Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-31
THE RAILROAD WRECK.
SOME ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.

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Retarn Of the Fire,nen-TheIr Valuable
Services.
AS stated i'll last evenings l.; rELLIGET-
GER, the wreck at North Bend near Christ
lana staten on the Pennsylv .uia railroad
was cleared away sufficiently to allow
trains to pass on the north track, at 4
o'clock p. m. The south track was clear,
cd by o'clock in the evening, and the
immense trains by which the road was
blocked were put in motion, and to-day
both passenger and frei. LIT trains are run.
ming on schedule time.
The work of clearing the track was done
by the Parkesburg and Columbia wreckipg
trains, assisted by all the repairmen that
could be gathered between those points.
They did their work we'll aud with great
rapidity.
Work Of tho Washington Fire Company.
The Washington fire company which
left this city between and o'clock yes
terday morning, returned about 10 o'clock
last night The steamer was in charge Of
Engineer Jacob Hcrzog and about fifteen
members Of the Washington company
Chief Engineer Of the Fire Department,
Arnold was also along with them.
On leaving the city they were told the
train on which their steamer was loaded
would have clear track, and tho train
ran down the track at a high rate of speed.
Just below Winners station i train was
seen Oh the track a short distance to the
front. The engine was reversed. and the
train hands made ready to jump from the
train, expecting a collision but, fortunate
ly, tho train was stoppc'l Within few
yards Of the one in front of it. The
Washy boys lay at Winners for some
time, and then ran on to KinZers, where
they were again detained. and did
not reach the wreck until half past eight.
Their steamer was at once taken from the
car aud hauled to the Octoraro creek,
about 600 yards from the wreck. A line
Of II sections of hose was laid, ard water
was at once thrown upon the burning
mass Of cars and merchandise, from nine
o'clock till noon by which time some parts
OF the mass were sufficiently cooled off to
be handled, and the work of removing it
was vigorously pushed forward. During
the afternoon the Washy" did good
service in filling the tanks of a number of
locomotives that could not otherwise get
a supply of water.
The railroad men cut all the wood nee
essary to supply the ti,emen and hauled
their steamer from the creek to the railroad
with yoke OF Oxen-the first working
"cattlc that some of the boys had ever
seen. They were furnished with good dim
ncr and supper at the hotel quit work at
dusk and reached this city at 10 o'clock
last night as above stated.
Incidents Of the Wreck.
Immediately after the collision the
wrecked engines and cars were piled up
in the deep cut as high as a threc-stOry
house, the high and rocky walls of the cut
preventing them from tOppling over side
ways. The cOnflagratiOn was immense,
and while it was burning many hundred
spectators gathered TO witness the grand
but distressing spectacle. When the fire
had been cxtinguishcd great cakes of
fused glass and iron, many feet in dimen-
siOns. were found and had to be cut and
broken before they could -bc removed. as
cinGers are broken at the iron furnaces.
In a sort of cove in the cut, aud only a
few rods from the wreck, stands n small
frame shanty with aplatform in front of it.
While every thim.; else in the cut was
burned the sl,anty escaped uEscatbcd.
Immediately after the collision Engineer
Diflenderier was seen standing stark
naked on the platform of the shanty.
When the crash came, and he had been
terribly scalded and burned, he had cxtri-
Gated himself from the wreck and tried to
save himself by tearing his clothes from
his body. lie was at once properly clothed
and carried to the hotel where lie was
tcnderly cared for hut his hurts were
beyond the art Of surgery.
While removing the debris after the
fire, the watch carried by Brakeman
Frownfelter was found, and this convinced
the wOrkmcn that his rcmals were not
far of. A careful search was made, but
only few bones and pieces of bone could
bc found, none OF Tie pieces being larger
than mans finger, and all of them not
filling a mans hat. The body had bc.n
completely crema:cd, and the fragments
of bone alone were gathered together for
burial.
An immense crowd Of people visited the
scene yesterday, and there was the great
est excitement among them, and all sort
Of comments as to the cause q! the wreck
and the culpability of the railroad COM
pany and its employees. About 500 people
took dinner and supper at The hotel in
Christiana, the landlord being literally
eaten out of house and home.
The Iuss Financially.
The estimate of the loss Of property by
the wreck and the conilagration that ac
companicd it has not yet been made by
the officers of the company. Two loco
motives, Nos. 253 and 80, were entirely
destroyed, nothing but the iron portions
remaining. Twelve cars were burned,
four of them being empty and eight loaded
with valuable merchandise. Engine 213
and good many other cars were scOrched
and blistcrcd by the heat from those that
were burned.
The Burned Engines.
The skeletons of the burned locomotives
have been put together for transportation
to the Altoona shops. 1t is reported that
they will pass through Lancaster to-day
en- route.
LITTLE LOCALS.