Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-27
A Three.Sided Railroad Accident at
 Latrobe, Pa.
MEN OF JOHNSTOwN
Dlscontented, They Left tho Stricken City to M eet tDenth-Tntnty- y two Ga rs, Having Aboard Fifty Men. Hurled Into a Ravlne.

them unknown trampS.
 The dead recovered up to 9 p. III. are Geo. Corgal, Jersey City John Critchlow, Homestead, Pa. Ben. Enrich; Charles R. Ferguson; Hugh Kelly, Philadelphia Myers Merhood, unknown mon, four.
 The injured are: Peter Cavanaugh, of Homestead, steel worker; was on freight going west cut and bruised all over, but not seriously.
 John Cleary, laborer, of Pittsburg, crushed across the hips; he will recover.
 Patrick Flanagan. cut and bruised but not seriously.
 P. Fitzgibbons, of McKeesport. has bad scalp wound; not serious.
 Howard, Pittsburg, bruised, but not seriously.
 Peter Mandry, scalp wound and hurt internally; lived in Johnstown. The whole side of his skull is crushed in.
 James McCurdry, Canadian, about 46 years old and married, hurt on hand and back, but not seriously. John H. Miller, front brakeman of Con- ductor Barnhat's train, hurt on back, sprained wrist.
 John Muller, Philadelphia, scalp wound and bruises.
 Lewis Wibel, Indiana, Pa. wound above left eye.
 | It was raining hard this morning be- | fore daybreak and a flagman, sent east | ward on the Pennsylvania railroad tracks stepped into signal tower to keep dry. Tho noise of tho rain and wind drowned all other sounds and he did not hear the | train he was sent out to signal until with a rush it darted past. A moment | later and the west-bound freight. made up of forty y-tive cars, struck at full speed a portion of freight train that had been left standing near a bridge over tho Loyal Hanna.
 Tho engine was thrown from the track and plunged into the ravine, fifty feet below. Tho couplings held and, ut an ever-incrcasinS speed, thirty-two heavily laden cars were pulled over into tho dark abyss.
 On the ill-fated train were fifty men, who had boarded the train at Johastown. They were all buried ill tho wrcckage, and at the present writing only twenty have been found alive.
 About o'clock the derry-shifteI was doing it's usual night work about the coal yards, X little later the engine left eighteen cars standing on tho north track at point just below the'Jcfierson street crossing and a short distance from the railroad bridge. At this time west bound fast freight, in charge of conduc- tor A. F. Barnhart, drawn by engine No. 1,3i3, was coming toward this city, run ming at the rate of twenty-five miles an
 hour
 Engineer James Elmer Caldwell, of PittSpurg, were at their posts. The train came flashing down the heavy grade and crashed into the cars standing on the track, pushing tho mass clear of 1t until
 the bridge was reached. These cars, en-
 zines and tho load of human freight liter
 ally jumped into the Loyal Hanna river,
 forty feet below. piling up q mass of
 wreckage as high as tho bridge. The
 track was torn up for many yards, and as
 the train was plunging on to destruction
 many cars were thrown over the embank.
 ment leading to tho bridge.
 A third collision camo to add to the
 wreck and ruin. The regular cast bound
 freight was passing this point Ut tho time
 tho accident happened. One of the
 wrecked cars was thrown across the east
 bound track and struck the car next to
 the caboose, wrecking it and badly dam
 aging pusher engine No. l0S2. The
 wreckage was thus piled up on tho south track, stopping all traffic. ? Tho cars of Conductor Barnhart's traiI consisted of eighteen loaded and thirteer empties. All of these went over tho bridge. In q few minutes after the col } lision tho wreckage caught fire from thu , engine, and the flames from the burning mass lit up the surroundings, giving tn,
 hurriedly gathering spectators glimpse  westbound freight was hidden iron sight. Yesterday morning, when tn ruins had burned to the waters edge, i
 was discovered in the river, which i
 very deep at this point.
 As soon as possible aid was sum - moned and the Latrobe fire bells wer j rung, calling out the department. c stream of water was kept playing on tn e ruins until the wreck trains arrived. ,- carload of lime lay on top of the wreck f The water slowly filtered through d down to the dead bodies, and as the t were taken out the exposed parts wer l, seen to be burned and blistered in
 frightful manner by the scalding waters
 An hour or so after the acciden
 Trainmaster Edward Pitcairn arrive n with a wrecking crew and went to wor ia removing the debris. It Is hard to est ,- mate the number of dead, as no on d knows how many men were on the traiI Is Caldwell. the engineer, and his fir, a. man were supposed to have been kille 70 instantly. Their bodies are still in th le creek. Miller, brakeman, was terribl ,s crushed. He Is still living, but will dit
 The bodies of four tramps were take
 from the wreck. There was nothin 70 about their clothes to identify then ,I They wore stealing ride and were con "a ing west.
 w John F. Miller, hagman, states tn, ,s ,S the proper signal was given when u ,. position of the shifter was discovere to and Engineer Caldwell answered, but tn 'G speed was too high. When the ill-fatt M train left Bolivar about forty workmt < boarded her, but Conductor Bar n ,a hart put them off ut Derry. When u ' train lett there great many of the ' boarded her again.
 Four of the injured taken from one c r. stated that eleven others were in the ca MSl In, hnr hnv ia .-t <nI y ono of the rescued, that there were ot o teen or twenty men. One or two of t W Woo bodies taken from the wreck were ter on an bly, burned by tho lime which cover o oo the wreck. At 9 o'clock tho work ea ea clearing the debris was stopped un S this morning.
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