Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-17
THE RAILS SPREAD
Plunging a Passenger Trail
 Down an Embankment.
WAR VETERANS IN THE WRECK
Two Persons Killed and Twenty-Eght Sc
 riously Injured.

road-Heartrending Scenes at the Wreck
 Rotten Timbers Which the Rails
 Were Laid Caused the Acoident - The
 Company Denounced.
 FREEPoRT, Pa, Aug. T.-An excur- sion train on the Butler branch of the West Penn Railroad, loaded with vet orans returning from the reunion of the lO2d Regiment at Butler last evening was wrecked at Savers, seven miles east of this city, two passengers being killed instantly; three or four others perhaps fatally injured, and 25 more or less seriously hurt.
 The wreck was caused by the rails spreading on the end of small bridge that spans Buffalo Creek, the timbers on which the rails were laid being so rotten that the spikes had been forced out the side by tho weight of the train passing over them.
 The train consisted of a smoker, day coach and combination coach. The engine stood about hundred yards from the wreck still uninjured on the track The smoker was smashed in splinters and fell fifteen feet down the embankment. The front truck of the
  ment, the hind truck remaining on the track. The combination also remained on the track.
 Of the twenty passengers in the smoker one was killed and nineteen in- jured, it being marvellous that all were not killed.
 On receiving intelligence of the acci- dent here, Supt Kirkland and four doo- tors at once left for the scene on tho Butler market train which was just starting out.
 On arriving at the wreck the sight was truly heartrending. On either side of the track for a distance of nearly a quarter of mile injured veterans were lying on cushions and in some in stances on the bare ground, women and children, wounded and bespattered with blood, sat and lay around pieces of the wreckage.
 The doctors and passengers on the market train at once set to work to care | for the injured. Broken limbs were set and heads bandaged. Two persons were found dead, being killed outright-a MT. Powell, of Pittsburg, and a six year-old girl named Farrell, of Butler. Twenty-eight others were wounded, three of whom will probably die. The 1 twenty-five others were moro or less in- | jured, but none fatally.
 The railroad officials are severely censured by all the passengers for neg ligence. There being no telegraph office nearer than this point, C miles away), it was fully two hours before the alarm could be given and doctors l procured. The wounded meantime lay where they had crawled out of the wreck or had been carried by fellow | passengers.
 Conductor Gray, of Butler; Brakeman Kearns, and Mrs. Duff of Lawrence. villee will probably die.
 The following is list of the killed and injured:
 1 Killed-W. Powers, Pittsburg; a daughter of Mrs. Farrell of Butler, aged about six years.
 Injured-Capt. D. A. Jones, Pittsburg Capt. Lowery, Allegheny; Col. Kilgore Keefer, Butler; Conductor J. $. Gray Butler; Ex-Mayor Major K. w. Lyon Pittsburg; r. Groff, Pittsburg; Mrs. F. Groff, Pittsburg; Mrs. MantEeer, But Ter; John L. Wise, Wheeling, w. Va.. Oaubn ntoF SA NapC. \ uAlWOOO, SlLtS burg; Charles Seitx, Fairview, Pa Jackson McDonnaha, Tarentum; Mrs McConnaha, Tarentum; Thomas Welsh Allegheny; w. H. Hamilton. Phillips burg; z. Mendel, Cincinnati; Mrs. D. A Jones, Pittsburg: Mrs. Farrell, Butler Charles Kearns, Butler; Mrs Denis Puff, Lawrenceville; Gen. Thomas Raw ley, Pittsburg, John Duff, R. A. Kingan Robert R. k. Lowery, Allegheny; J. A Mclaughlin, Bellevue; John w. Dive mer, Indiana, Pa.; Katie Farrell, But Ter; three-year-old child of Mrs. Farrell Butler; George Dorr, Sarver Station child of Capt. Fullwood, Pittsburg; Mrs Menton, Butler; Rev. Father Gregory Lawrenceville; MT. Nebaum, Lawrence
 vile; w. P. Dripps, Pittsburg; J, P Kennedy, Biairsville; J. K. Depew Homer City; w. GreenAwalt,