The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-05
FATAL CRASH ON A FLYER.
-FOUR PERSONS KILLED AND II IN
JURED IN VIRGINIA.


River-rhe Engine Crashes Into a
Rock on Leaving the Rails and Is
RodIy Shattered-A Full List of the
Dead and Injured.
Charlottesville, Va, Nov. 4-The Chesa-
peake and Ohio vestibule express, known
os the "F. F. W." from Cincinnati to
vaehington, was wrecked near Old Shad-
well five miles east of this place, this af-
,eruoon at 125 o'clock. Four persons were
KILLED and seventeen injured.
The dead are
Henry Burnett, colored porter, Keswick,
Va.
An Italian woman named Merara, and
infant believed to be from Cincinnati.
Felix Mareno (died after removal to
Charlottesvile)
The injured are:
Moses Goldblatt, dangerously hurt
Baggageman Peers. Gordonsville, Va,
badly hurt from shoulders down, prob
ably injured internally.
A. Merara, badly hurt.
Mary Mareno, hurt about the head, but
not seriously.
Two small children of Mary Mareno.
one badly.
W. L. Gochenor of stuarts Draft, Va,
right hand cut.
]. N. Miller of Washington, D. c., Pull
man conductor, painfully hurt In the back.
Richard Berkley OF Hanover, Va, ex
press messenger, bruised about the body
and badly shocked.
]. N. Haig of Baltimore, knee sprained
slightly.
Mrs. Busch, Al West Thirty-first pre-
sumably New York;. bruised about the
head and arms, not seriously.
Lee Crandall of Globe, Ariz., slight scalp
wound and fingers sprained.
J. W. Elder of Washington, D. c., head
and nose considerably bruised.
C. r. OBrien of Louisville, KY, slight
cut about the head.
Jonas H. Hinckel of Trenton, Butler
county. Ohio, left hip painfully injured.
Conductor C. Buster, legs injured.
1t is reported that the body of another
Italian child is under the wreck, but this
cannot be confirmed.
The engine left the track on a sharp
curve, and was hurled against rock hill.
Am of the cars excepting the dining car
and the Richmond sleeper, We're derailed.
Two cars were plunged end foremost
down the steep embankment and one of
them went into the Rivanna river, which,
at this place, skirts the tracks. The day
passenger coach and the express car were
badly wrecked.
As the locomotive plunged from the rails
and overturned Engineer Duke was hurled
from the cab and crushed under the en-
gine, besides being terribly scalded by es-
Gaping steam. He was rescued by his
fireman and the conductor.
AS soon after the wreck as possible the
uninjured passengers and trainmen began
the work of rescue and aiding the injured
Word was sent to this place and a wreck
ing train with physicians was Immediately
dispatched to the scene of the wreck.
The body of Henry Burnett, the colored
porter, was the last recovered He was
terribly mangled, having been in the bag
gage car. A foot, supposed to have been his,
was first recovered, and later portion Of
the head. The body was literally dismem-
bered.
Mareno had both legs cut off and died
at the hospital at Charlottesville.
Among the uninjured passengers on the
train were Senator Orville H. Plat of
Connecticut Commissioner of Pensions Fl.
Clay Evans and Representative Walter
Evans of Louisville.
The accident was caused by the breaking
of an axle of the first truck of the loco
motive. The train was making up time.
Washington, Nov. A large contingent
of the passengers who were aboard the
wrecked train were brought to the city
over the Southern railroad, reaching here
tonight about II 80 o'clock. Among them
were several of those who were slightly
injured, but who were able to proceed to
their homes.
Senator Platt and Representative Rus
sell of Connecticut Representa-
tive Walter Evans of Kentucky
and several attaches of the con-
gressional committee investigating the
question of alcohol in the arts were among
those who were on the wrecked trains.
Messrs. Platt and Russell had a narrow
escape, being among those in the sleeper
near the middle of the train Mr.. Russell,
speaking of his experience tonight, said:
When the committee left Cincinnati all
our party were in the Richmond sleeper
at the rear, being unable to get berths
N the regular Washington car A
short while before the accident
We had made arrangements for accommo-
dations in the sleeper in which Senator
Platt and l were when the accident oc-
euired, the car in which we had came from
Cincinnati, leaving the train at Gordons-
vile for Richmond.
Senator Plat was in the Washington car
and Joined him about 10 minutes before
the accident Suddenly we felt a jar, as If
from the violent application of the brakes,
ana the next moment our
car had toppled over on the
SIDE nearest the river. We realized
Immediately that there had been an acci-
Ieht and neither of us being hurt, looked
eoout for a means of escape. We had sue
eesued In opening one of the windows of
we car and / was about to get out when
Fulman Conductor Miller came along. We
.lrst assisted him to get out of the car and
He IN turn helped me out and Senator
tlatt followed. The other passengers
Setambled to get out from different parts
~ .he car as best they could.
nave been in good many wrecks.
ga. tnis was probably the most disastrous
haYe ever seen The tran was an unus-
y HSly long one, and was made up of nine
cags We were not able to ascertain the
'9use OF the accident"
senator Platt was rather non-communi-
0SyNe about his experience
representative Evans said the scene
Ssogut the place was one of great con-
SSioh The sudden stopping of the train
tsa 70 him like the shock of an earth
EiaAe. The engine left the track and
ral,, pI lhto high embankment on one side,