The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-05
CONNECTICUT IS IN LUCK
so WERE SENATOR PLATT AND CON.
 GRESSMAN RUSSELL.

and Oh1o VeStlDule express known as the F. r. V. from Cincinnati to Washington, was wrecked near Old Shadwell, five miles east of this place, this afternoon. Four persons were kill ed and seventeen injured. The dead:
 Henry Burnett, colored porter, Kes-, wick, Va.
 An Italian woman named Mera, and infant, believed to be from Cincinnati.I
 Phelix Mareno.
 The injured: Moses Goldblatt, Cin- cinnati, knee cap fractured; Conductor c. s. Buster, legs injured; Engineer Duke, dangerously hurt; Baggageman Peers, Gordonville, Va, badly hurty from shoulders down, probably inter- nally injured; A. Mera, badly hurt 4 Mary, Mareno, hurt about the head, but, Mary Mareno, one badly hurt; w. l.. Gochenoro, right hand cut; J. N. Miller, Washington, Pullman conductor, pain- fully hurt in the back; Richard Berk- ley, express messenger, bruised about body and badly shocked; J. N. Haig,,' Baltimore, knee sprained slightly; Mrs. Busch, 4S1 First street, New York, head and arms badly cut, not seriously; Lee Crandall, Globe, Ariz., slightly wound ed; J. w. Elder, Washington, D. C., head and nose considerably bruised; C.. R. O'Brien, Louisville, Ky, slightly out about head; J. H. Hinckel, Trenton, O. left hip painfully injured.
 It is reported that the body of anoth- n,vT Ttn1i se,, this cannot be confirmed. :
 The cause of the accident has not been definitely ascertained, but it is be- lieved to have been due to spread rails. 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 de- railed. Two cars plunged end foremost down the steep embanKment and one of them went into the river. The day passenger coach and the express car were badly wrecked.
 As the locomotive plunger from the rails and was 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 conductor as soon after the crash as possible. Word was sent to this place and a Wrecking train with physicians was immediately dispatched to the scene of the wreck A foot was first recovered and later a portion of the head of the engineer.
 Mareno. had both legs cut off and died at the hospital at Charlottesville
 The railroad officials, after investi- gating the cause of the accident, de- clared that it was not due to the spreading of the rails, though they are unable to give a theory. They state that the tracks at the spot are true and examination revealed, that they are tied securely.
 Late tonight 1t was stated that the accident was caused by the breaking of an axle of the forward truck of the lo- comotive.
 Washington, Nov. 4.-A large contin- gent of the passengers who were aboard the wrecked train were brought. to the city tonight. Among these were sev- eral of those who were slightly injured, but who were able to proceed to their homes.
 Senator Platt and Representative Russell of Connecticut, Representative Walter Evans of Kentucky and several attaches of the congressional committee Investigating the question of alcohol in the arts were among those who were on the wrecked train.
 Messrs. Platt and Russell had nar- row escape, being among those in the sleeper near the middle of the train that toppled over. MT. Russell, speak ing of his experience said tonight:
 When our committee left Cincinnati all our party were in the Richmond sleeper. Senator Platt was in the Washington car and joined him about fifteen minutes before the accident. Suddenly we felt a jar as if from the violent application of the brakes and the next moment our car had toppled over on the side nearest the river. Neither of us being hurt, we looked about for means of escape. We had succeeded in opening one of the win- dows of the car, and was about to get out when the Pullman conductor came along. We first assisted him to get out of the car and he in turn help- ed me out and Senator Platt followed. The other passengers scrambled to get out from different parts of the car as best they could. have been in good many wrecks, but this was probably the most disastrous I have ever seen. The train was an unusually long one and was made up of nine cars. We were not able to ascertain the cause of the accident"
 Senator Platt was rather non-commu- nicative about his experience.
 Representative Evans said the scene about the place was one of great con- fusion. The sudden stopping of the train seemed to him like the shock of an earthquake. The engine left the track and ran into an embankment on one side, while the cars becoming de- tached, continued for nearly 200 feet, further.