Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-07
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. IA POWDER CAR EXPLODES. Eight Lives And Much [ll
 Property Lost. HAIL DOES FEARFUL WORK. A Jealous Girl Kills Her
 Rival. THE MURDER OF LILLE HOYLE. A Lively Scene in the
 House.
TRAIN LOADED WITH POWDER

l A TRAIN LOADED WITH POWDER Dashes Down a Steep Grade. Exp1odes and Wrecks Many HOuses-A SIngu- 1 lar Accident in Which Eight Lives are Lost.
 1 MT. CARMEL, Pa, May GA remarkable accident occurred last night on the Philade1- | phia and Reading railroad between this place l and Locust Gap which killed eight persons, ! injured thirty and destroyed $75,000 worth I of property. Freight train No. 67, consisting of seventy five cars, bound for Williamsport, 1 became disconnected by the breaking of l coupling and the engine and three cars ran 1 half mile before the crew discovered that | the train was divided. The first section l awaited the arrival of the second at the foot of heavy grade and the two brakemen los- 1 ing control of the second section it dashed 1 into the first section, causing an explosion in | the third car which was loaded with Dupont powder. At the scene of the accident the railroad runs along a steep hill, at the bot tom of which stood two rows of houses occu- pied by the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron company's employees. On the hill- side was little cottage occupied by John Quinn and family of four children, two boys and two girls. The force of the explosion wrecked the buildings. seventeen in all, and the stoves set fire to the ruins. Quinn and his two little girls were burned to ashes. The two boys escaped with burns. Simon Kerwick's family consisted of Mary and Willie Cavanagh, two adopted children, aged respectively eight and fourteen years, Daniel Berwick, aged eight, Alex. Berwick, aged five, and his wife and new born babe.
 MT. Berwick carried his wife from the burn-
 ing building, but the children were burned
 to death. Thirty persons were injured, the
 most seriously being Mrs. Miles Dougherty,
 leg broken, bruised and cnt; her mother,
 Mrs. Matthews, cut, bruised and internally
 injured; Mary, daughter of Mrs: Miles, neck cut and bruised; Andrew McElwer, right
 eye destroyed and neck cut; John Doulan,
 left hand amputated and cut about the
 limbs; Mrs. Patrick McManus, injured by
 missiles; Mrs. Simon Berwick, suffering
 from shock, her condition is serious. Several
 of the injured were sent to the Miners hos-
 pital In all twelve cars were destroyed and
 seventeen houses, with their furniture. All
 the windows in the Locust Gap churches
 and schools were broken and the doors blown
 off. In Mount Carmel large store windows
 were broken. The total loss is estimated at
 $75. .000.
 So great was the force of the explosion that
 car wheels and axles were thrown distance
 of two hundred yards. On the hill above
 traces of the debris may be found quarter
 of mile away, while between that distance
 and the wreck there are quantities of the de-
 bris of the cars. The wrecked train in addi4
 tion to the of powder and dynamite was freighted with Singer sewing machines, glass, phosphate, oil, lumber, flour and sheet iron.
 Within a radius of sixty feet there is per- feet litter of these goods all broken and mixed. Trees near the train were uprooted, while one large one was blown on top of a freight car. The lumber car was loaded with flooring and where this was blown up the hill many of the long pieces are stuck in the ground. Beneath the wrecked train is & large hole about fifteen feet in diameter, the work of dynamite.