Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-07-05
to where the fallen cars had stopped. but

to where the fallen cars had stopped, but
found it impossible to do anything
alone. They at once ran to the county
poor house, short distance away, and Sc.
cured sheets for bandages. the alarm
was given and the county people poured in
to help. Then the work of rescue was be-
gun. Axes were called into play and the
rear coach had to be cut considerably be-
fore the passengers could be extricated.
The ponderous trucks which fell full 20
feet On the top of the car had beat
1t down till those who were beneath
1t were tightly imprisoned beneath the top
and bottom of the car. Some Of them,
bleeding and dusty, were able to crawl out
through the narrow crevice and climb out
a window, while others were unable TO
move and had to be lifted and dragged.
Bleeding, moaning and injured, they were
piled around in heaps on the ground, their
wounds dressed as best they could be BY
unskilled hands until physicians arrived,
WORSE THAN A BATTLEFIELD.
They found a terrible state of affairs.
One old doctor said he had been on many a
battlefield, but would rather sec battle
field any day than to go to scene of thas
kind again. Men, women and children lay
and legs, heads, chests and bodies cut,
bloody and bandased. making terrible
sight. The finding the poor fellows head in
the back end Of the car was the
most horrible sight of all. After it was
supposed all the bodies had been gotten
out, one or two men, including the engineer
and the REGISTER representative, vent TO
the windows Of the car and began to pry
around among the debris. Soon ono mar
exclaimed that he saw body. Further
investigation proved that IL was not q
body.
A HORRIBLB DISCOVERY.
He still asserted that he saw mans
head and teeth, and upon stirring up the
broken seats and other debris with a stick
drew out the bloody head, the brains drip
ping from it and spattering the floor
OF the cars. 1t was mangled beyond recog-
milton, but being the samo part of the head
that was missing from poor Daugherty's S
body, it was taken to his cot and laid with
his remains.
Poor Walter Welcher and his wife were
laid out side by side as they had died.
They we're a young couple and had one
child, beautiful little girl of about year
old with great blue eyes, and they were on
their way to visit relatives. Both were
awfully bruised and cut. Their bodies
were taken care Of by friends.
PECULIAR FEATURE.
One noticeable thing about the wreck
was that all the killed and wounded
seemed to be hurt about the head. 1t
would seem that when the car turned over
they fell TO the roof head first, and the ter
rible 20-foot fall must have given such
force TO the fall that many wore
instantly killed by falling On their heads
One physician says that probably
most of the dead had their necks
broken, besides their other injuries.
Every one Of the killed was cut about the
head. Col Fife had hole in his forehead
an inch or moro wide, and almost to the
back Of the skull. T. N. Wilson had
bad cash across the right temple. To-
night all the undertakers' establishments
are full of the dead, and the entire town is
in mourning. The funerals will occur
Mon day.