Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-01
HORRIBLE DISASTER
A Number Of Persons
Killed and Wounded.
THE HowLTNG BLIzzARD
Joseph Chamberlain Speaks Many
Words If Cheer ut a Cam
adian Banquet.
JAsooiased Press Dispatches to the HsRAID.


JAsocia.ed Press Dispatches TO the HSRALD.
PrrrsEURG, Pa, December 3I.-A
passenger train on the New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad, ran
into a double-header s~eight near
Meadville, Penn, this morning, and
was totally wrecked. 1t is reported
that forty lives were lost.
TIT TUsvILLE, Penn, December, 81.
The accident took pla at $3.50
this morning on the main line of the
New York. Pennsylvania and Ohio
Railroad, about three miles west of
Meadville, at Tracey's cut, near
Geneva, Penn, between train No s,
. limited, from Chicago and Gin
cihnetu, to New York and west-bound
freight No. %. Both engineers were
killed, one OF the passengers killed,
and about fifteen persons injured.
The cars are all piled up and it is i'm
possible to tell how many We're in
jnred. The Pullman sleepcrs did not
leave the track, and the passengers in
them were not injured. Luckily the
cars did not take fire. First reports
sent out we're much exgerated.
MEADvILLg, Pa, December 81
Five persons were Kill ed outright,
among whom was passenger. Thir-
teen others were wounded, nine fatal
ly:
The fast axpress was making up
time. The blame is said to lay with
the engineer and conductor of the
freight, who were running on express
time.
FULL DETAILS.
MEApsvILLE, Pa, December 31.-
The details of the wreck which oc-
Cured on the New York, Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio Railway five miles
west OF this city this morning, proves
to have been the most horrible disas-
ter that has ever occurred in this vi
cinity. The colliding trains we're the
through New York express from
Chicago and the double-header west
bound freight train. Both trains
were over two hours late, and the ex-
press being entitled to the right, was
running without orders. Con-
ductor Murray, Of the freight
train, taking it for g, (nted
shat the express was in, pulled eiit for
Geneva. The two trains, the express
running forty five and the freight fif-
teen miles an hour, met in 'ng, for
est hidden curve with a terrible crash.
The engine of the express train and
the first engine of the freight train
were raised bodily into the air and
stood on farnace ends, pilots pointed
upwards and the driving wheels lock-
ed. Both engineers and firemen were
pressed between the iron ruins. The
baggage-car, express-car and smoker
of the passenger train were complete.
ly wrecked, the baggage telescoped
into the smoker splitting III open and
sweeping every seat from the foorS
The total number OF passengers on
the train was fifty-three, fifteen OF
whom were in the smoker. All of
these were more or less injured
and William Stephenson OF Toedo,
died shortly after being taken from
the ruins.
The crash aroused II people in
the vicinity, and a lare force was
soon at work removing t he debris and
injured. The mangle,.l remains OF
Fireman Hume were taken out first,
amid the piteous laments OF his aged
father, who had arrived on the
gronnd. The body OF Engineer Swan
wss exposed, but fastened SO tightly
in the wreck that no atten pt was
made then to move it. A portion OF
the body Of Engineer Googe, and also
the arm and shoulder OF Fireman
Irwin could be seen. The work
of clearing the wreck was prosecuted
in the face OF a driving storm and
sleet that lasted the entire afternoon.
Those passengers who were not in.
: jurt1 ! we're transfe' rod and sent for
ward, while the dead and wounded
|were brought to this city. The rail
road officials did everything in their
power for the comfort Of the injured.
THE INJURED.
Following is the list of casualties
(lled, Engineer Swan, Engineer
bode, Fireman Irwin. all OF Mead
lle; Fireman Hume, Cambridge,
hio; VIM. H. Stephenson, Toledo.
jured: H. E. Kohn, New York. leg
lshed. Adolph Wagner, Buffalo,
broken; Adolph Hoten Patterson,
" Jersey, leg 'rushel; H.ssMalville
ldlefield, Ohio, one leg crushed
the other broken; Michael
rien, Buffalo, leg broken; M. New
Shingle House, Pa, leg crushed;
Beaulaud, Titusville, leg
bn; Charles E. French,
pg, Mass, leg broken; Forest
I'M, Kent. o., hips crushed; NJ.
an, brakeman, foot crushed I;
Boconan, baggage. leg cut and
ID face badly injured; Philip
ian Francisco, arm injured; /;
Apde, Greenville, Pa, badly
II. A. Malone, Salamanca,
(; Adolph Buser, Cincinnati,
she'd; Fireman Charles
bruised about head and
Il COLD SNAP.