St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-11-04
CARS IuSpLIpTERS
CANNON BALL TRAIN ON THE Il.
~ o. WRECKED NEAR
WHEELING.
PLUNGED FROM A BRIDGE,
THE COACHES TURNING COM
PLETELY OVER IN THEIR
AWFUL LEAP.
TWO DEAD, FORTY INJURED.
Disaster to an NJ, Ia. I& II. Train in
TeXas-Twentv-Thr In

WHEELING, WA, Nov. 3.-The
worst railroad wreck in the imme-
diate vicinity of Wheeling for many
years occurred shortly before 10
o'clock this morning at Elm Grove,
five miles east on the Pittsburg di-
vision 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
flange on a wheel of the smoking
car. The engine, tender and bag
gage car kept the track, while the
mail car, smoker and Pullman par
lor went over a bank about sixteen
feet high. The day coach turned
completely 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 hap
pened. A woman, thought to be Mrs.
Miranda Hare, of Kittanning, Pa,
but not positively identified, owing
to the way she was disfgured,
jumped from the car, and was in
stantly killed. The eight months old
baby of Lawrence BARLEY, of Pitts
burg, was sitting on its fathers lap
when the accident occurred. 1t was
so badly injured that it died in a
few minutes, while neither the faith
er nor mother were hurt. They were
coming to Wheeling to attend the
funeral Of relative.
The exact number of injured is
hard to get reliably. Nine were TAX
en- to the city hospital, and three to
the Wheeling hospital, while a num-
Der are at houses near the scene of
the accident. Ten or a dozen sur
geons and the wrecking crew were
summoned at once. Not less than
10000 people visited the scene of the
wreck, the Wheeling & Elm Grove
railroad running special excursion
trains, all crowded. Of those who
were hurt several will die. The
killed were:
MRS. MIRANDA HARE, Kittan-
EIGHT T-MoNTHS-OLD CHILD of
Lawrence BARLEY, of Allegheny.
The injured, so far as they can be
found: Ella Vance, Wheeling spine
probably broken, may die; c. j. Gar
vey,, oil operator Marietta Marietta %; u; mead mead
ably die; w. N. Rose, Chicago, right
arm broken; Michael j. Mahoney, Nc
Keesport, Pa, face cut and mashed !;
Mrs. NJ. ]. Mahoney, face cut and nip
thigh broken, head badly cut; ]. N.
Couchenow, Bellefeld, Pittsburg, left
elbow broken; William Richardson,
Sharpsburg, Pa, cut and bruised back
and head; James w. Foster, Beaver
Falls, Pa, right foot broken, face and
water, Pa, right leg and hand broken; /;
Charles Harkins, Altoona, right tenn
pie and scalp cut; P. r: Rahm, Phlla-
delphia, badly cut and bruised; George
Perkins, conductor -Pullman car, heau neiu
cut, hip bruised; George Grouse Allie
gheny City, scalp wounds; Mrs. George
Grouse, knee dislocated; Mrs. DR.. A. F:
Stifel, Pittsburg, Slightly hurt; Jacob
Zulauff, Pittsburg, left arm dislocated
! Albert Gaus, Pittsburg, legs cut and
bruised; Richard Gaus, both legs badly
bruised, Pittsburg; Mrs. Watts, Wheel
| ing, elbow dislocated; Louis Schuchert,
| Pittsburg, head cut and'-bruised, badly
hurt; Prof. j. NJ. Frasher, Wheeling,
| 0edu anu east cut anu uloSuJ w. W.
Hawley, Allegheny, face and nose
crushed, arm cut; Mrs. Dixon, Pits
| Maud Vance, internal injuries and Sc
we're cuts; Mrs: Malone. Allegheny' b sedy
ton, mail agent, chest, shoulder and
leg cut bruised; Mrs. .Leiune, Alle-
gheny, forehead crushed; Perry Par
ker, colored, porter Pullman car, Gin
cinnati, cut on face; Mrs. Clarke, AL
legheny, shoulder dislocated; Mrs
Starr, daughter and granddaughter
painfully cut able to go home to ALE
gheny this evening; M. Dixon and wife
| Pittsburg, painfully cut; John Rensch-
er, Pittsburg, head and neck cut; c
NJ Kiskaddon, Columbia, Pa, head
bruised; Anthony McTighe, Pittsburg
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.