Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-29
A TRAIN OF HORRORS.
Three Disasters in Eastern PennSyl-
vanid With Loss of Life.
A BURSTING ENGINE KILLS FIVE.
This Causes a Collision killing One Man
and Another Will Die.
CAPPED BY A DYNAMITE EXPLOSION
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-srECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DtsPATCH.l
ASHLAND, Jan. AT $50 this morning
on the mountain road Of the Philadelphis
and Reading Company, mogul engine,
while about striking the grade at New
Castle station, exploded her boiler. Five
men were blown into eternity, the body ol
hut one being recognizable. The victims
were Joseph Ziegler, engineer, Port Car
bon; Napoleon Paul, fireman, Palo Alto;
Jacob Turner. brakeman, ST. Clair; Henry
Sands, brakeman, Mechanicsville; Edward
Wintcrstein, brakeman, Port Carbon.
Fireman Paul narrowly escaped death BY
n similar accident FIVE months ago, when an
engine of the same pattern exploded, kill
ing four men. Paul had left the engine two
minutes before the explosion occurred. The
cause of to-day explosion cannot be learned
at present.
Lack of telegraphic communication be-
tween New Boston and Pottsville, the ex-
plosion at New Castle having broken down
the wire, caused a serious wreck at New
Boston Junction to-day. The Pennsylvania
and Lehigh Valley trains use the same track
north OF the above station, and at noon,
while the Pennsylvania train was running
from Wil6esbarre and entering the cut u
short distance below New Boston, the en-
gineer discovered a Lehigh passenger train
approaching them at a high rate of speed.
lie gave the warning signal, reversed the
lever and the next instant the two engines
crashed into each other with fatal results.
john Detrick. engineer of the Pennsylvania
engine, was instantly killed. The
fireman leaned from the cab and was
very badly injured. He cannot recover. j.
]. Blakesiee, son ofSuperintendent Blakeslee,
OF the Lehigh road, suffered two broken
legs. Several of the passengers were badly
scratched and bruised, but none seriously
except Jacob Bachman, of Mahanoy City,
who sustained internal injuries. The Penn
sylvania engine was totally demolished,
while the Lehigh engine was very much in
jured.
a dispatch from wilkesbarre says: A ter
rife explosion of dynamite occurred at
Honeybrook, small mining town five miles,
from HaZleton, at noon to-day. Fifteen
hungarian miners were employed in a coal
stripping operated by Dick & Mantz. at that
place. They were sitting around the stove
in the workmen'S Shanty, eating their
lunches. when several sticks of dynamite
near the stove exploded, blowing the shanty
to fragments and scattering the inmates in
all directions.
The shock of the explosion was heard five
miles away. In a short time hundreds of
people had gathered at the spot, and willing
hands were soon aiding the wounded. Two
men-Adam Bornick and John Slavitski-
were instantly killed, their bodies being
shockingly mutilated. or the other 13 not
one escaped injury. Men were lying around
in every direction, some with arms and legs
broken and blood pouring from gaping
wounds.
1t is now believed that number of the
victims will die. Wagons filled with hay
and straw were brought and many of the
injured were soon removed to places OF
comfort, before sending them to the hos
pital at HaZleton. At o'clock this even
ing report comes from the hospital that
there are seven men there. They are still
alive, but their condition is considered
fatal Their names cannot be obtained at
this hour.
\ later dispatch says: Twenty Slavs were
injured. At nightfall, besides the two dead,
there were two men yet missing. and the
doctors and bosses are securing the woods
for them. The explosive is known as dualin,
one of the highest made. 1t comes in sticks
not unlike tallow candles, and Possessing
much the same hexibility. The explosion
was caused by the Slavs thoroughly heating
the dualin and then exposing it to the cold.