The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-11-13
TRAIN WRECK.
A Frigntful Disaster on the
B. & 0.
b RIAL OF JOHN MCCULLOUGH.
The War Against King Thebaw
The Telephone Troubles
TeviIfsh Dynamite.
Frightful Train Wreck.

PITTSBURGH, November PA fright
full wreck occurred at Blue Stone
Quarry, on the Baltimore g. Ohio Rail-
way at o'clock this morning. Train
number u, the through express from
Bsltlmore 10 Pittsburgh. consisting of
a sleeper, two coaches, TWO baggage and
one express car, ran into misplaced
sW tea and was completely wrecked.
The sleeper rolled over an embankment
INTO Yong AiOgheny River, the other
cars were upset and the whole train
detached from the engine. Sixteen
persons were injured, but none were
killed outright. The names of the in
iured are G. E. Boyle, member of Con-
gress from Fayette district; John
Bowling, collector of internal revenue
for the Twenty-third district; ].
n. McJiltone, legal agent of the
Baltimore d Ohio Company; E.
II. Bigler, collector of internal reye-
nue. for the Twenty second district, and
thirteen other eastern people. None of
the wounded is believed to be danger
ously injured, unless it is Congressman
BOYLE, whose condition is believed to be
serious. The report of the wreck
reached this city about 8 this morning,
ang caused great excitement, as it was
known that many prominent men OF
this city were expected on the train.
The accident disArranged the telegraph
wires, and it was after 10 o'clock before
the following particulars of the acct
dent were received: The express was
about fifteen minutes late, when it
reached where the wreck occurred, at
Bluestone quarry the track makes
sharp curve around the river a short
distance back from the bank; there is a
switch at the commencement of the
curve; whether some one had left the
switch partly open. or not is not yet as
certained. Officials of the road say that
it was tempered with evidently with
the object in view of causing wreck.
Had the switch been open the train
WOuld have gone into it all right, and
could have been stopped before any
damage had been done; as it was tie
train could go on neither track; there
suit was that the engine dashed along
the ties, tearing up the track and
causing the coaches and sleeping cars
TO break loose and dash on over the en- !
bankment in the widest confusion. tt |
sleeper rolled over and over, and |
stopped with its side lying in the bed of |
the river thirty feet below. The two |
passenger coaches stopped at the waters |
edge. The baggage cars went into the
water. Tn re were many passengers |
on board. The scene that followed was |
one that beggars description. The cries /
Of the injured and MANNED were heard i
from every car; frightened passengers
Sprang from the windows and struggled !
with each other to escape from he roll |
ing cars walls of pain were heard from |
some who had been caught and |
held within the wreck: those who !
without injuries we're too
startled for the time to render assist
2nce. Then they began the rescue. A
message was sent to Connellsville for
medical assistance, and in a short time
4 corps of physicians was sent up on a
special train. After dressing the
wounds Of the wounded, they were re-
moved to the hotels in ConnellsvilIe.
The wreck caused great excitement in
JOnnellsYille, and for hours afterwards
people hurried to the scene. The track
vas blockaded and torn up SO badly
hat no trains got through until this
afternoon.
PITTsBURe, November 2.-Congress-
man Boyle, though very seriously hurt
in the wreck near Connellsyille this
viii probably recover. He
was taken to his home at UniontOWn.
y. VanMoter Of this CITY, by heroic
action, saved the car from taking fire,
ana perhaps some passengers from
death. When the train jumped the
track he grabbed the stove with death
ike grip and held on until the car
stopped at the foot of the embankment. |
and then let go to find the flesh burnt
DIT both hands and arms.