The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-06-11
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. BLAMED on THE CONDUCTOR.
Tho Testimony Proves that Conductor
sehrader was NoglIgsnt-No Rlagnaan on
the TraIn.
About half-past three o'clock, Acting
Coroner Horny Riddle impaneled
jury and the inquest was held in the
parlor Of the Fitzpatrick residence. F.
n. Bowers acted as clerk. The following
gentlemen were on the jury: Charles
Holderman, Thomas McAulif, A. N.
Thomas, @. H. Seabright, j. +. A.
Smith and William Niedemayer. The
first witness called was Lee Hendrix,
operator. In answer to the coroner
and several OF the jurymen, he said that
he was the operator on car J. AS he
approached the railroad crossing he
stopped the car. The conductor waved
him to come ahead, and when he got
on the track and saw the train coming,
it was too late, He said he could not
see the train in time to stop. The con-
ductor was on the track when he
tagged him to come ahead. The con-
ductor then came toward the car aud
got in the cab before the car reached
the track. When he stopped the car
before reaching the crossing, hc VIE
about twenty feet from the crossing.
Charles Schrader, the conductor OF
the car, said that he saw the train go
ing north. He got out OF the car and
after it had passed he tagged the car to
come ahead, after looking up 4nd down
the track. He started back to- the car.
He heard no signal from the engine.
He was standing close tothetrack when
the up train went by. Yhesoperator
spoke to him as he got into the cab, about
fifteen seconds utter he had tagged the
car to come ahead. When the car
stopped to wait on the up train it was
about fifteen from the track. The oper-
ator could see the movements OF the
train that struck the car from where he
stopped. He himself saw the down
train when he tagged ahead, but as IL
was gondola car he saw, he could not
tell that it was coming toward him. He
thought the train was running at the
rate OF twenty-five miles an hour. After
the accident he went up to Forty-ffth
street. The ladies' who were hurt were
on the south side OF the car, and when
he saw them again they were under the
freight cars.
G. Barrett said he was q passen.
ger on the car. The car stopped
before it got to the crossing, and the
operator asked the conductor If he
should come ahead. The conductor
sIaHAIED HIM TO COME on.
When he himself saw tho train he
jumped of. when the car stopped to
wait on the up train twas three or four
feet from the track. Mr.. Barrett said he
did not hear the train give any signals.
Andy Kerns saidhe was on the hind
end OF the car, and saw the conductor
get off to signal, but did not remember
whether the car stopped or not. He
was on the platform when he saw the
train coming and jumped. He heard no
signals from the engine, and thought
the train was running twelve miles an
hour. The operator, from his post in
the cab, could see train coming either
way, from the north or the south. He
did not sec the conductor until after
the accident, and then saw him on the
east side of the wreck
George Murray said he lived close by
the place where the accident occurred.
He saw the UP train go by, and saw the
conductor wave his hand to the opera
tor to come ahead. The car did not
stop before it reached the crossing
The conductor was on the crossing look
ing south, when he tagged the opera
tor. If he had looked north he could
have seen the approaching freight and
ayerted the accident. The cars some
times came to q full stop at the crossing,
and sometimes they did not. The con-
ductor bad plenty oiItime to have pre-;
vented the accident." Mr.. Murray said
he heard the engine give no signals.
Ed. Pearl said he was standing on his
doorstep at the time of the accident.
He saw the conductor walk toward the
track as the train from the east was
going up. he did not notice whether
the conductor signaled tho operator to
come ahead or not The street car had
stopped, and the conductor looked
down the track, but did not look up,
and tagged the operator to come ahead.
The witness said he. heard no signals
from the engine. 1.-THE conductor had
looked up the track he might have pre-
vented the accident