The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-04-09
TaE RAILwAY pIsAsrKn.
Additional Bodies Recovered from I
MFeok-PArklonlArn Of the A Aeeidant.

NAAhNFAELDi MA15'i APIH o-4t
thought that twenty persons have beef
seriously injured, seven killed, and a scor,
Of others more or less injured, by the rail
way disaster near here last night. Two
more bodies, the last to be extriCated from
the wreck, have been identified as o. a
Temple, OF Wakefield, Mass, and Charles
II, Durgin, OF Boston, Two young girls
whose names are unknown, are reported
to be among the killed,
A man who saw the train 90 over the
embRnkment and down two hundred feel
10 the shore OF the Deerfeld river thus
describes the scene; "The track suddenly
gave way, and the whole train Of six can
tnmbled down "a cliff two hundred feel
high into the Deeraeld river, The waters
swollen be the recent rains, poured into
the cars. Three cars Immediately caught
are. Then came the struggle to escape
Some were choked by water and perished
Others were caught under the wheels, and
knocked about In the fall until they were
dead. The flames spread and completed
the horror. The engine tipped over, but
did not leave the embankment, One
Troy and Boston day coach plowed into
the loose rocks, and was blocked half way
down the bank. The baggage and mail
cars, two sleepers and one day coach
plunged into the river. No help was at
hand, Every man looked to himself,
Groans and shrieks, irightful and in.
discriminate scramble, and all was over.n
THOSE WHO ESCAPED.
Thirty men and few women are report.
ed to have escaped, many Of them bruised
and bleeding. Some twelve went to Shell.
burne Falls, six others to Greenfield.
Probably no more escaped. How many
are still under the wreck and in the river
no one knows. Thus far but three are
known to have escaped uninjured. The
accident occurred without warning. The
track literally tipped up and spilled the
entire train down the embankment. Some
oil the passengers wentinto the water and
narrowly escaped drowning. Fireman
Richardson lost part Of his hand. He ran
70 West Deeriield and telegraphed the no.
tlCe OF the wreck, The east track Ia torn
up for distance Of twenty rods, and will
delay operations at least two days on that
track. The western track is clear and
trains for the east will probably use II In
passing the scene Of the wreck.
THE FATALITIES.
Among the victims, in addition to those
above named are the following;
H. H. LtTrLToHS, wife and two children,
all dead.
HEiBRRT LITTLEIoHN, engineer, Of North
Adams, fatally scalded.
MERRIT sEELEY, Superintendent Of the Ma
tional Express Company, Boston, proba'
bly, fatally injured.
AL. CRANDALL, postal clerk, not seriously.
ALLEN LEWIS, A. B. SToNE, A. @. HARvEY
Of Boston, seriously.
u. p. FOWLER and A. X. WARNER, Chair
man oi the selectmen Of Greenfield
quiet badly injured.
HENRY CoQELLARn, OF Charlemont, dying
E. w. DuNNHL, OF Waltham; Miss DARBY
Miss GowlNG, Miss CORNELL, II. II. Ar
MOLD, Of North Adams; AARON LEWIS
colored porter; O. ABRlE, Of Fredonia
N. "; F. s. HAGAR, of Greenfield O
| r. Bell, Of Nashua, N. H., all slightly
injured.
NICHOLAS DoRGAE, Of Greenfield, arm
broken and hurt internally.
CONDUCTOR FOSTER slightly hurt.
Search for the bodies is still being prose
outed.
MORE DEATHS. y.
Merritt seely, Superintendent Of thC
National Express Company, who was in
jured last night in the accident, died thl
morning. Brakeman Spencer was the ON
whose body was found In the wreck las
night with the bodies ot two unknown
commercial travellers. Engineer Littlejohi
: cannot live till night. Two bodies wer
brought here this morning by Q wreckin
trsin. One was identified % D. y. Hay
den. The other man was about 90 or Il
years old. and was identified as ]. r
Gould, Of Arlington, Conn.
Nicholas Gafdan, OF Greenfield, agent
the FleisChman Yeast Company, had hi
shoulder fractured and was injured intel
nally.
W. s. Wilcox, living near Syracuse
N. Y, was injured slightly.
O. P. Bell, Of Nashua, says there wer
several persons In the water below hiu
but he saw none ofthem get ashorei an
} he believes they were drowned. Thirty
five passengers and ten train hands wef
! on board. John Cowley, Of North Adam
, was on the train and is wildly insane.
The following have been found aud or
l at Shelburne Falls. Viola Littlejohn,
/; ; l.ittleiohn, E. F. Whitehouse, Of Boston
! Marx Spencer, brakeman Chas. Temple
The body Of Mr.. Whitehouse was foun
In the river Under car. A body jui
iound Rk the wreck Ia believed 10 be tha