The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-15
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FIRE FOLLOWS A CRASH.
TWO PEOPLE KILLED AND 19 IN
JURED IN A SLEEPER.

The Engine of the Second Section OF
the Train Plows It's Way Into the
Car-The Accident Attributed to a
Fog Names Of the Victims.
HARRISBURG, Pa, Nov IA collision
occurred on the Pennsylvania railroad near
New Florence, Pa, this morning between
the first and second sections OF the western
express. killing two passengers and injuring
eleven others. The killed are:
HENRY ID. MINOR OF Brooklyn.
Mrs s. II. ANGEL of Washington.
The injured are:
r. 3. DELANEY and WIFE, of Haymarket,
]. +. MATTHEWS of Baltimore, very seri.
ously.
j. HELMAN Of Washington, internally.
WILLIAM ROCHESTER OF the Hoffman
house. New York, internally.
A. c. HICKS Of Providence. X. l., seri-
ously.
Miss NJ. V. KELLOGG of Richmond,
slightly
j. H. HALL of sunbury. Pa. seriously
internally
WILLIAM MILLER. of Allegheny City,
very seriously.
Dr. WIEHIE, very slightly hurt.
MRS. WEHLE, very serious.
FOUR MORE WILL DIE.
At least four of the injured, it is thought,
will die.
The horror OF the scene was increased by
the burning of the Pullman coaches.
The accident was caused by heavy fog,
which prevented the engineer from seeing
the first section in time TO stop his train.
The flrst section left New York last night.
At Harrisburg and Washington sleeper
was attached, and the tram was due at
Pittsburg at AS o'clock.
THE TWO SECTIONS.
PITTsBURG, Nov. Ia, p. M.-The first
section of the express is known as No. Q
aud the second as No. T. The first section
was due at New Florence at $40 o'clock
this morning, but Ii was 6;31 o'clock when
the train reached that station. The feg was
so dense tho engineer did not notice the red
signal in the tower till after he passed. He
then slowed up and went back for his
orders. He then pulled ahead slowly. In
the meantime the dagmau of No. had
gone back TO signal No. z. According to
the conductor of No. o the second train
crashed into the first within a minute and
half after the hagman's departure.
Story OF THE FLAGMAN.
The fiagman could not have gone far In
that time, yet he says he torpedoed ths
tracks and that the engineer OF the second
becLlOn saw ms signs.
The two passengers who were killed out
right were asleep in their berrhs in the rear
end of the car, and never knew what hurt
them.
Twenty-Five passengers were In the car,
most of whom we're congregated ia, or
around the washroom in the front end Of
the car The engine Of No. Z telescaped
into this car ten or twelve feet and then
stopped, or the loss of life would have been
much greater.
THE CAR IN FLAMES.
The wrecked car caught fire, but the
passengers were all gotten out without
harm from the flames, The sleeper next
forward was thrown from the track, but
nobody in it was much hurt.
Only one person was hurt on the second
train, the fireman of the engine, and he
but slightly. Later news from the disaster
reports seven more,u ujured, making eighteen
in all, only two in the car escaping. Their
names are:
e. A. PERRIsH Of Quincy, Ill.
MISS M. WELFARE Of Cleveland
II. s. HILL Of PittSburg.
SAMUEL GALE Of New York.
j. w. WESLIE Of Boston.
MRS. s. ID. WILLIAMS Of Cleveland.
f. II. TIGHE of Detroit.
X. S. DELANEY aud wife OF Haymarklt,
Va, who we're on their wedding trip. Both
sustained serious injuries.
G. C.. HEX of Providence, r. |.
One, M. Hicks, was more seriously in
jured than at first supposed, and can not
live.