The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-21
Bodies So Badly Burned as
to Be UnreCognizable.
OPERATOR DISPLAYED
THE WRONG SIGNAL
Though. Track Was Clear When the
Freight Had Not Gotten on Siding.
Coal from Wrecked Cars Min-
gIed With Wreckage Which
Caught Fire and Made
a Fierce Heat
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s$ JAMESTOWN, N. Y. April 2c.-Eight
persons are dead and ten injured, three
OF them seriously. as the result OF a col
lision between passenger train and a
freight on the Erie road at an early hour
to-day near Redhouse. N. Y. or the dead
only one man, Robert Hotchkiss. GoE
Meadville, brakeman. has been iden-
tilted. Sever bodies. apparently those or
three mon, three women and g child.
were burned beyond recognition III tho
fire which followed the wreck. The
women are said to have boarded tho I
train at Youngstown and to have como
from Pittsburs.
r. s, McCready. mail welgher. Of
Meadvillc, Pa, and Frank Barhite. Of !
Jamestown. Il travelling salesman, ara
missing. and 1t is likely two OF the un-
identified bodies are those OF the two 4
men. The Injured nre:
bruised. 81
G. w. Messick, No. Dos Adams Street.
Chicago, back badly injured.
Anna ST. Set, OF Brooklyn. N. Y.
shocked and Very sick.
H., T. Gieminger. Inail clerk, Jamestown, /,
N r.. ribs fractured, bruised. II
John Droughton. Duluth. bruised and
badly cut. s
Mrs. Foote, eighty years old. st Paul.
Mimi. bruised and shocked.
S. a. Cooke. negro porter. Summer
Vile. n. j.. leg fractured,
=. G. Ciabler. express messenger, Mar
ion, Ohio, leg cut off; probably fatally
Injured.
r.. II. hell, fireman, back bruised
Mrs. Foole, e. G.. Gabler and Fireman
Bell are in. the hospital at Salainanca.
The others were able to proceed to their
destinations.
The wrecked passenger train. running
from Chicago to New York, was made
up of one combination car two day
coaches, tllree sleepers and two private
cars. 1t was derailed by striking u
freight train which was taking siding
at Redhouse The wreck ut once toole
fire. and the combination car, two day
coaches and two sleepers. together With
several freight cars We're consumed
WRONG SIGNAL.
There Is some dispute as t. the cause
of the wreck The freight, which was
west bound, had orders to 80 into tha
siding MT Redhouse and wait for tte
passenger train to go by. The siding Us
about n mile and u half long There Is u
tower OF the block system near tho vest
end The freight was drawn hy two en-
gines Some trouble was experienced in
entering the siding, and the foremost cn-
gine WAS sent In along the siding with lS
n flagrnan to hold the express.
II Is alleged that the operator IN the
tower Lawrence Vale, n boy seventeen
years old, saw the light engine OF tho
freight which was bringing up the flag.
ana, surprising the freight was behind
It, displayed white signal TO the pas
senger train. indicating to the engineer
that he had n clear track.
Tho engineer on the passenger train
failed to see the fagman sent out from
the forward engine of the freight, and
saw$only the clear signal from the tower,
Tho train ran toward the east end of
the siding at a high speed and collided
with the second engine OF the freight
lust as 1t was about to clear the main
line,
The passenger engine and some of tha
coaches smashed into small wooden
structure used as a feed store and school
house Tho first half dozen cars of the
freight were wrecked. They were filled
with coal The coal filled In amongst the
wreck, creating an Intense heat, and tha
whole mass of wreokage was soon a mass
OF flames.
No, Is one of the fast trains on ths
Erie Tho two private cars attached to
1t to-day were occupied by w. j, Murphy,
his wife and two officials OF the Queen
and Crescent Railroad. and j. l.. Frazier,
general superintendent of the Glover
Leaf. All escaped Injury.