Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-10-20
ANOTHER HORROR.
Lossof Life on the Leligh Val
ley Railroad.
Seven Men Killed and Many injured
in o Collision-Most of tho
Killed Hungarian Labor
ers-Wherc the Blame


WILKEsDARnE, Penn.-Another railroad
horror occurred on the Lehigh Valley Rail
road, a. point near til, Tamanen,l switch,
Oh the branch between Hazleton and Potts.
vile. Seven men were killed on the spot
and about twenty-nin, were injured, many
Of them fatally. Tie killed., with one e1cep'
lion, are Hungarians All che others injured
are Hungarians or Polish laborers.
Owing to the fact that those who could
give the best account of the manner III
which the accident occurred are killed OF
injured, it is diflcult to learn I'll, exact facts.
a fast freight train, drawn by Pennsylvania
Railroad engine No. 1918, was coming up
The road, running at about twenty-five miles
IN hour, to make the Tamanend siding liz
time to allow the regular passenger train to
pass. \ construction train, composed oil q
:aboose end eight fiat cars, having on board
larg gang o. hungarian and Polish labor,
FRS, was running down tho limo NJ $40"
rate Just below the siding is sharp curve,
and in the very centre of the curve the Two
trains came into collision The morning wa
very foggy and tho engineers We're unable te
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trains wero within 100 yards of each other.
Almoss simultaneously the whistles
sounded sdown brakes" and the engineer;
reversed their engines The CONSTRUCTION
train had come almost TO standstllI, Du'
the freight was running nearly twenty miles
nm hour when tho crash camo. Both englnet
were total wrecked, more than dozen OIL
the freight cars were scattered ana the Gu
boose Of thu construction train was broken te
pieces. Three OF the fiat cars, on each oil
which were many laborers, were piled OIL
each other and bad y broken. BY some mir
aclc the engineer and fireman OF the freight
train escaped unhurt, but Engineer Peck, Of
the construction train, and his fireman.
Charles Fry, were hurled back into the tank
and covered with The fragments OF their car
and engine. Conductor Hawk OF the treiShl
train. was also seriously hurt, ana BRAKE
man Gu der, of the construction train, VINO
was in the caboose, was instantly killed.
On the fiat cars the slaughter was terrible
Tho unfortunate Hungarians were crushcc
and MANNED under the splintcred beams IN
most horrible manner. Their shrieSs ano
rroans Of anguish are described as mos
6eart.rendine. Hardly one escaped unhurt
The disaster occurred in d lonely spot
where neither medical aid nor assistance o.
any kind could DO procured. 1t was over AL
hour before any organized effort could be
made to get out the dead aad injured and th'
dead and wounded lay around almost uil
cared for, except as snch slight help as coult
be given by by ISLANDERS. One OF tue mer
died after he had been taken out of the wreck
entirely uncared for and without friend d., Il
speak to him or do anything for. him; I'M
other six were dead When extricated. Or
the arrival of medical aid from Pottsville
the injured were attended to and taken, SOM
to the hospital Mt Drifton and some !'own u
Pottsville, where au inquest will be held. =,
1t is impossible yet to say on whom tin
blame will fall. The freight train was run
ming on telegraph orders, and the englneel
and conductor were instructed to run Il
Lofty and there to await the passensei
train and allow it to pass They seem not t.
hive obeyed these orders, or else they re
ceived others Tho construction train wa:
working under what is known as regular
CONSTRUCTION train rules" These rules ar
plain and precise, AMI require both ends Q Q
the train to be tagged half mile ahead
Some one failed to obey orders, it is certain
but who this was does no; vct appear,