Bismarck weekly tribune., 1889-06-28
William Walter Phelps, of Ssmoan
Treaty Fame, has Been Appointed
Minister to Germany.
The Sioux Commission is Meeting
With no Opposition at the
Santee Reservation.
Badge Does a Mile at Sheepshead
Bay in $40, the Fastest Time
Ever Made.
A Wreck on the Pennsylvania,

P1TTsBURG, June ga triple collision
of freight trains occurred near Latrobe,
Pa, forty miles east of this city on the
Pennsylvania railroad, about o'clock this
morning. Thirty-one cars were wrecked
and about a dozen persons killed. At the
hour named freight train 3OS, west bound,
left Latrobe, and had just reached bridge
about fifty yards west of that place when 1t
collided with an extra freight, No. 1913,
coming in the opposite direction. Another
east bound freight was standing on the
side track on the bridge, and the wrecked
trains crushed against it, causing one loco
motive and number of cars to 60 over the
embankment into the creek,a distance of
fifty feet. Engineer Caldwell and his fire.
man were supposed 20 have been killed
instantly. Their bodies are still in the
creek. Brakeman Miller was terribly
crushed. He is still living but will die. The
bodies of four tramps were taken from the
wreck. There was nothing about their
clothes to identify them. They were steal
ing ride and coming west The cause of
the accident has not been learned. The
loss to the railroad company will be very
heavy. An oil car near the middle Of the
train was the last to go down and was
scattered over the shattered cars. Then
the debris took fire and Notwithstanding
tae efforts of the people to put out the
flames. it is still burning. Arms and legs
of victims can be seen protrudlng from the
debris. No member of the crew remains
to tell of those who went down. The
known killed are: Elmer Caldwell, engi-
neer. Manora, Pa; Fralick, fireman; Hugh
Kelley, Philadelphia. Four unknown
tramps were also taken from the wreck.
The injured are: John Browe, Thomas
Miller. Pittsburg; James Flanagan, John
Clarey, Pittsburg; Peter Monday, Pitts
burg; John Mullen, Pittsburg; John How
ard, Pittsburg; John Thomas, McKeesport;
T. T. Miller, Pittsburg: Lewis Whole, east
ern Indiana; James Flanagan and COM
panion whose name could not be learned,
were brought from the wreck to this city
this afternoon.
Up to 8 O'clock tonight ten dead bodies
have been recovered from the wreck. 1t is
almost certain that from twenty FIVE to
thirty people were killed in the wreck
The water in the creek at the point whe re
the accident occurred is about twelve feet
deep, and it is expected that ten or twelve
bodies are in the bottom of the creek, held
there by the wreckage. Jonh H. Miller, a
fiagman on the freight. states that the pro-
per signals we're given when the position
of the shifter was discovered and Engineer
Caldwell answered, but the speed was too
high. When the Inflated train left Boliver
forty workmen boarded her but Conductor
Barnhart put them off at Derry. When
the train left there great many OF them
boarded her again. -Four of the injured
taken from one car, state that eleven were
in the car and in another box car, it is
stated by one of the rescued, there were
fifteen or twenty more. One or two of the
bodies taken from the wreck were terribly
burned by lime, which covered the wreck.
AT 8 O'Clock tonight the work of clearing
the wreck was stopped until tomorrow
morning.