The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-12-24

the engine to fill the car. The smoker
4 was packed TO its utmost capacity nhd nll
the passengers were cooked alive. Not
X single passenger In this car escaped with
4 His life, and II Is expected that at least
forty OF tho dead were III the smoker.
Il 8Rapgagemaster Thomas ]. Bauln, Of
s8lIazeiwood, who was Oh the wrecked
train, proved himself Il hero, WIN ms
head and body frightfully cut he man
f,sed tc crawl from the wrcckage, and
cropping his way along In darkness, nag
Ecd the westbound passenger train NO.
3 "a. He had nothing with which to nag
the train except matches, and these ne
i made use Of in his desperation. by tax !,
Ing or his coat and setting fire TO It..
He stopped the train Just In time TO pre-
vent Ut from piunging into tho wreck
and adding further horror to an already
Understandable disaster.
Saw Them Pile Up. S@
Bn,m collapsed when he saw he had
succeeded III stopping the train, ana
Il when The engine stopped he was lying
within q. few feet OF It, An operator at
s.,yIs'.j tower. on tho Pittsburg and Lake
Erie Railroad across the Youghogheny
river. was tho first to send word Oh lEe
ncrident md to send for relief Ho was
Fl .Ynt thi,,r the Duquesnc Limited as II
8,cns shedding along the band of tracks
,,nyoss the river. He saw the cars pile
8iht,,,, ii, the air and then sink back on
,$thn tracks. Tho screams of the injured
z 4 nd dying were plainly heard, ana IN an
ii othe, second he was sending word 70
the railroad officials at Dawson ''hu
5J2Cpnnellsvile ~,
B For moro thnns five hundred feet poth
4 y hn aast and west bound track are torn
I'm The engine was entirely demolished
nd the big 1000 gallon tender was thrown
s38 ono: hundred feet ahead of the wreck.
B ,The baggage car was thrown INTO
anto the liver, but was slightly wrecked.
All the cars were derailcd ana 5nll INC
4 trucks except those OF the diner were torn
ri from under the coaches.
II As soon as tho wreck was report ~. =.
ir,onnellsvillc. all tho available physaialis !.
Il ,,nra summoned, including Baltimore and
ohio Railroad physicians. ana q spcoaa'
q, ! - was made up and taken in charge
IN General superintendent S. G. sims aug
q e,,,nerintendent J. r. Irwin. of the ti's-
burg Division.
Tho relief train was run at full sHeeu.
md; the scenn of the wreck was Fencheo
4 about 0 O'clock. The injured were iooh-
II I'D after Immediately and every one was
8s made ns com Portable as possible. lheE
were loaded on to the relief train ana
taken to the Cottage State Hospital mere
THE dead were placed III long row on
#t the en,bankment opposite tue wreckase
and III q single line thirty-elEht iorln ~,
.lay cold ana stiff on the frozen ground
Another row on the opposite side OF ne
wreckago contained eleven and scattered
&. a1ore and there through the underpr ~ y
we're the dead bodies Of many VINO hau
q hes nable to crawl from the WrecKasc,
but died before aid reached them.
Under his engine lay Engineer Wlllia,h
Thornley,. dsembowled and mansi tni,,o az
most beyond recognition. It was lmpo pos.
rible at the time to extricate his no y,
4 and it will be several hours before t the
wreclsing crew will be able to removu s sau
nng!nc which pinions his remains unoer
the huge mass OF steel ,
Hardly had the bodies Of the dead !, o ..
removed from the coaches When th'ev 80
began robbing the dead Of jewclry ana
money. Special officers We're deputizeu,
and with the aid of the Baltimore an ans
Ohio police force and connellsyille OIL ~
GERS the work of the ghouls was stopped;
Several persons are under suspicion anu
il arrests will follow tomorrow.