Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-11-27
TREMENDOUS
WRECK RUMORED
1--WE Hundred People Reported
Drowned on c. & o.

Nine Coaches Plunged into the RIVER
Not a Soul Escaped Alive-Sensation-
al Report Sent Ont from Parkersburg
Wheeling News Denies 1.-THE Reg
lister Published the Story and Says
They Have no Later News This After
noon-Pr not True However.
The reports of tremendous wreck
on the c. d o. received from Park
ersburg excited people here immense
ly. Senator Elkins was tremendous
ly exercised over it this morning.
No confirmation of the report could
be received from any point in the
state.
This afternoon the Wheeling News
stated over long distance telephone
1that the report was without founda-
ton.
The Register which published it
this morning said in response to
similar inquiry that they had heard
nothing further and that the report
was probably not true. They added
That there had been a landslide and
that al, trains had been delayed but
they did not know for certain wheth-
er the reported wreck had taken
place or not.
The special sent out from Park
ersburg was as follows:
PARKERsBURG, w. Va, Nov. III
The most disastrous wreck since the
terrible calamity Of Ashtabula years
ago, is reported here from Hinton,
w. Va.
The report is that train No. /,
fast Westbound flyer on the Chesa-
peake & Ohio, jumped the track
about mile East of Hinton, and
plunged into the Greenbrier river.
The train consisted of seven
coaches, baggage car, express car,
engine and tender, and it is the re-
port that all OF it went into the riv-
er.
The water is fifteen feet deep at
that point, and after the terrible
Tp1unge, there was nothing above the
surface of the stream to indicate the
awful wreck hidden below.
A conservative estimate places
the number of people aboard the
train at two hundred. 1t was one of
the Chesapeake & Ohio's special fast
trains West and carried large lists
of through passengers from Wash
ington and the East.
Among the people known to have
been on the train are ex Governor
William A. MacCorkle; Hon. Arnold
G. Scherr. auditor elect; and Hon.
Alex. McVey Miller, member of
the State Insane Asylum Boards.
Wires are down in all directions,
and neither telegraphic or telephone
connection could be gotten with
either Hinton, Charleston, or Hunt
ington.
4 brief word to the Huntington
Office of the chesapeake d Ohio
Railroad, at Huntington, over the
railroad companys wires brought
the answer from one of the operators
that there had been no wreck, but
this is not believed
HOW INFORMATION CAME OUT.
Hon. W. H. H. Toler, former
member of the State Legislature,
and now member Of the State hos
pital board, arrived here over the
Ohio River Railroad from Point
Pleasant. Mr. Toler's home is at
East Bank, Kanawha county. He
/ left home Sunday evening for Charles
ton, where he was to meet Hon. Alex
McVey Miller, of Lewisburg, anoth-
err member of the board, and with
him travel to Weston to attend a
meeting of the board. Mr.. Toler
w0ited in Charleston for the train
bearing Miller to arrive, but it had
not gotten in at o'clock when he
left for Parkersburg. He made in
quiry at the hotel, and later went to
the telegraph office where he was in
due at Charleston at a. M, and at
Hinton two hours earlier, had
plunged into the Greenbrier river.
There was great excitement in
Charleston over the wreck and per-
sons acquainted with the movements
of Ex-Gov. MacCorkle and Auditor
Elect Scherr gave him the informa-
tion that they were on the train, and
were expected to arrive in Charles
ton son that train. He had an APP
pointment to meet Mr.. Miller, who
was to come in on the fast train.
Every effort has been made to YER
ify the above report, but owing to
the storm all wires are down, and no
town within reach of the scene CT
tl, accident can be gotten. The
Western Union and Postal Telegraph
Companies have no wires standing
that can reach either Hinton. Charles
ton, or Huntington. The Long Dis
u n 4 =. - - L.