The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-04-06

Intelligence 70 ached Wheeling carly
yesterday forenoon OF n horrible acci.
den. on tho Bellairr, Zancsville & Gin.
cinns.i railroad, abou. twelve miles cast
Of Caldwell, O., and later reports con.
f,med the frat bulletins uont out. It
Was the worst accident ever experienced
on the road since its construction.
The train was the morning passenger
train, known az No. SIS, and IL consist.
ed OF an engine, baggggo cas and passen.
ger coach. 1t lei. Caldwell on time and
moved aloug nicely until the train
reached trestle No, sS, near Whigvillo,
when the coach jumped tho track and
ran short distance into the trcs.le,
when it turned over, drawing the an.
cue and baggage car down with the
;.esile. Tho engine turned end for end
and the coach turned button up with
its sides crushed in. There were four
killed outright, as follows:
Eli Lucas, engineer. Sommerfeld. o.
HESEY BROWN, passenger, Bealsvi!le,
Ohio.
Mrs NATHAN YouSo aud little daugh.
ter. Sommerfield. o.
The injured arc as follows:
JESSE JONES, fatally injured. somner.
seld, 0.
NATHAN YouSo, fatally injured, Som.
merfsId, o.
JOSEPH DESooy, seriously injured.
Barne.vi!le, o.
FRANK HOLLAND. baggasemaster, leg
broken. Sommerfeld, o.
The fireman, Jesse Joue,, was piuion.
ed beneath the overturned engine and
Vas badly cut and scalded when found.
He cannot live.
Nathan Young was rescued from the
coach, but he canno. live. No examin-
sion was made OF his injuries, us he is
IN precarious condition.
The engine and cars are total wreck.
aud also the tres.lc. Tho trcs,le on
which the train overturned Was abou.
iorty feet high.
The Bellaire. Zanesviile & Cincinnati
road is a narrow gauge and doe. but
little business. just being able to meet
running expenses. The train which
vas wrecked consisted OF only combin-
alton baggage and passenger car and
the engine. Jus. before arriving at the
hessle the car Jumped tho track. The
nc,tle 10 a double decked one and fully
!orsy fee. high. and consists OF seven.
teen bents, crossing a stream 1t Is
built on curve. so that after dragging
The coach moro than half way across the
structure tho engine, too, was pulled
'fon the track and both car aud engine
.'ppled into the raviue below, carrying
d'En three bents OF the trestle. The
car was mashed 10 kindling wood.
special TO the ISrELLIGgScER from
CALDWELL, received las. night. say.:
The dead were removed to tho town
Of Whigville, near by, where they were
prepared for burial, while the injured
were cared for by farmers in tho vicin-
Vy Conductor Pollard. Bridge Carpen.
Ter Pennington and man named Nose
!syiumped distance Of about twenty.
hTe feet and were more or less injured
by the iall, but not seriously. The train
now lies in ruined mass at the bottom
Of the gulch, the engine having fallen
upon the coach. which contained in all
about fifteen passengers. Worktnen arc
now engaged in rebuilding tho trcs.le,
and all trains transfer for the present.
This accident recalls tho terrible ono
At the big ,rcssre near Jacobsburg, o.,
IN 1870. when tho road only ran to
woodsield. Congressman L. Daniord,
Of St Clairsvitle, narrowly escaped a.
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