The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-16
But the Half of tho Sad and
Narrowing Talo Was
Not Told.
Details of the Late Accident on tho
Baltimore 4 Ohio Railroad Near
Oonnellsville, Pa,
Slow Death and Partial Cremation Of
the Fifteen Victims OF the
Disaster.


nine and ten O'Clock yesterday morning.
Anumber of laborers, variously estimated
at from twelve to twenty, were killed ana
many were injured. The scene OF the
disaster Is on sharp curve just west OF
the Sheer sand works. The freight train
was heavily laden with ore. The camp
train consisted of six cars. IL contained
about fifty men, who had just been trans
lerrcd from the Pittsburgh Southern Road
aud We're on their way to the Ohio Pyle
falls to work on the east end of the division.
Both trains were going at high rate of
speed and came together with terrible
crash. The engines remained on the
track and teloscopcd each other into the
smokestack, but the heavy tenders jumped
into the air and fell, the freight tender
upon its engine and the gravel train ten
der back upon the first car In the rear OF
IL.
Here was the scene of death. Six men
were killed outright in this car, and four
others, fastened down by the broken tim
bers, were roasted to death, the car catch
ing fire from the overturned stove and
burning up before the stupened survivors
could comprehend the awful situation OF
their shreking companions. Three men
escaped from the car; one of them assured
your correspondent that the fire could
have been extlnguishcd had water been
applied In time.
The wreck itself was Il CHASTITY sight.
The tender of the freight engine stood
thirty feet in the air at the side OF the
iron car that was burned, and there could
be seen sitting amid the glowing embers
and twisted iron rods and ashes three
grinnlng skeletons, one sitting bolt up
right apparently peerlng into the flames
that had smothered out his life as well as
those of his companions.
At noon large force OF hands were on
the ground extingushlng the flames, and
the wreck train was at work pulling the
debris away and rescuing the charred re-
mains. The burned trunks of four OF the
victims were taken out. Across the
breast of one the white, unsinged flesh
contrasted strangely with the blackened
surrounding. That spot was where the
heavy timbers caught him and held him
| in the grip of fate until the flames left
nothing but headless, armless, legless
trunk. The remains were reverently
placed on a board, carried aside and laid
down upon the green grass, spotted with
purple forest flowers A lean and hungry
InnEtns, al a. opiffaI ba 81 al
flesh, and licking his chops descended on
the remains. Fortunately he was discoy-
cred and driven away.
When the wreck was cleared away 1t was
discovered that twelve persons had been
Injured and fourteen more were missing.
The bodies of ten of these were rccoy-
cred. The Others are supposed to have
been completely consumed. OF those re-
covered only two-Cassidy and McDer-
mott-could be posti, ely Unidentified.
The others were burned shapeless. One
of the injured-J. Il. O'Shea-died on the
way to the hospital, making fifteen deaths,
as follows:
Patrick Cassidy, aged forty, residence
Cumberland, Ind.
Scott Desmott aged twenty-one, Ursina,
Pa.
Dennis Ward, aged forty, residence UNI
known.
Shebeyneuman, residence unknown.
Owen Coney, aged thirty, Pittsburgh,
John Perry, dged thirty, Johnston, Pa.
Thomas White, aged twenty-five resi-
dence unknown.
Eli Sloan aged twenty-five, residence
unknown.
Joseph Desmond, aged thirty one resi-
dence unknown.
Patrick Kelly, aged thirty-seven, resi-
dence unknown.
John Hughes, aged forty-four, Cumber
land, Md.
John Comfy, aged forty, New York.
Timothy Shay, aged forty, Staunton,
Va.
J. T. O'shea, aged twenty-one, Cum
| berland, Md.
The latter was fireman OF the freight
| train and the others laborers.
WOUNDED.
The wounded are as follows:
James Smith, laborer, scalp wound.
Samuel Clay, engineer of the camp
train, right arm broken.
William McNulty, laborer, Philadelphia,
right ankle fractured.
Daniel Albright, laborer, Ursina, Pa,
leg broken.
w. j. Borns, clerk, right arm broken.
Thomas McCabc, laborer, both arms
broken.
Four Swedes, whose names are I'M
known, were also injured, but not
dangerously.
The injured were sent to the West
Pennsylvania Hospital at Pittsburgh, and
the dead were brought to Connellsville
for burial.
Coroner Britton arrived at the scene OF
the wreck in the afternoon, and held an
inquest. The testimony showed that
the train dispatcher, Gilbert Lewis,
had ordered the engineer OF the
camp train to run wild to Ohio
Pyle, distance Of eighteen miles;
that before the train was out of sight
he remembered that the second Sec
ton Of No. so, coming west, had not
passed. He made an effort to stop one
train or the other, but did not sue
coed. On account of sharp curve
where the trains collided, the engineers
thinking that the track was clear, could
not be held responsible. At ten o'clock
the Jury rendered a verdict that the vio-
Tins came to their death by collision
caused by the carelessneSs OF Gilbert
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