Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-06-26
THAT BIG WRECK
ON THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD NEAR
HARRISBURG,
Was More Disastrous Than Reported in the Early
Associated Press DispatchsS-A List Of the
Killed and lljured-How It
Came About

TdlIIOdu ledNlIb NOW III ~ 80" y 49,
and Philadelphia at 9:20 is due in Har-
risburg at 1915 o'clock a. N.
This morning, however. IL was several
minutes late leaving Philadelphia and
had not made up the lost time when it
reached here. 1t was made up OF one
baggage car and one express car, three
day coaches and the private car OF
George Westinghouse, the Plttsburg In
ventor of the air brake. Robert Pit
cairn, of Pittsburg, was also with the
Westinghouse party. As the train ran
into Harrisburg it was stopped lew
minutes at Dock street east OF the sta
ton to allow some shifting in the yards,
the fagman being sent back to signal
the section following close behind.
He was soon called in, and the train
had but started when the second section
dashed around the sharp curve few
Yards away. Then came a horrible
grinding and crushing sound, and i'm
medately after the groans and Shrleks
of the injured and dying passengers.
1t was an awful moment, and the only
wonder is that so many escaped from
the terrible wreck. 1t was but few
minutes until the Industrial establish
ments in South Harrisburg supplied an
army OF willing men who did all in their
power to rescue the imprisoned men,
women and children and alleviate their
suffering. The firemen aud police force
under Mayor Prichard's direction also
did excellent service, and assisted In
getting the injured to the City Hospital
as soon as possible.
The physicians and surgeons were
also summoned and labored throughout
the night to relieve the pain OF the In
iured members. The total number dead
at Q o'clock this morning was ten, as
follows:
ROBERT S. RAYMOND. Columbus, O.,
horse dealer.
f. NJ. WHITLoCK, 1873 Arlington
street, Cleveland, o., chief clerk of
railroad company.
DANIEL MASON, Hagerstown, Md,
telegraph operator on the middle divis-
ion Pennsylvania railroad.
REV. DA COSTA PoMERoNE, 36ll
Hamilton street, Philadelphia.
Mrs. URIAH HEBNER, Norristown.
WINFIELD HEBNER, her son, aged II
years.
CHAs. F.. LEE, Of Windsor street, Al
legheny City, supposed TO be a telegraph
operator.
RICHARD ADAMS, Harrisburg, furn-
iture dealer.
Two UNIDENTIFIED BODIES, one that
Of young man supposed to be tee-
graph operator named Clark, OF Altoona,
and the other that Of young woman
with black hair and wearing garnet
dress, supposed to have boarded the
train at Lancaster. In her purse was
found a card with the name "John
Blair" and on piece Of ribbon was the
word "Alva.n Among her effects was
also a perforated belt.
Many of the slightly injured only
stopped at the Hospital long enough to
have their injuries dressed, when they
left for home or departed on the trains
for their homes.
Among the injured are the following:
AL. r. Fuck, All Commerce street,
Philadelphia, scalp wounds and contu-
sions OF the right hand and leg.
f. G.. o. Ehle and Thomas w. Earth
ing, Buffalo, n. Y, Commissions OF head
and body.
Ed Timmins, travelling railroad agent,
hurt about head, not dangerously.
John Aiken. Philadelphia, baggage
master, slightly injured.
Fred Voalburg, Brooklyn, n. Y, ter
ribly injured; can hardly recover.
w. B. Parsons, civil engineer, badly
cut about face and head.
Uriah Heebner. Norristown, Pa, la
cerated wound of the scalp and paiafnl
cut and bruises on the legs and body.
Mrs. Whiteman, Pittsburg, ankle
broken.
Mary Grunger, cut about the head
and arms.
J. J. Cone, Jersey City, severely
bruised, but able to be about.
Mary Ann Anderson, Jersey City
Heights, slightly injured.
Miss Alma Carstetter, aged about 2s,
OF Ickesburg, Perry county, Commissions
Of both ankle joints and lacerated
wounds OF arms.
George Burnett, Of Newton, n. j.,
broken leg.
w. T. Eastwick, Pttsburg, broken
arm. It's thought be resides In East
Liberty.
slightly injured.
b. Il. Sensabaugh, OF Nation, Ills,
slightly injured.
injured.
percy NJ. Lanis, aged about %,
Philadelphia, slightly injured about
abdomen and ankle joints.
Nearrle Golden, Philadelphia, slightly
Maggie Smith, aged 25. Safe Harbor,
n J.. Jumped from car window and
fell on her head, producing scalp
II was stated at the city hospital this
morning flat eighteen Of the injured
nassengers occupied cots in the institu-
lion and that, with probably one or two
evcantions. al will survive. The hos
T,taI STAFF ha been very busy since an
I'm after the accident amputating
T U stitching great gashes, and in
a ,. nosslbe way ministerIng 20 the
comfort Of tHe victims OF somebody's
blunder. -.
Ths first sec&pa stood within few
tno5-sd vardsAf tae Union station and
w uss1 inst startiiA &hen the second sec
,,on. heavy made Of Pullman