Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-06-27
Collided on a Bridge.
Awful Destruction Of Human
Life on the Rail.
THREE FREIGHT TRAINS WRECKED.

Ton Dead Men Recovered from the Ruins
and . Score of Others Believed To Re
Still in the Debris-A Large Number
Wounded, One of whom VIII Die
Disaster I'm Tennessee-A Number of
Women aud Children Hurt.
PITTsBuRG, June 27.-Ten corpses and
thirteen wounded men-one fatally-and
thirty-one wrecked freight cars are the
known results of terrible collision on the
Pennsylvania railway near Latrobe, forty
miles east of this city yesterday morning
just before daylight Besides this, asd the
most horrible part of it, if confirmed, IS the
assertion that fifteen to twenty dead bodies
are yet to be recovered from the debris.
AFiagman to Blame.
The wreck took place on a bridge about
forty feet high, spanning Loyal Hanna
creek. The "derry-shifter" IA locomotive)
had left eighteen cars standing on the bridge
while the crew was drilling out loaded cars
at the Latrobe Coal works. The fiagman,
David Heacox, of the shifter, had gone to
tie telegraph tower, but as a heavy rain was
falling at the time it is not known whether
the engineer on the fast freight going west
fiagman was not back half far enough, and
had his signal been observed the engineer
could not possibly have stopped his heavy
train of forty two cars on the down grade in
time to avert the accident
How the Crash Occurred.
The train, going at speed of twenty five
miles an hour, crashed into the cars on the
bridge, tearing up the rails and ties, and
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sheer distance of forty feet, into the bed of
Loyal Hanna creek. At the same moment
an east-bound freight was passing on the
other track. One of the wrecked cars caught
the car next to the caboose on this train,
wrecking the caboose and badly using up the
pushing engine. Eighteen loaded and thir-
teen empty cars, together with engine 1918,
are total wreck. The debris took fire at
once, but was held in check by the local fire
department
Forty to Fifty Men on the Train.
Engineer Caldwell and Fireman Fralich
went down with the locomotive and are still
under the wreck. The loss of life can not
be accurately estimated Aside from the
trainmen it is known that there were be
tween forty and fifty men on the west-bound
train who had been working at Johnstown.
They were paid off Tuesday and were en-
deavoring to reach their homes. The in
jured were attended by the Pennsylvania
Railroad company's surgeons, and with the
exception of those whose injuries are toe
critical to allow them to be removed, were
sent to the county home or to the hospital in
Pitsburg. The dead were washed and
coffined by Undertaken Stader, in whose
care they have been left for Identification
List of Dead and Wounded.
The known dead are: Elmer Caldwell, en-.
gineer, resided at Manor Station; G. F. Fra
Itch, fireman, Pittsburg, leaves widow and
two children; George Cargal, Jersey City
Edward Kelly, Philadelphia; unknown man,
but thought to be John E. Keenan,, of Eau
Claire, Wis; Albert Critchlow, Pittsburg
and four other bodies not yet identified
The injured are: F. A. Gels Braddock
John Cleary, Pittsburg; Pat Flanagan, re
Gently arrived from Ireland; p. Fitzgibbons
McKeesport; Peter Maudry, Johnstown
John Mullen, PHILADELPHIA; Lewis Wyb!e
Indiana, Pa. !; James McCurdey, Canada
John H. Miller, front brakeman, Pittsburg
Peter Cavenaugh, Pittsburg; John Howard
Pittsburg; John jackson, McKeesport; un
known man, unconscious, fatally hurt