St. Paul daily globe., 1889-07-18
LUCKLESS TRAVELLERS
Coaches Loaded With Golfers
Teleseoped by Two Run
away Freight Cars.
Two Persons Killed Outright
and as Many More Likely
to Die.
A Cairo & VineenneS Passen-
ger Train Goes Down an
Embankment.
Twenty Of It's Passengers
Manned and Mangled by
the Wreck.

SHAMoKIN, Pa, July IA frightful
accident occurred on the Lehigh Valley
railroad, mile east of this city, this
evening by two runaway cars colliding
with passenger train. The dead are
Aaron Shipe, single, "a carpenter at Hick-
ory Swamp colliery, killed by being
crushed between the tank of the loco
motive and platform of car; John
Roush. married, carpenter at Hick-
ory Swamp. The wounded are Norton
Weaver, legs and face fearfully lacer-
ated; Levi Albright, head cut and leg
broken; Irwin Kashner, both legs
broken and head cut; John Baker. slate
picker, shoulder broken; unknown
aud head badly cut; James Hodge, leg
broken and face cut; Patrick Britton,
legs frightfully mangled-will probably
die; Mike Britain, back broken, sup
posed fatally; William Lindeman, con-
ductor, bruised about body and face cut;
Engineer Albert Seed, legs injured, face
and head badly cut; Michael Gable, head
cut and badly bruised; Mrs. John Nc
Hugh, serious internal injuries; John
Miller, Polander, collar bone broken;
Joe Fredericks, back broken, will die;
Jacob Kulp, head, face and legs cut and
bruised; John Darott, legs mangled;
John Thoms, Jaw fractured and face
cut. The cars were loaded with miners,
slate pickers and women. At Coal Run
switch the road branches onto the main
line, which had heretofore been hid
den by
A CHAIN OF MOUNTAINS.
After the train gained the main line a
minor sitting on the rear platform saw
the two runaway cars dashing down the
track at lightning speed. With cry OF
warning he jumped off and rolled down
an embankment in safety. The flag
man, John Metz, follOwded and placed
number of railroad ties on the track,
through which the cars passed like
shot. BY this time the inmates OF the
two passenger cars, which were literally
packed, beheld the danger and wild
scene of confusion enSued. A stimuli
taneous rush for the doors was made. A
few succeeded in gaining the platforms
and safely jumped off. Then a jam oc-
Cured in the doorway. A number eS-
capped through the open windows and
rolled down steep embankment. Mrs.
John McHugh, about to become
mother, leaped from her seat and
shouted to the men in the rear car,
"Clear the way for me-" Instantly the
men, who were fighting like de-
mons to get out. cleared pas
sage through which the woman ran out
to the platform and jumped off the fly
ing train into the creek. A second
later the crash came. After the run
away cars struck they passed through
the passenger cars like bullet, the
coal flying about like a
BATTERY OF GATLING GUNS
PLAYING upon regiments of massed
troops. The scene that followed was
terrible. All this time the wrecked
train kept the track and rushed on to
Luke Fiddler station with lightning
like swiftness, two miles down the line.
Then the engine left the track and the
cars telescoped. Here is where the
most damage was done. After the vast
clouds of dust cleared away the work
of res cue commenced, and in an hour
the dead and wounded were taken out.
The cars that caused the wreck started
from the Excelsior cOlliery, two miles
east of Coal Run Switch. There were
four cars standing on the siding below
the colliery, and it is supposed that
some boys, in order to obtain ride, un-
coupled the two and loOsened the
brakes. When nearing patent switch
leading to the main track, the brakes
were put on, but the boys being unable
to tighten them enough, became fright
ened and jumped off and took to the
woods. Wrecking crews are now on the
scene of the disaster and will have the
road open for traffic by morning. The
road will sustain loss of $4,000.