Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1902-05-14
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Leaking Naphtha To FRO
Switch Light +. Npseck. y
RESULT TERRIBLE.
More Than a Score OF Lives We're Lost
and Of Two Hundred Burned
Only n small Proportion
Can Possibly Recover.
TERRIBLE.

Pitsburg. May i3.-The Sheradap
yards OF the Panhandle railroad were
the scene late Monday afternoon OF
an explosion in which a score Of lives
were lost and 200 persons so badly
burned that. according TO the Judgment
OF physicians, 75 per cent OF them Will
die from the effects OF their injuries.
and damage to property estimated al
5000 900.
The following is list OF the Head sc
far as obtainable:
Albert Mexican. brakeman. Shera'
dan.
John Swan. brakeman. Sheridan.
Unknown boy. about IL years old
died on way to hospital.
II. f. smithley. Uhrichsyille. o.
died at hospital
Mr.. Finnerty. slsterville. West Va,
died at hospital.
Charles Hertig. Chestnut Mines. died
at hospital.
W. w. Taylor OF MIllers Station.
died at Mercy hospital.
@. f. Hunter OF sheridan. died Al
hospital.
W. e. Wright. a carpenter OF shera
dan. died at hospital
Dallas Bort OF sheridan. died at hos
pital.
Davis smith. a boy. Sheridan. died
nj hospital.
James keenan,. aged 20 years. Car.
negie.
Pascoe Nader. died at hospital.
Italian section hand.
Two unknown boys, aged 10. died al
hospital.
Mr.. Douds. died NJ Mercy hospital
While a train OF naptha cars was
being switched. the rear ear tclescoped
a car forward The leaking naptha
ignited from a switch light. causing
an explosion which threw the flames
fifty feet high. Much OF the escaping
naptha ran through Cork's Run to Is
Peterborough. a distance Of one and o
half miles and caused another cXplo-
sion. blowing TO atoms the Seymour
and Collins hotel and badly wrocking
a frame building near by. in which
were congrcgatod 200 or more men of
Pittsburg and vicinity. betting on, tho
races and baseball Few of the occu-
pants Of this building escaped injury
many being badly hurt Mrs. Seymour
and her daughter of the Sheridan ho-
tel. were seriously, and IL Is feared
fatally injured
The first car Of naptha exploded
about $40 o'clock and the spectacle
soon attracted large crowd on streets
Iinig the hills on both sides OF. and
parallel TO the railroad. The second
explosion occurred about o'clock. but
II was 6.t5 when three more cars OF
the deadly stun went mp with a roar
that could be heard for miles, before
the work OF destruction really began.
A torrent OF flame belched forth on
each side 81 the track. sweeping back
the terrified spectators like a charge
OF cavalry and sending n shower Of
fame over their heads The successive
/ explosions had heated the air 10 such
/ an extent that before the third eXplo-
| sion many were rendered unconscious
| By the extreme heat and gaseous fumes
/ and were being carried away when the
| torrent OF flame swept over the ex-
cited crowd.
There was an awful hush for a mo-
| ment. then followed "A scene OF frenzy.
/ Men and women. their clothing ablaze,
their faces scorched and hlistered and
| their hair burned OF their heads, ran
\ hither and thither. only intent on es-
Gaping the furnace OF fire. Some gave
vent TO frenzied appeals to kin them
and put them out OF their misery. and
/ little children with their hair and
clothing adre cried piteously as they
were swept along the tide OF burning
humanity.
Many Of those not seriously burned
were'removed TO their homes In Shera'
dan. while others were sent 10 the vari-
Gus Pittsburg hospitals and the dead
removed 20 undertaking establish
ments in Sheridan and vicinity and "a
the Pittsburg morgue.