Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-05
FATAL WRECK ON Gao. R.R
Washington Express Plunges Down STEEP
Embankment.
Four Persons Killed and n Number
Injured-Accident Occurred
Near Charlottesville.

The east-bound Washington Express on
the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad from
Cincinnati for Washington was wrecked
near Old Shadwell. five miles east of Char
| lottesville. yesterday afternoon. Four per-
sons were killed and seventeen injured The
dead are: Harry Burnett, colored porter
keswick, Va: Merara, an Italian woman,
and her infant, believed to be from Cincin-
natl: Phelix Mareno
The injured-S. c. Buster, conductor legs
injured; Richard Berkeley, Hanover, Va,
express messenger. bruised about the body
and badly shocked: Mrs. Busch, 341 West
3lst street. New York, bruised about the
mead and arms. not seriously; Lee Gran
s san, GLOBE. Ariz-. slight scalp wound and
myers sprained: Duke. engineer.
CONSCIOUSLY hurt; ]. w. Elder. Washing
.ou, mead and nose bruised: Moses Cold
pau. cincinnati kneecap fractured: w. l..
cns. S1uarts Draft. Va. right hand
suSntiy; Jonas II. Hinckel, Trenton Ohio
III ~ mp painfully injured; Mary Mareno
nurt about the head A Merara- badly
Conductor M n.; Miller: Washington. Pullman
brien' Louisville, KY, slightly cut about
6ons,,,iio' Peers. baggageman. Cor
GonsVliie. Va, badly hurt: two small cbiI-
+, q; % wary Mareno. one badly hurt.
II Is reported that the body of ano,h.,
ltahan child is under the wreck nm, ,hi
cannot be confirmed "'' 'ii's
Inc cause of the accident has NOT hoo,
asscer,alned definitely. 1t was at first no.
ne Neu 10 nave been due to spreading of
the rails but the railroad officials den,
tlls. Inc engine left the track on a sharn
curve, and was hurled against a rocky hiit
All OF tne cars. except the dining car and
the richmond sleeper We're deraileJ Two
cars plunged end foremost down the steen
elioenkment and one of them wens into
Its RNdhna river. which at this place
shirts the track. The day Messenger coacn
anu tne express car were wrecked badly
AS the locomotive plunged from the rails
ana overturned, Engineer Duke was hurled
licLh me cab and crushed under the en-
eihe, besides being terribly scalded by es-
Gaping steam. He was rescued by his fire
man and the conductor
AS soon after the crash as possible the
uhihJured passengers and trainmen begar
the work OF aiding the injured Word was
s.ns TO Shar.ottesville. ard wrecking train
Win physicians was dispatched to the
scene OF the wreck. The body of Henry
burnett, the colored porter, was the las.
recovered. He was terribly mangled Ma
reno had both legs cut off, and died at the
hospital at Charlottesville
A large contingent of the passengers who
were aboard the wrecked train were
brought to this city over the Southern rail-
road, reaching here at about IL 30 O'Clock
,ast nisht Among them Were several OF
those who We're Slightly injured but who
were able to proceed to their homes.
senator Platt and Representative Rus
sell OF Connecticut, Representative Walter
Evans OF Kentucky and several attaches
OF the congressional committee investigat-
ing the question of alcohol in the arts
We're among those who We're on the wreck
ed train. Meesrs. Plat and Russell had a
narrow ESCAPE. being among those in tn.
sleeper near the middle of the train.