The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-24

terrible crash and grinding noise,
the Duquesne limited, the fast through
| passenger train from Pittsburg to New
York on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road, ploughed into a pile of lumber
at Laurel Run, two miles west of Daw-
son, at 7:45 o'clock this evening. and
sixty-three lives were lost and thirty
persons were injured.
The dead are:
Engineer William Thornly of Hazel
wood, Pa, Division Engineer S. G.
Heater of Hazlewood, Pa; Fireman
Thomas Cook of Hardwood, Pa.
Herbert Holmes of Emmelton, Pa.
Jesse Hines, Tarboro, N. c., the
Union News Company agent on the
| train.
Charles Lindford of Confluence, Pa.
- Edwards, Pittsburg, wife in
| Cumberland.
j. w. Martin, Hancock, Md.
Richard Duckett, Baltimore, Md.
Edison Goldsmith, Connellsville, Pa.
The other fifty-three dead are most
ly foreigners and negroes who were
riding in the smoking car. The work
of their identification has not yet be-
gun.
At a High Rate of Speed.
The train left Pittsburg this evening,
running a few minutes, late, in charge
81 Engineer William Thornley, of Con-
nellsville. When approaching Laurel
Run, which is a particularly fine piece
of road bed, the train was running at
a high rate of speed. Suddenly the
passengers were thrown from their
seats by the lightning-like application
| of the air brakes, and a moment later
there was 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 considerable distance, and the
cars were torn to pieces, passengers
jumping and 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. The minute the
cars stopped rolling, there was wild
scene. Many persons were pinioned be-
meath the wreckage, and the screams
and cries that rent the air were beyond
description.
A Scene of Horror.
Many were injured in their mad ex-
citement and plunged into the river
Others. caught beneath the heavy TIM
bers. pleaded in agonized tones for re-
lief.
So terrific was the force of the wreck
that nearly every passenger suffered
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 Supt. w.
G. Loree follows:
mo. IL was derailed by running into
some switch timbers. or timbers OF
about that size. derailing the engine
and all cars. All the cars are badly
damaged. DO not think any of the
equipment will be able to go away from
the accident on their own wheels ex-
cent possibly the Pullman cars and the
diner. The engine lies across both
tracks. The baggage car is over the
hank, The first coach IS partly over
the bank. The balance of the train Is
badly twisted.
IL judge thirty-nVe people killed. All
the people killed were in the smoker.
Escaping steam from the engine went
into the first coach. scaidins the peo-
ole. Very few OF the other passen-
gers were injured. Injured have been
taken from wreck. and are lying on
the bank. Engineer and fireman cam
not be found"
Roasted 90 Death.
The killed, most Of them, were for
eigners. who we're In the smoker. 3ust
back Of the baggage car. They were
literally roasted 70 death, the baggage
and smoker tsisscoping the engine and
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