The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-27
CRASHES ON THE RAILS.
a PENNSYLVANIA COLLISION
COSTS 80 LIVES.

The Two Trains Carried Third Down
an Embankment With Them-Most
of Those Killed Unknown workmen
Stealing Ride from Johnstown-
Eight People Hurt in Tennessee.
PITTsBURG, Pa, June pa triple colli-
sion of freight trains occurred near Latrobe,
Pa, forty miles east of this city, on the
Pennsylvania railroad, about $50 o'clock
this morning. Thirty cars were wrecked
and seven persons were killed, four of whom
are unknown The freight train west-bound
left Latrobe and had just reached the bridge,
abont fifty yards west, when it collided
with an extra freight train coming in the
opposite direction. Another east-bound
freight was standing on a side track on the
bridge and the wrecked trains crashed
against it, causing one locomotive and
number Of cars to go over an embankment
into the creek a distance of fifty feet. En-
gineer Caldwell and his fireman are sup
posed to have been killed instantly. Their
bodies are still in the creek. Brakeman
Miller was terribly crushed and will die
The bodies of four tramps were taken
from the wreck. There was nothing about
them to identify them. They were stealing
a ride and coming west The cause of the
accident has not yet been learned. The loss
to the railroad company will be very heavy.
THIRTY-FIvE REPORTED CREMATED.
A dispatch from Greensburg, ten miles
from Latrobe. states that party of about
thirtY-five workmen from Johnstown were
stealing their way home on the wrecked
freight train when the accident occurred,
and that the wreck caught fire from lime
car and the men were cremated. The story
is not credited here and the Pennsylvania
railroad officials know nothing of it. Two
men injured in the accident were brought
here this afternoon. One of them named
Flanagan says he is a Johnstown laborer
returning to Pittsburg, and that twelve
persons we're on the car with him when the
accident occurred. He knows nothing of
their fate. His companion is unconscious
and probably fatally hurt
TEN BODIES RECOVERED.
LATRoBE, Pa, june 26.-The debris Of
the wreck is being rapidly cleared away
Up to o'clock tonight ten dead bodies
have been recovered. Those of Engineer
Caldwell and George Fralich the fireman,
have not yet been found Thirty-one cars
went downas over the bridge and
are piled one upon the other in the
water. The carload of lime in the CEN
ter of the train was the last to go down,
and it was scattered over the pile of shat
is probable that from twenty-five to thirty
people were killed in the wreck. The water
in the creek at the point where the accident
occurred is about II feet deep, and it is ex-
pected that ten or twelve bodies are in the
bottom of the creek.
John NJ. Miller, a fiagman, states that the
proper signal was given when the position
of the shifter was discovered, and Engineer
Caldwell answered. but his speed was too
high. When the ill-fated train left Bolivar
about forty workmen boarded her, but
Conductor Burnhardt put them off at
Derry.
Four of the injured taken from one car
stated that eleven others were in the car,
and in another box car probably there were
bodies taken from the wreck were terribly
burned by the lime which covered the
wreck.
AN ACCIDENT IN TENNESSEE.
GALLATIN, TENN, juno ga terrible
accident occurred this morning at
Bledsoe, on the Chesapeake and Nash
to Scottsville, KY. The passenger
train due in Gallatin at II o'clock
jumped the track, and the passenger and
baggage coaches went down about sixty
feet. About eight persons were seriously
injured, and several children were more or
less hurt. The following is list of the
wounded:
Mrs. MARY JANE HUGHES Of Westmore-
land, badly bruised Two of ber children
were badly hurt, and third is in dying
condition.
w. E. BRYANT of Scottsville. KY, con-
siderably hurt about the head, but not
seriously.
D. E. BROWN of Scottsville, hurt about
the head and legs.
Mrs. AMANDA GREET of Westmoreland,
internally injured.
C. B. Coz and 8. G. SMITH of Martins
burg, injurned, but not seriously.
Mrs. S. G. 'WHITEsIDE, very badly hurt.
Fl. Fl. CoRBETT of Westmoreland was
more seriously hurt than any of the other
passengers. but nothing as to the extent of
his injuries can be learned.
Fourteen persons went down in the wreck
Conductor Buck was slightly hurt.