The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-12-24
Killed in a Railroad Wreck in
Pennsylvania.
Flyer Struck . Pile Of Lumber and
Tore Train to Pieces Last
Evening.
L. q. N. WRECK IN ALABAMA

Connellsville, Pa. Dec. 24-With a
terrible crash and q grinding noise the
Duquesne limited. the fastest through
passenger train from Pittsburg to New
York, on the Baltimore and Ohio,
ploughed into pile of lumber at Lau-
rel Run, two miles west Of Dawson,
at { AS O'Clock last night and fully SO
lives were lost, and 80 persons were
injured.
The train left Pittsburg a few min
utes late. When approaching Laurel
Run, which is particularly fine piece
of roadbed, the train was running at
high rate Of speed. Suddenly the pas
sengers were thrown from the seats by
the lightning-iike application of the
air brakes and moment later came
the crash.
The train was made up of two bag
gage, two day coaches, one sleeper
and one dining car and was carrying
at the time $50 passengers.
The train ploughed along for con-
siderable distance, and the cars were
torn to pieces, passengers jumping
screaming, falling from the wreck as
it tore along.
Suddenly the engine swerved to the
left and the coaches plunged down
over the embankment to the edge of
the Youghiogheny river.
ine minute the cars stopped rolling
there was scene of wild excitement.
Many were pinioned beneath the
wreckage.
Many were injured in their mad ex-
element and plunged into the river.
Others, pinioned beneath the heavy
timbers pleaded in agonizing tones for
release.
So terrific was the force Of the wreck
that nearly every passenger suffered a
moments consciousness, and many
sof the able bodied men were unable to
assist in helping the injured from the
wreck on account of having tainted.
The dead
ENGINEER WILLIAM 4 THORN
LEY. of Hazelwood. Pa.
DIVISION ENGINEER S. G..
HEATER. OF Lakewood, Pa.
FIREMAN THOMAS COOK, of Ha-
zelwood, Pa.
HERBERT HOLMES. of Emmel-
ton, Pa.
JESSE HINES, of Tarboro, n. O.,
the Union News company agent on
the train.
CHARLES LINDFORD, of Conflu-
ence, Pa.
- EDWARDS, of Pittsburg, and
wife, in Cumber land.
]. ". MARTIN, of Hancock, Nd.
RICHARD DUOKETT. of Balti-
more, Md.
EDISON GOLDSMITH, of Councils
Vile, Pa.
The other SO dead are mostly for
eigners and negroes who were riding
in the smoking Car. The work Of
their identitications has not yet began.
The killed, most of them, were for
eigners who were in the smoFer
just back of the baggage car. They
were literally roasted to death. the
baggage and smoker telescoping the
engine and Immediately catching fire.
Their bodies are lying, many Of them
burned to a crisp, in the baggage room
of the Baltimore and Ohio depot to be
removed later to the different under.
taking shops in the city. The entire
population has turned out en- masse to
assist in caring foi the living and dis
posing of the dead. A peculiar fea-
ture of the accident is tine fact that
not woman was seriously injured.
The wreck was caused by the break
ing of the castings on carload OF
bridge timbers on the westbound
freight train, which had passed Lau-
rel Run not more than 10 minutes be-
fore the Inflated passenger train. The
accident occurred on curve, and it
was impossible for the engineer to see
far enough to detect the obstruction
on the track. The engineer plunged
into the timbers at velocity of sixty
miles an hour. The engine plougbed