The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-01-16
T0PHET ON WHEELS.
A Passenger Train In a Seethlng Lake
OF Fire.
The Coaches SO Rapidly Consumed as to
Preclude the Escape Of Passengers.
The only Escape Through windows
Broken by the Intense Heat-A
Scene rhat Banies Description.

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PTrsBuRG, Jan. Is. "A Bradford, Pa,
lispatcH says: while train On the Brad.
ford & Kinlla railroad was passing an oil
we'll, which was being torpedoed, the Dire
box was open and the gas ignitsd. setting
the we'll on DIRE. The train jumped the
track, and twelve persons are reported as
burned to death.
CoILIDEp WITH THE TANK.
Another dispatch says: The
engine jumped the track and
collided with the tank, which exploded.
There Is nothing definite learned yet.
One woman L. dead aud ten TO fifteen badly
burned.
LATER ADvICEs.
BRADFORD, Pa, Jan. ia stream Of
waste oil 10 wing from . tank across the
Bradford, Bordell and Klnzua railroad
caught FIRE this morning. A passenger
train from Wellsville for Bradford ran into
| 1t and tn. train was Immediately enveloped
In fla mes. The track for distance Of fully
one hundred yards was covered With oil.
1t 10 believed that the gas coming In contact
with the fre.box OF the engine, exploded
and fred the oil, which spread on hurri-
cane wind and enveloped the doomed train.
which, In an instant, was mass of flames.
So intense was the heat that the windows
we're cracked and fell in. In less time than
| 1t takes to write this, the passenger
coaches and baggage cars were converted
into seething, Kissing cauldron Of FIRE.
! 1T WAS TERRIBLE
for a moment. The coach was filled.
There was rush for the doors. but the
heat was so intense that the panic.stricken
passengers were driven back and forced to
Jump through the windows to landing In
the snow. Relief trains with surgeons
we're at once dispatched TO the scene. On
arriving terrible sight presented itself.
The passenger coaches and baggage car
we're smoking in ruins. The engine 10y on
its back, having turned = complete
somersault. 1t is definitely known tnal
only three persons, eli woman, were burn
ed TO death.
TIE DEAD.
A Mrs. L. C. Fair, OF Kinzus Junction.
She was burned beyond recognition. Mrs.
Fair wssa young woman and bad ouly
been married two years. Her husband ss.
capped by jumping through window.
Miss Katie Moran, Of Aliens, n. Y, q
small station near Aiken. The body was
burned almost TO a crisp. Miss Moran was
found hanging outside the coach srssping a
window.sill. The other dead woman had
not been identified.
THE BADLY BURNED.
Prot. Taught, not expected to live.
Patrick Seston, engineer; terribly
burned about the head and hands.
Mike Walsh, fireman; horribly burned
about the face and arms.
W. n. Belman. jumped from the train
aud was injured internally.
Jerry Denagsn, brakeman; hands badly
cut.
Charles Herdrich, express messenger;
burned about hands.
George Mccartney, nswsboy; terribly
burned about the head and hands, aud is
not expected to live. His hands are
burned to a crisp.
AN. Carpenter Of Little Genessee had
bis face and left hand burned.
Jerry Haggerty, Ceres, N. Y; badly
burned about the face and head.
Mrs. Black, daughter and son, Of Aiken
burned about the heads and hands. Mrs.
Black was the most severely burned.
q. W. Van, wife and son, Of Indanapo.
lie, burned. The boy was badly burned
about the face aud hands.
John Kafoor, Of Aiken, terrible burned
about the face and hands.
Rlev His Own Head on.
BooNvILLE, Mo-, Jan. 16.-Nicholson
Krump, . farmer, five miles west Of this
city, com mitted suicide Sunday. In the
; evening he left bis house, taking bis gun
with him, and telling bis family that he
vas going TO kill himself. About 10 clock