The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-25

n ONNELLSVILLE, Pa. Dec. a.
u when daylight broke there was
known TO be sixty dead as the To-
suit Of last nights wreck Of the Du-
Aoucsne limited on the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad, near Dawson. Those bodies
filled the temporary morgue5 in this
city. il is believed nearly a score more
. VIII be added to the death list when
the day is over.
OF the bodies recovered fortv-uine
nave been identified and eleven are
designated as unknown" Most Of the
latter appear TO be foreigners. priuci-
Pslly Italians In the hospitals three
are expected to die at any moment and
nre others are in a critical condition.
The Dead.
William Thornley,. ENGINEER. Hazle-
wood, Pa.
s. @. Heater. assistant engineer in
charge Of construction. GlenwOOd. Pa.
j. j. Cook, aiTman. Lakewood. Pa
Herbert Holmes Of Emienton Pa.
Jesse +. Hines. news agent Tarboro.
y. c.
William Edwards of PittsbUrg, going
= 70 see wife in Cumberland. Nd.
Richard DucSett Baltimore.
Edison Goldsmith. COunellsville. Pa
a Rev. Father FienellO, pastor Of The
ITALIAN church at Conneusville, Pa.
whose new church was dedicated last
sunday.
Charles Laugford. Confluence, Pa.
w. +. Edgerly, Butter Pa.
Louis HeigOth. conductor Of the liu-
. ited. Hazlewo0d. Pa.
John X. Powers. South Cumberland
nd.
Charles A. Cook. no address.
John SeamOn. New York.
j. Murray. PittsburE.
A. @. Protsman, no address.
Charles w. Grey, Trenton, n J.
Charles Walter Stewart, Stewards
station. Pa.
r. J. Farnum. Philadelphia, general
yardmaster of the Fireside iron works
GlenwoOd. W. Va.
NJ. Myrowitch. JohnstOwn, Pa.
William Sheedy. Paterson creek, "
"a.
Carmine NJ. NIichlichie. residence IN
known.
Harold D. Morrison. Lakewood. Pa.
Victor Viol. Rochester, Pa.
John II. Wills an Elk, of PittsburE.
J. Wade Shupe. Mount Pleasant, Pa.
q. J. Wikler. Wesm0nt. Pa.
4 George r. Rein, Baltimore.
Thomas Tippler Philadelphia.
J.. A. Martin. Western Union Iineman
ConnellsviHe, Pa
W. A. Kelp, Mount Pleasant, Pa.
James Barnard. Pittsburg.
H +. Roush, PittsbUrg.
p. +. Molker, Berkeley Springs, ".
Va.
n. X. Smith. ConnemsvilIe. Pa, past
exalted ruler of the Connellsville lodge
OF Elks.
J.. Charles Kielamb. Christiana, swe-
den.
w. A. Lard. Martinsburg, w. va.
y. A. Kasner. Cumberland, Mo
John Addison. New York
William BrOdie. Red Bank. y. J.
Robert Davidson. Philadelphia
sylvester Zinkard. Chase, W. Va.
Charles a. Keher. Somerset. Pa.
Harry Deviin. LanacOuing. Nd.
w A. Good. McKeespOrt. Pa.
G. W. Bisor. Berkeley Springs. W. Va.
James Fox. address unknown.
The other dead are mostly foreigners
and negroes who were riding in the
smoking car
The Known injured.
w. TT. Hancock. Pittsourg. slight.
John ". Broaiey, North Braddock,
Annie Reese. Gle1wood. slight
Thomas J. Dom. Lakewood, slight.
]. A. Anfurter, 3ealton. W. Va,
Henry David. Rocawood. Pa. viii
". Fl. stoddard. ConneTsvile. Pa.
John X Powers South Cum berland.
j.. w. Allen. Connelisviile. Pa.
Aaron Nerg, East HltlSn4rg.
Sickening Scene.
The scene at the wreck is awful
Cars are piled one upon the other. lying
Fidewise and al angles. where only the
earth supports them. while trucks are
rilad upon the banks and scattered
among the bushes. as though thrown
hy a giant hand. a full 200 yards from
the point of contact with the ohstruc
lion the engine lies, a wreck, with bat
tered sides and dismantled trucks. AL
most 100 yards beyond is the forward
baggage coach, lying ON the slope OF
bank where 70 rests at an angle
This great train. speeding as it was
through the darkness at sixty miles
au hour. dashed around curve head
long into q pile OF large timbers. LeaY-
Eng the rails. the train plunged ahead
ever the ties until the rails were ripped
up and the big engine sell over. The
rest of the train dashed on. the two
baggage cars finally leaving the right
on way and plunging down over bank.
The first passenger car. smoker.
pushed past the engine and tilted over
toward n at the same time. This car
was flied with passengers and all were
killed.
Stewards ReToism.
SinEularly in such an awful crash.
most Of the fatalities were caused by
Fcalding steam. A story Of courage
and heroieln seldom eQualed is told Of
BENJAMIN NichOlF steward en- the din
fng car. When the torrihle slide o. the
engine dragged the train whirling side
ways along the road. Nichols wac iu
the dining car After being tossed