The Indianapolis journal., 1895-11-04
Cannon-Bnll Express Jumped the
Track ON a Bridge and Three Cars
Went Down u Bank.
ONLY TWO KILLED OUTRIGHT
NAIL CAR, SMOKER AND PULLMAN
COMPLETELY DEMOLISHED.
Long List of Manglcd Men, Women
and Children, Some of Whom
Are Fatally Hurt.

railroad wreck in the immediate vicinity of
Wheeling for many years occurred shortly
before 10 o'clock this morning at El Grove,
FIVE miles east on the Pittsburg division of
the Baltimore & Ohio road The Pittsburg-
Cincinnati express, commonly known as the
Cannon-ball jumped the track on a bridge
over Wheeling creek. owing to a broken
fIange on wheel Of the smoking car. The
engine, tender and baggage car kept the
track, while the mail car, smoker and Pull
man paror car went over bank about six
teeen feet high. The day coach turned COM
pletely over and the other two lay on their
sides. The cars were completely demolished,
seeming TO have been thrown some distance
through the air.
So far only two deaths have resulted A
woman, thought to be Mrs. Miranda Hare,
of Kittanning, Pa, but not positively identi-
fled, owing TO the way she was disfgured,
jumped from the car and was instantly
killed. The eight-months-old baby of Law
renee BARLEY, of Pittsburg, was sitting on
it's fathers lap when the accident occurred.
1t was so badly injured that il died in
few minutes, while neither the father nor
mother was hurt. They were coming to
Wheeling to attend the funeral of relative.
The exact number of injured is hard to get
reliably. Nine were taken 10 the City Hos
pital and three to the Wheeling Hospital.
while a number are at houses the
scene OF the accident Ten or a dozen sur
geons and the wrecking crew
moned at once. Not less than 10000 people
visited the scene of the wreck, the Wheel
ing & Elm Grove railroad running special
excursion trains. all crowded. OF those
who were hurt several will die.
The killed were:
MRS, MIRANDA HARE. Kittanning. Pa.
CHILD of Lawrence BARLEY. aged eight
months, OF Allegheny, Pa.
The injured, 80 far as can be found:
ELLA VANCE, Wheeling, spine probably
broken; may die.
C. ]. GARvEY, oil operator. Marietta. o.,
head crushed and back wrenched; will prob
ably die.
W. II. ROSE, Chicago. travels for Holbein
MICHAEL j. MAHONEY, McKeesport,
MRS. NJ. J. MA MAHoNEY. face cut and hip
i. W. GILBERT. sharpsburg. Pa. thigh
j. L. CoUcHENoW. Beliefeld. Pittsburg
left elbow broken.
WILLIAM RICHARDSON. sharpsburg,
Pa, back and mead cut and bruised,
JAMES w. FOSTER, Beaver Falls, Pa,
right foot broken, face and back cut.
w. j. CHAPMAN, West Brdgewater, Pa.
right leg and hand broken.
CHARLES HARKINS, Altoona, right tenn
P. r. RAIN. Philadelphia, badly cut and
GEORGE PERKINS. conductor Pullman
car, head cut and hip bruised.
GEORGE GROUSE. IA CHARTERS street.
Allegheny City, scalp wounds.
MRS. GEORGE GROUSE, knee dislocated
MRS. DIR. A. f. STIFEL. 1872 Forty fourth
street, Pittsbqrgi slightly sa y,,Gn hurt .,oo, p..
hlrp left arm dislOcate9
ALBERT GAUS, IS Frankstown avenue,
Pittsburg, legs cut and bruised.
RICHARD GAUs. same address. both legs
badly bruised.
MRS. WATTS Wheeling, elbow dislocated.
LOUIS tSCHUCHERT, l20 Howard street.
PROF. j. VI. FRASHER, principal Wheel
ing Business College, head and breast cut
w. Q. PALEY. Allegheny, face and nose
MRS. DIXON, Pittsburg, badly cut and
back wrenched.
MAUD VANCE. internal injuries and
MRS. MALONE. Allegheny, head cut and
hurt internally
der and leg cut and bruised.
MRS. LEJUNE, Allegheny forehead
PERRY PARKER, colored, porter Pull
man car, Cincinnati, cut on face.
MRS. CLARKE, Allegheny, shoulder dis
located.
-.
ter. painfully cut, able TO go home to Ale
gheny this evening.
NJ DIXON and wife, Pittsburg. painfully
cut.
JOHN RENScHER, Pittsburg, head and
neck cut.
c. N. KIsKADDoN. Columbia. Pa. head
ANTHONY MAcT1GHE, Plttsburg, left
leg badly cut
These names probably do not cover more
than half those who were more or less
hurt, but able to get away. They scattered
almost at once and cannot nearly all be
found Many of those seriously hurt were
able to leave for home.
Twenty-Five Hurt I'm n Texas Wreck.
DALLAS, Tex. Nov. 3.-News was received
in the city this afternoon of the wreck of
the northbound passenger train on the
Katy at IL a. m, about four miles north
of Waxahachie. Mr.. H. T. Smith, of this
city, who was a passenger on the wrecked
train, arrived home at 7:S0 o'clock this even
ing He says:
"Owing, L suppose. to a spread rail, the
engine and four cars were derailed. There
Immediately arose cry of distress mingled
with moans indicating that many of the
passengers had been hurt. The engineer
Mike Murphy, was killed, and in all twenty
two people were injured, thirteen of them
more or less seriously.
WIFE SAW HIM BURNED.