The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-04-21
ERIE FAST TRAIN WRECKED
FIVE PASSENGERS BURNED TO
 DEATH IN THE CARS.
One TraInman Also KIlIed--A Vesti- buied Train from Chicago for New York Ran Into n Freight.

buied Train from Chicago for New
 York Ran Into n Freight.
 Jamestown, N. T.. April 20.-Five passengers and brakeman lost their lives in a wreck early to-day on the Erie railroad at Red House. N. Y, about eight miles from Salamanca. A freight train, which had orders to take siding to allow the vestibuled limited express which left Chicago yesterday and was due at New York this after noon to pass, through an accident to a coupling had failed to clear the main track when the express came along. The result was rear-end collision, in which two women and little girl and two men passengers on the express and brakeman Of the freight train lost their lives the passengers being burned to death by the flames which destroyed three sleeping cars and two coaches. An express messenger named Gabriel had his leg crushed. and fireman named Bell of the passenger train was badly bruised. So far the names of the dead have not been learned.
 A coupling broke on an Erie west bound freight train at Red House at 1 o'clock this morning. just as the train was leaving the main track to take a siding for the eastbound passenger train to pass Almost immediately af- ter the freight train broke in two the passenger train came along at the rate of fifty miles an hour. The passenger engine, a combination baggage and passenger car, a day coach. and two sleeping cars left the track, running nearly 100 feet beside the rails, crashing into a small school house which was completely demolished.
 The wreck caught fire immediately and all of the cars which left the track were quickly burned up. A brakeman named Hotchkiss was killed. and his body was subsequently, taken from the wreck After the fire the bodies of two women and a child. who are said to have boarded the train at Youngstown, O., and who were bound for 0lean, N. Y, were taken from the ruins, burned so badly as to make it impossible to identify them. The bones of the three bodies were placed in box. A little later two more bodies, those of men, were taken from the ruins. Neither could be identified.
 SEVERAL PERSONS MISSING.
 R. s. McCready, mail weigher, Mans field, O., and Frank Bahrite, a travelling salesman of Jamestown, N. Y, are miss ing, and two unknown messengers in the Pullman sleeping car and three in the day coaches are said to be missing.
 The injured are:
 H. Pulsifer, 131 Liberty street, New York, badly bruised.
 c. W. Mersick of 22S Adams street. Chicago, hack badly injured.
 Anna St. Sel. 639 Leonard street. Brooklyn. N. Y. shocked and very ill.
 Fl. F. Cleminger, mail clerk, Gerry, N. Y, ribs fractured and body bruised.
 John Drougouan, Duluth, bruised and badly cut.
 Mrs. Foote, eighty years old, St. Paul, Minn., bruised and shocked.
 S. A. Cooke, colered porter, PAP West Sixty-third street, New York, back and ribs injured. =. ..-.%
 c. s. Johnson, colored porter, Sum- merville, N. J., leg fractured.
 E. c. Gabriel, express messenger, Marion, O.. leg cut off; probably fatally.
 R. T. Bell, fireman, head and back bruised.
 Six more or less seriously injured passengers and members of the crew were taken to the Salamanca hospital for treatment.