Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-15
VERY BAD WRECK, BUT
FORTUNATELY TIMED.
FORT WAYNE EXPRESS TRAIN RAN
THROUGH AN ACCOMMO-
DATION.
TWO CARS SPLIT WIDE OPEN
LUCKILY. NEITHER CONTAINED
MORE THAN A VERY FEW
PASSENGERS.

PITTSBURG, Pa. December 1.-THE
day express from Chicago, on the Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne & Chicago railway,
at $50 o'clock this morning, collided
with the Leetsdale accommodation,
east-bound, at Edgeworth, Pa, near
here Both trains were wrecked and
eleven persons were injured. The list
of injured is as follows:
Oscar White, fireman of No. g. ter
ribly cut about head and body and is
fatally injured.
Dorsey Wise, baggagemaster on ac-
commodation, arms and body crushed
and bruised and will die. Lives at
Leetsdale and is married.
James Johnston, conductor Of accom-
mediation, cut about face and body
married and lives at LeetSdale.
Fred Schuch, brakeman on the ac-
commodatiOn, lives in Ohio and about
q years Of age; hurt about the body.
Unknown colored man, residing at
Edgeworth, slightly hurt. He was TAX
en- home
R. L. Stevens, of New York, breast
bone injured and unable to speak above
a whisper. He is an invalid and is in
a serious condition, but insisted on be-
ing taken home.
j. e. Hanson, of Chicago, jostled out
OF berth and hurt about the head and
face
Mrs. Hanson, wife of J. E. Hanson,
jostled out of berth and rendered I'M
conscious by head striking against the
floor of the car.
William Fischer, on his way to Della
ware, thrown out of berth and slightly
cut about face and bruised about the
body.
Ada Fischer, 14-year-old daughter of
William Fischer, thrown out of berth
and cut about head.
George Fleming, porter of General
Superintendent Watts private car.
bruised about right arm and side.
A mistake in the signals, it is said,
caused the accident. The accommoda-
ton had stopped at Edgeworth and
the passengers were thronging into
the coaches, when the heavy locomo-
tive hauling the express came thun-
dering up the track. The engineer
applied the air, but was not, able to
stop the express in time to avert q
collision, and the engine crashed into
the accommodation train. The express
locomotive plunged into the smoking
car and coaches of the accommoda-
ton, which were thrown from the
track.
The moment the wreck occurred, a
large crowd ran to the assistance of
the injured, and in a short time they
were all extricated from their peri
lous positions and removed to the sta
ton, and physicians summoned.
1t is believed that all will recover,
except Fireman White, who was
crushed under his engine, and Bag
gagemaster Wise, who was caught in
the end of his car and terribly
crushed.
AS soon as possible a train was made
up and the passengers brought to this
city. Ambulances were on hand when
the train arrived and the seriously in
jured were removed to the hospitals.
Mr. Stevens, of New York, and sew
eral of the others, who were slightly
injured, left for the East on later
trains.
That there was not terrible loss of
life is due to the fact that the &C
commodation had scarcely started on
it's run to Allegheny. The rear coach
was empty, and only one passenger
was in the second coach. Two sta
tons further east, both coaches would
have been crowded. Both of these cars
we're split from end to end, the loco
motive of the express plunging through
the rear coach and half through the
second coach.
The tracks were clear, and traffic
resumed east and west by 10 O'Clock
this morning.