Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-08
IN COLLISION.
The Cincinnati and ST. Lo uis Express
Out of Washington and a Freight
Train Collide.
Three Traiumsn Killed Outright sni
Blk O!hers Seriously Irjdred.
Great Damaga DsHes
G'ing to sisep-seuator voorhees,
Among tho PasaenRerI.


nsti and s.. Louis express, which left the
Baltimore and OHIO station in this city 81
10 "a O'Clock, collided with an east bound
freight tTain from Msrtinsburg, W. Va,
near DickeTson, killing three train mer
and inluring six others. By slmost 8
miracle the passengers all escaped unin.
lured. a mile west of D.ckerson station
the roaa makes sharp turn AID then
goes dowG heavy grade in deep cut,
the bsBks being twenty fact or more
above the level of the tracks. Around
this curve tine train dashed jus. before
midnight and begsn lts descent, gsther
Ing momentum each second. The freight
train, which had orders to remsin on the
switch e. .Tascarora, one mile beyond,
until the express passed. had q few
min utes before left the switch and was
SLOWLY ToILING UP GRADE
Suddenly there WAS The flash OF hesd-
lights and the train men on the two
engines were appalled, at the coming dis
ss:er which they Immediately SAW could
not be avoided.
Tne two engines were almost or. each
Other and the engineers saw that nothing
could be done, and thu: 1t WAS useless to
apply the brakes.
"JumrS boys" shouted engineer J. E
WEIGH Of The freight train as he sprane
from LIS CAB 80 the side Of the track, bul
his h:emsn, j. B. O7irtf, had no time to
get from his place ct the furnace, and
George Rldeubsugh, brakeman, who was
also on the engine, was also SO psralyz I'd
with fear thst he was unable to hear the
engineers warning.
Midland, f:eman OF the passenger
traia; Jumped and escaped uuinjured.
Ia instant the two engines came to-
getherteith such force that they stood
licked together on the track, and formed
s base upon which was piled in confusion
pyramid
TWENTY FEET HIGH,
consisting of three wrecked freight cars,
two express cars, the mail car aud bag
gsge car. These cars scted as buffer
for. the passenger coaches attached to
the western bound express, and
though the passengers were
Violently thrown forward they
sll escaped uniIjured. The passengers
Immediately set TO work to extricste the
trsinman from the debris, and q Wreckiug
train arriving few hours Lister assisted
In the work. At O'Clock this evening
fhe ttsir Was not yet free from the Debris,
sll the men had beer cotton out.
The killed are
WILLIAM Il. WILEY, postal clerk, Of
Fairm0unt, VIVA.
JOHN CASEY, postal clers, OF Wash
l lgton.
GEORGE RIDENEUAGH, brakeman, CT
Berlin, Md.
The injured ara
ENGINEER JOSEPH JEFFERYs, of the
express train.
J. b. VIRTs, fireman OF the freight.
THOMAS LANDON, conductor of the ex-
press train.
a. C. CROOK, postsl clerk.
L. W. GORDON, express messenger.
q. NJ. JACKSON. pCs.al clerk.
: The bodies OF the killed were brought
70 this city and those of Wiley and Riden-
psush were subsequently, shipped to their
late homes. The In 1red men were con-
veyed to their homes in Baltimore with
the exception Of A. c. Crook, who lives
in Washington. L. Is not thought sny
are badly il ured except Virts, who was
much bruised end Engineer Jeffceys who
was severely scllded sbous.fhe head ami
neck and may die. He was
FOUND IN HIS CAB
underneath tbs wreck and strange to say
he would have escaped totally uni1jured
but for the escaping steam.
The accident WAS due 30 q mistake on
the part OF the trsinmen. They say they
had orders to lsY On the switch at Tus-
carors and wais for two sections Of the
Pittsburgsexpress, and ,the express train
which CaHsp6 the c0IliSinr IN nssc Thau
had been On duty continuously for thirty
Fix hours, they ssy, ard sitter seeing the
first section OF the Pi.tsburg express pass,
they had gone TO sleep q. their posts to
secure a little. sleep. They awoke
ss the second section Numbered by, and
ss it was running on the schedule time Of
the Cincinnati and 81. Louis Express
they thought 1t was the traia wiich had
iuss passed and therefore pulled out OF
The siding and came down the single |
.rsck. Senator Vooraees and Postm. ster
Dalton OF the House. of Representatives,
we're On the train on their Wsy to Indiana. |