Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-03-21
DOWN AN EMBANKMENT.
An .xrwrss rRAis.s DEADLY P,usoe.
Tho engineer and tiremen kili,d and
Fourteen Passengers Injured In an
Accident to tho Chicago


Fourteen Passengers Injured In an
Accident to tho chicago
Limited.
Thursday morning, shortly before day
light, the Chicago limited express met
with an accident near Salem, Ohio, by
which two persons lost their lives aud
eleven others (eight OF them passengers)
were injured. The train was running
about forty miles au hour aud when
Franklin hill was reached the engine left
the tracks and went down au embaukmont
thirty feet. The smoker and baggage oar
followed, but the rest of the train remained
at a staudstill. Almost Immediately the
boiler OF the engine exploded aud James
Richards, engiueer, aud Charles Rhodes,
the tiremen, were hurled distance OF
four hundred yards aud instantly killed
The wrecked cars then took fire, but were
extinguishcd without any difficulty.
As soon as those in the other cars had
recovered from tho shock the search for
the dead and wounded among the ruins
was begun. The bodies of Richards and
Rhodes were found 400 yards away terribly
maugltd.
List ottne Injurcd.
These are tho only ones killed. The
iujured were as follows +. A. Rich,
Chicago badly bruised and cut about the
head Mrs. Dean, Chicago, right arm
bruised Mrs. Rooh, also Of Chicago,
muscle of right arm cut ID. Z. Newcomb,
of Atchsou, Kansas, right foot badly
bruised L. G. Northam, OF Philadelphia,
slight wouud on the foot and face
scratched Fred Mather, also of Philadel.
phia, slightly bruised IN the face ; Chas.
Beisel, baggage master, cut about tue
head aud face William Lands, brake
mau, body bruised and several severe
contusiOus on head and face Richard
Arter, colored. porter, Pullman sleeper,
badly bruised J. II. Mcknight,
Fort Shaw, Montana, scalp wound J.
B Wet New York, hand cut William
Fuller Chicago, uose and face cut Il. J.
Douglass, Fort Yates, Dakota, scalp
wound Il Brunswick, 622 North Second
street, Philadelphia, face and hand cut /;
wound 4. {. Hustis, Fort Wayne, lud.,
cuts on hand None of the passengers are
supposed to be seriously injured.
Word was immediately sent to Pitts
burg and a train with physicians quickly
sent to tho scene of the disaster. Tho
train arrived at IL o'clock aud the pasSen
gers we've transferred to it and brought to
the city, arriving about >. o'clock. VIM
Johnston, OF Chicago, one of the passen
gers, said that the wreck was caused 10y
the boiler exploding while the train was
proceeding at a very high rate of speed. II
was at point known as Wells Junction,
two miles east of Salem. Ohio. The to Inc
was reduced to fragments of cast iron and
boiler plate and scattered for many hun.
dred yards from the scene.
Engineer James Il Caarus was blown up
quite a distance Ia the air and while de.
scendlug his body alighted on the network
of telegraph wires ~ the side Of the track.
where II hung for lew seconds, only to
fall a bruised and naugled mass of human
flesh by the side of the track The fire.
man was found at the base of the hill,
bruised aud manglei IN such condition
that he probably knew not what caused
his death. Immediately after the boiler
exploded the smoker and one sleeper left
the rails aud together with all that re-
NAMED OF the engine rolled down the
embaukmeDt, a distance Of twenty five
feet. The other four cars comprising the
train remained Ou the track, but all were
more or less damaged, the last car which
was sleeper, being derailed aud torn
from its trucks by the shock.
Mr.. Rich, of Chicago, who was among
the injured, stated that at the time Of the
accident ne was sleeping in the first
sleeper. Tho first intimation of danger
that he had was when he heard a loud
report aud found himself thrown out on
the flDOr Of the car. lie then felt the car
turning Oyor and rolling aud he could not
imagine where and when il finally stopped.
At the foot of the hill be got on his feet
and II was only after helping the injured
out Of the car, from some portions Of
which an exlt had TO be made through the
windows, that be found himself TO be
injured.
This Is the first serious accident that
has happened 10 the New York aud
Chicago limited express since it commeuc-
Ell running nearly three years ago.