Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-06-27
A RAILROAD WRECK.
Terrible Results of the
Ditching Of a Train.
SOME THROWN IN THE CREEK
The Others Crushed Into an Indis
tinguishable Mass in
the Debris.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.
IRWIN, Pa, June Pa freight train
went over an embankment at Latrobe at
8 O'Clock this morning. Five trainmen
were killed and number injured.
PITTsBURG, June 26. The following
dispatch has been received from Green's
burg, Pa: The wreck at Lstrobe was
tn rilling in the extreme. 1t is probable
thirty-fv or forty lives were lost. Only
four or five bodies have been taken from
the wreck. They were unknown. En-
gineer Caldwell and the fireman are still
under the wreck. The chances are that
the bodies will not be reached today.
Thirty-one cars went down and are
piled one upon another in the water.
The conductor of tie freight states that
in all probability thirty or forty men are
still under The wreck, as he put off at
Derry Station about forty five men COM
ing from Johnstown, and that when he
| moved out great many got ON again.
carload of lime was in the center of the
train. 1t was the last to go down, and
| was scattered over a pile of shattered
cars. Then the debris took fire and is
still burning. The arms and legs { f vic
TINS can be seen protruding from the de-
bris. No member of the crew remains to
tell those who went down. The killed,
so far as known, are: Elmor Caldwell,
engineer, Manor, Pa, - Fralick, fire.
man, Hugh Kelly, Philadelphia, and
| four tramps.
The injured are John Browe, Thomas
Miller, James Flanagan, John Clarey,
Peter Monday, John Mullen and John
Howard, all of Pittsburg; John Thomas,
McKeesport; T. T. Miller, Pittsburg
Lewis While, Eeston Indian.
| A later dispatch says that more than
half of the men on the train were rescued,
and that the killed will not exceed twe welve
or fifteen.
| James Flanagan and companion,
whose name could not be learned, were
brought from the wreck to this city this
afternoon. Flanagan was a returning
Johnstown laborer. He says twelve per-
sons were on the car with him. He
could not say whether they escaped or
not. Flanagan is seriously bruised.
His companion is unconscious, and is
thought to be fatally hunt.
PrrTsBURG, June Pa triple collision
of freight trains occurred near Latrobe,
Pa, on the Pennsylvania Railroad this
morning, thirty cars being wrecked and
seven persons killed, four of them un-
known tramps. At the hour named the
west-bound freight train left Latrobe and
first reached the bridge, fifty yards west
of here, when it collided with an extra
freight train, coming in the opposite di-
rection. The east-bound freight train
was standing on the sidetrack on the
bridge. The wrecked trains crashed
against it, causing one of the locomotives
and a number of cars to go over the en-
bankment into the creek, distance of
fifty feet. Engineer Caldwell and his
fireman were instantly killed. The
bodies are still in the creek. Brakeman
Miller was terribly crushed and will die.
The bodies of four tramps were taken
from the wreck. The loss to the COM
pany will be very heavy.
IRWIN, Pa, June 26.-It is now stated
that seven persons were killed in the
wreck at Latrobe. Some were tramps
stealing rides.
| LATRoBE, June 27.-The debris OF the
wreck which occurred on the Pennsyl.
vania Railroad here this morning is
being rapidly cleared away. At O'Clock
tonight ten dead bodies had been re-
covered. Those of Engineer Caldwell
and George Fralich. fireman, have not
yet been found, but it is expected that
they will be reached before long. About
q dozen men were more or less injured,
several of whom it is expected
will not recover. 1t is almost certain
that from twenty-five to thirty people
were killed in the wreck, The water in
the creek where the accident occurred is
twelve feet deep, and it is expected that
ten or twelve bodies are in the bottom of
the creek. held there by the wreckage.
John III. Miller, fagman on the
freight, states tuat the proper signals
were given when the position of the
shlfter was discovered and Engineer
Caldwell answered, but the speed was
too high when the i'll fated train left Boil
iver. About forty workmen boarded her,
but the conductor put them eff at Derry,
but when the train left great
man of them boarded her again.
Four of the injured were taken
from one car. 1t is stated that eleven
others were in the car, and in another
| boxcar, it is stated by one of the rescued,
that there were fifteen or twenty men.
One or two bodies which have been taken
from the wreck were terribly burned by
the lime which covered the wreck. AT
O'Clock tonight the work of clearing the
debris was stopped until tomorrow NOR
ming.