Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-12-15
Frightful Accident on a Railroad.
FOUR MEN KILLED ON THE CHESAPEAKE
OHIO ROAD.

FOUR MEN KILLED ON THE CHESAPEAKE
6 OHIO ROAD.
About twenty miles west OF Hinton on
the Chesapeake & Ohio road lies the
Streschers Neck tunnel. The western
mouth of the tunnel opens into cat, OF
which the banks are twenty feet high. On
Thursday evening last. about O'Clock. a
passenger train coming East was approach
ing the cut. 1t was going at thirty miles
an hour to make up some four hours it
was Dshind schedule time. h. r. Thomp-
son. of Huntington. West Va. was the
Conductor, John Madden. of the same
place, Engineer, and VIM. Cooper. Of Fay
etteville, W. Va, the Fireman. The train
about seventy-dve. and besides had sleep
ing car from Cincinnati. on board of
which, among other passengers, were Rob-
ert Bonner. proprietor Of the New York
Ledger and U. s. Senator, Williams, of
Kentucky.
Within the tunnel at that moment, and
unseen. as the tunnel is approached from
the West by a curve, was freight train
going at twelve miles an hour, of which
j. II. Stephenson was the Conductor,
rick Goheen the Fireman. The freight
engine and 1--WE cars of its train had got
ten out OF the western mouth of the tun-
mel when the collision occurred. Anca-
rows last act seems to have been revers-
ing his lover. as his hand was upon it,
when his body WAS gotten OUT
Both engines struck, reared up and fell
over on their sides, aud the tralus at once
took ere. The collision was SO violent
that ono of the freight cars leaped on top
OF the twenty foot embankmpnt. Mr..
Sumpter Sublett, of the firm of Sublett Il
Son. Of this city, who from another sta
ton arrived at the SPOT not long after the
collision. informs US that nothing but the
iron Of The burnt cars was lying in the
smouldering ruins when he cot there
Three OF the passenger coaches were
burned and i've freight cars.
Those instantly killed are Ancarrow, Go
heen and Cooper. Tho b,dy of Cooper
when taken from the burning wreck had
limbs aud head burned of and nothing
but the trunk left, and strange to say, in
his pocket hls watch was still running.-
Engineer Madden when taken from the
wreck had his Log crushed aud was other
wise badly wounded. When approached
10y the physicians, who had arrived, be
said to them, '.D5n't mind me, nothing
can save :ne; 60 to those ypu can help.''
lie died on his way back to his home at
Huntington. He was one of the oldest
engineers on the road aud one of the BEST
The list of wounded does not include a
single passenger, a remarkable occurrence
in such wreck. Conductor B. r Thomp-
sol had his back and both legs broken.
The sleeping car conductor who resides 10
the city of Boston, Mass. had both legs
broken. Steven Cole, c,lored porter, OF
Louisa e. H., was burnt about the body
and legs.
The passenger train was the fast express
from Louisville to Washington, and the
reight wass way freight between Hinton
and Cannelton. The conductor and engi-
neer of the freight train-received in
Structions at Hinton to use four and a
haIf hours of the passenger traia's time
but by fatal mistake both men were un.
der the impression that they were EMIT
aed to five aud halt instead of four and q
half hours, and hence the accident.