The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1901-02-13
TERRIBLE WRECK.
A Train Jumped the Track and
PIE we'd into a Hill.
FIVE KILLED, MANY MISSING
Few Passengers Escaped lrju'y.
Three Soldiers Under Or
ders for PHILIPPINES Are
Among the Dead.

Among the Dead.
Train No. the Now York Chicago
limited on the Erie railroad, was
wrecked Thursday morning within the
town limits of Greenville, Pa. Five
passengers were dead wher taken from
the wreck, several are missing and
there are many badly injured.
THE DEAD.
The dead are:
Sergeant Major Harry A. Hart, Fort
Wood, N. Y.
George w. Patterson, Philadelphia,
private Go. U. s., infantry; carried
a card of Iron Moulders' union.
Peter j. Curry, Coboco, New York,
private Tenth infantry, aged 2l.
Unknown man, aged 25 years.
Unknown man, only papers on per-
son was postal card that had been
sent to the Adams Produce company,
Rushville, Ind, and ticket from New
York to that point. His face was liter
ally torn to shreds.
TUE INJURED.
The injured are:
VIM d. Moore, 80 Lenox Road,
Brooklyn; compound fracture of left
leg and badly cut about tho head.
B. A. Msrsden, Philadelphia; terribly
crushed about the body.
Ivan Lestersmith, Csnistow, Pa
>Sauly bruised.
Jos. Kennedy, Brookfeld, Mass.
compound fracture of left leg and
bruised about the body.
VIM h. MacGinnity, attorney. Port
land, Ind. hip crushed, face cut.
y. d. Simons, Kentcho, brakeman;
compound facture Of left leg, right
leg badly bruised.
O. j. Henry, Meadville, baggsgeman;
left leg broken, injured about the
chest.
s. Aiken, salesman, New York;
slightly, suffering from the shock.
Clarence Leek, Summerville, n. j.;
injuries serious.
Milton Stanley, Newark, n. j.; leg
fractured, cut about face.
Harry Weisburg, express messenger,
Dayton, Ohio; crush
Hardly passenger escaped without
some injury. The train was oompo ied
OF vestibuled Pullman cars, three
sleeping cars, day coach, combins
tion smoker and baggage car, and
mail car, and was GrsTa ~ one of the
SSsatzs SsS Aass..s ss-s1 Typ. as:; Tn ~,
by the steel mail car ahead, which
went through it as if it wers paper,
tearing, crushing, manning and carry
ing death.
The scene of the wreck is on sharp
curve. On one side, 40 feet below,
flows the Shenando river, on the other
is steep bluff. The engine left the
track at the curve and before it had
gone two car lengths plcwed into the
steep hill, where it fell upon its side
and was half buried. The train was
running two hours late, and the acci-
dent happened at 7:10 just about the
time when the occupants of the sleep.
ers had finished dressing.
After the terrible crash the unin-
jured passengers set about the rescure
OF the dead and wounded, surgeons
were summoned and within a few min
utes the dead and dying we're being
carried from there as fast as they could
be discovered beneath the wre eckage.
1t was several hours, however, before
the victims had been removed and
placed in the two rear Pullmsns. The
scene inside the telescoped cars was
terrible. Mon begged to be released
and screamed in agony. They were all
heaped in corner of the ca, dumped
there by the impetus of the mail car.
The injured were placed in special
train and taken to the Spencer hospi
tai, Meadville, about noon. What lit
tie was left of the baggage or express
matter was dumped in the river to
clear the debris for rescue. Several
hundred sacks of mail were apparently
little injured.
TIE train WAS In charge of Conduc
tor Randall. with Engineer Luoie and
Fireman Eckert. Both the engineer
and fireman escaped by jumping, though
both were painfully bruised. Supt.
Thelknap and other officials were earIy
on the ground. They we're unable to
assign cause for the accident unless
spreading rails can be blamed. A par
ty Of nine soldiers on their way from
Fort Porter, New York, to Port Crook,
Neb occupied part of the smoker OF
these, three were killed and two seri-
ouly injured. They were under orders
for the Philippines.
B. A. Msrsden Of Philadelphia, pin.
ned in the smoker by beam, his foot
and chest crushed, his face shattered
with the brains Of one of the soldiers,
insisted on the rescuers releasing an
unfortunate Jew nearby. Mr.. Mars
den's wounds are considered fatal.