Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-11-05
Death ON THE CuRVE'
Train on the Chesapeake and
Ohio Flies the Track and
Kills Four Persons,
NEARLY a SCORE MORE INJURED,

Pieces-Locomofive Butts a Cliff and
Cars Rush Down an Embankment to the
Aiver-Five Men Burned Two Fatally,
by Molten Iron Explosion.
Charlottesville. Va, Nov. 5.-The Ches-
epeake ond Ohio vestibule expressk known
as the F. F. "" from Cincinnati to
washington, was wrecked near Old
shadwell, five miles east Of this place,
at LIS yesterday afternoon. Four per-
sons were killed and seventeen injured.
The dead are: Henry Burnett, colored
Porter. Keswick. Va; Italian woman
named Merra and infant, believed to be
from Cincinnati; Phelix Mareno, (died
after removal to Charlotteville).
Ihe Injured are: Moses Goldblatt. Gin
clnnati. kneecap fractured; Conductor
>. Z. Buster, legs injured; Engineer
Duke. dangerously hurt: Baggageman
feers' Gordonsville. Va. badly hurt from
shoulders down. probably internally ill.,
jured; a. Merra, badly hurt; Mary
Mareno, hurt about head, not seriously:
Two small children of Mary Mareno,
one badly; w. l.. Gochenor, of Stuarts 3
Draft, Va, right hand cut; ]. n. Miller,
II,
painfully hurt IN back; Richard Berk.
leys, Hanover, Va. express messenger,
bruised about body and badly shocked:
J. n. Haig, Baltimore. knee sprained
slightly; Mrs. Busch. presumably New
York, bruised about the head and arms,
not seriously; Lee Crandall, Globe A.
l., slight scalp wound ard fingers
sprained; j. w. Elder, Washington, head
and nose considerably bruised: c. r.
OBrien. louisville, slightly cut about
head: Jonas II. Hinckel. Trenton, O..
left hip painfully injured.
1t Is reported that the body Of another
Italian child is under the wreck, but
this cannot be confirmed.
Left the Track on a Curve.
The cause Of the accident has not been
definitely ascertained, but the local rail-
road officials, after investigating, de-
CARED that 1t was not due to spreading
rails Gas had been firSk reportei), though
they are unable to give even a theory.
They state that the tracks at the spot
are true and examination revealed that
they are tied securely. The engine left
the track on sharp curve and was
hurled against rocky hill. All of the
cars except the dining car and the Rich
mond sleeper We're 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 We're 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 rescued by his fireman and the con-
ductor
Porter Was Found in Sections
As soon after the crash as possible the
uninjured passengers and traInmen be-
gan the work Of rescue and aiding the
injured. Word was sent to this place
and wrecking train with physicians
was Immediately dispatched to the scene
of the wreck. The body of Henry Bur-
nett, the colored porter was the last re-
covered. He was terribly mangledk hav-
ing been in the baggage car. A foot sup
posed to have been his was first recov-
cred, and later a portion of the head.
The body was literally dismembered.
Mareno had both legs cut Oft. 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.
Later.-It is now stated that the acci-
dent was caused by the breaking of an
axle Of the forward truck Of the locomo-
tive.