Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-01-24
A FIERY RIDE TO DEATH.
a Passenger Train Enveloped in Burning
Oil-The Cars Consumed. Three Women
Burned to Death and Many Seriously In
jured.
BRADFORD, PA, Jan. I5.

jured.
- BRADFORD, PA, Jan. 15.
A stream of waste oil flowing from a
tank across the Bradford, Gordell g. Kim
qua Railroad caught fire this morning. A
passenger train from Wellsville for Brad
ford ran into it, and the train was inlme-
diately enveloped in flames. The track for
distance of one hundred yards was COW
cred with oil. 1t is believed that gas COM
ing in contact with the fire box of the en-
CINE exploded, firing tie oil, which spread
on the wind, and enveloped the doomed
train in an instant in 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 a ter
rible moment. The coach was filed.
There was a 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, landing in the
snow.
A relief train with surgeons and cots
was dispatched to the scene. Upon arrival
a terrible sight presented itself. The pas
senger coach and baggage car were smok-
ing ruins. The engine lay on its back, hay
ing turned complete somerset. e..
THE DEAD. -.F
Mrs. L. c. Pair, of Kinzua Junction, was
burned beyond recognition. She was u young
woman and had only been married two years.
Her husband escaped by jumping through a
Miss Katie Moran, Aliens. N. Y, small
station near Akin, was burned almost to a
crisp. Miss Moran was found hanging out
side of the coach graphing the window sill
The third woman burned to death, has not
Prof. Taught is not expected to live.
Patrick sexton, engineer, is terribly burned
about the face and hands.
Mike Walsh. fireman. was horribly burned
about the face and arms. ---
w. Fl. BelTa1, injured internally. -
Jerry Denagan, brakeman. han Is badly cut
Charles Held. che, express messenger, was
burned about h. hands. .5-l.f IN
George Mccartney, a newsboy, was terribly
burned about the head and hands; not ex-
pected to live.
A. N. Carpenter, of Little Genesee, face and
left hand burned.
Jerry Hag=erty. Ceres. N. Y, badly burned
alb 0ut the race and head.
Mrs. Black, daughter and son, of Akin, N.
Y burr ed about the head and hands.
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 ands.
John kafoor, Akin N. Y, terribly burned
about the face and hands.
An eyewitness of the disaster said: SIT
was the grandest and yet the most awful
scene that human eyes ever witnessed. For
q distance Of nearly half a mile the road.
bed was covered with oil. At points it was
over the rails. The moment the gas came
in contacs with the fre-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
heavenward. The driving wheels of the
engine, which was dashing along at the
rate OF fl fteen miles.an hour, scattered the
oil over everything with rush and roar
which might have been heard for mile.
TIE flames leaped fully 25O feet ahead of
the locomotive, which was thus compelled
to 4, n through q veritab.e sea of fire, such
as is seldom the fortune of man to witness"