Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-23
A Collision in an Ohio Tunnel Kills
Six Persons and Injuries
Many Others.
THE COACHES CATCH FIRE AT ONCE.
A Train Disaster in Central Alabama Re-
spOnSible for a Long List of
Killed and Wounded.
CAUSED By MIsCONsTRUING OF ORDERS.
Al th. COsshs Of the Passenger Train Tsescopsd in
Frghtful Manner.

CINCINNATI, October PA freight and
passenger train collided in tunnel north
of Sloan's Valley station this morning, with
horrible results. Both of these trains were
held al Somerset Ky, two hours or more,
on account of freight wreck which oc-
CURED last night. When the track was
clear the foremost Cincinnati train started
out from Somerset first, and met and passed
safely northbound train. Then, at safe
distance behind it, the fated train started
out. Freight train No. %, northbound, was
side-tracked at Sloan's Valley.
When the first Cincinnati train PASSED
south, the crew Of the freight appeared to
have overlooked the fact that another train
was to follow, and they pulled out and
started northward. Less than a quarter of
mile away they entered tunnel one-sixth
of mile long. In the most hopeless place
that trainmen ever meet death the engines of
the two trains dashed into each other, and
the cars following jammed into one another
in a mass. Then came the added horror Of
confagration.
THE KILLED AND WOUNDED.
Engineer John Pimlott. of the freight
train, died this afternoon, making six VIC
Tins of the tunnel collision:
JOHN PIMLoTT. engineer, Detroit, Mich.
FIREMAN WELSH, Somerset. Ky.
FIREMAN GOULD, Ludlow. XIV.
BRAKEMAN JOHN F. MONTGOMERY,
POSTAL CLERK {. L. DoEGEN. Cincinnati.
EXPRESS MESSENGER ED P. RUFFNER,
Cincinnati
Among the injured were Pat Taylor, en-
gineer oil the passenger train; Postal Clerk
j. g. Gale, Baggagemaster John r. Long
and several passengers. None of the I'M u
ries of the latter were severe.
The burning of the trains in the tunnel
renders it impossible to clear the track as
readily as it could be done on open ground,
the smoke and fire preventing men from en-
terlng Transfers will be made until the
tunnel can be cleared.
THE ALABAMA DISASTER
A dispatch from Birmingham, Ala, saws:
A terrible collision occurred on the Kansas
City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad
at Ensley City, Two miles out, at 1870 last
night Two men were killed outright and
number wounded. The dead and wounded
were brought to this city at late hour. The
dead are:
L d. FRANKLIN, commercial traveller. of
Nashville.
JOHN KILLIAN, fireman.
The wounded are:
GEORGE W. DAVIS, Shell Mound, leg broken,
badly hurt.
Mrs. W. F. WAGNER, Greenville, s. c.,
ANNIE AND MATTE WAGNER, aged and
Ii, daughters of Mrs. Wagner scalded, but
not dangerously.
f. p. ROSE, Lynn, Ala, right arm and leg
broken.
GEORGE BEARD, Nauvoo, Ala, left leg hurt
] F. OWNS, Westield, neck and back hurt.
J. NJ. RoCKMoRE, Jasper, Fla, cut on hand and
arm broken, and hurt internally
J. F. MILLS, Wes field. N e., leg bruised.
R. F. SANDE =, Jaspers. Ala. face mangled.
head and 'Tls, and wounded in the right
hip.
]. A TAYLOR, Magnolia, Ark, cut in left eve,
on the right and left leg.
W. W. FLANAGAN, Memphis, bruised on foot
knees and hands and arms.
w. C. BURTON, Cordova, Ala, right hand
mangled, left arm broken and internally
J. NJ. BEARD, Nauvoo, Ala, arm hurt.
Rev. 6. SMITH, Jasper, Ala, ribs broken and
otherwise injured
Dr.. SANFORD, Hot Springs Ark, not seriously
Q. L. HILL. Birmingham. slightly hurt
Hon. B. NJ. LONG, Cordova, Ala, mashed.
NJ. S. TowNLEY ana WALTER TowNLEY of
Townley, Ala, slightly hurt.
Miss SALLIE LANGDON. Galloway, Ala, arm
hurt and otherwise bruised.
MISS IDA LANGDON. galloway, lace bruised
F. NJ. LANGDoN, Galloway. bruised.
WILLIAM WILLIAMS. Carbon Hill, bruised.
Mrs FOSTER, wife of the railroad agent at
Sulligent. slightly hurt and boy, name un-
known, slightly injured.
HOW 1T HAPPENED.
The collision occurred in this manner:
The Kansas City passenger train due to
leave at P. NJ. was an hour late, owing to
8 wait for the Georgia Pacific train. The
sleeper for the Kansas City train had not
been attached, but when the Georgia Pacific
train arrived the depot master signaled the
Kansas City train to get out of the way
The conductor of the Kansas City train was
on the sleeper, but the engineer, John Rus
sell, Of the Kansas City train, understood
the depot masters signal to go ahead, and
pulled out for Memphis He arrived at Ensley
City before be discovered that he had left the
sleeper and Conductor Popham, and with
out hesitation Immediately started back to
Birmingham at 40 miles an hour.
The train had not gone half mile when,
rounding curve, it was crashed into by IN
outgoing freight train. The coaches of the
returning passenger train were telescoped
in a frighttul manner Fireman Kiliian
was not on the engine. but was in a pas
senger coach en- route to Amery, Miss,
where he was to be married tomorrow.