The Irish standard., 1903-07-11
OVER 4 SCORE ARE Killed
a Passenger Train Crashes Into a
Freight at Rockish, Va, Caus-
ing Many Fatalities.
CONDUCTOR OF LATTER RESPONSIBLE.
Misreads His Orders and the Collision
Results-I.ist of the Dead and In.
jured-Bodies of All But One of For.
mer RecOvercd-Head-On Collision
In Ohio.

Charlottesville. Va. July .9-The
work of Identification of the 21 dead
taken from the wreck on the Southern
railroad at Rockfish station, 20 miles
south of this city. Tuesday afternoon,
when passenger No. IS ran into an
open switch and crashed into freight
No. 6S, was completed at noon Wednes-
day. All the bodies have been recov-
cred except that Of Passenger Engineer
Davis, of Alexandria, Va.
List of the Dead.
The dead are: Engineer James Nc
Cormick, Charlottesville, Va; Engi-
neer Charles Davis, Alexandria, Va;
Thomas Shepherd, front brakeman on
freight, Charlottesville, Va; Charles
T. Gay (colored), fireman on freight,
Charlottesville, Va; ]. E. Lowe (col-
ored), Baltimore; Charles T. Leitch
(colored), dining-car waiter; C. c.
Owen, Philadelphia, boiler inspector
Adam Vucosavlievich. Austrian boy;
Barilani Gughelme, Austrian woman;
an unknown colored man; Carson
Henry (white), Front Royal, Va; Will
liam Thomas (colored), of Washing
ton; Charles w. Hamilton (white),
Chase City. Va; stefo Simrak, Greek
passenger; Angeles Sangelli, Greek
passenger; Maria Sangelli, wife of the
above, supposedly; P. c. Bum (col-
ored), Burkes, Va; James Arnold
(colored), porter of the passenger train,
Alexandria, Va; Mike Tuckevitch or
Bario Balorin, Greek passenger; an
unknown Italian woman of 20 years:
an unknown negro man of probably 40
years; an unknown mulatto woman.
aged probably 40.
The Injured.
The injured are: Engineer E. c.
Hale, Charlottesville, Va, injuries to
spine; serious; H. A. Sharpe, Knoxville,
Tenn, head and legs bruised and back
wrenched; Turner Ashby Henry, Ben
tonville, Va; injuries to head, shoul-
ders and legs; Walter Jackson (col-
ored), Charlottesville, passenger fire.
man, left leg broken; four Austrians,
Gjoko Modio, Angeles Kap, Kalarveras
Kauti, and Oberon Grubac, all painful
ly but not seriously hurt; T. G. Hudson
(colored), Chattanooga, Tenn, wound
ed in head; T. c. Mercer (colored),
Washington, arms and legs cut and
probably internally injured, but will re-
cover; ]. B. Sterrett (colored), Pull
man porter of New York, hands, arms
and face cut; ]. w. Payne, Alexandria.
Va, baggage master, injured internal
ly.
The tracks are now clear and trains
are running on schedule time. The
cause of the disaster has been officially
reported as inattention to orders. the
freight conductor, w. B. Brubeck.
reading his orders to mean that the
passenger was one hour and twenty
minutes late when 1t should have been
20 minutes late. He allowed the switch
to remain open. Brubeck is insane from
mental anguish.
Head-0n Collision in Ohio.
Alliance, O., July "a head-on COL
1ision occurred Tuesday night at Ber-
lin Center. u miles northeast of here. be-
tween Messenger and freight train on
the Pittsburg, Youngstown & Ashta-
bula railroad. Passenger Fireman c.
Gil Mcknight, of Espyville, Pa, was in
stantly killed; Baggagemaster c. D.
Walker, of Alliance, was badly cut about
the head; Engineer Charles Weaver, OF
Alliance. had his left arm broken, and
other injuries; Brakeman p w. Meyers,
of New Castle, had his right leg hurt;
Lou Styher, travelling salesman, of
Hamilton, O., was badly cut about the
head and body. He is in the hospital
here. His condition is said to be seri-
GUS. Just what is the cause of the &C