The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-01-17

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structure. The timbers where they are
broken of and splintered are sound
The spans were long, but some of the
most experienced railroad men agree
that the accident was wholly caused by
the tremendous weight Of two locomotives
passing over at the same time. They
both certainly weighed sixty tons, and
possibly more.
One man, who stood at the depot in
Tsrrifiville as the train left, noticed its
makeup, and reports that he waited in
suspense to see If il would pass over the
bridge safely, and while he was waiting
ne heard the crash. The supposition is
that the supporting iron rods broke,
causing the timbers TO snap.
The bridge is elevated about ten feet
above the river, at the present stage of
water, and Is approached from the east
by an embankment and from the west by
long trestle work across the meadows.
The first locomotive had cleared the
west span and catered on the trestle work,
when the whole span gave way, breaking
of Immediately east of the heavy stone
pier in the center Of the river. As the
structure gave way the first locomotive
was hurled violently over and embedded
IN the ground and completely wrecked.
The other engine and baggage car went
down with the wreck in sn upright posi-
ton and the side of the heavy truss fell
over on them. The first passenger Car
WAS whirled srognd and sank to
the bottom of the river, lying nearly
parallel with the stream. The second
passenger car went down end foremost
on the first car, smashing the largest por-
tion of it into kindIing wood, the rear
end resting on the BRIDGE The next
car occupied q similar position, but
swerved to the left and did not rest on
the car in front. None Of the remaining
coaches left the track. The crash and the
cries of the wounded and dying speedily
brought aid, but the first corners
worked at great disadvantage. The
cars had broken through the ice, which
made it difficult to approach near enough
to reach the passengers. The scenes on
the relief train were heart.rendng. In
every car were men and women with
hesds bsndsged or arms in sings. Some
had been terribly scslded, and in one pass
enger car were the bodies OF three wo-
men, and IN the baggage car two more,
Just as they had been taken from the
wreck. Rev. Thomas, OF Winsted, with
both legs fractured and severely injured
internally, had crswled out of the wreck
through the roof OF the car to the ice, and
then to the shore
The Killed and Wounded.
The following is the revised list of the
killed and wounded rs isr as reported
tonight:
KiIled-Mrs. Carmen, Miss Minnie
Allen, two Misses Nj cCarger, of Win
stet; Geu. Pinney, VIM. Gilman, Elias
Gilman, II. Murray and eLjsmin Gilks,
o. Hartford; Engineer Gee. Hatch, OF
Hartford; Mrs. VIM. Jones, of Lakevilie;
Janet Warner, East Canaan; Ii. Warner,
Canton.
Badly wounded-Fred Hotchkiss,
of Canton, frank Pnney, Of Win
sted; Rev. William h. Thomas,
Of Winsted, and Austsn Adams and
Mrs. Humphrey, Of Canaan.
Those reported slightly wounded are
Henry Pratt and Theodore Dexter, OF
Lskeville, Rev. K. Hunt and wife and
5. q. Beckley and wife, of Canaan, VIM.
Williams, Henry Hsmlin, d. b. Wood
ward, Charles Barrett and Charles Ds-
kin, all OF Sharon, George Prekhsm, OF
Ellsworth, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas, Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Gates snd Mrs. Scott
Goodwin, all OF New Hartford, Frank
Case, of Bark Hampstead, james
Riggs ana Becxey, Norfolk; Mrs. NJ. 5.
opsulding, Cssnsn; Engineer Thomas
Traney, Hartford. Nearly al the dead
were in the first passenger car, which Il
amos. complete wreck, although one
body was taken from tho second car this
evening, where it WAS caught under
broken seat. The hremen from New
Hartford among the killed were OF
party of six, who were on the platform OF
ENJOYING a moonlight ride. The only
survivor OF the six was inside al the time
OF the accident.