The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-02-08
FATAL RAILWAY WRECK.
Five PASSENGERS Dead. Several Missing end
Many Wounded.
SCENES IN THE CARS WERE TERRIBLE
A steel Mall Car rIoushcd Through
Smoking Chr. where the
Fatalities Occurred.

Greenville, Penn, February THE New
York Chicago limited on the Erie railroad
was wrecked this merning within the
town limits, Five passengers we're dead
WREN taken from the wreck. several are
missing and there are many injured.
Tho dear ave;
SERGEANT MAJOR HARRY A. HART.
For; Wood. n. y
GEORGE w PATTERSON. Philadel-
phia, private, Tenth infantry.
PETER J. CURRY. cobrero, N. Y.
private. Tenth infantry. aged 81.
UNKNOWN MAN. aged about =.
UNKNOWN MAN. on person was postal
card that had been sent TO Adams FRO.
duec company. Rushvilie. Ind.
The injured are:
william D. Moore, Brooklyn, leg broken
and badly cut about head.
b. Marsden. Philadelphia. terribly
crushed about the body.
Ivan Lester Smith, Canister. badly
Joseph Kennedy, Brookacld Mass, leg
broken, cut and bruised about head and
body, private, Tenth infantry.
| William L. McGinnltie. attorney, Port
land, Ind, hip crushed, face cut.
! c. II. slmons, Kent. Ohio. brakeman,
compound fracture left leg, right leg
badly bruised.
&C. j. Henry, bagga geman, left leg
broken and injured about chest.
S. A. Aiken. salesman, New York.
slightly,
Levi F, cahoon, Gloucester. Mass.
slightly.
Clarence Leekc. somerviile, n j.. scri-
opsiy.
Milton Stanley. Newark n. j.. Injured
in leg, cut about face
Charles Cornell Elmirs, \. v. slightly.
Harry Nv. Warsburg Dayton, Ohio,
crushed.
Carmle Collguire and carmie Grocco,
Carbondale Penn, slightly.
Hardly passenger escaped some IN
Jury. The train was composed OF vcsti-
bulcd Pullman cars. three sleepers
day coach, combination smoker and bag
cage and n mall car. II was in the sniok-
ing compartment that death laid ruth
less hand, for there was not one Of the
sixteen occupants who escaped without
being killed or injured. This car was
completely telescoped by tho steel mail
car ahead. which went through II as Il
II wore paper tearing, crushing manning
and carrying death.
The engine lett the track at curve
and before II had gone two car lengths
plowed into a steep hill. where II zen
upon It's side and was half buried
iAftsr tho crash, the uninjured pas
eengers set about to rescue the wounded;
surgeons were summoned and within
few moments The dead aud dying were
heeng cared for as fast as they could re
discovered beneath the wreckaze. II was
several hours. however. before the Yic-
tfne could he removed and places tn the
two rear Pullmans. The scenes inside lht
telescoped cars were terrible. Meu
begged TO he released and screamed in
agony. They were all heaped in 4 cor
nor CT Tho car dumped there by he r.
resistible impetus OF the mail car. 1ns
Injured were placed on special train
and taken TO The Spencer hospital. Mead
VILE Both tho engineer aud hremen
escaped by jumping officials are unable
TO assign a cause for the accident, unle's
epresdlng rails can be blamed. party
or soldiera nine in number on their way
90 Fort Root Neb,, in charge Of Sergeant
Major Harry Hart OF New York. occupied
n part OF the smoker. or the number
three were killed and two seriously In
jurod.
y. A. MarSden Of Phladelphs. who was
pinned In the smoker by beam on his
foot with chest crushed, his face splt-
tered with brains OF enc OF the soldiers.
insisted on the resucing party releasing
an unfortunate man nearby Marsdea's
wounds are considered fatal II Is said
many bedes arc beneath the debris.