The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-24
|, ONNELLsvII.LE. Pa, ID
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with a terrible crash the Du-
chesne Limited, the fastest
through passenger train from Pittsburg
10 New York on the Baltimore & Ohio,
plowed into q pile of lumber at Laurel
I,6n, two miles west of Dawson, at
z:f5 o'clock tonight, and sixty-three
lives were lost and thirty persons were
injured. The train left Pittsburg this
evening. running a few minutes late,
in charge Of Engineer William Thorn
ley of Connelsville. Whe approaching
Laurel Run, which is a particularly
fine piece of roadbed. the train was
running at a high rate of speed.
Terrific Crash.
Suddenly the passengers were thrown
from their seats by the ligntning-hke
application of the air brakes. and
moment later there was a terrific
crash. The train was made Up of two
baggage cars. two day COACHES. one
sleeper. and one dining car, and al the
time was carrying al the lowest es-
innate $50 passengers. The train
piowed along for a considerable dis
lance and the cars were torn to pieces,
passengers jumping. screaming, falling
from the wreck as it tore along
Went over Embankment.
Suddenly the engine swerved Go the
left and the coaches plunged down over
the embankment 20 the edge of the
Y oughiouheny river. The moment the
cars stopped rolling there was wild
7scene. Many persons were pinioned
beneath the wreCkage, and the screams
and cries that rent the air were beyond
description. Many were injured i'm
their mad excitement and plunged into
the river. others. pinioned beneath
the heavy timhers, pleaded i'm agOnized
tones for release. SO terrific was the
force Of the wreck that nearly every
passenger suffered q moments uncOn-
seriousness. and many OF the ablebOdied
men were unable 10 assist i'm helping
the injured from the wreck on account
OF having tainted.
The Dead.
Engineer William Thornley, Of Halle
wood. Pa.
Division Engineer S. C. Heaton Of
Fireman Thomas cook Of Halle
'wood. Pa.
Herbert Holmes Of EmmeIton. Pa.
Jesse Hines. Tarboro, n. G.. the
5snion News company agent on the
train.
Charles Llndf7rd. Confluence. Pa.
Edwards. Pittsburg; wife in
Cumberland.
J. w Martin, Hancock Nd.
Richard Duckett Baltimore.
Edison Goldsmith Connellsville. Pa
The other ffty-threc dead are mostly
foreigners and negroes who were rid
inC in the smoking car. The work of
their Identification has not set be-
sgun
Italian Catholic church at Councils
VILE
Charles f. sangford. wnmerding.
J. /. Egerly, Butler. Pa.
The Injured
w. II. Hancock. Pittsburg, slight in
juries.
J. W. Bromley, North Braddock, Pa.
slight injuries.
Annie Reese Greenwood, Pittsburg
slight bruises and cuts.
Thomas J. Dom, Lakewood, Pa.
slight injuries.
Conductor Helgth, the Limited con-
ductor, HazelwOod, slight injuries.
A ". Martin, Hancock, Md, slight cut:
ard bruises
J. A. Allfurter, Bealton, W. Va.
seriously injured.
Henry Davies. lockwood. Pa. badly
injured.
W. e. Linford. East McKeesport. Pa.
viii die.
William Edwards. Cumberland. Nd
Thomas Trippler. Philadelphia.
Harry Devlin, Connellsville. Pa.
w TT. StOddard. Connellsville, Pa.
u. p. Keifer, Somerset. Pa.
John X Powers. South Cumberland
J. w. Altman. Conuellsvire. Pa.
Aaron Verg. East Pittsburg.
Roasted to Death.
The killed were mostly foreigners
who were in the smoking car just bacI
OF the baggage car. They were liter
ally roasted TO death, the baggage an'
smoker teIesCoping the engine and i'm
mediatelv catching fire. Many of thei
bodies are lying burned to a crisp in
the baggage room Of the Baltimore 6
Ohio depot to be removed later to tn
different undertaking shops in the city
s peculiar feature OF the accident 4
the fact that not woman was injure,
excepting "a few slightly. The wrecl
was caused by the breaking of casting
on a carload Of bridge timbers on
NvestbOund freight train which ha'
uassed Laurel Run not more than IF
teen minutes before the Inflated pass
enger train. The wreck occurred on
curve and it was impossible for Engi
neer Thorley to see far enough ahea,
10 detect the obstruction on the tracks
Is big Atlantic type engine plunged int
the timbers at velocity OF sixty mile
Not One Escaped.
The engine plowed into the embank
nent and the baggage car was throw
into the Youghiougheny river. Tn
smoker followed the engine and lande
squarely on top of SC. This allowed tn
escaping steam from the engine to I'll
the car. The smoker was packed q
its utmost capacity and all the pass
ergers were cooked alive. Not a singl
passenger in this car escaped alive an
81 is estimated that at least forty O
the dead were I'm the smoker. Bag
gsgemaster Thomas J. Baum of Haz
eiwood. who was on the wrecked train
proved himself a hero. With his hea
and body frightfully cut. ne manage
to crawl from the wreckage and, crop
ing his way along I'm the darkness
tagged the westbOund passenger trail
. no. a. He had nothing with which {
flag the train except matches and thes
he made use of in his desperation. TAX
fng off his coat and setting fire to il
he stopped the train just i'm time {
prevent 1t from plunging into the wrec
and adding further horror 10 an alread
fudescribable disaster.
Stopped Just in Time.
Baum collapsed when he saw Il
had succeeded in stopping the trai.
and when the engine ste pped ne wa
living within few feet Of it. An ope
rotor as "NR" tower on. the Pittsbur
q rnEa Erie railroad across IN