Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1903-12-31
Passenger Train on 3. & o.
Dashed Full Speed Into
Pile Of Lumber.
MORE ARelNJuREo
Many Burned to Death and Some
Drowned When Cars Toppled Over
Into the River-Neariy Al The
Killed Riding in Smoker.

persons and injuring more than thirty
others. The train dragged itself to
pieces before il toppled over rolling
several coaches almost into the icy wa
ters Of the river.
The dead are:
ENGINEER WIN. THORNLEY,.
DIVISION ENGINEER s. c. HEAT.
Err.
FIREMAN THOMAS COOK.
HERBERT HOLMES.
JESSE HINES. news agent.
CHARLES DINFORD.
f. EDWARDS.
J N. w. MARTIN.
RICHARD DUCKETT.
EDISON GOLDSMITH.
FlFTY-THREE OTHER DEAD,
mostly foreigners and negroes, riding
In the Smoking car.
The severely injured are:
j. j. Allfurter.
Henry Davis.
c. H. LineforI.
Harry Devlin.
All the dead lived in Pennsylvania
eastern people.
Engineer Saw the CANCER.
Engineer William Thor cley was
making up time when he suddenly saw
a dark object on the track. He shut
off steam, opened the sand valve, ap-
piled the air brakes and reversed the
engine, s~lackening he speed of the
train so suddenly that passengers and
trainmen rolled from the seats in Il
mass. The train, composed Of two
baggage cars, two day coaches, one
sleeping car and a dining car, almost
Immediately struck the lumber pile.
The train plowed along for a consider
able distance, tearing the cars to pieces
under the revolving forces, passengers
jumping, screaming and falling from
the wreck as it dragged along. Sud-
denly the locomotive swerved to the
left. n h coaches plunged down
over the embankment to the edge of
the Youghiogheny river.
Many persons were pinioned beneath
the wreckage, and creams of pain and
cries OF distress rent the air.
Many Thrown Into River.
Many persons, although injured, in
the excitement struggled from be-
meath the wreckage n plunged into
the river. Others. pinioned beneath the
heavy timbers. pleaded for release.
So terrific was h force Of the wreck
that nearly every passenger suffered a
moments unconsciousness. The able
bodied men soon recovered and assist
ed in helping the injured from the
wreck.
According to General Superintend-
emit Loree all the cars and the locomo-
tive left the rails. All the cars were
damaged so that they will have to be
broken up and hauled away, excepting
possibly the Pullman cars and the din
fftg -eaf.@T he-lecomotive fell across
both tracks. The baggage car went
over the bank and the first coach.
| turned partly over the bank. The re-
mainder of the train was twisted out
of shape.
Escaping steam from the boiler went
into the first coach, scalding many per-
sons.
The killed, most of whom were for
eigners riding in the smoking car, were
literally roasted to death, the baggage
n h smoking cars telescoping the
locomotiveSa and catching fire. The bod
les. many OF them being burned to a
crisp, are in the baggage room Of he
Baltimore and Ohio station at Con-
| nellsville.
Not a woman was injured excepting
slightly.
Caused by q Wrecked Car.
The wreck was caused by the break
Ing of the castings OF a carload Of
bridge timbers on q westbound freight
train, which passed Laurel Run hsteen
minutes before he passenger tr2in
came along. A pile Of timbers was
dumped on the track The wreck oc-
CURED on a curve n Engineer Thorn
ley could not see far enough ahead to
save the train. The locomotive
ploughed into the embankment. FORM
ing q chute. which shunted the bag
Youghiogfeny river. The smoking car
slid over and landed on top Of the loco
motive. Escaping steam from the boil.
er seethed up into the ear. The smok-
ing a was packed n all the passen.
gers in it were cooked. Not one Of the
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