The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-01-24

a Passenger Train I1nVelOped in Burnin 3
OiI-The Cars Consumed, Three Women
Burned to Death and Many Seriously In
jured.
BRADFORD. PA, jan Is.
A stream of waste oil flowing from a
tank across the Bradford, Gordeu & Kin
zUa Railroad caught fire this morning. A
passenger train from Wellsville for Brad
ford ran into it, and the train was imme-
diately enveloped in flames. The track for
distance of one.hundred yards was COW
cred with oil. It-is believed that gas COM
ing in contact with the fire box of the. en-
gine exploded, firing ALE oil, which spread
on the wind, and enveloped the doomed
train in an instant in a mass of flames. So
intense was Tire 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, Missing cauldrOn Of fire, 1t was a ter,
rible moment. The coach was filed
There was a rush Tor the doors, but 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
a terrible sight Prosecuted itself The pas
senger coach and baggage car were smok-
/ ing ruins The engine lay on its back, hav
ing turned a complete somerset.
THE DEAD.
Mrs. L. c. Pair, of Knzua Junction, was
burned beyond recognition. She waSa yoHng
woman and had only been married two years.
Her husband escaped by Jumping through a
MIS- Katie Moran. Aliens. n. Y, a small
station near Akin, was burned Almost 70 a
crisp. AIsS Moran was found hanging out
sIge OF the coach graSplng the window sill
The third woman burned to death, has not
been identified.
INJURED.
Prof. Taught is not expected to live.
Patrick sexton, engineer, is terribly burned
about the face aud hands.
I abOutthe face 4ndaTmS.
". u, I3glRaa, injured internally.
jerry Dcn0gar, brakeman, hands badly cut.
Charles Heidr>cbe. express messenger, was
| burned about b hands.
George Met CartnCy, a newSBOY, wits terribly
burned about the Aead and hands; not eX-
a. .N:'I:arpentcr-.of Little Genesee, rsce and
Jdr1'y Hdggeriy. Ceres, n. Y, badly burned
+ about the tds and head. 49,
Mrs. Black, daughter and son, of Akin, n.
y. burned about the heal ard hands.
Mr. Black WAS most severely burned.
! Ind, burned. The boy was badly burned
John "TKafoor, Akin n y terribly burned
about the1acc and harids.s
An eyewitness Of thc~disaster said: at
was the .grandest and yet the most awful
scene that human eyes eyer witnessed, For
a distance of nearly half mile the road
bed was covered with oil At points itwas
over the rails. The momeut the gas came
in contact with the fre-boX it exploded,
firing the oil. In less han one minute the
engine and ears were envcloped in flames
Great black pillars of smoke asceuded
heavenward. The driving wheels Of the
engine, which was dashing along at the
rate of Fl i.teen miles an hour, scattered the
oil over everything with a rush and IoH
which might have been heard for a mile
Tne flames Ieaped fully 250 feet ahead Of
the locomotive, which was thus CompelleC
to run through veritable sea of fire, sucl
as is seldom the fortune Of manto witness.'