Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-08-11
WHEELING w. VA SATURDAY MORNING AUGUST L. 1894
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we discovered that the train
was likely TO 90 over the
trestle Mcdowell started down the
aisle. called 10 him to sit down aud
the next instant the crash came. The
engine went overheard first and the
smoker on top of that and the rear
coach, In which we were seated Jammed
down upon the other. The car was
crowded with passengers anu we we're
forced along the backs OF seats In front
of us, and all but Mcdowell aud myself
were horribly manged. AS soon as
possible We climbed through window
and In Is minutes succeeded In
EXTRIcATING NINE PERSONS.
who were jammed in the debris. Hear
ing the shreks and cries for help on all
sides / left Mcdowell and ran
three miles across the country
To the penitentiary without max
ing q stop. / had Warden Boemer
telephone the police department, and
they responded promptly and nobly
with the patrol wagon, carriages ana
physicians.
Colonel Bills says that the two men
10 front of the chair car were Killed
and burned, and that he had hold
OF one trying TO get him out, put
could not manage IT, lie thinks III
would be impossible for man to have
escaped from the smoker IL fell head
foremost on the engine and the chair
car which followed, hattened IL. u. ii.
Zernke, OF Lincoln, and Henry Peters,
of Council Bluffs. are 40 doubt In the
ruins. They were at Sprague yester-
day, and expected to return last night.
The operator al Martell says that two
Germans tagged the train at his station,
which is milo from Sprague, aud they
are very probably ;he men.
THERE AEE TWO THEORIES
as to the wrecking OF the train, IL be-
ing conceded that the train was derail-
ed BY the removal Of the rails from a
part Of the way across the trestle. There
is plenty of evidence TO prove this to be
fact. One theory is that strikers
from Sout Omaha dad the work. be-
lieving that company OF State troops,
who were to have boarded the train at
Fairoury, were aboard. The company
niSSCQ
Late tonight the remains OF Andrew
Henson, farmer Of Mcpherson county,
Neb., were identified by watch found
lying In the midst OF q pile Of human
bones All of the bodies or parts OF
those mentioned by name In the list OF
killed, have been recovered.
The police have arrested colored
man named George Davis, who is sus-
pected of having been connected with
the wrecking Shortly after the
wreck occurred he applied to hackmap
TO be driven up town. He had been on
the train, be said, and LOST mis- coat.
He was seen near tho place where the
wreck occurred, it is claimed, with .
crow bar. The police say they have
evidence enough g conviet hun. his
mutiyeIs not EnoSD.
Train No. Is an accommodation
called the "Fort Worth accommoda-
tion," and is due 10 arrive at $40 p. IN.
Last night il was about ten minutes
late, and was making up time when IL
struck the trestle that crosses Salt
creek, about four miles from the city.
When IL struck the trestle the rails
spread, and the engine drawing the
two cars went humping along over the
crossties for about so feet, and then
fell 40 feet to the bed OF the creek
below.
The engine burst, and glowing Goals
spreading ignited the wooden supports
and the coaches behind IL, and In few
minutes the bridge was mass oil hames.
Tie Goals falling upon the coaches lying
in the bitches set them on ire, and hVe
minutes later the cars with their load
of human freight below were mass of
flames. The engine had fallen first; then
the combination car OF smoker and ex-
press coach fell, partially upon that'
and the rear coach falling behind 1t tel
escoped that car, thus pinioning those
unfortunates VITO were in the smoker,
so that it was impossible 10 save them or
for them TO escape.
There is no question but that the dis
aster was the work OF train wreckers.
j. w. Glover, section man, to-day said
he saw three well-dressed men jump a
freight and 90 west. He said that the
men each carried a long, brand new
satchel. This gives rise to suspicion
that may have been some OF the Round
Pond enemies OF the Rock Island.
Marks made by a wrench on loosened
rail were plainly visible and the marks
OF a crowbar on the cross ties were
there. The wood of the ties was deeply
depted where the crowbar had been in
serted and the rails lifted clear of the
ties, and the spikes which bad been
pulled out were lying around loose on