The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-04-21
Double Header Divided While Try.
ing TO Make Siding and Warn
ing Is Belated.
BOY GIVES CLEAR SIGNAL,
Carloads of Coal, Piled Up in the
Wreckage, Add 10 Intense Heat
Building Demolished by
Derailed Locomotive.

jamestown. y. Y, April aO-Eight per
sons are dead and ten injured. three OF them
seriously. the result Of collision be-
tween a passenger train and freight traiq
on the Erie Railroad early to-day near Red
House. y. Y
OF the dead only one. Robert y. Hotch-
kiss. OF Meadvllle. a brakeman, has been
identified.
Seven bodies. apparently those OF three
men. three women and child. were burned
btyond recognition in the fierce fire which
followed the wreck. The women. IL is said
boarded the train at Youngstown and came
from Pittsburg.
r. S. McCready. a mail weIgher OF Mead
VILE. Pa. and Frank Barhite. Of James
town. a travelling salesman, are missing.
and II is likely two of the unidentified
bodies are those of the two men. The in
jured are:
H. Pulsifer. New York: badly bruised.
c. W. Mesick. Chicago; back badly
bruised.
Anna Steel. Brooklyn; shocked and very
sick.
H. F Cleminger. mail clerk. Gerry. y.
Y: rios fractured and body bruised.
John DrOugouan. Duluth: bruised and
badly cut.
Mrs Foote. 50 years old. St Paul. Minn. :
bruised and shocked.
H. c. Gabler. express messenger, Marion,
o.: leg cut OF; badly injured.
STRIKES FREIGHT.
Mrs. Foote and E. c. Gabler are in the
hospital at Salamanca. The others were
able to proceed to their destination.
The wrecked passenger train was known
as No 4. running from Chicago to New
York. The engine was in charge OF Engineer
Samuel Cook and Fireman Fred Bell OF
Meadville- The train was made I'D OF one
combination car. two day coaches three
sleepers and two private cars. The train
was derailed by striking a freight train
which was taking 4 siding at Red House
The wreck at once took fire. and the COM
bination car. two day coaches and two
sleepers. together with several freight cars.
were consumed. There is some dispute as to
the cause OF the wreck
The passenger train was running east. and
the freight. which was westbOund. had or
ders to go into the siding at Red House
and wait for the passenger train TO go by.
The siding is about a mile and a half long.
and there IS a tower OF the block system
near the west end.
The freight was drawn by two engines
Some trouble was experienced in entering
the siding, and the forward engine OF the
freight was sent in along the siding with
ia gman to hold the express.
II is alleged that the operator in the
tower. Lawrence Vale. a boy Il years old.
saw the length of the freight. which was
bringing up the nag. and supposed the
whole freight was on the siding behind it,
Vale then displayed a white signal toward
the passenger train, indicating to the en-
gineer that he had a clear track.
MISSES FLAGMAN.
The engineer of the passenger train failed
TO see the daeman sent out from the for
ward engine of the freight train and saw
only the clearance siRnal from the tower.
The train ran toward the east end OF the
siding at high speed and collided with the
second engine of the freight train just
as Il was about to clear the main line.
The passenger engine and some OF the
coaches crashed into a small wooden struc-
ture. The first six cars Of the freight were
wrecked. They were box cars loaded with
coal The coal filled In amongst the wreck
age creating an intense heat.
All but three Of the cars OF the express
followed the engine and the whole mass
~ wreckage was soon in flames. The tracks
were strewn for rods with burning wood
and coal and heaps OF twisted iron work.
No. is one OF the fast trains on the
| Erie. The two private cars attached to IL
| Mrs. Murphy and two officials Of the Queen
| and Crescent Railroad, and J. L. Frazier.
general superintendent OF the Clover Leaf.
All escaped unintured.