The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-05-22
. A FATAL COLLISION.
UP At THE JUNCTION YESTERDAY
A Freight Traln DAahsS lnto Another sOas With
Terrible Ensct-Ons Nan Il Killed and ssv.
erai Others Are Severely hJartd-XA.
turs and Cause OF tho Accident.

There was another terrible aud fatal acct.
dent on the rail- yesterday morning at an
carly hour, this timo on the Pam Handle, just
at Its junction with the Pittsburgh, Wheel
Ing & Kentucky railroad. II resulted In the
death Of one man aud the dangerous wound.
Ing Of several others. The local freight train
for thiu city, designated by the company as
No. 90. with her own engine In front and the
steuoenville yard engine, preceded by fiat
car, at the rear, to help up tho grade, crossed
the bridge from the Ohio side In the morn.
Ing, shortly before Y o'clock, and was backing
up the grade just east Of the junction, 10 get
freight train No. Al, west bound. -1I.
| The engine Of No. Al frat struck the flat car
and knocked 1t from the track ana then
forced the tender and engine upon the
caboose OF tha local freight, crushing 1t into
Il complete wreck and killing or wounding
several Of its occupantB. ~ n,-l.
u. bartholomew, q passenger who was In
the csboose, ives killed instantly, his head
being fssriully crushed and both OF bis legs
broken. H.-E.yf@. =
Several occupants Of the caboose were hurt,
as follows: w. Il0''
Mart Kane, Of EdGlngton, Lex broken.
Thouas Duty, OF Stsubenvile, leg broken.
John Conners. Of Edgington, and William
Currans, OF Wheeling Junction, badly
bruised. = .,.n' n
Dan Sweeney, back hurt.
John DAILY, slightly Injured. ...
Bartholomew wrs an agent for the Cincin.
natl Eserles1 Wringer, aud was on his way
TO Wheeltng. His home Is at East Dubuque,
Ills, The others who were injured were
track men.
The engineers and llrsmen on both engines
jumped in time. The cause OF the sad ACCT.
dent wBs the engineer OF the west bound
freight running ps1t flag in the fog. Core.
ner Fogg, OF Steubenville. will investigate
the cause. Some OF the injured were taken
over to that place, and DINERS taken 10 the
hospital at Pittsburgh. :
The body Of Bartholomew was taken 10
steubenVille and properly prepared and en-.
train and taken the local for Wheeling. He
YVES about 40 years OF age. n
Some men on ths outside OF the caboose
shouted 10 those within to jump, and quits 8
| number did 30 before the lral1s struck,
} John Conner, ono Of the men wounded In
the wreck, says TINT when tho CRASH occur.
, led bartholomew wc3 thrown against him
: aud that, looking up, he cav large splinter
, OF the caboose roof orcsh through the unior.
! .unate mans head. lIlII1.
Those Of the wounded in the wreck who
lived at Edgington were left at their homes.
A report was current here during the day
that Mr.: Mann, the superintendent OF the
work OF constructing the Riverside Iron
company ssteel works WAS killed by the &C
! cident, but this WEI an error.
Lest evenings sieubenville Herald ssys
The Superintendent OF the Beuwood lion
Company, four miles below Wheeling tele.
phoned 10 Moore & Thomas, this morning
, saying that they had been telegraphed thai
1t was their travelling man who was killed 10
this mornings wreck. Mr.. Thoms1 gave !
, description OF the man, but when he came ia
the color Of the hair, which is brown, the
Superintendent stopped him, saying 1t ives
not their man, ss his hair was black. II"