The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-08

Fatal. WRECK ON
THE ERIE ROAD
Five Dead Have Been Taken Out;
More are Missing.
MANY OTHERS BADLY INJURED.
The Train Was Composed Entirely of
Pullman Palace Cars, and
Hardly a Passenger Es-
capped Some Injury.
MANY OTHERS BADLY INJURED.
(By Associated Press.)


GREENVILLE, PA. Feb. Train No.
5, the New York Chicago Limited on the
Erie Railroad, was wrecked this morn
ing within the town limits. Five passen-
gers were dead when taken from the
wreck, several are missing, and there are
many badly injured.
The dead are:
Sergeant Major Harry A hart, forl
Wood. New York
George w Patterson, Philadelphia.
private Company I, Tenth Z. S. 1.
Peter Oboyco, New York, private Tenth
Infantry, aged q.
Unknown man. aged % years, supposed
to he of Somerville, N j.
Unknown man, only papers on person
was a 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 TO
shreds.
THE INJURED.
The injured are: William D. Moore,
Lenox Road, Brooklyn, compound fracture
on left leg and badly cut about the head,
B. A. Marsden, Philadelphia, terribly
crushed about the body. Ivan Lester
Smith, Canisto, badly bruised. Joseph
Kennedy, Brookfield. Mass, compound
fracture left leg, bruised about head and
body, private Tenth Infantry. William
MacGinnitie, attorney, Portland, IND, mp
crushed, face cut. 0. Fl. SimonS, Kent,
Ohio brakeman, compound fracture leg,
right leg badly bruised. C. ]. Henry,
Meadville, baggage,nan, left leg broken,
injured about chest S. Aiken, salesman,
New York, Slightly burned, suffering from
the shock >,sClarence Leek, Somerv1lle,
N J., injuries serious. Milton Stanley
Newark, n. J., leg fractured, cut about
face Harry Weisburg. express messenger
Dayton, Ohio, crushed.
eSp3Ded WitnOCC
some injury The Inflated train was COM
posed entirely of vessibuled Pullmans-
three sleeperS. a day coach, coHlDinatloi
smoker and baggage car and mail car
and was drawn by one OF the new Atiaht1c
type of engines.
COMPLETELY TELESCOPED.
The smoking car was completely tele-
scoped by the steel mail car. which went
through it as if it were paper. tearing,
crushing. manning and carrying death.
The scene of the wreck is on a sharp
curve. On one side, forty feet below,
flows the Shenanso River, on the other
Paste Bluff. The train left the tracks
and ploughed into the steep hill. where 1t
fell upon its side and was half buried
The train about two hours flte and
the accident happened at no. After the
terrible crash the uninjured passengers
set about the rescue of the dead and
wounded. Surgeons We're summoned and
within q few moments the dead and
dying were being cared for as fast as they
could be dragged from beneath the wreck
The scene inside the telescoped car was
terrible. Men begged to be released and
screamed in agony. They were all heaped
in a corner of the car, dumped there by
air pressure and the impetus OF the mail
car.
The train was in charge Of Conductor
Sim Randel, with Engineer Brett Luce
and Fireman George Eckart. Both the
engineer and fireman escaped by jump
ing, though both We're painfully bruised.
Superintendent Belknap and other Off
Gals We're early on the ground. They
are unable to assign a cause for the ac-
cident, unless spreading rails can be
blamed.
The track was blocked for twelve hours,
the work of clearing the wreck proceed
ing slowly, as it is believed other bodies
are still beneath the debris.