Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-01-31
AN AWFUL ACCIDENT.
Scores Of Lives Endangered by a
BFokea Wheel.
Many Persons Badly, and Some
Seriously Injured.
Heartrending Shrieks From Men
and MOmsa
Fast Imprisoned in the Cruel
Wreck.
The Unusual Manner In Which the
The Unusual Manner In Which the
Accident Occurred.
List Of the Woundsd Passengers
and Their Residences.

rible railroad accident. attended with loss
Of life and many injured, occurred this
msrning on the reading railroad, near Green
vile. The train consisted of four coaches,
well filed With passengers. The accident
occurred between Daniorth Avenue Station
and Cemetery bridge. The train was run"
ming rapidly, when the Wheelo Of the forward
coach broke and the ear was derailed. 1t
ran into q coal train and was upset, and
the other three cars were wrecked.
The accident was witnessed bya mounted
policeman, who telephoned the facts to .po-
lice headquarters. Various hospitals dis
patched surgeons and ambulances to the
scene.
The cars Of the express we're we'll filled
with passengers, and as the cars crashed
into one another the shrieks OF the men snd
women were heartrending. The railroad
hands ia the neighborhood soon set to work
extricating the wounded from the wreck
while the doctors bandaged their wounds
and sent them to the hospital as rapidly as
possible. At eleven o'clock y persons in
all had been taken from the wreck, more or
less badly injured; some, il is feared, fatal.
ly. Others were still in the wreck, badly
wedged in among broken timbers, and it was
reported that several corpses were seen
amid the debris.
The train was running at high rate Of
speed at the time, and was due in Jersey
City at $50 q. m.
The accident It is believed, when the full
details are known, will turn out to be one of
the most disastrous that has occurred on
any ofthe Jersey roads for long time past.
The railroad officials say they cannot ac-
count for the breaking of the wheel, as the
underpinuing Of the cars, axles, ETC.. are
carefully examined and sounded at every
stop the train makes between Philadelphia
and Jersey City.
Names of the Victims.
The names of the injured are:
N. NJ. FREDERICKS, of Bound Book,
\. J., seriously injured.
W. f. EATON, engineer, badly hurt about
the body.
c. J. BURDELL. conductor, painfully hurt.
NJ. SHADWICE, brakeman severely In
iured.
NJ. D. CORNELL, Of Philadelphia, serious
" bruised
E. X. SERYILLE, Of Philadelphia, badly
injured.
c. REED. of Philadelphia. badly injured.
H. BRAY, Of Philadelphia, seriously hurt.
8. F. SCATTERG00D, of Scattergood 4
Co.. of Philadelphia, right arm lacerated
and almost torn from its socket.
CHARLES H. PRAY, of the firm Of
Holmes & PRAY, of Philadelphia, head
cut and skull fractured.
0. REED, of Philadelphia, nose broken,
face cut and one eye probably dislodged.
HENRY TRACY, Of Compton 4 Tracy, OF
Philadelphia, head cut and frontal bone
broken. His inju'ies will likely prove
fatal.
NJ. D. CONWAY, OF Philadelphia, arm cut
and ribs broken.
WALTER CLICKNER, brakeman, was
thrown from the platform OF the rear car
and was cut and bruised over the face
and body and severely injured internally.
B W. YANTINE, of Philadelphia, skull
fractured, probably fatally injured.
B. WINK. of Philadelphia, seriously cut.
J. KELLY, Of PhilSdelphis, lett arm IN
iurcd.
J. T. HALLOWAY, ofPhiladelphia, shock
and cuts.
]. CONNELY, of ,hilsdelPhia, cut badly;
f. c. NEPHEW, Oi Philadelphia bruised
H. rc d. GORCoRAM of Philadelphia, head
cut.
CHARLES FRALLEY, of Bound Brook,
cut and bruised.
H c. WADE, of Bound Brook, cut and
bruised.
CH CALHOUN, Philadelphia.
JW. BEATTY, Philadelphia. ,
Several gentlemen who were bruised and
cut refused their names for publication tor
fear of alarming their friends ,
1t is now stated that there are no dead
bodies in the wreck. and that the engineer
and conductor previously reported among
the injured escaped unhuTt
The Wreck on Fire.
The rear brakeman broke the upper win
dows of the rear CO. and helped out passen'
GERS, The newsbo4, D. Curran, said he was
in the rear car, ans after the car bumped
slong for q few moments IT stood on end.
Then he fell over the stove and was pulled
ont of a window. The overturned stoves
set FIRE TO the wreck in several places, but 1t
was extinguished By the efforts OF the brake
men and the rescued passengers.
The Long Branch express came along
nine minutes after the disaster, but was
stoned by danger signal A special tram
was sent out from Jersey City and brought
back the passengers from the trains. Those
| from Philadelphia were all more or less the
worse for the shaking up. Torn clothing
dirt-begrimmed faces with blood stains,
betokening the ordeal through which they
had passed.
| Scenes at the Wreck.
The track was torn up for considerable
distance. The tender and ears are piled IN
\ n confused mass. The cause OF the aecl'
| dent cannot be ascertained, but 1t IS certain
| the cars were off the track some distance
beyond the switch, thus proving that the
latter was not the cause Of the disaster.
In the front car were twenty passengers.
/ All but two were removed from 1t IN an nm
conscious condition. They were earned
into the waiting room of the Dsufcrth avenue
depot. Several physicians attended them.
In less than an hour after the accident oc.
cured all the injured passengers recovered
consciousness and were able to walk about.
Eight of them were only slightly injured
and declined to give their names, They
were placed on a special train and taken to
New York
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