The morning times., 1896-07-14
cow WRECKED THE TRAIN
Engine and Passenger Coaches
Over an Embankment.
ON THE LEHGH VALLEY
Engine Was Derailed and Went Down
Bank eco teet tii:n-A...I;iai iie-
b came Entangled in the Machinery
anu Raiieu the Engine-Coaches
Turned Over.

| Wilkesbarre. Pa. July 13.-An express
| train on the Hazeitun branch OF the Le-
| high Valley Raiiroad, while rounuing Il
! curv. tns afternoon between White Haven
! and ficeiand, struck Il cow. The engine
! was ueralled ANA thrown down an TN
: bankmeat 2Uo feet high and the three
| passenger cuacLes were thrown from the
! tracks upon tHeir sides.
One man was kil!cI and Il score of peo-
! pie hurt, several seriously. The accident
! was the must SERIOUS passenger wreck
! t:at has occurred on the LenIgh Nailsy
I Railroad since the memorable Mud Run
I disaster. The dead and injured are:
Dead WILLIAM II. DoWD, engineer.
| Injured Bernard h c, ney ,1iIeman, tIosen
/ rib and bruised abcnt the body; Henry
! Brodbup. If V i.kestarre, ann bIoKen md
| Lack and side injured; Mrs. Henry Hroc-
| hun. very seriously injured atCut tic back
! and chest; Patrick MCCloskey. Fhilatcl-
| phia, cut and irIised about The hody and
| units and arm broken. condition Iiitical;
Mary S. Bauer, TowaDda, Pa, cut
! and nruise d iuudt the head, lace ana e'aiy;
Hiss Rose 4. Clark. Ashland, Pa, ann,
lack. and hip lrJure'i; Daniel GIoHsS.,
Philadelphia, bruised 2 bout the body; James
McDoEald, OF reeiand, Pa, three ribs
broken; Mrs X. L. C!ark, Ashley, Pa,
severely hurt atout the head and iOiy;
Miss Clark daughter OF Mrs. Clark, Slightly
bruised; Mrs. LorcEz, Ashley, Pa, ,ut
about the head. Miss LorenZ, slightly
bruised; frank Lorcnz, BADLY cut about the
head and Shoulders, Dixon Grier travelling
>alcsu an, pRilaGclPhia. cut about the oay;
>. Charles Gaier. Baltimore, scalp wound
A. q. Humphrey, TO wanda. Pa, hip bruised;
" imam frrc,ich, West HaZeltOn, Pa,
one eye destroyed; Alderman Martin,
H1Ieliur, krcc cap cut and wrencned; 4.
L. Richards, Boston. limbs. bruised, and
N.f Naw tnrs leo
and right hand injured
All tue passengers aboard the train were
badly shaken Up, but the above are the
most seriously V hart.
The train, consisting of an engine and
three passenger ccacies, left HaZletUn 1T
Las y. NJ, for White Haven. 1t was III
charge of Engineer William Dowd, Con-
dnctor Joseph Holler and Fireman B.
Mooney, all of Hazicton. When the train
reached Il point about 900 yards from Pond
Creek junction. where tie Highland braAch
of the Lehigt ' alley and the Cpl er Lch!Ei:
branch of the Central Railroad come to-
gctheT, it rounded a sharp curve at good
rate OF spesd, probably thirty miles an
hour.
Jus; as the train was shooting along
the curve the engine struck cow and
the animal BECAME entanSled in the
machinery of the engine. The big machine
ra M ioDc the TIES for n distance CT 200
yards nd then broke loose from the tender
and rolled downanem mb3nkment nearly 200
feet.
The engine plowed through the ground,
steamed and pUffed, and then turn ed over
and over and in moment was u tie foot
of the cDibanEnicut The fireman. Mooney,
jumped out OF the cab window aud followed
the engine down the bank, receiving serious
If not fatal injuries. while Engineer Dowd
was pinned under the engine. When found
he was so terribly injured aud scalded That
he died soon after being taken out from
under the wreck.
" hen TIE engine broke loose from the
coaches tie latter bumped over tie ties for
q distance OF over 200 yards and then
rolled down an embankment and all three
oT tnc coacicS turned over on ttcir sides.
The passengers were thrown over their seats
in all directions and all suffered more or
less injury.