The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-06-27
ERIGHYFVL lISASEHR.
ATdpIe Freight Collision on the
Pennsylvania Railroad,
THIRTY PERSONS ARE KILLED
And Many Injured, Nearly all Of
Whom are Iaborers who were
Stealing q RIde-Names ofthe
Vlctimsso iaFas Recovered.

PIFFsBuRaH, Pa, June ga tTipl
!. collision Of freight trains occurred nea
Latrobe, Pa, forty miles east Of this city
, on the Pennsylvania railroad, about 2;s
o'clock this morning. Thirty cars wer
wrecked and Imany persons killed, tou
Of them unknown tramps. AT the hou
named freight train sos, westbound, lei
LatFobe, and had Just reached the bridgI
about fifty yards west Of that place wher
II collided with an extra freight train
No, 1918, coming in the opposite direc
ton, Another east.bound freight wa
standing on side track onthe bridge
and the wrecked trains crashed against
!, II, causing one locomotive and number
Of cars 10 60 over the embankment into
the creek, q distance Of fifty feet. Engi
neer Caldwell and his fireman were sup
posed 10 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 identity them,
They were stealing rideaud were com,
ing west,
A dispatch received from Gresnsburg,
ten miles from Latrobe, states that a
party Of about thirty-fye workmen from
Johnstown were stealing their way
home on the freight train when the 40.
cident occurred. The wreck caught fire
from a lime bed, and the men were Gre
mated. The story Is not credited here,
and the Pennsylvania railroad officials
know nothing OF 1t.
GREATER THAN FIRST REPORTED.
A late dispatch says: The debris Of
the wreck which occurred on the Penn
sylyania railroad at Latrobe this morning
is being rapidly cleared away Up to s
o'clock tonight ten dead bodies have
been recovered. Those OF Engineer
Caldwell and George Fralech, the fire.
man, have not been found, but 1t Is ex-
pected they will be reached before long.
The dead recovered up 10 this time are:
George Cogal, aged %, Of Jersey City.
Hugh Kelly, Philadelphia.
An unknown man, about S6 years Of
age.
John crltchlow, Of Homestead, Pa,
aged about S5 years,
Unknown man, aged about 40 years.
Unknown man, aged about 20 years.
Unknown man, head almost burnedo of.
Charles r. FurgeBon.
Myers NJ. Hood, aged 35 years.
benjamin Emerich, supposed TO be the
front brakeman, aged about 25 years.
The names Of the injured axe as fol-
lows;
+. A. Gels, laborer, from Braddock,
arm broken; John Cleary, laborer, Pitts
burgh, crushed across the hips; Pat
Flanagan, cut and bruised; p. Htzgib-
bons, McKeesport, bad scalp wound;
Peter Mandry, scalp wound and hurt in
ternally; John Mullen, Of Philadelphia,
scalp wound Lewis Wilson, OF Indiana,
Pa, flesh wound; James McCnrdy,
Oananian, hurt on head and back John
Il, Miller, front brakeman Of Conductor
Bernhart's train, hurt on the back;
Peter CayanaughI Homestead, Pa, cut
and badly bruised John Howard, Pitts
burgh, bruised.
TWENTY-FIVE TO THIRTY KILLED.
The dead are being taken to the un.
dertaking establishment Of F. ]. stader
as fast as they are recovered, and pre-.
pared for burial, It is almost certain
that from twenty-five TO thirty people
wero killed in the wreck.
The water In the creek at the point
where the accident occurred is about
twelve feet deep and II Is expected that
ten or twelve bodies are in the bottom
ofthe creek, heldthere by the wreckage.
John II. Miller, q fagman on the freight,
states that the proper signals were given
when the position Of the shiiter was dis.
covered and Engineer Caldwell an
swered, but the speed was too high.
When the ill.fated train left Bolivar
about forty workmen boarded her, but
Conductor Barnhart put them off at
Derry. When the train left there great
many Of them boarded her again.
At 9o'clock tonight the work Of clear.
ing the debris was stopped until to-
morrow morning.