Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-08
SOLDIERS KILLED IN WRECK
Tenth Infsntymen Are Crushed to Death in
Tslssooped Car.
WERE ON THEIR WAY TO FORT CROOK
Five Bodies Taken from Debris aud
More Believed to lie Buried-Lo-
comotiye Jumps Track while
Running at High speed.

GREENVILIE, Pa. Feb. Train 80. o. !
the New York Chicago limited. on the Erie !
railroad, was wrecked this morning within |
the town limits. Five passengers were
dead when taken from the wreck, several
are missing and there are many seriously
injured. Dead:
SERGEANT MAJOR HARRY A. HART,
Fort Wood New York.
, GEORGE w. PATTERSON, Philadelphia,
private, Company |, Tenth United States In
fantry; carried card OF Iron Molders' union.
PETER J. CURRY, Cuboco, ~ Y; pri-
vate, Tenth infantry; aged 2i.
| UNKNOWN MAN, aged about 20.
UNKNOWN MAN. only papers on person
was postal card that had been sent to the
Adams Produce company. Rushville, Ind,
and a ticket from New York to that point.
His face was literally torn into shreds.
Injured:
william d. Moore, Lenox road, Brooklyn,
compound fracture Of left leg and badly cut
about head.
%. A. Marsden, Philadelphia; terribly
crushed about the body.
Ivan Lester Smith. Casteo; badly crushed.
Joseph Brook, Brookheld, Mass; com
pound fracture left leg; cut and bruised
about head and body
Joseph Kennedy, private Tenth infantry.
land Ind. hip crushed, face cut.
o. H. simons Kent, o., brakeman, COM
pound fracture left leg, right leg badly
bruised.
G. J. Henry, Meadville. baggageman, left
leg broken, injured about the chest.
S. Aitken, salesman, New York slightly.
suffering shock.
Levi f. Cahoon, Gloucester. Mass.
slightly injured
Clarence Leek somerville. n. j. injuries
serious.
Milton Stanley. Newton, n. j., leg frac-
tured. cut about face
Charles Cornell Emlra ~ Y, slightly
Harry Welsburg express messenger, Day
ton o.. crushed.
Carme Coliguir, Carbondale Pa, slightly.
Hardly a passenger escaped without some
injury.
The Inflated train was composed entirely
OF vestibuled Pulmans three sleepers, a
day coach, combination smoker and baggage
and mail car, and was drawn by one Of the
new Atlantic type OF engines. II was on the
smoking compartment that death laid a
n ruthless hand. for not one of the sixteen
' occupants escaped being killed or injured.
, This car was completely telescoped by the
l. steel mail car ahead, which went through
1t as though 1t were paper. tearing, crush
: ing. manning and carrying death. The only
u wonder OF the occupants was that they we're
y not all killed outright
o The scene of the wreck Is on a sharp
: curve. On one side, forty feet below. flows
u the Shenango river; on the other is n steep
bluff The engine left the track at the
curve and before 1t had gone two car lengths
o plowed into the steep hill. where It fell or
IS its side and was half buried The train was
running about two hours late and the acci-
80 4,,Ht ahA,,N 4. et,,,s
u when the occupants OF the sleeper hat
- finished dressing.
II After the terrible crash the uninjuret
a passengers set about the rescue OF the deat
J.. and wounded. Surgeons were summoned
ID and within a few minutes the dead ant
10 dying were being cared for as fast as the!
could be discovered beneath the wreckage
II was several hours before the victims hat
'r been removed and placed In the two rea
~ Pulmans.
- Cry to lie Set Free.
u The scenes inside the telescoped cars wer
~ terrible. The men begged to be released
20 and screamed in agony. They were al
At heaped in a corner of the car, dumped ther
by the irresistible impetus of the mall car
~ The injured were placed on special trail
20 and taken to the Spencer hospital, Mead
% Vile. about noon.
Little was left of the baggage or expires
matter in the cars and most of 1t wa
dumped in the river in order to clear tn
debris for rescue.
The train was In charge OF Conductor Sir
er Randel, with Engineer Brett Luce an
Fireman George Eckert. Both the enginee
he and fireman escaped by jumping, thoug
both were badly bruised.
1T Superintendent Belknap and other OF
T. fcers were early on the ground. The
ey were unable to assign cause for the az
cident unless spreading rails can be blamed
er A party of soldiers, nine in number, o
w their way from Fort Porter. Ny, to For
~ Crook. Neb In charge of Sergeant Majo
ay Harry A. Hart Of New York, occupied
o. part OF the smoker. OF the number thre
were killed and two seriously injured. The
". were under orders for the Philippines an
- would have sailed In a short time.
II. The track was blocked for twelve hours
OF the work Of clearing the wreck progressin
81 slowly, and 1t is believed other bodies ar
still beneath the debris.