGETCER
A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.
An Excursion Train Wrecked
Twelve Persons Killed and Fifty
Wounded.
A Carriage Run Down by a Loco,
motive.
oswego and Philadelphia Express
in Deep Water-.-Threo Per.
sons Drowned.
Accident on the Hudson River r. r.
Accident on the Wilmington & Northern
RaiIroad-Eagineer Killed and
Fireman Badly Soaldsd.
Accident on the Hudson River r. r
As lxcunsION rRAlN wRrcKEp.

PoTTsvILLE, Pa, October 5.-An ex.
cursion train from the Pennypacker Re.
union, held near SChwcnks Hill, yester.
day, on the Pickering Valley Railroad,
when near Phoenixville, last night be.
tween 0 and 10 o'clock, was badly wrecked
by the rains washing out the track for
some distance. There we're about 200
persons on the train. Up to $50 this
morning the dispatches show IL persona
killed and about so wounded. Owing 10
the confusion and excitement, 1t is i'm.
possible 10 obtain the names or the exact
number Of killed and wounded.
PiTTsToN, Pa, October 5.-The names
OF the killed in the Pickering Valley Rail,
road disaster, whose bodies have been re.
covered, are US follows: Isaac Ta.iir,
Jonas Tastin, Wm. hoffman, Mira. WIN.
hoffman, Frank Kidney, Geo. Griffith
and Nathan Pennypacker. The number
Of wounded found up to r. NJ. ia i3.
The list includes six Pennypackers killed
and wounded mostly residents Of Phoenix.
vile. Three passenger coaches and the
engine were badly wrecked.
louisville, October 5.-An embank-
mCnt about 10 feet high was washed
away by the rain fall, and the night being
pitch dark the fact did not become ap.
parent 10 the engineer till too late. The
first and second cars telescoped, which
accounts for the large numbers injured.
KILLED by A LOCOMOTIVE.
CACHlTUATE, MASS, October 5.-Mrs.
Delarmel and sisters, while driving across
the railroad track, were struck l,y q
locomotive and killed.
ATRAlE SUBMERGED.
FREEcHTowS, N. j., October 5.--Thc
three persons drowned in the wreck Of the
south bound Oswego 4 Philadelphia cx.
press on the Belvilerc division, last eve.
ming, were the engineer, conductor aEd
an unknown lady. The train lies aome
distance from the shore, where it wa.
washed by the current. News boy, bag
gage master, fireman and others, saved
themselves by swimming.
KILLED AND sCALDED.
WILMINGTON, DEL, October 5.--Tae
accident TO passenger train bound south
on the Wilmington X Northern Railroad,
last night, was caused by the track being
washed away above CoatesvilIe. Th5
engine was upset and the engineer, Amos
Peacock, killed, and the fireman badly
scalded.
New YORK, October 5.-The storm on
the Hudson, last night, was the heaviest
in many years. The accident on the
Hudson River Railroad, last night, was
caused by wall falling. The engine was
thrown upon her side and the baggage
and express cars and one passenger car
piled upon each other: The track was
cleared this morning and trains are run
ming regularly.
FREIGHT TRAIN SWITCHED OFF AND TWO
MEN KILLED.
SCRANTON, Pa, October 5..-The fast
freight train on the Delaware & Hudson
railroad ran of the track owing to mis-.
placed switch, last night, near Melrose
Station. Patrick Riley, engineer, was
scalded to death, Michael Merrick, fire.
man, crushed to death, and J. Jones,
brakeman, badly injured. The section
watchman reports examining the switch
half an hour before the accident. The
disaster is attributed to strikers.
PORT Rowan, October 5.-The barque
British Lion, with coal from Black
River, Ohio, for Brookville, is on shore
al Long Point, All hands were saved