St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-26
A FEARFUL BLUNDER.
The Sickening Grinding of F1eSf
and Bones at Harris
burg Was
CAUSED BY CARELEssNEss.
An Operator Gave the Wrong Sig
mai, and the Slaughter
Followed.

HARRIsBURG. Pa, June 25.-A fearful
wreck took place here this morning.
The first section of the Western express,
which is due here soon after midnight,
was tagged below the city because it
was late. Tie second section came
laundering along at the rate of forty
five miles an hour and dashed into the
first section. killing twelve and iniurlng
some seventy. Following are the
Dead and Injured.
ADAMS, RICHARD, Harrisburg.
GINGERfCH, KATE, Norristown, Pa.
HEEBNER, Mrs. URIAH.
MASON. DANIEL, Hagerstown, Nd.
POMARINE, Rev. Dr. DE COSTkA, Phila-
delptia.
SMITH, Prof G. L., Baltimore.
WIBLOCK, f. NJ, Cleveland.
WHITLOCK, E. M, Arlington street, Pitts
burg.
RAYMOND, ROBERTS $, Columbus o.
LEE. CHARLES h, 81 Windsor street. Ale
ghany. -
NORsTROM, MRS, and her son, aged II
years.
j. n. Atken. baggagemaster. Philadelphia.
Mars Anderson, Jersey City Heights.
George Burnett, Trenton, n. j.
Miss $. a. Carstetter. Iceburg, Pa.
Fred Colberg. Brooklyn, n. I.
w. T. Eastweek, East Liberty.
J. A. Fluck. Palmyra n. j.
w. B. Parsons, New YORK.
Perry Lands, Philadelphia.
Prof. Smith, Brooklyn.
". Ii. Woodard, porter sleeping car.
Mrs. Whitman, Pittsburg, broken onkle
her two daughters. slight bruises.
Heebner Urah, husband eff the woman who
was killed.
F. G. o. Ely, Buffalo; j. J. Coee. Jersey
City; F. w. Forthing, Buffalo; Dan Mason,
Clear Spring, Nd. will die.
H. Is. Sensabaugh, of Matoon, ILL.,, slightly
injured.
John c. Cone, of Jersey City, slightly in
jured
Nearrie Golden. of Philadelphia, slightly
injured.
!. Maggie Smith. aged twenty five, Safe Har-
Dor, N j., jumped from a car window and
fell on her head, producing scalp wound.
There also contusions of the chest and limbs.
A Mrs. Granger, of Philadelphia. is also in
danger.
An Operators BIunder.
The operator at SteeltOn give Engl-
neer Kelly the wrong signal. A sharp
curve also made the disaster more Serl-
Gus. The mangled bodies were, in sew
eral instances, ,unrecogniZable. One car
had to be lacked up TO recover the body
of woman whose head was crushed to
al asshapeless mass.
Cars were piled in confusion over all
the tracks and forty feet high. The
screams OF the wounded could he heard
squares away, and most heartrendlng
scenes took place. Before the debris
could be removed several more persons
died in the wreck. A deluging rain
was pouring down, causing those WHO
were injured to suffer intense pain.
The engine of the second section tele-
scoped several of the cars of the first
section. A crowd soon gathered, and all
ambulance carried the wounded, num-
bering seventy men, women and chill
dren, to the city hospital. Several per-
sons who were injured left the wreck
and went to various houses in the vicln-
ity, and it is impossible to ascertain the
names of all who are missing. The
story of the Accident
is brief. The first section stopped
within a few hundred yards of the
when the second section, heavy train
made up of Pullman sleepers and one
express and baggage car combined,
plunged into the rear of the pri-
vate car of Mir. Westinghouse and
drove it forward, crushing the three
day coaches ahead into kindllng wood
in the twinkling Of an eye. The loco
motive plowed its way through
the rear of the private car, but not a
single member of the Westinghouse
party was scratched. The porter, how
ever, was slightly hurt.
In the day coaches the awful carnage
was taking place. Many passengers
were half asleep, and were awakened
by the horrible crashing and grinding
Of the timbers, the breaking of glass
aud the Kissing of escaping steam,
while others never knew the fate which
overlook them.
Engineer Hugh Kelly and Fireman
Harry Neal, both of Philadelphia, sat in
the cab of the locomotive which buried
itself into the Westinghouse car. AS
their train rounded the curve they real
lied the awful blunder that somebody
had committed. but it was too late to
avert the catastrophe. With pierc-
ing shrek the engine crushed
into the first section, aud the bag
gage car behind, pressed forward by
the ponderous Pullman sleepers, capped
the locomotive with its splintered frag-
ments. Miraculously the cab in which
were the engineer and fireman was not
touched, and they escaped to tell of
their wonderful deliverence. Both were
stunned by the tremendous concussion.
The Operator Nearly Crazy.
d. S. Hayes, the telegraph operator
at rhe Steelton tower, practically ad-
ar ted before the corone's inquest this