The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-02-08
THE ERIE ROAD WRECK.
Five Passengers Killed and Hardly One
Escapes without Injury.

Greenville, Pa, Feb. 7.--Train No. 5
the New York-Chicago lmited-on
the Erie railroad was wrecked this
morning within the town limits. Five
passengers were dead when taken from
tn, wreck, several are missing and
there are number of badly injured
The dead are:
Sergeant Major Harry A. Hart Fort
wood, ~ y; George w. Patterson,
Philadelphia, private Company l, Tenth
United States infantry, carried card of
Iron Moulders' union; Peter I. Curry,
Coboco, N. Y, private Tenth infantry,
aged ,twenty-on unknown man, aged
twenty-five years, supposed to be Clar-
ence Leek, of Somersville, N. j; un-
known man, only papers on person 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 literally torn
to shreds.
The injured are: William D. Moore,
80 Lenox Road, Brooklyn, compound
fracture of left leg and badly cut about
the head; B. A. Marsden, Philadelphia,
terribly crushed about the body; Ivan
Lester Smith, Canisteo, N. Y, badly
bruised; Joseph Kennedy, Brookfield,
Mass private in the Tenth infantry,
compound fracture legt leg, cut and
cruised about head and body; William
4. MacGinnitie, attorney, Portland,
Ind, hip crushed, face cut; O. Fl. Sa-
mans, brakeman, compound fracture
left leg, right leg badly bruised; c. J.
Henry, Meadville baggageman, left leg
broken, injured about chest; S. Aiken,
salesman, New York, slightly, suffering
from shock; Levi z. Cahoon, Gouces-
ter, Mass, injured slightly Clarence
Leek, Somerville, N. j., injurie serious;
Milton Stanley, Newark, N. j.. leg
fractured, cut about face; Charles Cor
nell, Elmira, N. Y, slightly; Harry
Weisburg, express messenger, Dayton,
o., crushed; Carmie Cologuire and Car
1nie Crocio, Carbondale, Pa, slightly.
Hardly a passenger escaped without
come injury. The Inflated train was
composed entirely of vestibuled Pull-
mans, three sleepers, day coach COM
bination smoker and baggage car and
a mail car. 1t was drawn by one of
the new Atlantic type of engines. Not
one of the sixteen occupants escaped
death or injury. The car was COM
pletely teescoped by the steel mail car
ahead, which went through 1t as if it
wae paper.
The scene of the wreck is on a sharp
curve. On one side forty feet below,
flows the Shenango river, on the other
is 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 one side.
yr,1.- ,;,er 1nJJ fxxrn
hours late The accident happened at
7:10, just about the time when the oc-
cupants Of the sleepers had finished |
dressing. After the crash the uninjured |
passengers set about the rescue of the |
dead and wounded, surgeons were sum- |
moned and within few moments the |
dead and dying were being cared for
as fast as they would be discovered be-
meath the wreckage.
The scenes inside the teiescoped cars
were terrible Men begged to be re-
leased and screamed In agony. There
were heaped in a corner OF the car,
dumped there by the irresistible i'm
petus of the mail car The injured were
placed ON a special train and taken to
the Spencer hospital Meadville, ABOUT
noon. Very little was left of the bag
gage OF express matter IN the cars anu
most of it was dumped into the river
in order to clear the debris from rescue.
Several hundred sacks of mail were ap-
parently little injured. Both engineer
and fireman escaped by jumping, though
both were painfully injured.
Officials are unable to assign cause
for the accident unless spreading rails
can be blamed A party of soldiers,
nine in number on their way from Fort
Porter, New York, to Fort Crook, Neb.,
in charge of Sergeant Major Harry A.
Hart, of New York, occupied part of
the smoker, OF the number three were
killed and two seriously injured. They !
were under orders for the Philippines
and would have sailed in a short time. |