Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-30
TRAIN PLOWS
INTO A DITCH
Two Killed and Twenty.
seven Others Injured
accident Supposed to Have Been Due
to Heavy Rains Spreading
the Rails

Newark. N. T.. Aug 9O.-The ac-
commodation train leaving sodus Point
over the Northern Central railroad
and which arrives in this village at 81
o'clock was derailed last night at the
station at Fairville, about ten miles
north Of here. Two were killed and %
injured.
Dead:
William Mosher, engineer. sodus
Point
Howard Tubbs. Elmira, ticket agent
ct Lake Shore.
Injured:
Libbie Ford. Newark, badly scalded;
will probably die.
Rev.A. Park Burgess, Syracuse, badly
scalded and right leg broken.
Mrs. A. p. Burgess, Syracuse, very
badly scalded
Chester Flagger. fireman. back
sprained.
Libbie White. Newark. scalded about
face and hands.
A. A. Bradley. Seneca Falls. badly
scalded.
Mrs. A. A. Bradley, Seneca Falls,
ecalded about face and arms.
Miss Elizabeth Todd, Newark. scald-
ed face and body.
Oscar Hasson. Baltimore, Md. right
hand cut
Mrs. Charles G. Edwards, st. Paul,
Mimi, badly scalded about head and
body.
Miss Sue NJ. stictzer. Williamsburg.
Pa. scalded on face and hands.
George It. Guyer. Baltimore, Md,
head and arms scalded.
}. E. Steyer, Newark, left leg injured.
Mrs. r. II. Hare. Springfield. Mass,
visiting at Clifton Springs, seriously
scalded about body. arms and face.
Mrs. Ella J. Meagher. Sodus Point.
head and arms scalded
c. L. Pierson, Newark. eye cut and
arms burned.
Isaac Moore. Newark. hand burned.
Josephine Moore, Newark. face and
arms burned.
Mrs. Marion Moore. Newark. face
and hands scalded ga-
Doris Moore, Newark. four years,
slightly burned
Russell Moore. Newark. two years.
slightly burned
Fred Everetts. Palmyra. badly
uealded:
Mrs. Fred Everetts. Palmyra, scalded.
L L. II. Hood. Seneca Falls, right
hand and face burned.
Mrs. L. II. Hood. Seneca Falls, arms
and face scalded.
IN N. Wilson, Macedon, right hand
and face scalded.
Oliver Wilson. Macedon. wrist cut
by glass. vpN
Rev. DR.. Burgess. one of the injured
was for 20 years pastor of the Park
Presbyterian Church at New ark. He
is 70 years old. and it is doub tful II he
RECEIVERS His right Leg is bro ken and
he is badly scalded.
The cause of the wreck is not ex-
actly known, but II is thought the
rails spread. Thew have been heavy
rains recently, aud probably in this
way the tracks we're loosened.
The train WIS made up at Sodus
Point. and consisted OF four coaches.
a baggage car and engine. with VIII
Ham Mosher at the throttle. The
train was running at nearly 40 miles
an hour AIF jroaching the station at
tairville, there is curve and gravel
pit For SOY ne unknown reason the
engine jump I'd the track while passing
the grayel Tit The force OF the acct
dent turned the engine completely
around. throwing the fiYe cars on
their sidef.
The train load Of some $50 passen-
gers was thrown into the ditch. and
the engine and all the cars were bad
~ broken up Help was quickly sum-
moned from the neighborins: houses.
and all the assistance pos sdble was
rendered Word was sent to Sodus
and Newark for physicians and a
special containing FIVE doctors left
Newark at Gas o'clock Upon its ar
rival the Newark passengers were
placed aboard and FASTENED to New.
ark. Five we're sent to Rochester hos
pitfalls.