Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-08-17
Rotten Rail Timbers.
They Result in a Bad Wreck
in Pennsylvania.
A TRAIN OF VETERANS SMASHED

tally Hurt and twenty-five Injured in
Various Degrees-The Accident Caused
by Decayed Timbers-An Explosion Of
Gas in Now York Causes One Death
and Many Wounds by Flying Glass
FRKEPoYT, Pa, Aug 1I-An excursion
train ON the Butler branch of the West Penn
railroad, loaded with veterans returning
from the reunion of the One Hundred and
Second regiment at Butler, last evening, was
wrecked at Sarver's, seven miles east Of this
city, two passengers being instantly killed,
three or four others perhaps fatally and
twenty-five more or less seriously injured.
The wreck was caused by the rails spreading
on the end of a small bridge that spans Buff
falo creek, the timbers on which the rails
were laid being so rotten that the spikes had
been forced out at the side by the weight of
the train passing over them
The Train and Its Destruction.
The train consisted OF a smoker, day coach
and combination coach. The engine stood
about 100 yards from the wreck, still unin-
jured, on the track The smoker was
smashed into splinters, and fell fifteen feet
down the embankment The front truck of
the coach was also down over the embank-
ment, the hind truck remaining on the track.
The combination car also remained on the
track. OF the twenty passengers in the
smoker one was killed and 10 injured it be-
ing a miracle that all were not killed.
Scene at the Wreck.
On receiving intelligence of the accident
here, Superintendent kirkland and four
| doctors at once left for the scene on the But
Ter market train, which was Just starting
out. On arriving at the wreck the sight was
| truly heartrending. On either side of the
track for distance of nearly a quarter of a
mile injured veterans were lying on cush-
! ions and in some instances ON the bare
ground; women and children, wounded and
bespattered with blood sat and lay around
on pieces of wreckage The doctors and pas
sengers of the market train at once set to
work to care for the injured. Broken limbs
| were set and bandaged. Two were found
dead, being killed outright, a Mr.. Powell, of
Pittsburg, and 6-year-oid girl named Far
rell, of Butler. Twenty-eight others were
wounded, three of whom will probably die
The twenty-five others were more or less
| seriously injured, but none fatally.
The Killed and Injured.
Following is the list OF killed AMI in
jured:
Killed-W. Powers. of Pittsburg. a daugh-
ter of Mrs Farrell, of Butler, aged about 8
years
Injurcd-Capt. ID. A. Jones, Pittsburg cut
| in head and lett arm badly sprained;
Capt Lowry, Allegheny, hand hurt badly
and injured internally; Col. kilgore, Pitts
| burg, sprained ankle; w. A Hook, shoulder
sprained and back hurt slightly; Mrs. Katha-
| rine Keefer, of Butler. back hurt, not seri-
ously; Conductor J. :. Gray. of Butler. hurt
| in head and internally-will probably die: ex-
| Mayor Maj. r. w. Lyon. of Pittsburg, left
shoulder broken; F. Croft, Of Pittsburg. face
| cut and bruised; Mrs. +. Croft, injured
| Ter. seriously hurt; John L. Wise.
of Wheeling W. Va, scalp wound and
both shoulders sprained: daughter of Captain
Fullwood- of Pittsburg, slightly injured;
| Charles Seitz, of Fairview, Pa. cut in head
| and breast, severely; jackson McConnatha,
| of Tarentum- large hole in leg. bad y bruised
and scratched; Mrs. McConnatha, bad scalp
wound; Thomas Welsh, of Allegheny back
| injured slightly: w. II. Hamilton, Phillips
burg, back bruised and sprained arm: z.
Mendel. commercial traveller. of Cincinnati
o., severe scalp wounds; Mrs ID. A. Jones' OF
Pittsburg. severe cut in neck: Mrs. Farrell. of
Butler, back injured severely; Charl $
kearns brakeman. Butler. bruised and ner-
vous prostration. probably die; Mrs Dennis
Duff, Lawrenceville. seriously injured. may
A.
Pittsburg, injured internally; John Duff, boy
| 10 years Of age, severely bruised and internal
injurl, :; X A. kingan, arm sprRined and
back hurt; Robert X. Lowry, Of Allegheny,
back seriously hurt, hand cut badly and
| face bruised j. A. MacLaughiin, of
Bellevue, scalp wound and thigh hurt; John
W. Dwemer, OF Indiana, side and back hurt,
severely; Katie Farrell. IL years old. of Butler,
| arm broken; 3-year-old child of Mrs. Farrell,
OF Butler, arm broken; George Derr, of Sarver
Station, seriously injured; child Of Capt. Full
wood. of Pittsburg slight scalp wound; Mrs.
Mention, of Butler, seriously injured; Rev.
Father Gregory, of Lawrenceville, slightly
hurt: Mr.. Nehaum. of Lawrenceville injured
| slightly in limbs; William p. DIR pps of Pitts
burg. injured severely about head and back;
J. p. Kennedy, Blairsville, injured in arms
| and leg. J. h Depew, Homer City, back in
| Jured; William Greenawalt and son, slightly
injured
Railway Onciais Censured.
The railroad officials are severely censured
| by all the passengers for allowing such neg
| igence. There being no telegraph Office
| nearer than this point, seven miles away, it
was fully two hours before the alarm could
be given and doctors procured, the wounded
| meantime lying where they crawled out of
| the wreck or bad been laid by fellow-passen-
gers
EXPLOSION OF ESCAPED GAS.
One Man Killed Under Peculiarly Sad
Circumstances.
NEW YORK, Aug. fat s o'clock last
evening an explosion of escaped gas occurred
in the crockery store of Thomas J. Mac
Cabe, 400 Grand street. by which one man
| was almost instantly killed, and dozen