Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-10-12
A BAD SMASHUP.
TWO TRAINS on THE C. L. & ". RAILROAD
COLLIDE,
And Quite Number Of Workmsn are More
or Less Badly Ipiursd-Ths Details Of
The Accident.

A very bad wreck occurred yesterday
morning on the Cleveland, LoTsin and
Wheeling railroad between the Wheeling
Creek Coal Works and Bridgeport AND
about two miles out from the latter place.
A train hauling miners TO tie coal WORKS
and freight train cOllided. No lives
were lost; but quite number OF persons
we're injured.
Those who were most seriously injured
were:
LARRY TRACY, a laborer in the coke
Ovens, two ribs broken sud injured in
ternslly;
DAVID MOORE, o miner, conclusion Of
the brain;
MATTHIAS. GREAvEs, miner, injured in the
side;
DAVID RUcKMAN, miner, srm broken
Many Others OF the miheIs were baoiY
shaken up and bruised somewhat, Dut their
Injuries do not amount 10 much.
Doctor W. S. Fisher, who attended the
injured. said that Trscy snd Moore were
hurt worse than the others. They are
verv seriously iniored bat their recovery
ia looked for. There is no danger what
ever. az far as the others ale concerned.
The way the accident happened Is as fol-
lows:
TIE Wheeling Creek coal mines have
train. consisting of an engine and two box
cs5s. which conveys them from Bridgeport
10 the coal woke every morning, leaving
the Bridgeport station at 5:l5 O'Clock Cen
trail Standard time. From that time till
$40 o'clock this train has the right of way
b.tween Bridgeport ana Wheeling Creek,
over all trains, and instructions 70 thls ei-
feet are printed on the timetables. Yes
terday morning Bridgeport yard engine
No. 80. engineer Quimby, with the two
box cars containing together about eighty
miners. started out toward the coal works.
A freight train of twenty care losded
with stone and ore, drawn by engine NO.
6. with Engineer ice Martin 81 the throt-
lie and Conductor S. d. Boswiek IN COM
mard. was Oh her way toward Bridgeport,
ard had orders to stop at the Coal works
until the miners train should arrive. With,
it is said, a total disregard of orders and like
wise of the rule on the time card, the train
rushed on past the Coal Works, snd another
instance of two trains trying to pass Oh
the same track was recorded. For several
miles along this part Of the road there 10
steep down grade, and a train loaded az
this freight Tns, and with the rails damp
from dew, will acquire a velocity OF tity
miles an hour with the steam entirely shut
of.
Juet after the freight had crossed the
last bridge before reaching Bridgeport,
the two trains met. There was screech-
ing Of whistles, hissing Of steam and
then n crash. TIE tIainmen all jumped
from their traius snd none Of them were
injured. The miners train did not fare
so we'll. The coupling-pin between the
engine and the cars broke and the cars re-
bounded quite little distance, tossr &
the men all around aud throwing them IN
heaps on the floor Some Of them were
more or less hurt and all badly frightened.
Two miners jumped from the car and
aliphted on a wire fence scratching them
selves somewhat.
Both engines were badly wrecked. No.
6 was thrown iuto garden patcn ~ TIE
side of the road, turned on it's side. and
was almost entirely broken up. No 80
had its cab end tender on the came side OF
the track, while the rest Of the engine
stood facing the track on the other side in
a corn field. Oae car Of the freight was
broken ND little, bat the engines suffered
the greatest dsmsge TIE track was torn
up for distance OF two bundled feet.
Men were a. work all day yesterday |
clearing away the wreck and repairing the
track. By last night everything was IN
shape again for the passage Of trains, and
alI trains will be running on time sseip
to-day. Passengers from the north Tor
Bridgeport or Bellaire and those going out
had TO be transferred at the scene Of the
wreck yesterday.
The crew on the freight train was new
one, having been on the road only shor'
time. In such case, where the orders were
disobeyed, the responsibility would rest
equally gu the conductor ana the engineer
Of the train.