Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-06-01
MAINS CIRCUS WRECKED.
WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SHOW HERE
ON THURSDAY NEXT.

Jumped the Track ut Tyrone, Pa, Early
Tuesday Morning With Disastrous Re-
sults-Six Men Killed and Many Other rs
Injured-wild Animals Create Trouble.
Walter l.. Mains circus train, which
was to arrive here next Thursday, while
en- route from Houtzdale to Lewistown,
consisting of nine fiat cars, ten stock
cars, four coaches and one box car,
jumped the track and went overa fifteen
foot embankment ON the Tyrone & Clear
field branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad
near Tyrone early on Tuesday morning.
Six men were killed, fifteen badly in
jured, number of horses and animals
belonging to the show killed and many
others released to roam about the coun-
try. The dead are:
Frank Train, treasurer and ticket
seller, Indianapolis.
James Strayer, Houtzdale, Pa.
William Mullainey, Geneva, 0.
William Heverly, brakeman, Tyrone.
Charles Lock, Lexington, Ky.
Louie Champaign, Rochester, N. Y.
The injured who were cared for at the
hospital in Altoona are Willis o. Bran
non, Chambersburg, Pa, wounds of
scalp and face; David Jones, Harrisburg,
sprain of right thigh; Frank Morse,
Rochester, N. Y, eye brow and scalp
wounds; William Evans, Williamstown,
Pa, laceration of right ankle and proba-
bly, injured internally, condition critical;
William Patchell, Dubois, Pa, confusion
of left knee; James Hawley, Alberton,
Pa, right ear torn off and several scalp
wounds; John Chambers, colored, right
thumb bitten by lion; Arthur Richards,
Butler county Pa, laceration of the left
upper eyelid; George Corteen, Holidays
burg, Pa, confusion of chest; Frank Bar
lett, Tarentum, Pa, confusion of left
arm and hand and laceration of thumb;
William jerks, keeper, left knee cap
bitten off by lion; Barney" the cook.
HOW THE WRECK OCCURRED.
There are two theories advanced for
the cause of the accident. One is the
engineer lost control of the heavy train
and the cars jumped the track at the
curve, and the other that the accident
was caused by truck breaking under
the first car in the train, which contain
ed two elephants.
However, the engine kept the track,
but everything else except the coaches
went over the bank and piled up. All
that saved the coaches was the buffet
car which got across the track and stop
ed them.
| Many of the horses were killed. The
boss hostler counted forty-nine, among
them all the valuable ring horses, one
valued at 81 900.
WILD ANIMALS ESCAPE.
All the animals of the menageres es-
capped from their cages. People who ar
rived early at the scene of the accident
say that strange animals were to be met
everywhere making for the woods. The
monkeys, two grave diggers'' from
Australia, lion, black panther and
silver tiger from Asia have not yet been
recaptured. All the birds got away also.
The "man Staying ape," the most dan
gesous animal of the whole lot, was
luckily soon taken and safely Gagged.
Two tigers belonged to the show and
both got away. One was Gagged safely,
but the other was killed by Alfred
Thomas, farmer. Thomas wife was
milking the COWS at O'Clock in the
morning when the tiger leaped into the
yard. 1t seized one of the cows and
killed it. Mrs. Thomas fled to the house
and alarmed her husband, who shot the
tiger with his rifle.
All the chariots, buggies, show wagons,
etc., were entirely destroyed. The only
animals killed besides the horses and
the tiger were two sacred oxen, both of
which were so terribly injured that they
had to be shot,
PITIFUL SIGHT.
In one place not twenty feet square
lay the bodies of eight horses, little
pony and its young foal. In another
spot were five horses and close by was a
crushed box car with mass of horses
harness and timber impossible to picture.
All the horses were dead and their posi-
tions showed at least had struggled hard
for short time. Others had not mov-
ed. Scattered over the field were the
bodies of other horses which had stag
gered away with broke en- limbs and in
ternal injuries, who had been shot to
put them out of misery.
The most pitiable was the little week
old Shetland pony, the mother of which
had been killed. The little thing, weigh
ing only twenty-five pounds, was wan
dering disconsolately among the horses
looking for its mother. Within a radius
of sixty feet square nothing hardly
| could be noticed but dead animals and