Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-01-03
ENGINE JUMPS
TRACK; TWO DEAD
Baltimore and Ohio Passenger
Train Wrecked Near
Cumberland, Md.
CARS ARE PILED IN A HEAP
Seventeen Persons Injured and Some of
Them May Not Survive 49, Accident
Happens in. HiIly Region-Cause Is
Not Yet known.

TlCtsDuTg, Jan. 3.-Ihe Baltimore 81
Ohio day express No. 6, east-bound.
was dorailed one mile from Glencoe at
2:30 p. M. yesterday, wrecking the
train, killing the engineer and fireman,
and wounding seventeen others. The
train caught fire and all the cars
burned, but all the passengers, several
OF whom were from Chicago and the
west, and trainmen were got out be-
fore the fire reached them. The train
was an hour late, and Engineer Col
Inns was trying to make UP lost time.
Going down grade, on sharp curve,
it is said the air-brakes failed to work,
and the engine on leaving the track
buried itself in a clay bank. The pos
tai car, baggage car, and smoker veered
the other way and overturned.
Coaches damned into Bank
The day coach and Pullman car were
damned into the hillside and were not
overturned. The storage gas under the
mail car used for lighting caught fire
with sudden blaze, and the seventy
five or more passengers who were not
injured began working heroically to
get the injured out. Water was
scooped from q small creek at hand,
and it is being carried to cool the
track to permit the west-bound trains
to pass. The bodies Of the engineer
and fireman were recovered, the engi
neer's corpse being charred. The heat
became so intense the rescuers could
scarcely work.
The Dead and Injured.
The deaths are: John Col
Inns, Ccnnellsville, Pa, engi-
neer; McCune, Connellsville, fireman.
The injured are: William Avery, engi-
neer, seriously; J. A. Barton, Chicago,
slightly; Frank w. Bremen, head cut;
H. A. Hall, Gainesville, w. Va, slight
ly; 1. N. Hay, Meyersdale, Pa, slightly;
Charles Henry, Philadelphia, slightly;
S. J. Jones, Summit, Md, slightly; r.
J. Lazy, Chicago, badly bruised; e. J..
Lehman, Washington, D. c., slightly;
J. S. Matthews, Cheyenne, Wyo., slight
ly; M. R. Mckinley, Rock Island, ILL.,,
slightly; D. J. Partella, mail clerk,
Washington, .. c.. seriously; G.. w.
Ryan, Baltimore. seriously; G. B..
Smith, Allegheny, Pa, slightly; r. R.
Souser, Napier, Pa, seriously; j. r.
Waters, E1uttonsville, w. Va, slightly;
G. A. Young, mail clerk. Hagerstown,
Md, seriously. Four of the coaches
had passed on ahead of the engine and
the wind swept the flames towards the
latter. Rescue crews from all points
on the railroad were sent out with
physicians.
Accident on Mountain Side.
Where the engine left the track the
road runs almost straight along the
side of steep mountain. On the left
is small stream Of water. The res
cuers were enabled to continue at work
by bathing their faces and hands IN
the nearby creek, else they would have
failed to dig out those pinned under
the debris. Engineer Collins, to all ap-
pearances, stuck to his post with his
hand on the throttle in an effort to
save the passengers. His body was
found near the boiler. A relief train
from Cumberland reached the scene at
4:30, and an hour later had all the in
iured on board and landed them all IN
Cumberland, those seriously injured
being now in the Cumberland hospital
Mail All Destroyed
The eastern mail was all destroyed
A few pieces of baggage were saved.
There were only few women on the
trains, and these all escaped Katy
Collins, as the engineer was known
along the line by the children for the
last twenty-five years, is not blamed
by the local railroad authorities, as his
reputation was among tho best for
careful running. The east-bound
tracks cannot be opened until late in
mr. ,7StenaG7 on account OF the FIRE,
Six Day Cyclists Grind Along.