The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-08-01
A BAD WRECK.
Passenger Train Runs Into Wrecked
Freight on the Erie Road.
4 Freight Train on the East Bound Track
Was Wrecked by a Landslide and
Engine and Cars Were Thrown
Across the West Track.

OhI JEWS, M l., July oil ne
accidents on the Erie railroad growing
out of the landslide a mile east of
LackawaXen, Pa, were not as serious
as first reported. Only the fireman
and engineer of the derailed engine of
the west bound Chicago express, which
turned over on the track, were killed,
though a number of passengers on the
express, the vestibule passenger train
for Buffalo and Cleveland, which left
New York at o'clock Saturday, were
injured.
The wreck, which occurred shortly
before midnight Saturday was pre-
ceded by cloudburst and storm which
lasted two hours. A section of the
baslk fell on the east bound track di-
rectly in front of the freight train.
Several trees went down with the rocks
and earth and the freight cars and en-
CINE were turned over directly across
the west bound tracks of the Erie road.
Sixty freight cars constituted the
train, but only % were derailed and
the debris was piled up on the west
bound tracks just as the Chicago ex-
press put in an appearance, running
at the rate of so miles an hour.
The engine of the express train
crashed into the wreck and the bag
gage car, combination and buffet car
and two Pullman sleepers were piled
up on the tracks Immediately in front
of the wrecked cars. The first sleeper
was split into two parts as result of
the accident and the passengers were
thrown 80 feet down bank. Fire at
once broke out and four cars of the eX-
press train and nine of the freight
cars were burned.
Baggagemaster Becker, who found
himself under the baggage car door.
recovered consciousness only to dis
cover that he was all alone in that
part of the wrecked passenger cars.
He managed to crawl from his position
only to find blaze starting in front
of him, while half of the cars were
somehow braced up Immediately over
him. He called for assistance but there
was no response.
Then he saw the passengers who had
been hurled down the 30-foot embank-
ment endeavoring to extricate them
selves from the debris and make their
way up the bank. All were clad only
in their night clothing and they were
shivering with the cold. Some were
bleeding and moaning but ali were
dazed.
Members of the train crews com
menced to search different portions OF
the wreck and assisted those who we re
struggling to escape.
Blankets were brought in from the
Pullman cars and wrapped around
shivering women and half consciou:
men.
Word was telegraphed to Port Jer-
Wis. A relief train was at once ar
ranged for and DR.. Cuddehack, DR.
| Swartout, DR.. Johnson and several
trained nurses returned for the pur
pose of caring for those needing i'm
| mediate assistance. The relief traiI
Goon reached the scene of the acciden
| and nearly all of the injured person
were removed to the hospital.
Several thieves from Port Jervi
who, it is supposed, reached the seem
of the wreck on the relief train, ran
sacked the clothes of the passenger
during the period of excitement.
F. View, a millinery decorator o
New York, lost clothing containin!
$500 in bills and a gold watch. f. S
Gilpatrick, of Denver, lost 500, a gol'
watch, diamond pin and a diamont
stud. On the way to the hospital h
noticed a man wearing his trousers
They went through the pockets to
gether and found the money gone. TIL
man said that the trousers had beel
given him by one of the trainmen, blu
claimed that the money and valuable
must have been abstrated before he re
ceived the present of the garment.
After several hours search the bodie
of Engineer Outwater and Firema-
Sells were found under the wrecke
train. Both bodies had been burne
to the waist. The men were identi6e
by their watches.
| DIR. Talmage I'LL
FRANKLIN, O., July 31.-Dr. I. L