Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-01-09
FAST TRAIN DITCHED.

Passengers Pulled From Blazing Wreck
on the Baltimore a. Ohio Railroad.
Cor ne,sville, Pa, Jan. 2. The New
York Limite express on the Baltimore
e. Ohio was wrecked yesterday after
noon, near PhilHon station. The ca
gipeer and fireman were killed and 10
passengers injured.
DEAD.
John Collins, engineer, Connellaville,
Pa.
James Mcclure, fireman, Glenwood,
Pa.
IHJuREp.
d. j. Partella, postal clerk, Washing
ton, d. c., badly bruised about body.
hip broken and hand injured. Rescued
from debris altar fire started in mail
car. His recovery Is doubtful.
r. r Sauser. Napier, Pa, injured
internally thought to DO fatal.
Charles A. Young, postal clerk,
Hagerstovn, Nd, burt intefnnllyi not
OF peoted to live.
IL, A. Hall, Gainesville, ". Va,
arm broken. -.
L. J. Lanzy, ChicsRo, badly bruised.
Frank W. Breunsr, hurt about head.
William Avery, 0 Baltimore 4 Ohio
engineer, riding to Cumberland, hurt
internally condition serious.
g. W. Ryan, Bait more, serious in
juries
Charles Henry, Philadelphia, slight
O. b. Smith, Allegheny, Pa.
j. S. Matthews, Cheyenne, W. Va.
j.. r, Walters, HuttnnHville, w. Va.
w. r. Mckinley, Rock Island, III.
S. j. Jones, Vale Summit, Nd.
E. J. Lehman Washington, ID. U.
J. A. Carton, Oh icBgo,
The express was running two hours
late. and was speeding along at terri fc
rate, when, without q moments warn
ing, the engine left the track anc
plunged into the. side OF a steep EN-
bankment The baggage car shuntec
off to the right OF the engine. Tht
mail car took an opposite direction aut
plunged into the hill. The five coaches
following, three OF which were fillee
with passengers, plunged 200 feet il
front Of the train, where they piled ur
Men and women were pinioned beneath
heavy timbers, and remained 10 THU
condition until assistapce could b'
given them. That wholesale deati
list was prevented is due probably tt
the TACT that the heavy yestibule car
did not completely break up.
Philson is little station in tn
A Allegheny Mountains half way between
Cumberland and Uonneilsvil.e, and thu
place 10 which the wreck occurred /
thinly populated The passengers VIII
escaped without injury we're about th
only persons to conduct the rescue, AM
they worked heroically. This wreokag
caught fire III minutes after the crash
but the efforts of the rescuers wer
doubled and the Injured removed, il
many instances Just as the flames wer
about to devour them. There was n
fire apparatus to qnench the flamea
and they were left to destroy tn
coaches, whils the passengers locke
Oh. The bodies of the engineer an
fireman were pinioned beneath tn
eng ne, and, by hard work, wer
rescued while the flames raged aroun
them. The wreck, 1t is given out, wa
due to defective rail, a 80 foot wash
out occurred two weeks ago, and it
thought that the track may have bee
improperly re'aid.
AS soon after the accident as possibl
relief train with physicians an
nurses was sent to thu scene froi
Cum herland, and the injured wer
taken to Meyersdale, Pa.
Engineer Collins had been in th
service of the Baltimore & Ohio Go.
years, and had never received so muc
as scratch. He Recently built a Lin
residence here, and moved into 1t thrt
days ago.