, 1889-06-27
TRIPLE TRAIN COLLISION,


TRIPLE TRAIN COLLISION,
Fifteen Lives Lost aud Considerable Dam
age Done to Property.
PiTTsBUKo. June GA triule collision
| OF freight trains occurred near Latrobe,
Pa. on the Pennsy lvania railroad this
morning, whereby thirty cars were
wrecked and seven persons killed. Four
OF them were un known tramps. At the
hour named u freight train, west bound,
ieft Latrobe and had just reached the
ordee hfty yards west, when 1t collided
with an extra freight coming in the oppo-
site direction. Another east bound freight
was standing on the side track on the
bridge and was wrecked. The trains
crashed against 1t causing one locomotive
and number OF cars to 20 over the en-
bank ment and into the creek. a distance of
| hfty feet. Engineer Caldwell and his fire.
man were killed instantly. The bodies
are still In the creek. Brakeman Miller
was terribly crushed and will die. The
bodies OF four tramps were taken from the
wreck. Ihe,loss to- the company will be
very heavy.f,
POSSIBLE CREMATION.
A dispatch from Greenburg, ten miles
from Latrobe, states that party of thirty
hSe workmen from Johpstown we're steal
ing their way home on the train when the
accident occurred. The wreck caught fire
from lime bed and the men were cre-
mated. The story is not credited here,
and the railroad officials know nothing OF
it,
James Flanagan and companion
whose name could not he learned were
brought from the wreck to this city this
afternoon. Flanagan was returning
Johnstown labOrer. He says twelve per-
sons we're on the car with him, but he
could not say whether they escaped or not.
Flanagan is seriously bruised and his
| companion ia unconscious. IL is thought
he Il fatally hurt.
The following dispatch has been re-
ceived from Gxeensburg, Pa:
Tse wI,1s NJ Latrobe, this morning,
wsN thrilling IN the extreme. IL is prob.
abe tnat from thirty.fve to forty lives
"erc lost. Only four or five bodies have
been taken from the wreck; they were un.
known. Engineer Caldwell and his fire.
NAN are still under the wreck and the
| chances are the bodies viii not be reached
to-day. Thirty.one cars went down and
are piled one upon the other in the water.
The conductor of the freight states that in
all probability thirty or forty men are still
under the wreck, as he put off at Derry
station about forty-five men coming from
JohnStown. When he moved out great
many got in again. A car load Of lime in
the center of the train was the
last to 90 down and was scat
tered over the pile Of shattered cars.
Then toe debris took FIRE and is still burn
ing. The arms aud legs of the victims
No member of the crew remains to tell of
those who went down. The killed, as far
as known, are: Elmer Caldwell, engineer,
Manor, Pa; Fralock, fireman; Hugh
Kelley. Philadelphia. and four unknown
| ttamps.
| The injured are John Browe, Thos. Mil.
Ter, James Flanagan, John Clarey, Peter
| Monday, John Mullen, John Howard, all
Of Pittsburg; John Thomas, McKeesport;
4 I. Miller, Pittsburg; Lewis While,
Eastern Indiana. A later dispatch states
that more than half Of the men on the
train were rescued and that the killed will
not exceed twelve or fifteen.
TEN BODIES RECOVERED.
The debris of the wreck which occurred
On the Pennsylvania railroad here this
morning has been rapidly cleared away.
| At o'clock tonight ten dead bodies were
recovered. Those Of Engineer Caldwell
and George Fralich, fireman. not vet
found, but 1t IL expected they will be
Ieached before long. A dozen men were
more or less Injured, several Of whom are
sxpected not 70 recover. IL 10 almost Ger.
tain that from twenty five to thirty people
| were killed in the wreck. The water 10
the creek at the poirt where the accident
occurred is twelve feet deep, and II 10 ex.
pected than ten or twelve bodies are In
the bottom of the creek, held there oy the
| wreckaRe. ..,.
John Miller, flag man on the freight,
| states that the proper signals were gwen
when the position Of the shifter was dis.
covered. and Engineer Caldwell answered,
bnt the speed was too high. When the
Ill fated train left Bolivar, about forty
| workmen boarded her. but the conductor
pat them of vt Derry. When the train
left there many of them boarded her again.
Four injured were taken FROM one car.
IL 10 stated that eleven OF these are In the
car, and In another box car. 1t 10 stated
dy one Of the rescued, there were fifteen
Or twenty men, One or tive bodies taken
from the water we're terribly burned by
the lime which covered them. At nine
o'clock tonight the work ct clearing the
debris was stopped until Tomorrow morn
ing.
| Big Railroad Scheme.
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