The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-02-15
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.A Is Train Jumped tho Track md
~ Plowad into a Hill.
FIVE KILLED, MANY Nj sslNo
si:.',1s' Few E, Pas y aangers Escaped lriu,y
Thraas 8o'dlsrs Under Or
dsrs for PHILIPPINES Aro
Among the . aad.

33 Among the Daad.
l Trnin No. 5tho N,w York. Chicago
Il limited on tho lGric railroad, WAS
v SWrecked Thursday morning within tho
town limits Of Gre ony,lIo, Pa Eve
y passengers woio dead whom taken from
Y tho wreck, several ara missing and
thoro are many badly iujur d.
lsI THE DEAD.
The dead are:
Sergeant Major Harry a. H ,rt, Fort
Wood, N. Y.
George w. Patterson, Philadelphia,
D private Go. I, u. s.. infantry; carried
q GARD Of Iron Mouldcrs' union.
Peter j. Curry, Coboc,, Nsw York,
Z private Tenth infantry, aged 81
.S Unknown man, aged 25 years
Unknown man, only papers on per
son was a postal GARD that he'd boon
4 sent. to the Adams Produce company,
Rushville, Ind, aud n ticket FROM New
York to that point. His face was litor
(. ally torn to shreds
I. TUE INJURED.
The injured are:
q VIM ID. Moore, 80 Lenox Road,
1 Brooklyn: compound fracture Of left
log and badly out about tho hoad.
4. b. A. Marsdcn, Philadelphia; terribly
z crushed about the body.
Ivan Lestorsmith, Canistow, Pa
I badly bruised
s Jos. /, Kennedy, Brookfcld, NJ ,ss. !;
compound fracture Of loft leg and
bruised abouttho body.
\. VIM L. MaoG unity, attorney, Port.
s}land, Ind; lip crushed, face out.
o. II. Simons, Kentoho, brakeman; !;
% compound faoturo Of left log, right
leg badly bruised.
@. j. Henry, Meadvillo, baggageman
left leg broken, injured about tho
a chest.
s.. Aikon, salesman, New York
slightly, suffering from ths shock
Cleronoo Look, Summerville, N J.;
injuries serious.
Milton Stanley, Newark, n. j.. leg
fractured, out about faoo.
Harry Woisburg, express messenger,
IN Dayton, Ohio; crushed.
4 Hardly a passenger escaped without
M Borne injury. The train was oompo led
of yestibuled Pullman oars, threo
gloeping oars day ooach, combina
tion smoker yand baggage car, and q
mail car, and was drawn by ono Of tho
A I, now Atlantic type of onginos. The
MS gmo king oar was completely telcscopod
@s$byss tho steol mail oar ahead, which
n Shs through, It as Sif fit wers. papor,
s tearing, crushing, maiming and carry.
ing death. 4 n E.
5s9ts The scene Of the wreck is on sharp
4 ourve. On one sido, DO feut below,
4 lows tho Shona ndo river, on tho othor
is o steep bluff. The engine loft tho
track at the ourve and before it had
gone two car lengths ylowod into the
steep hill, where it fell upon it's side
and was half buried. The train was
running two hours late, and the acoi-
dent happened at 7:10 Just about the
time when the occupants Of tho sleep.
ers had finished dressing.
After tho terrible crash tho unin.
,S 1ured passengers set about the resoure
Of tho dead and wounded, surgeons
were summoned and within few min
utos. tho dead and dying wore being
y carried from there as fast as they GOULD
be discovered beneath the wreokage
1t was several hours, however, before
Y tho victims had been removed and
placed in the two rear Pullmans. The
scene inside the tolosooped oars was
4 terrible. Mon begged to be roloasod
and screamed in agony. They wero all
( heBped in corner of the car, dumped
there by tho impetus Of tho mail car.
e The injured were placed in special
train and taken to tho Spencer hospi-
tal, Meadvilo, about noon What lit
tie was loft Of the baggage or express
matter was dumped in tho river to
clear tho debris for rescue. Several
hundred sacks Of mail wore apparently
little injured,
TIE train Was in charge Of Conduo-
tor Randall, with Engineer Luoie and
Tireman Eokert. Both tho enginoor
and fireman escaped by Jumping, though
9 both wore painfully bruised. Supt
Thelknap and other officials we're carly
on the ground. They woro unable 20
assign oauso for the aooidont unless
spreading rails can bo blamed, A par,
y ty OF nino soldiors on thoir way from
Fort Porter, New York, to Port Crook,
Neb., occupied part Of tho smoker. OF
these, three were killed and two sori.
ouly injured, They woro under orders
q for the Philippines.
B. A. Marsden Of philadelphia. pin
ned in the smoker by boarn, his foot
and chest crushed, his faoe shattered
with the brains Of ono OF tho soldiers,
\ insisted on tho resouers releasing an
unfortunate Jew nearby. Mr.. Mars.
den's wounds arc considered fatal.
Van Wyck Right.