The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-09-01

| on the boston " AiLAhS IAhtHAI' OA'
aad half miles cas-. Of Chester. abou!
1880 to-day. and four Wagner car'
were crushed, killing al least thirteen
| persons. fatally luilrinS seyera! others,
while At least score are badly hurt
The wreck Is tho worst ever kGown on
,he railroad. The bridge was being
strengthened for the big locomotives
aud tao workmGn who wcTo putting on
the plates we're At dinner when the
| crash came.
The locomotive passed over the atruc'
ture, but was smashed, the water tank
| being thrown long distance. Tho
buffet, two aleepes5 and dining car
| wuru smashed 10 kIndlug when they
struck tho stream twenty feet below,
| bet two day coaches and a smoker IN
the rear did not leave the track There
had boon thirteen dead bodies taken
otFt at six o'clock and twelve Of them
had been identified. Itis believed that
Lhors arc two more bodies in the ruins.
The list OF the identified dead is Us fol-
lows:
J. Z. Dewitt, Portland, Me, president
Of the Union Mutual Lie Insurance Co.
7. X. Kelly, oil Boston.
Miss Susie CottinG, OF Boston.
Mrs c. B. Bishpam, OF Philadelphia.
Miss Emma Dele'sy, OF Columbus, o.
II. c. Iyes, OF Chicago.
Frank SodrowIck, OF Palmer
Express Messenger. John McMasters,
OF Springfield:
Brakeman J, H. Murray, Of Green
bush, n. \.
Bassagemasser George W. MOrIe. OF
Boston.
Wagner Car Conductor J. c. Stack.
pole, 0! Hartford, Conn.
K. c. uiiChmont, OF BELOW Falls, VT
Mrs. J. $. Winchel, Oneida, n. y.
HOW IT OCCURRED.
There were about'tiEtceH scrously in
jurcd, and five or six may die. The
train was seven minutes late at Chester
and tho railroad hands say it waa going
ut tho rale OF twenty miles an hour
when it struck the first OF the two
spans ECrosa the Wostfeld river. The
locomotive seemed to lSap across the
bridge as tho trus,es collapsed and fell
over TO tho south.
The conductor was taking tickets iE 4
day coach, aud although thrown vio-
lently down, escaped serious ininry,
There arc only few houses in tho vi.
cinity aud man driving by gave the
alarm through the village street.
In few minutes hundlcda were on
the scene The shrioks Of the impris-
hlsD md ~ V,nnVla -
looked on completely unnervcd.
The heroes OF the hour were DR..
|. Wood, Of ColIinsvillC, who went to
the train to meet his wife, and the col.
ored porters and walters in the dining
car Although their faces were bruised
and cut and covered with blood.
They did splendid work, TIE village
people soon recovered from tho shock
and were hard at work. The hospital
was a group Of apple trees in an adioin.
ing orchard, whore scores were taken.
Ok teams arrived with loads OF straw,
cushions, bedding and food.
Tho dead were, many OF them, horTi-
bly, mutilated, heads crushed in, lin bs
torn, and often only recognizable from
the clothing. Mr.. Scull,. OF Philndel-
DUlHo hAh " NlNA AA1 6lskNEt IAlds A3AeA-
pam, In Wagner car. She was Instant
iy killed and he was pinned down, but
finally cxtricated. When her body was
laid out awrong name was affixed 10 the
breast and the officials callOd him to see
the mutilQted face which ho had
avoided. ....
"Are you sure she is your sister," tho
official asked.
"NIy God, it is, It is," he protested.
while the bystander5 turned away and
wiped their eyes.
THMLLINd EXPERIENCES.
The body OF Miss Susie Cotting, of
Boston, was identified by Miss Andrews,
daughter OF Edward Andrews, president
Of the Security Safe Deposit Company
Mrs. John ]. Howard, of Boston,
whose stage name Is Hattie Blanchard.
was one OF the five saved in tho sleeper
next in front Of the dining car, which
was the worst wrecked. She says that
she felt tho car going down and
reached Gor her hat in the from: seat.
In an instant she was pinned down
BY beam across her waist She eKtTi.
Gated herself and turned to Mrs. Bish-
pam, who was crying for help. Her
head was wedged under a car seat arm.
When sho saw that 1t vas impossible to
extricate the woman. the poor victim
squeezed her hand with God blass
you, good bye" She pulled car seat
OIL man and then started out. She
tumb!ed over a cook pinned down near
the kitchen and mounting the ruins OF
the next car was taken ell safely.
J.. II. Talbot, OF New York, for lli.
teen years editor of the Iron iqs, was
on day coach. lia said they came ou:
so fast Il did seem "a II tho passengers
could never stop coming out Of win.
dows. He rides on rear cars from prin.
ciplc, believing that the safes: place.
and thinks his theory was proved in
this case. HO thinks the railroad ia ut
fault for running heavy train twenty
milca an hour over bridge under re-
pairs.
Il helped one woman 20 years old out
and she begged me to 90 back after her
sou. She was most unseltish amid most
terrible suffering When put car
riago cushion under her she said: 4
can never repay you for this kind
ueas.
THE WOUNDED.
The wounded are as follows:
Mrs. Rev. DR.. Lsweliin Pratt, OF Nor
vich, Conn, right thigh sprained.