St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-15
COLLIDED IN A FOG.
Two Sections of a Pennsyl-
vania Flyer Crush Into
Each Other.
A Sleeping Car Telescoped
and It's Occupants Killed
and Mangled.
Henry D. Minot, of st. Paul,
Crushed to Death in His
Berth.
Careless Quarrymen Try to
ThaW Dynamite With the
Usual Result.

PITTsBURG, Nov. IA collision oc-
Cured on the PENNSYLVANIA railroad
near Florence, Pa, shortly before z
O'Clock this morning, between the first
and second sections of the Western ex-
press, killing two passengers and injur-
ing nineteen others. Their names are {:
KILLED.
HENRY d. MINOT 80 Court street, Bos-
I ton.
Mrs. S. H. ANGEL. 500 Twenty-frst
street, Washington, D. e.
r. S. DELANEY ana wife, of Haymarket,
Va, very severely.
J. F: MATTHIAS. of Baltimore, seriously.
J. HELLMAN, of Washington. internally
WILLIAM ROC HESTER, of Hoffman
house, New York. internal.
G. &. HEX, of Providence, r. l., fatally.
MISS NJ. V. KELLOGG, of Richmond,
slightly.
J. H. HILL. OF sunbury. serious internal
injuries.
WILLIAM MILLER, of Allegheny City,
Pa. very serious
HENRY MCCORMICK, engineer Nineveh.
very serious.
cdr. WIEHLE. slightly hurt
Mrs. WIEHLE, very serious.
Z. A. PARRISH. Quincy, III.
Miss M. WELFASE. of Cleveland.
H. 5. HILL, of Pittsburg.
SAMUEL GALE, of New York.
j. w. NESLIE. of Boston.
Mrs. S. D. WILLIAMS, of Cleveland.
E. H. TIGHE. of Detroit.
The accident was caused by the heavy
fog, which prevented the engineer from
seeing the first section in time to stop
his train. The first section of the West
ern express is made up of Pullman
sleepers and day coaches. 1t left New
York last evening and was due in Pitts
burg at 7:45 O'clock this morning. 1t is
known as Train No. 9. At Harrisburg
the Washington sleeper was attached.
The second section is known as Train
No. 7, and is composed of baggage, ex-
press and mail cars. 1t runs immedi-
ately behind No. 9. The first section
was dIe at New Florence at 5:46 a. m..
but it was 6:37 when the train reached
that station. The fog was so dense that
the engineer did not notice the red sig
nal in the tower till after he had passed.
He tnen slowed up. went back for orders.
We then pulled ahead slowly. In the
meantime the fiagnlan of No. chad gone
back to signal No. z. He has not been
heard from since, and it is supposed he
was not able to get far enough back to
stop the second section. as the engine of
No. came crashing into the Washing
ton sleeper, Biscay. telescoping it to the
u. L
sleeper caught fire and was nearly de-
stroyed. The AcheteS, the next sleeper,
was thrown from the track, but not bad
~ damaged. The scene after the colli-
sion was
Exciting in the Extreme.
The passengers became panic strick-
en-, and, IN their efforts to get out. broke
the windows and crawled through. As
soon as possible the passengers in the
unfortunate Biscay were removed. 1t
was found that two had been killed out
right, and nineteen others more or less
to houses in the vicinity and everything
possible done 10 relieve their suffering.
The uninjured passengers arrived in
this city shortly before noon. Singu-
larly. though there was but one injured
person on train No. z. the fireman has
bruises on his face and mis- lips were split
Engineer Mccormick was shaken up
considerably, but was not hurt otherwise.
DR.. Hamilton, of this city, and his as
siStant, DIR. Heron, were hurried out TO
New Florence on special train with
Assistant Superintendent Trump. In
the meantime several physicians from
JohnStown had been sent OH wreck
ing train to assist the doctors from New
already taken charge of the injured.
The horror and fright of the passengers
in the Biscay as the engine plunged
into them was added to 10y the fog,
which was close in upon them, made it
next to impossible to see what had hap
pened. The car caught fire speed
lily, but the passengers were re-
moved before their condition was
made more horrible by burns.
At the time of the accident there were
twenty-five passengers in the car, and
the only reason the death list was not
larger was because number of paSSen-
gers from the rear end were i'll the
wash room making their toilets. MIR.
Mihot was sleeping i'll the rear section,
and he probably never knew what hurt
him. When removed from the wreck
his head was crushed into an unrecog-
niZable mass. Mrs. Angel, the other
victim, was caught between the lower
and upper berthS and crushed to death.
n. c. Willis, of Champaign. ILL.,. was in
the car Dalmatia, the third car from the
ill-fated Biscay. He said:
1 was lying awake in my berth thinking
about getting up when heard q crash and
felt shock. was thrown torcibly against
the side of the berth, but was not hurt 1
jumped out aud dressed hastily BY the time
got out TO the wrecked car it was burning.
The wreck was most complete. The car was
literally reduced 10 splInters. 1t is a wonder
to me that any one ever got out alive.
E. II. TIghe, of Delo oft, who was in
the car Biscay, was thrown out of the
car, and received several bruises. When
he recovered himself and turned to the
train, he saw but one person outside.
He fastened to the car, which was SIM
ply a mass of ruins enveloping the en-
gine. The engine penetrated the car to
within ten feet OF the end. In its mad
plunge everything in the car was car
ried before it. He said:
''As looked | saw steam issuing from the
car at several points, but whether the engine
exploded its boiler or not could not tell, for
the car and the machine were amalgamated
into one horrible, seething caldron of death.
| boarded the car. or what was left of it,
from the front end and saw c. c. Hex i'm
prisoned in the wreck. Two fingers were
torn off ard leg badly crushed. lie travels
for Is. A. Ballou, of Providence, r. !. He
cannot live. Mrs. Angel was crushed to
death. The rear eEd of her berth was showed
forward by the engine and she was crushed
with it. r. s. Delaney and wife are bride
Htom. The partition of the room was tel
escoped and they were crushed against the
forward end between the two partitions
Their legs are badly crushed and while I'm
not physician, my Judgment is they cannot
live. They were tenderly taken from the car
and transferred TO the station at
New Florence. where every attention was
given them. They were en- route TO Duluth
Miss Welfase, of Cleveland, was in the Law
atory at the time of the collision. plate
glass mirror was shattered and pieces iacer-
ated the left side of her face badly, but she
was otherwise uninjured. She was taken
from the car in faint. but recovered and
was able to proceed to this city. / did not