Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-01-02
The WORK OF A FiEND.
A Passenger Train PurpOseiy
Wrecked Near Grafton.
Tao Men Killed and the Engine
and Tender Demolished The
Pepetrator Unknown.

One Of those dsstsrdly attempts to destroy
human life by Wholesale which occasionally
startle and horriiy the reader occurred at
l0:ij o'clock Wednesday night about mile
east Of Grafton on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad The author of the attempt is
unknown, and no possible cause for the
crime can be conicctured, save that it was
the work ola discharged employee who took
this method Of revenging himself on the
company for his dismissal This however,
does not appear to cover the case from the
:act hat a freight train, the wreckage Of
which would have entailed fully as much
loss on the company, was allowed to pass
THE SCENE or TIE ACCIDENT
in safety, while passenger train coming
Immediately after, was deliberately chosen
as the object upon which the unknown de-
mon could carry out his murderouS designs.
The train sought to be wrecked was the
St Louis express, from Baltimore for the
Vest via. ParGersburg which is due at
Grafton a; 1915 p. II. The train was en-
hour late and was running at the rate Of
nearly forty miles an hour When about u
mile east Of Grafton, the engine struck the
frog OF the switch at the stone quarry aud at
once left the track. turning completely over,
sGd falling upon its side on the other track
The tender followed, turning at an angle
across the track, while the postal CIR was
THROWN uOwN TIE STEEP BANK
INFO the creek The baggage car also left
he track bat did not caps;ze
In the cab Of the engine were Engineer
CoI.irS Hepburn and Fireman Thomas Dor.
scy The men bud 10 warijng OF the dis
astCr uuti. tEr engine LET, the track, and 1t
vas ,hen too late to seek safety by jump
Ing. Hepburn, who was about fifty years
OF agr. 3 sca,tsr. OF bloomington, Nd ani
one 81 the eldest engineers on the third
Divisional msG noted 10; HI, carr'G!Ee5'
ard rciIg.'t;y-SdS caught beneath the en-
giuc and INSTANTLY killed His neck cad
one ,rg w.f, lr'nen. aui the n'1'r IL
badly crushed.
Dorsey. the fireman. did no. maa, his
death 80 merciiUIy lie was caught be
Meath the u,r-tgrusd engine. and /" add
fiou 10 hr.k,u hoses au; Ea-r.J." ems anu
bruises VS. literally cooked from EnIt t"
,oos hy The cscgr.I, steam from the "oi'r
lie lived seven h9,rS ;i.ey the accident
.rf.:ing ian mu,, cNcr.,lG'lur tvrn"aa
and -rutiag ,ur death Ills Gamr was IN
Kc,>cr whcrr be- leaves wife .ui .,rc
Children
The passengers were
TRrTy7 ruoruvrULT su2TEN 20.
luite number receiyiu. serious cu, am
bruises, but all escaped without h7oA.N
bones
An examination Of the switch revealed
the fact that the accident was
A DULlEtElTE ATrEvrr
to wreck the train. its author being SOM
one familiar with the workings Of tn road
The freight train which passed the switch Il
quarter after 10 Was not moleStci. il eyi-
icui'y being considered too small game To-
warrant the waste o: the carefully prepared
ammunition. No sooner had tue Gccighl
than long. wcdrei shaped
piece Of iyon, accurately fitted, was inserted
in the Y shaped opening IN one end OF III"
frog, and rs the obstruction could not b.
seen from the engine ca0 cVccp, BY ;ha
closest scrutiny, the train ran up1u i a
fall speed. The driving wheel mounting
Ills piece Of iron. at once ran OIL to on
side over the ties. and thence ia,o the ditch
ct the side .r thr track with
ruu ...asup.. Nt.,&r, ,Hr'E SEATED.
TI. E..E man ,r.ra 4r,,,-, the mos.