Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-12-24
SIxTY-THREE DEAD.
Duquesne Limited Express
Wrecked Near Dawson, Pa.
Entire Train Smashed Thirty Pas
sengers More or Less Injured.
Crashed into Pile of Lumber-Hardly
a Person Escaped.

| Connellsville, Pa, Dec. G5-With a
terrible crash and grinding noise. the
Duquesne Limited, the fastest through
passenger train from Pittsburg to Now
York on the Baltimore & Ohio plough
ed into pile of lumber at Laurel Run
two miles west of Dawson, at TAI
O'Clock this evening, and it is esti-
mated that fully GO lives were lost and
80 persons were injured.
The dead:
Engineer William Thornley,, Hazel
wood, Pa.
Division Engineer s. c. Heater, Haz-
elwood.
| Fireman Thomas Cook, Hazelwood.
| Herbert Holmes Emmelton, Pa.
| Jesse Hines, Tarboro, N. c., the
Union News Coils. agent on the train.
| Charles Lildford, Confluence, Pa.
| - Edwards, Pittsburg, wife in
Cumberland.
| j. W. Martin, Hancock, Md.
Richard Duchott, Baltimore.
| Edison Goldsmith, Connellsville, Pa.
| The other SO dead are mostly foreign
ers and negroes who were riding in the
smoking car. The work of their den-
titcation has not yet begun.
The injured are:
w. II. Hancock, Pittsburg, slight in
rjuies.
John w. Bromley, North Braddock,
Pa, slight injuries.
Annie Reese-Greenwood, Pittsburg,
slight injuries.
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injuries.
Conductor Louis Helgth, the Limited
conductor, HaZelwood, slight.
J. w. Martin. Hancock, Nd, slight
cut and bruises.
]. Allfurter, Bealton, w. Va, serious
| ly injured.
Henry DAWN, lockwood, Pa, badly
injured, will die.
G. H. Lineford, East McKeesport, Pa,
will die.
William Edwards. Cumberland, Nd
Thomas Tippler, Of 1888 North Garrett
street, Philadelphia.
Harry Devlin, Connellsville, serious
| ly injured.
W. II. Stoddard, Connellsville.
u. Nj. Keifer Somerset, Pa.
John K. Peters, South Cumberland,
Md.
]. w. Altman, Connellsville, Pa.
| Aaron Verg, East Pittsburg.
The train left Pittsburg, this evening.
running a few minutes late, in charge
of Engineer William Thornley, of Con-
| nellsville When passing Laurel Run,
which is q particularly fine piece of
roadbad, the train was running at a
| high rate of speed.
Suddenly the passengers We're thrown
from their seats by the lightning-like
| application of the airbrake, and a mo-
ment later there was. a terrific 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, at the lowest estimate, $50
passengers.
The train ploughed along for a con-
| siderable distance and the cars We're
torn to pieces, passengers jumping,
screaming. and falling from the wreck
| as it tore along.
Suddenly the engine swerved to the
| left and the coaches plunged down over
| the emhankmont to the edge of the
Youghiogheny river.
The minute the cars stopped rolling
there was n wild scene. Many We're
pinioned beneath the wreakage and
screams and cries that rent the air
were beyond description.
Many We're injured in the mad eX-
citement and plunged into the river.
Others, pinioned beneath the heavy
timbers cried in agoniZed tones for re-
lease.
SO terrific was the force of the wreck
that nearly every passenger suffered n
moments Inconsistencies and many
of the able bodied men were unable to
assist in helping the injured from the
wreck on account of having tainted.
The official statement of Superintend-
ent Loree, follows:
mo. II was derailed by running into
some switch timbers or timbers of
about that size, derailing the engine
and all the cars. All the cars are badly
damaged. Do not thing of the equip
ment will be able to go away from the
accident on their own wheels except
possibly the Pullman cars and the
diner. The engine lies across both
tracks. The baggage car is over the
bank. The first coach is partly over the
bank. The balance of the train badly
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