Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-18
.MangIed On the Rail.
Two Bad Wrecks with Their
Lists of Victims.
A WILD TRAINS AWFUL WORK.

Let Loose by Mischievous Boys, 1t Crashes
into IA Passenger Coach with Fearful Re-
sults-Chiyalry in the Midst of Peril-A
Smash on the Cairo and Vincennes-
Every Passenger More or Less Injured
Four Deaths in a Cesspool.
SHAMoKIN, Pa, July ls-A frightful &C
cident occurred on the Lehigh Valley rail-
road, mile east of this city, last evening, by
two runaway cars colliding with passenger
train. The dead are Aaron Shipe, single,
carpenter at Hickory Swamp colliery, killed
by being crushed between the tank of the
locomotive and platform of car; John
housh, married, carpenter at Hickory Swamp
Badly MangIed victims.
The wounded are: Norton Weaver, legs
and face fearfully lacerated; Levi Albright,
head cut and leg broken; Irwin kashner,
both legs broken and head cut; John Baker,
slate picker, shoulder broken; unknown
Hungarian woman, leg and wrist broken
and head badly cut; James Hodge, leg
broken and face cut; Patrick Britton, legs
frightfully mangled will probably die; Mike
Britain, back broken. supposed fatally;
William Lindeman, conductor, bruised about
body and face cut; Engineer Albert Seed,
legs injured, face ami head badly cut;
Michael Gable, head cut and badly bruise 1;
Mrs. John Ntzhugh, serious internal in
juries; J"hn Miller, Polander, collar bone
broken; joe FrederIcals, back broken, will
die; Jacob kulp, head, face and legs cut and
bruised; John Darott, legs mangled; John
Thoms, jaw fractured and face cut
Description of the Disaster.
The cars were loaded with miners, slate
MIC a Rnn
the road branches to the main line, which
had heretofore been hidden by chain of
mountains. After the train gained the main
line miner, sitting on the platform,
saw the two runaway cars dashlng down the
track at lightning speed. With a cry OF
warning he jumped off and rolled down an
embankment in safety. Then Flagman John
Metz followed, and placed number of rail
road ties on the track, through which the
cars passed like shot.
Panic in the Passenger Cars.
BY this time the inmates OF the two pas
senger cars, which We're literally packed, be
held the danger, and wild scene of confusion
ensued. \ simultaneous rush for the doors
was made A few succeeded in gaining the
platforms and safely jumped off then jam
occurred In the doorway. \ number escaped
through the open windows and rolled down
steep emhankment Mrs. John McHugh,
about t. 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 demons to get out
cleared passage, through which the woman
ran out TO the platform and jumped off the
flying train into the creek
The Awful Final Crash.
A second later the crash came. After the
runaway cars struck they passed through
the passenger cars like a bullet. the coal fiy-
ing about ike battery of Gatling guns
playing on 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 light
ming 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 rescue commenced,
and in an hour the dead and wounded were
taken out
Caused by Modelling Boys.
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 a ride, uncoupled the two and
loOsened the brakes. When nearing a patent
swith leading TO the main track the brakes
were put on, but the boys being unable to
tighten them enough, became frightened and
iuDaua5 off and tn,l. IN tho woods