The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-07-08
SPREADING RAILS
Cause Another Frightful Railway
Disaster.
FIFTEEN PERSONS KILLED
On the Kanawha & Michigan Road in
West Virginia
THROUGH A TREsTLE


An Excursion Train Plunges Win its Lo"u
~ uuman Freight-Fifty-Eight Passen-
gers Injured.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, July o.-Ihe
worst wreck ever known in this part OF
the state occurred about O'CLOCK oaV-
urday morning on the Kanawha q MICH
ipan railway, eight miles west OIL mere,
The passenger train for Columbus pulied
ont from here with two car loads OF ex.
cursionists, among them the Order OF
TTnited American Mechanics, who were
going to Pocas. The wreck occurred on
q high trestle. The sleepers had caught
fire during the night and burned SO the
rails spread under the train. The en-
pine and baggage and mail car passed
over safely, but the two coaches were
thrown from the track. After running
, some forty feet on the sleepers the ior-
ward car toppled to the left the rear
one to the right, while the forward car
. turned completely over, landing right
side up, The other fell some twenty
feet, turning upside down, and one SCI
Of trucks fell on top of it, crushing the
X car to splinters. Under this place nios'
: of the dead were found
Surgeons and relief train were sen,
! nj once. The scenes among the ueae
q and dying were heartrending' one lie'i'
;, baby lost father and mother. One man
head was severed at the mouth and nj
head was fshed out from under TN
D. wrecl, several hours after his body wa
T. found.
)r Ten were killed outright and tive nav
VI since died of their injuries Inc toiio"
10 10 ing is a list of the dead
~ Amos Coulton, Elk City; orville ko'
"' inson, Midway; Thomas Thornton
Charleston; Walter Welcher and wifi
he Charleston; Jasper Dougherty, Ne
Re. Martinsville, o.: Col. W. Z. Fife, Pu
ie, nam county; Misses Mary Sullivan al
in Ella o'Leary, Charleston, S. G.; The
ts, Nelson, of Gallipolis Bulletin; H.
Ter satterthwait Charleston; l.. c. 10
ar and Charles Hoffman, Of Blue Cree
,n Mrs. r. S. Truslow, owner OF the a
,JG bert hotel, Charleston; an unknov
1, woman. The injured number MI
eight
NJ when the crash came the front Goa
'cs toppled over to the left on the side
ms ward the river and the rear car jump
ally off the trestle on the right side. L
ted forward car turned completely o'
his and now rests right side up in a III
'er- some ten or fifteen feet beneath
III trestle. The other car fell TO
v'"' " ground probably fifteen or twenty
y below the trestle and turned compiet
over. This was bad enough and ms
were killed by the fall, but to make
..a destruction more complete the tru
prt on which the end OF the car had res
. Sa.a y crashed down on the top OF the
smashing it TO splinters and killing
most every person in its range
Ton of the car was crushed beneath
weight Of the heavy trucks and pres
lGnii oi down fat against the bottom OF the
hers literally squeezing the occupants
mn. mn, death. The dead were taken out
low, the injured cared for.
'rin' The wreck came on 80 suddenly
. few Of the passengers had time TO tn
and before they knew 1t found II
selves buried in confused mass OF
manity, car seats and debris OF all NJ
when q general scramble ensued tc
out of the wreck.