The Red Cloud chief., 1884-01-25
A FIERY RIDE TO DEATH.
A Passenger Train Enveloped In Burning
Ol-The Cars Consumed, Three Women
Burned to Death and Many Seriously In.
jured.

Ol-The Cars Consumed, Three Women
Burned to Death and Many Seriously In.
jured.
BRADFORD, Pa, Jan. Is.
A stream of waste oil flowing from q
a across the Bradford, Gordell & Kin.
zua Railroad caught fire this morning. A
passenger train from Wellsville for Brad.
ford ran into it, and the train was imme-
diately enveIoped in flames. The track for
q distance of one hundred yards was GOV.
cred with oil. 1t is believed that gas com
ing In contact with the fire box of the en-
CINE exploded, firing the oil, which spread
on the wind, and enveloped the doomed
train in an instant in a mass of flames. So
intense was the heat that the windows
cracked and fell in. In less time than it
takes to write it, a passenger coach and
baggage-car were converted into a seeth-
ing, kissing cauldron of fire. 1t was q ter.
rible moment. The coach was filled.
There was a rush for the doors, put the
heat was so intense that the panic-stricken
passengers were driven back, and forced to
jump through the windows, landing in the
snow.
A relief train with surgeons and cots
was dispatched to the scene. Upon arrival
q terrible sight presented itself. The pas
senger coach and baggage car were smok-
ing ruins. The ergine lay on its back, hav.
ing turned q complete somerset.
THE DEAD.
Mrs. L. C. Pair, of Kinzua Junction. was
woman and had only been married two years.
Her husband escaped by jumping through q
window.
station near Akin. was burned almost to q
crisp. Miss Moran was found hanging out
side of the coach grasping the window sill.
Inc third woman burned to death, has not
been identified.
Prof. Faught Is not expected to live.
Patrick seXtOD, engineer, is terribly burned
about the face and hands
Mike Walsh. fireman. was horribly burned
about the face ard arms
w. II. Belman. injured internally.
Jerry Denagan. brakeman, hands badly cut.
Charles Heidr che, express messenger, was
burned about the hands.
George Mccartney, a newsbOy. was terribly
burned about the head and hands; not eS
pected TO live
A. n. Carpenter. Of Little GeneSee. face and
left hand burned.
Jerry Haggerty. Ceres. ". Y, badly burned
about the faCe and head.
Mrs. Black, daughter and son. of Akin, N.
Y. burr ed about the head and hancs.
Mr. Black was most severely burned
G.. W. Van. wife and son, of indianapolis,
Ind, burned. The boy was badly burned
about the face and hands
John KafoOr. Akin. n. Y, terribly burned
about the face and hands
An eyewitness of the disaster said: "It
was the grandest and yet the most awful
scene that human eyes ever witnessed. For
a distance Of nearly half a mile the road.
bed was covered with oil. 1t points it was
over the rails. The momeu the gas came
in contact with the fire-box it exploded,
firing the oil. In less than one minute the
engine and cars were enveloped in flames.
Great black pillars of smoke assembled
The driving wheels of the
engine, which was dashing along at the
rate of fifteen miles an hour, scattered the
oil over everything with a rush and roar
might ave been heard for q mile.
TIE flames leaped fully 80 feet ahead of
the locomotive, which was thus compelled
10 RI q through a verifable sea of fire, such
Is is seldom the fortune of manic witness.n