Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-01-12
WRECK ON THE RAIL.
A Freight Train Crashes Into a Pas
senger Train in Tennessee.
A FIRE IN A PITTSBURGH HOTEL.
Thte. Live. Lost and Five other Fe"P'o
badiy Hurt oue lOr Many Nesseis
Long Overdue Given Up A
Schoo h0nse Wrecked.

kn0XVlllc, Tenn, jail " = ou' "'"''
two in iured, one of these perhaps Ia
tally, and the loss of property OF the
southern railway to the amount OF
about 500 600 is the result of wreck
which occurred yesterday morning on
the Knoxville & Ohio branch OF the
Knoxville division of the Southern
railway, IA miles west of Elk Valley
The dead are: ]. d. Maxey, engineer;
Frank Recdy, colored, fireman. Lonza
Hoover, colored, brakeman, and W. A.
Dillon, flapman. The injured are; En-
gineer Golf, badly but not fatally cut
on the head and bruised, and Fireman
George Huskisson, badly burned and
NAV die. Maxey, Reedy, Hoover and
Dillon were burned to death or killed
underneath the ruins Of the three en-
rines, and number of cars ano
coaches of the two wrecked trains
Yesterday morning at 1880 o'clock
double-headed freight train, loaded
with coal and merchandise, CRASHED
into mixed local passenger trair
while both were running at the rate O
40 miles an hour The engines me
head-on, the force Of impact being ter
rife. The coming together OF th'
two trains was so sudden that TN
trainmen were unable to jump an'
save their lives The passenger trail
was running u minutes late, having
waited at Knoxville for connection
with western train, and had TIT
right of way. All the freight train
on the Knoxville Il Ohio division ha'
been notified that the passenger tran
was on late run, and the only caus
fer tn accident thrl can be given /
that Engineer Maxey of the freigh
train misread the orders. lmmediatel.
after the crash the wreckage eaugh
fire. The passenger train carried abou
20 passengers, None Of these was IN
jured
MAN. VESSELS GIVEN UP
Boston, Jan. Q. The owners OF tn
Boston brig Mary Gibbs, Capt. Horac
Coombs. now 100 DAYS out on voyag
from Newport News to Para, Brazl
have abandoned all hope of the vesse
although they still believe there is
chance that the crew may have bee
rescued by some ship bound either
the Pacific or some remote quarter
the globe, The owners and unde
writers have given up the schooner
Howard II. Ilanscom, from Philade
phia. November %, for Providence; ID
, II. Mathis, Philadelphia, November ,
, for Newburyport; james b. Pace, fro
1 Philadelphia, November %, for tn
4 mort, and william 0. Snow, fro
/ Newport News, November 81, II
q Salem. These vessels were a
. coal laden and carried crev
of seven or eight men each. II is b
2 lieved that all of them foundered
the terrible gale of November " al
f. that their crews were all lost II
underwriters stand ready to pay u
y loss on the four.masted schooner XII
, Philip, which was lost off Cape CO
with all hands, in hurricane.
. A FIRE IN A PITTSBURGH HOTEL.
,, Pittsburgh, Pa, Jan. "a fire viii
broke out in the Hotel Richelieu
S:l5 yesterday morning resulted II
: property loss Of only about Sl5' o.
but three lives we're sacrificed and II
people were badly hurt The thr
victims were guests of the hotel a
all were suffocated by the der
smoke. The fire originated on
second floor from the explosion OF
and within few moments the bui
ing was a mass Of flames and blind
4 smoke. The noise of the explosi
awakened most of the guests aot
= 90 in number, and terrific fight
- life ensued. The hotel is complet
! Quilted, the loss being about sl5'
with no insurance.
A scHooLnoUsE BLOWN DOWN
|, Little Rock, Ark, Jan. IA he'
windstorm recently swept over the
mote section Of Scott county. ABB
a schoolhouse was blown down
three pupils were killed; another
fatally wounded and dozen or m
. snstained more or less serious iniu