The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-11-22
TRnRInLI COLLISION
ON the Central Ohio Railroad This Morn.
ing-0nc Man Killed Outright, and
Others Badly IDIured.

Others Badly IDJured.
Bellalre Independent Of Saturday Evening.
About o'clock this morning frightiu
accident occurred on the Central Obi
railroad, near Belmont, about eighteei
miles west Of this city. The passenge
train that leaves Bellaire at midnight
Henry Longshore, Of Newark, as engineer
and Alvin Griffith. ofthis city, as fireman
was under full hesdway when it ran into
freight train standing on the main track
making a terrible smash.up. The engineer
Of the freight train, VIM. Armstrong, o
Newark, and Brakeman Baily, OF the SAINT
train, were in the engine at the time o
the collision. The former had hi
leg mashed so badly that 1t had L
be- amputated above the knee thii
morning, DR.. Ely, Of Barnes
vile, performing the operation: Bailey
was killed outright, and his body was &C
wedged in the cab OF the engine that \
could not be removed, and at 10 O'Clock
to-day he was still fast In the engine, with
his head and shoulders lying against the
boilers or lire.pit, roasted to crisp. Henry
Longshore, the engineer oil the passenger
train, was thrown about thirty yards and
rendered insensible by the fall, but was
not seriously hurt, while his fireman, AL
vim Griffith, had his hand mashed and his
body badly injured, but he is not danger.
ously injured, Both engines and the pas
seuPer train are total wrecks, the tender
OF the passenger engine being piled up on
the boiler, and the carsall jumbled to2eth-
er. A great many OF the passengers were
bruised about the body, and had their
limbs cut by the sudden and unexpected
tossing about. None Of them that we
could learn OF were dangerously injured.
The accident is accounted for in about this
wise: The freight train coming this way
(east) had orders to remain at Belmont un-
til a freight going west would reach the
siding at that place, and the one coming
east to hold tho main track. BY some
means or other, the passenger train got to
Belmont before the freight, and haying no
knowledge oil the freight being on the main
track, they rushed ahead pell neil with the
above result. All We could learn OF the
freight that was to have gone in on the
siding at Belmont was that 1t did not get
there, the one waiting on II had waited
for nearly two hours, and as the men have
been going almost all the time, night and
day, It was suppoed they were asleep,
although nothing definite is known. Mr.
Armstrong, the engineer, is in very pre-
Garious condition. His vile arrived at
Belmont this morning, and will take care
OF him, but he is very badly bruised man
and may not recover. The man Griffith
who was bruised on the passenger engine,
10 o brother in.law OF Mr.. Zach. PUN.
phrey, Of this city. The passenger cars
are all more or less broken. Not one Of
them will be run even to the shops without
repairs.
LATEsT:-Since the above was put in
type We learn that the bodies OF the dead
and wounded have all been removed to
their homes, so far as was practicable.
Fortunately, mono OF the passengers were
SO seriously injured but that a little patch.
ing and doctoring enabled them to look
out for themselves.
We learn further that the freight train
going west from this place found it i'm
possible 10 make the Belmont siding where
the wrecked freight was waiting for 1t be-
fore the passenger train, going in the
same direction, would overtake It, 20 they
took the siding at Lewis Mills to let the
passenger train pass them, and there be-
ing no telegraph Office, no word could be
sent to the train that was standing on the
main track. 1t looks as il the accident was
the result Of gross. II not criminal, negli-
gence on the part OF some one.