The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-05
Four People Killed and Seventeen In
jured by the Breaking of an Axle
Under One of the Cars.
SEVERAL NARROW ESCAPES
EXPERIENCES OF REPRESENTA-
TIVEs RUSSELL AND EVANS.
Senator Plat, of Connections, Also
in the New York Central Case.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Nov. 4.-The
Chesapeake & Ohio vestibuie express,
known as the IF. F. W." from Cincinnati
to Washington, was wrecked near Old Snad-
we'll five miles east of this place, at 1:25
o'clock this afternoon. Four persons were
killed and seventeen Injured. The dead are:
HENRY BURNETT, colored porter, Kes>
wick, Va.
MRS. MERARA and INFANT, Italians,
believed to be from Cincinnati.
PHELIX MARENO, died after removal
to Charlottesville.
The injured are:
MOSES GOLDBLATT, Cincinnati, knee
cap fractured
S. c. BUSTER, conductor, legs injured.
- DUKE. engineer. dangerously hurt.
- PEERS, baggagemaster, Gordons-
vile, Va, 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 Mare.
no, one badly
w. l.. GOOCHENER. Stuart's Draft, Va,
right hand cut.
J. N. MILLER, Washington D. c. Pull
man conductor, painfully hurt in the back.
RICHARD BERKLEY Hanover, Va, ex-
press messenger, bruised about the body
and badly shocked.
j.. n. HAIGt1T, Baltimore, knee sprained
slightly.
MRS. BUSCH, No. s41 West Thirty-first
street presumably New York;, bruised
about the head and arms; not seriously
LEE CRANDALL, Globe, A. r., slight
scalp wound and fingers sprained.
]. W. ELDON, Washington, d. c., heac
and nose considerably bruised.
c. r. O'BRIEN, Louisville, KY, slightly
cut about the head.
JONAS H. HINCKEL, Trenton. Butler
county, Ohio, left hip painfully injured.
1t is reported that the body or 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 rocky hill. All of the cars except
the dining car and the Richmond sleeper
were derailed. Two cars plunged end fore
most 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 engine, besides being terribly
scalded by escaping steam. He was res
cued by his fireman and the conductor
AS soon after the crash as possible the
uninjured passengers and trainmen began
the work or 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 baggage car.
A foot, supposed to have been his, was first
recovered, and later a portion of the head.
The body was literally dismembered. Mare
no had both legs cut off, and died at the
hospital at Charlottesville
Among the uninjured passengers on the
train were Senator Orville H. Platt, of Con
necticut, Commissioner of Pensions H. Clay
Evans and Representative Walter Evans,
of Louisville
Late tonight it was stated that the acct
dent was caused by the breaking of an axle
on the forward truck of the locomotive