The evening world., 1890-06-20
Two Dead and Many Hurt In a Re-
markable Railway Accident
Sleeping Cars Roll Down q
Thirty Foot Emhankment.
Chief Engineer Ackenheim OF Staten
island, One OF the Dead.
rryc,IL TO ruE EVENING woaLp,

PHILADELPHIA, June 20.-Au accident
happened about midway between Newark.
Del. and Wilmington, OH the Baltimore
and Ohio Railway. at = o'clock this morning,
by which two sleeping coaches OH the NC
commodntinn from Washington were pre-
cipitated down All embRnkment thirty feet
Two porsons wore killed outright ; three
others wero seriously, II not fatally, in
iurod, aud many others were more or less
hurt
Tie accommodation was composed Of
baaragc car, smoker, day coach aud three
sleeper.
Tho train had lust entered on Q bridge
acruM n gully when tho piston-rod on the
engine broke. aud there was q fearful JOLT
ing.
The fireman was knocked of bis seat in
the engine and pr, cipitated into the gully,
breaking every bone in his body and killing
him instanty.
Tho coaches left the track, but the smoker
ard day coach were taved from going of
into the gully by the stout railing oil the
bridge.
The frat and ,econd slecrers, in each Of
which every holth WAS occupied, left the
tlac., ~ TN embanknicnt 80 feet high.
The forward sleeper rolled over and over
down the cmbunkment, while tho second
sleeper rolled down the hill OH ita wheels.
stopping only ten feet !r0m farmhouse.
which would certainly have been nnnihllated
had the car continued ltA flight,
The last car remained on the track.
The people in the second sleeper escaped
completely wrecked. t.t
Ii was literally broken In two In the mid
sic. and was split lengthwiSe besides.
There wRs M agoniHIg yell from the
rn.anPled passengers in this car. and -
room ~ Tie Others ON the Inflated train dis
covered tia: they had escaped injury they
tnrEei in with viii and helped extrcate
the unsor;unates from the wreck.
One man. q traveller whose nnme could
not be learned. was taken out Of the forward
sleeper In dying condition. lie had sus-
tanned fracture of nearly every rib and In
| tGrnal INJURIES
Three others hal received very rerious in
jurics and were takch into tho farm-h house.
whose inmates had been aroused.
IT , O'Clock this morning q wrecking train
arrived on the scene from Philadelphia aud
special train brought those who were In .
condition TO move to this city. whence they
dispersed for their several destinations.
Among the passengers on the train was
NJ. G. Merrick. Il traveller for A. A. Yantins
4 Co., of this city.
He was unable to get sleeper berth and
sat in the day coach. The window by which
he sat was smA she'd AMI the splintered win
dow frame was thrown into his lap. but he
escaped all injury and was most useful in as
sistIng i'll extricatlng the passengers from
the wrecked sleeper.
A small summer Ftationn stood in the
path OF the rolling sleeper and il was smash
ell into splinters.
LATER. The man who died after being
taken from the wreck was Charles Acken-
helm. Chief Engineer OF the Staten island
hallway.
Tie dead firemnn's name Was John Nc
NamAra.
The son of senator ingalls,, OF Kansas.
had his foot crushed.
Others injured were the following;
gIsHoP KEAS. CAt. oic UEissrsity -: WEshinEtons
head eat. badly bruised about tOiy.
Miss GRACE DAETIF. had cut.
II. r. KELLY. Tort smih. ATs. ankle hurt
J0HN q. R'cH .Rps, East oraAss, Nj. leg euA
BEHrEA RICHARDS. his daughter head elt.
- PIERCE. Mlltoi.T. y. j.; arm broken.
Aits- ilIhNLs lu4uEen Auoht N9e head- AHeg AEs
an aged compile aud the ,hoOz Is very sewers -
them.
ar4. n. Z. KELLY. slightly hast.
j. j. NLwNAS. Ses Haven, Conn. slightly
tnjired
Il. w PAqE, Ne York CITY. foot hurt.
CHARLEs Is. UDALI, JA,E,ouvillo. Fa.. leg hurt.
JoHS RUIZ. ClarAsLa.-. ". Va. slightly cut %
the hold
wN REED. sleeping car conductor, back -
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