Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-08
Five PASSENGERS DEAD
and SEVERAL MISSING.
FRIGHTFUL WRECK OF THE NEW
YORK-CHICAGO LIMITED ON
THE ERIE RAILROAD.
SMOKING CAR TELESCOPED.
HARDLY A PASSENGER ON THE EN-
TIRE TRAIN ESCAPED
INJURY.

passengers were dead when taken from
the wreck. several are missing and
there are score Of badly injured.
THE DEAD ARE:
Sergeant Major Harry A. Hart, Fort
Wood, New York.
George w. Patterson, Philadelphia,
private Co. L., Tenth U. S. Infantry.
Carried u card of Iron Molder's I'm
ion.
Peter j. Curry, Coboco, N. ", pri-
vate Tenth Infantry, aged FL.
Unknown Man aged rs years, sup
posed to be Clarence Leek, of Somer-
Vile, n. j.
Unknown man, only papers on
whose person was a postal card that
had been sent to the Adams Produce
Co., Nashville, Ind, and II ticket from
New York to that point. His face
was literally torn to shreds.
THE INJURED ARE:
William ID. Moore, 81, Lenox Road,
Brooklyn, Compound fracture of left
leg and badly cut about the head.
b. A. Marsden, Philadelphia, terri
bly, crushed about the body.
Ivan Lester Smith, Canisto, badly
bruised.
Joseph Kennedy, BrookheId, Mass,
compound fracture left leg, cut and
bruised about head and body, pri-
waite Tenth Infantry.
VIM. Il. McGinnitie, attorney. Port.
land, Ind, hip crushed, face cut.
o. I'll. SimOns, Kent, o., brakeman,
compound fracture left leg, right leg
badly bruised.
G. j. Henry, MeadvilIe, baggage
man, left leg broken, injured about
chest.
5. Aiken, salesman, New York,
slightly suffering from the shock
Levi F. Cahoon, Gloucester, Mass,
injured slightly.
Clarence Leek, Somerville, N. j.,
injuries serious.
Milton Stanley, Newark, N. j., leg
fractured, cut about face.
Charles Cornell, Elmira, N. ",
slightly.
Harry Weisburg, express messen-
ger, Dayton, o., crushed.
Carmie CoIiguire and Carmie Gree
co, Carbondale, Pa, slightly.
Hardly a passenger escaped without
some injury.
The Inflated train was composed
entirely of vestibuled Pullmans, three
sleepers, a day coach, combination
smoker and baggage car and a mail
car and was drawn by one of the new
Atlantic type of engines. 1t was in the
smoking compartment that death laid
ruthless hand. Not one of the six
teen occupants escaped without being
killed or injured.
This car was completely telescoped
by the steel mail car ahead which went
through it as if it were paper, tearing.
crushing, manning and carrying death.
The only wonder of the occupants is
that they were not all killed outright.
The scene of the wreck is a sharp
curve. On one side, forty feet below,
flows the Shenango river, on the other
is a steep bluff. The engine left the
track at the curve and before it had
gone two car lengths plowed into the
steep hill, where it fell upon its side
and was half buried
The train was running about two
hours late and the accident happened
at 7:10, just about the time when the
occupants of the sleepers had finished
dressing
After the terrible crash, the unin-
jured passengers set about the rescue
of the dead and wounded, surgeons
were summoned and within a few mo-
ments the dead and dying were being
cared for as fast as they could be dis
covered beneath the wreckage. 1t was
several hours, however, before the
Victims Had Been Removed
and placed in the two rear Pullmans.
The scenes inside the telescoped cars
were terrible Men begged to be re-
leased and screamed IN agony. They
were all heaped in corner of the car,
dumped there by the irresistible impe-
tus of the mail car.
The injured were placed on a spec
ial train and taken to ne Spencer hos
pital, Meadville, about noon.
Very little was left of the baggage
or express matter in the cars and most
of it was dumped into the river in or
der to clear the debris for rescue. Sew
parently little injured.
The train was in charge Of Conduc-
tor Sim Randall, with Engineer Brett
Luce and Fireman George Eckert.
Both the engineer and fireman escap-
ed by jumping, though both were pain
fully bruised
sSupt. Belknap and other officials
were early on the ground They were
unable to assign a cause for the acct
dent unless spreading rails can be
blamed.
a party of soldiers, nine in num-
Der, on their way from Fort Porter,
n Y, to Fort Crook, Neb., in charge
of Sergeant Major Harry A. Hart, Of
New York, occupied a part Of the
smoker OF the number
Three Were Killed
and two seriously injured. They were
under orders for the Philippines aud
would have sailed in a short time. The
adjutant generals Office has directed
that the bodies be prepared for ship
ment AMI held until the arrival of a
commissioned officer from New York.
The others in the party were Freder-
lex j. Zoninguez, Brooklyn; VIM. H.
Brozy, Lancaster, Pa; George L. Hart,
Brooklyn: John n Butler. Farming
ton, Del. Miss S. A. Turtle, of New
York, was also on the train, but was
uninjured.
a remarksble act q fortitude was