The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-08-08
THE LIMITED TRAIN
On the Pennsylvania Road Wreck
cd at East Palestine.
ENGINEER and FIREMAN INJURED.
Ono Man Killed While Assisting in
Clearing Up the wrcck.-The.T Train
Ran Into an Open Switch on Which
aFrcIght Train was Standing.

EAST PALESTINE, o., Aug. 1.-THE New
York and Chicago limited was wrecked
this morning near here.
The limited is the fastest train be-
tween those two cities over the Penn.
sylvania system. Going east it is known
to railroaders as No. O. From Crestline
to Pittsburgh its locomotive is handled
by William Carney, fireman, and Isaac
Richey, Of Allegheny, engineer.
The train at $3.50 o'clock this morning
passed East Palestine. which Is forty
nine miles from Pittsburgh. There is a
heavy down grade there, known as
Robinson's Hill, and about half way
down is a small siding leading around
East Palestine. On this siding were
four freight cars which had been left
there 10 be unloaded this morning. The
siding was left open, but whether
through accident or design is not
known. Fort Wayne officials are in
Clined to believe tho latter.
The Limited dashed into the siding
at a rate OF forty-fve miles an hour be-
fore the trainmen even suspected that
the siding was open. There was no
time to apply the breaks or for the
trainmen to jump before the collision
came. The heavy locomotive lifted up
and hurled two loaded freight cars from
the track. Then it cut its way through
two more and turned over, when the
boiler had almost been torn oil.
Engineer Richey and Fireman Carney
were both caught and buried under the
locomotive. At first il was reported
that both were killed, but later report
stated that they were extricated alive,
though painfully injured. When the
locomotive struck the freight ears the
heavy combination baggage and smoE-
ing car half mounted the. tender and
then fell over against the hillside. The
sleeper behind jumped the track and
fell over the westhound line, completely
blocking it. Another sleeper was partly
derailed. {.
The shock was tremendous. Passen-
gers in the smoker were hurled with the
chairs to the forward end OF the car,
and in the sleeping car out OF their
berths. In every sleeper the shock
was severelyfelt andevorybody knocked
down. II was reported at first that
several passengers received injuries, but
up to the time OF writing this uncon-
firmek. An unknown resident from
East Palestine, who visited the wreck
afterward, was caught in it somehow
and instantly killed.
The passengers on the limited we're
90. lNnnly -. A lltanna
From there they will bc taken through
over the Cleveland & Pittsburgh.
No. 8 was delayed three hours by the
wreck.
Further particulars regarding the ac-
cident were received from the Office Of
the company ut noon.
When the engine OF the Limited ran
into the cars on the siding the conbina-
ton coach was wrecked, but owing to
the earliness Of the hour it was not oc-
cupied. Engineer Richey and Fireman
Carney were seriously injured, but will
recover. None OF the passengers were
hurt with the exception Of shaking up.
The first sleeper left the track and
turned over on the rails. All the other
sleepers left the rails, but did not upset.
The officials are investigating the cause
OF the switch being left open.
The man who was killed was Edward
Clupper, resident Of Palestine. He
was walking along an adjoining track
when hewas caught and crushed by the
oyerturning sleeper.
The passengers OF tho wrecked train
arrived over the Cleveland & Pittsburgh
at 1890 to-day, and the injured men
were taken to their homes.