Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-07-16
FRICHTFUL WRECK ON OHIO
RIVER R. R. KILLS TWO men,
Engine Running Light Crashed Into The Ohio Valley
Fast Express at Paden's Valley.
A NEW ENGINEER WAS TO BLAME.
Failed to Note The Time of The Express on The
Schedule and Passed Two
Safe Sidings.

the engine. His head at the back VA
crushed and his body mangled.
Jesse Day was crushed about thu
chest and suffered from broken ribs and
Internal injuries. He was able to talk
a little, but the doctors at l o'clock this
morning gave no hope that he could
live till daylight.
Carter, the fireman Of 101. has his
right thigh terribly crushed and ampu-
tation Will be necessary. His condi.
ton is every serious.
LESS SERIOUSLY HURT.
Thomas Gordon, OF Wheeling. bag.
gagemaster of the express. had the.
right side OF his face bruised and
scratched and his right arm badly
wrenched and bruised.
Peter Rousch, United States mall
agent. WAS bruised and bumped, but
was able to continue the trip on the
transfer train. and went on to Pitts.
burg with the ar.
William Greenlee. Of wheeling.
United States mail clerk, a In the
middle of the mail compartment OF the
combination car, and was thrown vio-
lently TO the partition. His head was
considerably bruised and his shoulder
hurt, but not seriously.
When the engines crashed together.
the tender of the express engine climb
ed over the locomotive. and was Mix
ed In the general wreck. The combine
ton mail and baggage car was thrown
from the track, and the front end
splintered. The smoker which anne
next, was burst open at the roof. and
the upper part OF the front end was
shivered. In this car. however, the
wreck of timbers did not ext I'd back
far enough to injure those in the from.
seats.
Throughout the train, persons were
thrown violently from their seats. No
one was seriously hurt, though none
in the train escaped without a bruisc.
MIGHT HAVE BEEN WORSE.
Had the engines come together ftfty
yards further north, they would hava
been on a ~trestle, fifty yards long. and
twenty feet high, and the train would
have been thrown into a ravine. But
for the fact that the light engine had
no train to back 1t up and the express
was vestibuled, the wreck would have
been frightful to contemplate. As Il
was, the solid express train backing
up its engine, drove the light engine be-
fore 1t, stopping fifty yards from the
first point of contact.
As o as the news OF the wreck
reached Sistersville, a special train was
made up, and physicians were sent to
the scene. Coroner II. G Meek, ono
of the physicians, impanellcd a jur.Sl
consisting OF Clarence Kerr. Lynn Kirt-
land, George Daniels and G. II. Baker.
They viewed the remains Of the dead,
and will make a complete investigation
of the circumstances leading up to the
wreck.
The Ohio River Railroad oficials
made desperate efforts to prevent news
paper men from getting to the wreck.
The Register man was put on the train
three times, and finally, hiding under
a seat, reached the wreck unknown to
the trainmen.
REMAINS OF THE DEAD.
The remains OF Engineer Courtrites
were taken to Wheeling early this
morning. Fireman Busby was taken
to Parkersburg. The body will be bur-
led at Belpre, o., just across the river
from Parkersburg, where his parents
reside. Fireman Carter and Engines
Day were brought here, where the doc
tors are doing all possible for them.
Mrs. Day arrived from Parkersburg to-
night. and Is with her husband, givine
every help. Carriers wife, who lives at
MiBwood. was notified, and will be here
early in the morning.
Carriers case was pitiful. He was
a short time ago, and was pro-
NOTED yesterday from the New Mar.
tinsyille round house to a firing job
the Short Line, and was making his
first trip.
Courtrite, engineer Of the express.
was one of the oldest engineers on the
road, having been in the employ OF the
company continuously since the OPEN
ing of the line In 1884. He was one Of
the best trusted men and had the most
responsible run on the road.
Passengers from Wheeling, COINS
south and those OF the Ohio Valley Ex-
press, going north. were transferred at
the wreck. At midnight 1t was thought
the road would be open In q few hours
as there was but little wreckage on the
track.
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