Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-25

Entire Train Except Two Coaches
 Burned to Ashes-Passenger Roast
 ing Slowly to Death Pleaded in Vain for Help-At Least Seven Dead and
 Sixteen Injured-Engineer's Body
 Reduced Completely to Ashes.
 Indianapolis, Ind. July 5.-A special to the Sentinel from Trebeins, O., at 5:30 this morning, says:
 One of the most appalling Wrecks ID the history of the Pennsylvania railroad occurred here last night at 10:3O o'clock, when the limited from St Louis to New York, heavy train consisting of engine, two mail cars, day coach and four rullman sleepers, while run ming at seventy miles an hour, dashed into running flat car loaded with coal coming down grade toward it at a rate of twenty-five miles an hour.
 Three dead bodies have been taken from the wreck; the engineers body will never be recovered, being burned to ashes. Four others are known to be burned to death and several others are missing. The train was totally consumed by fire with the exception of the two rear PullmanS. Sixteen persons were injured, four of them from Indianapolis. Two postal clerks are dead, one from Greenfield, Ind two others are badly scaIded and dozen or more people are more or less hurt.
 The crash came in the darkness. and, to add to the horror, a gas tank under a coach exploded and the entire wreck was mass of flames in three minutes after the collision.
 The dead:
 Charles McGowan, Greenfield, Ind, railway postal clerk.
 NJ. NJ. Peters, Columbus, O., railway postal clerk.
 William Clark, Columbus, O., en- gineer
 William Dwyer, Columbus, O., fire man.
 Two unknown women, burned to death in forward Pullman.
 One unknown man, burned to death in second Pullman.
 Four persons missing, may be burned an the wreck.
 The injured: N George A. Clifford, Indianapolis, / scalded about face and hands; will re- cover
 William c. Forstythe Indianapolis. scalded about face and hands and in .jured internally.
 James McFadden, Indianapolis, bad ly cut on head; will recover.
 Fred Carpenter Indianapolis, stunned and cut about the head; will recover.
 Twelve others whose names could /, not be learned.
 Trebeins is three miles west of Zenia. There is a heavy down grade from that city here While switching coal cars there last night at 1920 o'clock loaded flat car got loose and shot down the heavy grade toward this hamlet. The limited express on the Pennsylvania road was speeding on the ss-SSe track in the opposite direction at the rate of seventy miles an hour. It was late and Engineer Clark was try ing to make up lost time. In the darkness he did not see the coal ear coming, or. at least. saw-it foo late His train crashed into the car and an instant later the entire mass was a burning pile of wreckage. Tn it were nearly fifty human beings. Ten minutes later all had been taken out of the burning mass but seven. ' The passengers escaped without clothing. except the seven in the day eoach The survivors stood helpless and heard the screams of two women
  for whom aid was impossible. For three hours the wreck burned. The Xenia and Dayton fire departments went to the rescue. They could save no life.
 William Dwyer. the fireman. was taken out alive, but lived only thirty minutes. Four postaI clerks were in .fhe mail cars. They were Clifford and sForsythe of Indianapolis. Peters of Go 5umbus O., and McGowan of Green field. Ind.
 The bodies of Peters and McGowan were recovered. badly scalded and mangled Peters was unmarried. Me 1Gowan lived with his wife and three small children in Greenfield. twenty miles east of Indianapolis. ( George A. Clifford lives at Irvington, a suburb of Indianapolis. and has wife and three children, who are visit ling in Ohio.
 William c. Forsythe has a wife and bne child.
 L For an hour the terror stricken pas ssangers stood about the burning wreck .horrifed. power1ess to help the pas 4saugers confined in the burning wreck ssThe smell was sickening. It was ar Sho11r before help arrived from Xenia ffTbe survivors were taken there ano sthe injured cared for. Later a special Hook the uninjured to Columbus. Many of them will continue their Journey. There is nothing left of the train tbut two Pullman coaches. Everythine ,selse was reduced to charred iron ano lsteel Of those living the two Indian sapo1is postal clerks are the worst in sJured. ,and tbe track is being put in shane. Ii s1s torn up for 200 yards. F. B. Hutch ssnson. c1afsq agent of the road. arrived lfrom IndiS ApoIfs later. He is prepar ,hng a list If the intured as accurately sas the confusion will allow. It will be sJays before the exact list is known. stTo PAINT A FAMoTTs BATTLE. / New York. July 25.-Vassih Verest scha gin. the Russian painter. who has been making studies for his painting nof the battle of San Juan Hill for .President Roosevelt. was a passenger on the steamer Seguranca, from San ,Hiago. which arrived this morning. 1T TO TRY AND RAISE $5.O00,O00 Y; Nashville. Tenn. July 25.-At meet