Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-06-11

with those Who Wero involved
i'm the Accident - Indications
tnat the Wreck was Deliberately
Planned.
The accident yesterday morning 10
the special b. & o. train which left thiA
city with the dremen and freapparatus
fin aid of the stricken town of Cameron
turned out to have been worse than thd
very bad state Of affairs reported in
Yesterdays Register. to the extent that
three men were killed instead OF TWO.
With this excepuon-and the fact
.hat a third life was lost was not con-
elusNely demonstrated to those at the
scene of the wreck until hours after the
train had left the rai,s-the accident as
reported in this paper was correct and
there was a great demand for the Reg
i..or. not only in the city, but all along
The line Of the b. * o. road for a couple,
of hundred miles.
THE THIRD VICTIM
whose name must be added 10 the list
of fatalities was Frank Farrell, aged
%. an esdmable young man Of Mounds
Vile. Mr.. Farrell happened to be In
the vicinity of the Noundsville depot
when the special train bearing the
Wheeling fremen and their apparatus
arrived. about midnight and IN com
Da1y with Charles LittOn, Rlcharu
DonahOe. young man named Ransom,
Milton Walton. and Z. A. Henderson,
he jumped upon the special TO 60 TO thei
scene of the fire through mere curiosity
and love of adventure. The trip cost
aim his lie. as if did those of Engineer
Duffy and young Richard Donahoe.
FarreWs body was recovered about
O'Clock yesterday morning, along with
those of Nessrs Duffy and DonahOe,
and the three mangled and blackened
ccrpses We're placed on the first section
If No. 9 freight train and brought 10
lI0uudsviie. There the body OF Far
rall was taken i'm charge by relatives
and friends. while the remains OF the
others dead were brought on up to this
city, and taken i'm charge by under
takers. who prepared them for burial
When the body of young Donohoe was
brought o. the city enc foot mad 10 DE
left behind but yesterday afternoon
the member was eXU.calcd and brought
to the ely. The work Of eNuIcatinS Jne
bodies of the dead men from under the
wreck was o most difficult one, this be-
ing especially and particularly true OF
Engineer Duffy.
WHO WAS PINNED DOWN
Inv the engine on which ne rode to his
death. and r. had % be literally dug ouo
from beneath the immense mass OF IRON
and Steel ais body was terribly
burned it having laid directly beneath
the dre-boX OF the engine
The most seriously hurt OF the
wounded men were brought in from
Rosebv's Rock about g o'clock yester-
dav morning on the BenwO0d wreck
-rain and were left off at Moundsville,
NIcNechen. or this city. w. E. Clayton,
the brakeman. who it was thought at
the time of the accident could not re-
cover. was brought to this city and at
once removed to the City hospital
where his left arm was amputaJed
ab1ve the elbow. Mr.. Clayton's other
wounds are quite serious and very
r7.nful but ne viii probably pull out
au RIGHT. viii s. Faris, city editor OF
tho Intelli-encer. came in on the same
train with his left shoulder dislocated
r1o renewed prompt medical attendance
and will De an right In few days
Conductor W NJ. Dean is getting along
all right. but he had very close can
for his life along with the others. Spe-
r.o7 II. & o. Officer John Shorts had his
nai7f1rlv emit arm bandaged. and un-
mindful of his other bruises, went BACK
To Cameron and
TIE SCENE OF THE WRECK
ON The z a. ~. train, and was active in
fine discharge of his duties. Ward JET
fers. of ,he b. & o. yards at BenWood
junction. received q bad bump on the
forehead and was bruised in several
Dlaras but came in with the wounded
mon. after walking from the scene OF
-be accident almost 20 Cameron, dis
lance of six or seven miles, TO nag JAe
wreck train. and went back TO the
scene on the T o'clock train. Fire Cnle-
EaqIy received several bruises which
left him pretty sore. but he never lOS'
sreht of the fact that there was q hre
10 be attended 90, and after he got out
NJ the wreck and found his apparatus
tbe reverse of available, he did what he
could 70 rescue the dead and care Tor