The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-10-01
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Disaster In Pennsylvania.
MADRID, Sept. 25.-An express train
running between Burgos and San Sa-
bastian came into collision with a COM
bined goods and passenger train.
Twenty persons were killed and twen-
ty-three wounded, four of whom have
since died. Among the killed wa, an
Eaglishman. The rest of the dead are
Spaniards and they included among
their number several nobilities of this
city.
The collision was due to the blunder
of telegraph operator in signaling
that the line was clear. The station
master at Burgos has attempted to
commit suicide. The express contained
a number of wealthy persons who had
been spendn the summer at San Sebas-
tian. The mixed passenger aud goods
train was shunted on the main line by
mistake and curve in the line pre-
vented the approaching train from
being seen, and made it impossible to
avert disaster. The shock of the
collision was fearful. Seven cars were,
smashed and the permanent way
was torn up for several yards.
Piteous cries for help showed that
many persons were buried in the
debris. The slow train was little
damaged and the occupants were able
to lend active assistance in extricating
the victims. The work of rescue was
difficult. there being no proper lifting
apparatus at hand. and the rescu-
ers being unnerved by the sight Of
BILE injuries It is feared that ten of
the injured will die.
The cabinet has decided to institute
an inquiry into the accident. Premier
Canovas del Castillo declared that he
would hold the company responsible il
negligence was proved.
LONDON, Sept. 25.-A dispatch from
San Sebastian says it is reported that
Seymour Lucas and Maurice Long, the
latter British vice consul at Malaga,
were killed in the railroad collision.
Several entire families perished. in
cluding the judge of Victoria with his
wife and daughter. Some Englishmen
with tourist tickets We're also killed.
Most of the passengers were asleep at
the time of the collision.
wORKINGMEN MANGLED.
NEWCASTLE, Pa, Sept a5.-A ter
rible wreck occurred on the Pittsburgh
& Western railroad at Mckim's siding,
u station short distance on the other
side of Zelionople, Butler county. At
this point work train with force Of
fifty men was engaged in putting down
a new track. About o'clock a. m.
Al A.
way of a freight train going west, but
the crew did not know that q second
section of the same number was fol-
lowing five minutes later. The wreck
train again pulled ont on the main
track and the men were engaged in
throwing off dirt when the second sec
tion struck the work train with great
force. Cars were piled up in shape.
less mass The engines were a mass Of
broken iron and wood. and the hot
steam aud boiling water poured over
the unfortunate ones caught in the jam.
For moment after the collision there
! was silence. Then the air was broken
| by the shrieks of the dying. making
| the scene SO terrible that some of the
trainmen who had escaped injury
| tainted with horror. The trainmen and
| laborers who were not injured began
at once to assist those imprisoned
| in the debris. Several arms and legs
were found in several different places
and the head of an Italian was found
20 feet away from the body. The en-
! gineer, John Houghton. who had
bravely done his best to stop his en-
gine attached to the freight train, was
found wedged in by broken and
shapeless pieces of iron. BY IL
o'clock the bodies Of eight Italian
laborers had been taken from the
| wreck and with the killing of Engineer
+, Honghton, this swells the number to
| nine. There were at least twenty men
injured. several of whom cannot re-
! cover. All of the bodies were terribly
mangled and disfigured. Engineer
uoughton was the only American killed.
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