The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-08-08


ed.
Charley Ora ham, engineer on freight
train. badly but not seriously injured.
Evan Peter, osbOrn, N. Y, injured
internally.
W. q. Huston, postal clerk, Indian
apOlis, slightly hurt.
G. L. Weast, postal clerk, Cambridge,
Ind, badly hurt.
J. c. Matthews, postal clerk, badly
bruised.
These three gentlemen were all in the
ST.. Louis postal car.
J. W. Harris, Zanesville, O., leg bro.
ken; wastaken home Yesterday morning.
There are probably others who were
slightly injured and have gone to their
homes.
A number Of interviews were had by
4 Steubenville Garatts reporter which we
present below:
JOHN EARp's srArEEMST.
John carp, E.qT Professor Of Lam
guages Asbury University, Greencastle,
Ind, says the make up OF the train con.
sisted Of two mail cars, baggage, one
emigrant car, a second Of mixed passen-
gers, and q third one 6rstclAss-with
two sleepers 10 the rear. We were run.
ming on time, or thereabouts within n
minute or go, and while turning cnrve
one mile beyond Mingo, ] was doing
on my seat in the second car, when the
sudden application OF the air brake
aroused me, and suddenly I experienced
a perfect shower Of glass and spiinters
Of wood flying past the windows. The
rapid succession Of shrieks, groans and
cries for help too suddenly broke TO my
mind the sad reality Of what had hap
pened. In the emigrant car the occu-
pants we're chiefly German and Scotch
families going TO Kansas. i was not
hurt myself, nor was any one in the rear
Of my car, or the sleepers behind it. The
conductor was in our car, and he, i and
several others rushed 10 the hind door,
where we got out and through the dark.
ness could only obtain a partial sight Of
the dismal wreck, but sufficient to thrill
the soul with horror and 10 demand
quick action. The conductor took
prompt action in giving the alarm up
The line. / could fairly discern part Of
the wreck down the embankment, and
as soon as lights could be procured my
ewes met the narrowing sight Of some
thirty killed or MANNED persons lying
in various directions-in short the scene
was indescribable. Very soon the farm.
ers residing in the vicinity, aroused by
the crash, hurried to the scene with
lamps and lanterns, and to their honor
be it said they worked manfully in rem.
dering assistance to the unfortunate. The
first passenger car was smashed with the
second, and down an embankment OF
20 feet on each side OF the track there
lay the mail andSbaggage cars, the To-
comotives and endless debris in one con-
fused mass. In the frat, or emigrant
car, fear none hardly escaped, while in
the fore part Of the second car the pass
engers were badly used, but escaped In
the hind portion. l observed one poor
mother from Bridgeport Conn.,, on her
way 10 Kansas, with two daughters re-
spec,iyeIy about 8 and 13 years OF age,
her son.in law and wife, and her grand.
mother, all injured but the first named,
who Is widow. The grandmother died
while being conveyed from the wreck TO
the hospital. 1t was also thought one oi
the children would die. A Mrs. Haley,
on her way to Atchison, Kansas, waa
very. dangerously injured-leg broken
and otherwise cut and bruised, while a
baby, three months old, which she was
nursing, was found some fifteen feet from
her in a bush near the creek, not injured.
A boy named Robt. Bomerine, 8 years
old, his brother, Z, their mother
and grandmother, formed another
party; the mother being killed,
the grandmother injured, while the boys
escaped without serious injury. Tha.
party was from Glasgow, Scotland, en-
route for California. / should also men
tion seeing a lady, with four interesting
children, all under 8 years of age, near
The center Of the second car, and they
were comparatively very little hurt, but
feariully frightened as they were released
from their perilous situation. | had a
conversation with the baggage master
who comes from Columbus, and hs said
he was standiog outside his car on the
platform, near the door, and was first
knocked back across his car among the
baggage, rebounded and temporarily
stunned, ultimately finding himself hung
BY the hands ON sotne telegraph wires
that hsd fallen across the wreck. He
proceeded back TO the sleeping'car, and
on examination found he had only been
bruised and badly shaken.
cHAs. HICKS ACCOUNT.
Charles Hicks, Of PhiladelPhia, en