Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-11-10
CARS DERAILED.
Four People Were Killed and Sixteen
Wounded, Some MORALLY.
The Train Left the Track on a sharp Curve
Near Charlottesville. land Was Hurled
Against "A Rocky uiIl-Two Cars
Went Down tn Embankment-


CmARLoTTsvILIE Va, Nov. 5.-The
Chesapeake and Ohio vestibulc express,
known IA the f. +. V. from Cincinnati
To Washington. was wrecked near old
Shadwcll. five miles east OF this place
at l:25 Thursday afternoon. Four per-
sons were killed and II injured.
The dead: Henry Burnett. colored
orter, kes wick. Va. An Italian woman
named Mcrara. and infant. believed to
be from Cincinnati. Phelix Mareno
died aftcrrcmoval Ia Charlottesville.
Tie injured: Moses Goldblatt, Gin
cinnati, knee cap fractured; Conductor
$. C. buster legs injured; Engineer
Duke dangerously hurt; Baggageman
'ers. Gordonville, Pa. badly hurt from
houldcrs down, probably internally
injured; \ Mcrara. badly hurt: Mary
Narcno. hurt about the head but not
seriously, two small children of Mary
Marcno. one badly; W l.. Gochener, of
Stuarte Draft, Va. right hand cut; j.
\. Miller, of Washington, ID. C.. Pull
man conductor, painfully hurt in the
back. Richard Berkeley, Hanover. Va.
express messenger bruised about the
Oody and badly shocked; j. y Haig,
baltimore, knee sprained slightly. Mrs.
Busch, III West One Hundred and
Eleventh street presumably of New
York;. bruised about head, not serious
~: j. w Elder. Washington. H. C.,
mead and nose considerably bruised: G.
r. O'Brien, Louisville. Ky, Slightly
cut about the head; Jonas II. Iinckcl.
Trenton, Butler county, O., left hip
painfully injured.
II is reported that the body of an-
other Italian child is under the wreck.
but this can not bc confirmed
The cause of the accident has not
been definitely asccrtained but IL il
believed 10 have been due To spreading
rails. The engine left the track on a
sharp curve and was hurled against 4
rocky hill. All of the cars except the
dining car and the Richmond sleeper
car were derailcd Two cars
plunged end foremost down the
steep embanllmcnt and one OF them
went into the Rivanna river. which a u
this place skirts the tracks The dav
passenger coach and the express car
were badly wrecked As tho locomo-
tive plunged from the rails and over
turned, Engineer Duke was hurled
from the cab and crushed under the en-
glnc. besides bviug terribly scaldcd by
escaping steam. lie was rescued by
MS fireman and the conductor
As soon after the crash ~ 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 wrcclling train y.itn phvsi-
clans was Immediately dispatched to
the scene of the wreck The body OF
Henry Burnett, the colorrd porter
was the last recovered. lie WAS ter
ribly manglcd, having been in the bag
gage car. foot supposed to have
been his, was first recovered and later
a portion OF the head. The body was
literally diswcmbered Marcno had
both legs cut Off and died at the hos
pital at Charlottesville.
Among the uninjured passengers ON
the train were Senator Orviil, n platt.
of Connecticut: Commissioner OF PEN
slonS II. Clay Evans and Representa-.
tive Walter Evans, of Louisville.
Late Thursday night it was stated
that the accident was caused by TIN
breaking OF an axle of the forward
trucl, of the locomotives