The Savannah morning news., 1901-02-08
A VESTIBULE WRECK
NEW YORK-CHICAGO LIMITED on
ERIE RAILROAD.
THREE COACHES TELESCoPED.
FIVE KILLED OUTRIGHT AND MANY
BADLY INJURED.


and Plunged Into EmbanLment.
Hardly Passenger Escaped In
jury-Three OF the Killed soldiers
Under Orders for the Philippines.
Terrible scenes in TelescOped
Cars-FRtRlIy Injured Man Insists
on Rescuers Relieving Another he
fore Him.
Greenville. Pe.. 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:
Seret. Maj. Harry A Hart. Fort Wood
N. Y.
George W. Patterson, Philadelphia, pri-
vate, Company l, Tenth United States
Infantry, carried card of Iron Moulders =
Union.
Peter J. Curry, Coboco, N Y, pri-
vate, Tenth Infantry aged q.
Unknown man, aged 25 years.
was a 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 SO Lenox road, Brook
lyn. compound fracture of 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. COM
pound fracture left leg. cut and bruised
about head and body.
William f. McGattie, attorney, Port
land, Ind, hip crushed. face cut
o. H. Simons, Kent, o.. brakeman COM
pound fracture left leg right leg badly
bruised.
c. j, Henry, Meadville, baggageman,
left leg broken, injured about the chest.
S. Aiken, salesman, New York. slightly.
suffering from the shock.
Clarence Leek, Somerville, N. J.. injuries
serious.
Milton Stanley. Newark N j., leg frac-
tured, cut about face.
Harry Weisberg, express messenger,
Dayton, o., crushed.
Hardy "A passenger escaped without
some injury. The train was composed en-
tirely of vestibuled Pullmans, three sleep
ing cars, day coach, combination smoker
and baggage car and mail car and was
hV of
of engines. The smoking car Was COM
pletely telescoped by the steel man car
ahead, which went through il as II 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 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
hHl, where it fell upon its side and was
half buried. The train was running about
two hours late, and the accident hap
pened at 7:10 O'clock just about the time
when the occupants of the sleepers had
finished dressing.
Rescuing the wounded.
After the terr. bic crash the injured pas-
sengers set about the rescue of the dead
and wounded, surgeons were summoned
and within a few moments the dead and
dying were being cared for as fast asothey
could be discovered beneath the wreck
age. 1t was several hours. however. be-
fore the victims had been removed and
placed in the two rear Pullmans The
scenes inside the telescoped cars were ter
rible. Men begged to be released and
screamed in agony. They were all II ap-
ed in Il corner of the car, dumped there
by the irresistible impetus of the mail
car The injured were placed on special
train and taken to the Spencer Hosp tai.
Meadville about noon. What little was
left of the baggage or express matteg
was dumped into the river to clear the
debris for rescue. Several hundred sacks
of mail were apparently little injured.
The train was in charge of Conductor
Randel with Engineer Luce and Fire
man Eckert Both the engineer and
both , were painfully bruised Supt.
Belknap and other officials were
early on the ground. They were
unable to assign a cause for the ac-
cident unless spreading rails can be blam-
cd. A party of nine soldiers on their
way from Fort Porter, n. Y, to Fort
Crook, Neb., occupied a part Of the smok-
er. OF these three were killed and two
seriously btured. They were under or
ders for the Philippines.
b. A. Marsden of Philadelphia. pinned
in the smoker by a beam, his foot and
chest crushed his face spattered with
the brains of one Of the soldiers, insisted
on the rescuers releasing an unfortunate
jew near by. Marsden's wounds are con-
sidered fatal
The +. B. and l.. i. Railroad sent forty
men from their shops here and lent valu-
able aid before the Erie wrecking crews
arrived The track was blocked for twelve
hours. the work OF clearing the wreck Is
proceeding slowly, and 1t is believed .other
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