The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-25

PITTsBURG. Pa, Aug. 24-The
through express train from Chicago on
the Pittsburg & Western railway which
was due in this city at 1885 p. m, was
wrecked at Valencia, a small station
twenty miles west of here, at 11:3O
o'clock today. and more than a score OF
passengers were injured four of whom
may die.
Just before the passenger train reach
ed that place. there was a collision of
freight trains, which threw a number
of freight cars on to the main track,
and the express train, coming along at
the rate of thirty miles an hour, plung-
ed into the wrecked freight cars.
Nearly every car Of the express was
wrecked, and the escape of the passen-
gers from instant death is remarkable.
The injured:
Mrs W B. Marsh, Talmage, Ohio,
skull fractured; will probably die.
John Curry, Pleasant Hill, Pa, lower
jaw fractured, throat cut; will die.
Mrs. ]. W. Morse, Lodi, Ohio, lower
jaw, cheek bone and collar bone frac-
tured; recovery doubtful.
Miss Maud Bennett, Allegheny, Pa,
serious confusion OF left temple, nose
cut and bruised.
Mary Bennett. head cut and face
bruised.
Walter Smith, Akron, Ohio. scalp
wound.
Mrs. NJ. E. Cramer. Apollo, Pa, SER
ious scalp wounds.
Belle Cramer, injured internally.
Grant CuIbert Allegheny, Pa, right
forearm fractured, face and scalp
wounds.
Jennie Cramer, slight scalp wounds.
D. B. Schantz, Harmony. Pa, scalp
wounds and spinal cord injured; not
serious.
G. D. Huston, Newcastle. Pa, scalp
wounds.
E. J. Smith, fireman. Beaver Falls,
Pa, scalp wound and ankle sprained.
]. H. Weakening, Newcastle, Pa, leg
bruised and scalp wound
Miss Jennie Smith. Verona, Pa. face
and head badly cut.
j. c. Miller, Hardwood, Pa, engineer,
leg badly squeezed.
! L. L. Gray, express messenger, AL
! legheny, Pa, nose broken and hand
J and wrist injured.
Dr. L. Tierney. sharpsburg, Pa.
serious scalp wound.
]. E. Edward Grill, baggage-masters
side and face injured.
Mrs. c. F. Hyle, Evans City, Pa,
head badly cut and bruised.
j. w. McMillin, engineer, Bennett,
Pa, both feet crushed.
Charles Smith, fireman, Bennett, Pa,
ankle sprained and head badly cut.
The injured were brought to the Al
legheny General hospital by a special
train.
The Chicago express train does not
/ stop at Valencia, and was running at
about the rate of forty miles an hour,
when the engineer first discovered the
obstruction on the tracks.
The engineer reversed and applied
the brakes, but though the speed Of
| the express was diminished somewhat,
it struck the freight cars on the main
track with frightful force, and freight,
cars and engine rolled in a great mass
of torn wood and iron over an embank-
ment into the ditch below.
The engineer and fireman of the ex-
press, WQen Iuey saw ludI d COAllSAOAA
was inevitable, jumped and escaped
with severe injuries. The tender, mail,
express and passenger coaches piled up
over each other and rolled down the
embankment on the wrecked engine
and freight cars. Clouds of steam and
smoke from the disabled engine en-
veloped the scene, and added to the
distress Of the injured pinioned in the
wreck, who feared the debris would
take fire and burn them alive.
Meanwhile. those of the express crew
and passengers who were not injured,
the crew of the freight train and people
of Valencia who were near at hand
when the accident occurred, rushed to
the aid of the injured, and a special
train with surgeons was at once dis
patched from Allegheny to the scene
of the wreck The freight cars, which
were struck by the express train, were
heavily loaded with long iron piping.
These heavy iron tubes Sere hurled
with great force through the sides of
tse day coaches, and most of the fatal
injuries to passengers were produced
by them