The record-union., 1896-01-23

| SOUTH CHARLESTON (O.), Jan. %.
The worst wreck for many years on
the Panhandle Railroad occurred at
$50 O'Clock this morning, when the
boiler of the engine pulling the New
York and st. Louis express train ex-
ploded about two miles from this city
The dead: Clark Trimble, engineer,
Columbus, o.; George Waters, fireman,
Columbus.
The injured: Charles Maier, aged 21,
Tyler, Tex, cut on side and back OF
head; w P. Wallace, Indianapolis, Ind,
postal clerk, cut on head, right ankle
broken; j. H. Spicer, aged 3S. Harris
burg, Pa, right side of face badly
bruised; John Terrence, aged 81, Indian,
apolis, postal cl nix, left leg badly
bruised and hip dislocated; Mrs. Anna
H. Ramsay, Homestead, Pa, back
sprained; Miss Cochran, Greenfield,
Ind, seriously injured.
The train was an hour behind time.
and was making extra time, when the
crown sheet of the boiler was blown out,
lifting the engine clear of the trucks
and tearing up the track for many
yards. The explosion was probably
caused by low water
The impetus of the train carried the
cars over the torn-up track, pushing the
forward coaches to right and left into
the bitches alongside the track The
baggage car and smoker went to the
left, the mail coach to the right the for
ward coach keeping the roadbed. All
the trucks of these cars were piled under
the fourth car. Not a car was turned
over nor telescoped, thus saving many
lives.
The engineer was found on the right
side of the track near the second Pull
man, and the fireman, with 100-pound
piece of iron on his body, was found
near the engine.
The dead and injured were brought to
this place and cared for.
FATAL COLLISION IN MISSOURI.
SEDALIA (Mo.), Jan. pa north
bound freight train crashed into a
south bound passenger train ON the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Road this
morning, one mile south of Bonneville,
killing Frank Berry. fireman of the
freight engine, and badly injuring the
two engineers, Al. Mcdonald and A
Hester. and Conductors Harvey j.
Smith of the passenger train and Har-
ris of the freight train. Hester and
Harris may die.
The fault seems to lie with the con-
ductor of the freight train, whose watch
stopped without his knowledge, and
who supposed he had plenty of time to
run from Pilot Grove to Bonneville
against the passenger train.
One postal clerk was injured suffi-
ciently to require physician. Six pas
sengers were slightly injured One fire.
man was killed in the wreck. The
freight engineer got out of the wreck,
walked back and talked to the passen-
ger conductor, but soon after the en-
gineer fell dead.
FATAL DYNAMITE EXPLOSION.
LEWISTON (Pa.), Jan. 22-By the
premature explosion of quantity of
dynamite at Bixler's, near Newport,
Perry County at 11:30 o'clock this
morning, one man was instantly killed
and eight others more or less seriously
injured
The men were employed by the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company and were
at work on the road at that point. One
man had some dynamite at a fire thaw-
ing it out when it is supposed the heat
The exact cause, however, will never
be known, as the man who was hand
ling the explosive, Lawrence Moist of
McVeyton, had his limbs blown from
his body and died almost instantly.
The other workmen who were injured
were mostly Italians, and were taken
on trains to Altoona, where they were
placed in hospitals in that city. Those
taken to the hospitals were: John Henry
Wade, colored, legs broken and hip
shattered; Thomas Ragan, cut about
the body; Philip Orsetto. Dominci Or
setto, Insornano Bueno, Septanio Tar
rifo, all terribly injured; Tony Caplo,
aged 36, eyes, face and hands injured;
frank Reeder. aged 27. punctured
wounds of hands and face; Lowry
Papello, aged 25, serious injury of the
head.
CRUSHED IN AN ELEVATOR
YOUNGSTOWN (O.), Jan. 22.-The
hoisting machine in the converting de-
partment of the Ohio Steel Company
went wrong at $50 this morning, and
the two cages went up and down at
terrible rate. Charles Harmanski was
carried to the top of the hoist and
brought back with such force that his
hips were both broken, his skull frac-
tured and his neck broken. He died in
stantly Pat. Nagle and Andy Plasco
were on the cage at the top, and when
they came down they were thrown off,
both being badly hurt
GRAND ARMY ENOAMPMENT.