Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-12-24
THREE KILLED, FORTY INJURED.
A Fast Express Train Wrecked by a
Broken Rail.
It Was Going at the Rate of Sixty Miles
an Hour--The Dining Car Telescoped
With n Freight Locomotive.

an Hour--The Dining Car Telescoped
With Freight Locomotive.
PITTsBuRG, Dec. 16.--About $50 a. M,
the dining car in passenger train No. %,
(the Columbian express) left the track 200
feet east of the east end of the passing sid
ing at Lima, o., and the two following
sleeping cars went with it.
The dining car was wrecked and the two
sleepers were badly damaged by being
thrown against the engine of east-bound
train second Y, which was waiting on the
siding for No. 20 to pass. The following is
a correct list of the killed.
Philip Mutt, fireman of second ~. He
CINE and was caught by the dining car
which crushed his left leg and otherwise
injured him. He died at p. m.
>. IL. Manuel, cook in dining car
scalded. He died before he could be res
cued from the wreck.
j. II. Gusts, cook in dining car scaldei.
He died in the hotel at p. IN.
About 40 persons in all were injured,
some of them seriously. Mrs. A. Smith,
Jersey City, was badly bruised about hip
and shoulders. Mrs. Smith wns accom-
| panied by two young sons one of whom is
injured internally and is not expected to
live. The other was not hurt. All three
were taken to hospital in Fort Wayne.
General Superintendent Watts was at
accident occurred, and at once went to
Lima by special train. The above infor-
nation was received from him. In addi-
ton he tclegraphs that, after a careful per-
sonal inspection, there is no doubt what
ever that the wreck was caused by a
broken rail about 200 feet east of the east
end of the passing siding. 1t occurred on
straight, stonc-balasted track in good con-
| dition. The locomotive and two coaches
did not leave the track. The injured pas
sengers, with the exceptions noted above,
went through to Chicago with the train.
Special trains were run with physicians
and everything necessary to make them as
comfortable us possible.
The train was running at rate of sixty
miles an hour. The engine, baggage car
and day coach passed over in safety, but
the train parted in the rear of the dav
coach. and the dining car and two slecpers
| were thrown over to the north track with
terrific force, The accident happened at
the east end of the long siding which is
north of the main track. The broken rail
was found about 40 rods east of the switch
used by the freights east bound. The
freight train was standing on the siding,
| with the engine almost up to the switch.
The dining car of the wrecked train
jumped to the side track and ran into the
J freight engine, which telescoped the car
half length. Little was visible of the
engine besides part of the cab and tender
The sleeping car Delphos was badly
wrecked, while the sleeping car Arden, the
rear car, was thrown clear over OH her side
in the ditch, but luckily. the passengers
escaped with their lives, and only a few
were severely injured.
The colored chef of the dining car
Partisan, j. II. Manuel, was near the range
when the car struck the freight engine.
The kitchen and the range are i'll the for
ward end of the car. Manuel was caught
in front of the engine and wedged in over
the boiler and roasted to death. His body
was so firmly fastened that it could not be
extrieated, and he died in frightful agony.
His body was not gotten out until the
freight engine could be moved, when it
dropped to the ground.
The second cook. John II. Curtis, also
colored, was caught in the wreck by the
legs, but could not be reached, and for
some time he directed the movements of
the men engaged in clearing the wreck.
He was terribly scalded but was finally
taken out alive, but lived only a short
time, although he had the best of medical
attention.
THREE MORE KILLED.
CLIFTON FoRGE, VA, Dec. 16.-Two
serious accidents occurred on the Chesa-
peake Il Ohio railroad this morning, the
Nos. II and ~ first collided between Tuck
ahoe and White sulphur Springs.
A relief train running as the first section
of No. 4 was started from Hinton imme-
diately after. No. 80 was laying off for
No. 4, and when the relief train passed
through, the track being clear, pulled out
for the west.
Just east of Anderson No. 80 and No. A
ran into each other with fatal results.
5. q. Burnett, mail agent, Fireman
Lyons and brakeman II. Mays were killed
and five other train hands seriously in.
jured. None of the passengers were hurt