The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-11-09
CARS DERAILED.
Four People Were Killed and Sixteen
Wounded, Some MortalIy.
The Train Left the Track on a Sharp Curve
Near Charlottesville, Va, and Was Hurled
Against Rocky HDl-Two Cars
Went Down an Embankment.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Nov. 5.-The
Chesapeake and Ohio vestibule express,
known as the f. F. ", from Cincinnati
to Washington, was wrecked near Old
Shadwell, five miles east of this place
at lbs Thursday afternoon. Four per-
sons were killed and II injured.
The dead: Henry Burnett, colored
orter, Kes wick, Va. An Italian woman
named Merara, and infant. believed to
be from Cincinnati. PheliX Mareno
tdied afterremoval to Charlottesville.
The injured: Moses Goldblatt, Gin
cinnati, knee cap fractured; Conductor
). c. Buster, legs injured; Engineer
Duke, dangerously hurt; Baggageman
Pers, Gordonville, Pa, badly hurt from
shoulders down, probably internally
injured; A. Merara, badly hurt; Mary
Mareno, hurt about the head but not
seriously; two small children of Mary
Mareno, one badly; w. L. Gochener, of
Stuarts Draft, Va, right hand cut; j.
\. Miller, of Washington, d. c., Pull
man conductor, painfully hurt in the
back; Richard Berkeley, Hanover, Va,
express messenger, bruised about the
body and badly shocked; J. N. Haig,
Baltimore, knee sprained slightly; Mrs.
Busch, All West One Hundred and
Eleventh street presumably of New
York;, bruised about head, not serious
ly;J. W. Elder, Washington, d. c.,
head and nose considerably bruised; c.
r. O'Brien, Louisville, KY, slightly
cut about the head; Jonas II. Hinckel,
Trenton, Butler county, O., left hip
painfully injured
1t is reported that the body of an
other Italian child is under the wreck,
but this can not be confirmed.
The cause of the accident has not
been definitely ascertained, but it is
believed to have been due to spreading
rails The engine left the track on
sharp curve and was hurled against
rocky hill All of the cars except the
dining car and the Richmond sleeper
car were derailed. Two cars
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 locomo-
tive plunged from the rails and over
turned, Engineer Duke was hurled
from the cab and crushed under the en-
CINE, besides being terribly scalded by
escaping steam. He was rescued by
his fireman and the conductor
AS soon after the crash as possible
the uninjured passengers and train
men began the work of rescue and aid
ing the injured. Word was sent to this
place and a wrecking train with physi-
clans was Immediately dispatched to
the scene of the wreck. The body of
Henry Burnett, the icolored porter,
was the last recovered. He was ter
ribly mangled, having been in the bag
gage car. A foot supposed to have
been his, was first recovered and later
a portion of the head. The body was
literally dismembered. Mareno had
both legs cut off and died at the hos
pital at Charlottesville.
Among the uninjured passengers on
the train were Senator Orville HI Platt,
of Connecticut; Commissioner of PEN
sions Fl. Clay Evans and Representa-
tive Walter Evans, of Louisville.
Late Thursday night it was stated
that the accident was caused by the
breaking of an axle of the forward
truck of the locomotive.