The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-11-05
CAUSE OF 1T
UNKNOWN.
A Train Bound For Wash
ingtOn Wrecked.
FOUR DEAD, MANY HURT.
Engine Ran Into a Rocky Hill After
Leaving Rails.
FOUR DEAD, MANY HURT.
NOT DUE TO SPREADING TRACKS

Charlottesville. Va. Nov. 5.-The
Chesapeake and Ohio vestibule express,
known as the f. f. ". from Cincinnati
TO Washington, was wrecked near Old
Shadwell five miles east Of this place
yesterday afternoon. -Four persons
were killed and II injured. The cause
II not known definitely. but one theory
Is that the rails spread and another
that an axle broke on the locomotive.
The dead: Henry Burnett, colored
porter. Keswick. Va; a woman named
Merara and infant, believed 10 be from
Cincinnati; Felix Mareno.
The injured: Moses Goldblatt. Gin
cinnati. knee cap fractured, Conductor
G. S.. Buster. legs injured Engineer
Duke, dangerously hurt; Baggageman
Pears. Gordonville. Va, badly hurt from
shoulders down. and probably internally
injured; A. Merara. badly hurt; Mary
Mareno, hurl about the head. but not
seriously: two children Of Mary Mareno.
one badly hurt: w. l.. Gochenor. right
hand cut; j. ~. Miller, Pullman con-
ductor, painfully hurt in the back;
Richard Berkley, express messenger
bruised about the body and badly
shocked; j. ~. Haig. Baltimore, knee
sprained slightly; Mrs. Busch. presum-
ably New York bruised about the head
and arms. not seriously; Lee Creneall,
Globe, Ari.. slight scalp wound; j. w.
Elder, Washington, head and nose con-
siderably bruised: c. l.. O'Brien, Louis
vile Ky, slightly cut about the head,
j. H. Iiinekle Trenton. o.. left hip pain
fully injured. 1t is reported that the
body OF another 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 execp the dining
car and the Richmond sleeper were de-
rallied. Two cars plunged end fore
most down a steep embankment, and
one of them went into the Rlvanna river
The day passenger coach and the ex-
press car were badly wrecked. AS the
locomotive plunged from the rails and
was overturned, Engineer Duke wqs
hurled from tae cab and crushed und3r
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 the
injured passengers and trainmen began
the work OF rescue and of aiding the
injured. Word was sent TO this place.
and wreolSing train with physicians
was Immediately dispatched TO the scene
OF the wreck.
The body of Burnett. the cClored
porter, was the last recovered. He was
terribly mangled. A foot supposed 10
have been his. was first recovered and
later. portion OF the head. The body
was literally dismembered Mareno
had both legs cut off and died at the
hospital AT Charlottesville.
Amcng the uninjured passengers on
the. train were Senator Orvilie II. Platt
OF Connecticut, Commissioner OF Pen
sions Evans and Representative Walter
Evans Of Louisville.
The local railway officials. after in
vestigating the cause Of the accident.
declared that 1t was not due 10 the
spreading Of the rails, though they are
unable TO give even a theory. They
state that the tracks at the spot arc true
and examination revealed that they
afe tied securely.