Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-11

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DOMESTIC NEWS.
The Pitfsburg Railroad Accident Adj
ditional Particulars.
PITTsBURG, October 10th.-The frightful
collision that occurred last night at midnight
on the Pennsylvania Railroad near the
| Twenty. eighth street crossing was more dis
astrous than at first reported Nine people
were killed outright, and eleven more have
| died since, making in all twenty deaths,
while as many more are dangerously hurt,
whom the physicians say cannot recover. In
addition to these are o large number who are
but slightly injured. AS stated last night,
the first section of Walps-accommodation
going east, left the Union depot at 1l:30 P. NJ,
having
LARGE CROWD OF PASSENGERS
Who had been to the city participating in the
closing exercises OF the Exposition, and to
witness the Democratic demonstration. The
back platform was so crowded that the head |
light on the second section could not be seen. |
The first section stopped at the regular sta
ton = Twenty-eighth street = where they
were delayed on account of another train
which was in the next block. The second
section came along at good speed, but owing
to crowds on the back platform of the first
section the signal lights were hidden from
view, and consequently the engineer of the
second section did not see the train ahead of
him until he was SO near it that his train
could not be checked in time to arrest the
collision, and the engine went crashing into
the rear coach of the first section, packed as
it was with human beings Among these un-
fortunates the engine buried itself to the very
car windows-in among the screaming, suf
| fering men, women and children, mangling |
all who were in its course. The boiler head
of the colliding engine was burst off by the
shock, and the scalding water and steam
poured over the occupants of the car, as if
bent on completing the terrible work that had
gone before. It is impossible to describe
THE FEARFUL SCENE
That followed. The means of the dying
and wounded, and the shrieks of those who
had lost their friends. was frightful Word
was Immediately telephoned to the Mayors
Office for assistance, and twenty-five police
men, with full corps of physicians and
wagons, were dispatched at once to the scene
of disaster, where they were soon busily en-
ployed in alternating the sufferings of the
victims and clearing the wreck. The
wounded who were unable to care for them
selves were carried to the Soldiers Hospital,
located but short distance from the scene of
the accident. The name Of the engineer of
the second locomotive is Julius Huey, and
| that of the fireman, Rambo. Both are resi-
dents of pittsburg, and escaped injury,
notwithstanding they stuck to the engine
when it plowed through the rear car of the
other train.
| NAMEs OF THOSE KILLED.
Up to the present time 70 P. M.) 81 deaths
| have occurred, as follows:
Edward Prenteur, Pittsburg; aged % |
scalded died this morning.
Homer Nepple, aged 20; lives at the East
End scalded.
Mrs. w. Jacobs, Pittsburg; aged 50;
crushed and scalded.
John Torley, Pittsburg aged IS; scalded
and burned.
Kate Torley, daughter of John Torley
| aged 16 scalded.
Miss Jessie Simcox, West End aged 16 /;
| Inhalation of steam.
Annie NJ. Schuster East End aged % !;
! inhalation of steam.
Milton III. Edwards son of Hon. Matthew
| Edwards aged %; scalded and inhalation.
Miss Dora Taylor, Pittsburg aged %; in
haation of steam.
james o'Neal, California, Pa; aged 80;
I'd ! IL frN, de-
Charles Hetzel, East End scalded.
Edward Butler, baggage master; aged 81;
crushed and burned.
Isaac Love, Edgewood, Pa; aged II;
crushed.
VIM. H. Love, brother of Isaac aged 49,;
scalded and frightfully mutilated.
Mrs. Elizabeth Boy, Pittsburg aged So;
inhalation.
| Miss Rosanna Boyd, sister-in-law of Mrs.
Boyd: aged 90; inhalation.
Ballinger, railroad employe; head cut from
the body
Samuel W. Elliott, conductor; aged 50;
head crushed.
James McMehan, Dallas Station aged 60;
scalded.
VIM. Linnhart, East End; died from in
! ternal injuries and inhalation.
Miss Emma Weinberg, aged 10; Pitts
burg; scalded
/ THE DANGEROUSLY INJURED.
Those dangerously injured now in the West
Pennsylvania Hospital, whom the physicians
say but few will recover, are:
George Young, East End Frank Kingser.
East End; JEFF. P. Myers, Trewsbury,
Chatauqua county, N. Y; Frank DeLavaie,
East End; James Hetzel, Edgewood; Fl.
W. Black, Swissvale Robert Dickson,
! D.u;I tie, Cbarrx, Ca,o,, W
Va; George Cummings. End Charge; Jas.
Lawrence. East End; Hugh Muldoon, Spring
Hill, Pa; James Demsey, Spring Hill, Pa;
William j. Smith, Spring Hill, Pa; Annie
Quinn. Shakyside; Miss Mollie Stinebaugh,
East End; Matte Taylor Edgewood Miss
Mary Dawson, East End; Mrs. j. z. Rich
mond, Edgewood Miss Rose McCabe, East
End; Miss Kate Leslie, East End.
/ Those injured painfully, but not seriously,
are: Nancy Manly tcolored), Catherine
Manly and Wilkinson Manly-all of Waynes-
burg, Pa; Miss Bessie Richmond, Pittsburg.
PLACING THE RESPONSIBILITY.
Robs. Pitcairn, Superintendent of the road,
one the best in the country, said if the rules
had not been disobeyed the accident would
not have occurred. The train had not yet
gone into the block operated by the signal
system, and the aagman was under impera-
. tive orders to go back half a mile to flag the
following train. He must not wait to be or
dered back by the conductor, but go on his
own accord. This applies whether the train
is in the block or still in the yard limits, as in
this case The hagmen and all the employees
of the trains are old and experienced
men, and the officials cannot ordemn
them until an investigation is had,
but matters will be sifted. and the
responsibility placed where it belongs. The
passengers state that the fiagman, whose
name is Penrod, did not go back. He will
be examined tomorrow. The orders for the
movement of the train were the same as in
vogue for thirty years, and the officials insist
that the trainmen, and no superior officers,
violated the rules. Public opinion seems to
place the responsibility ON the fagman
tPenrod) of the first section. Mr.. Pitcairn