Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1903-04-21
Eight Killed in Collision Be-
tween Passenger and
Freight Trains.
BURNED BEYOND RECOGNITION
Only One of Dead ldentifled-Ten Peo-
pie Injured, Three Seriously-En-
eneer Failed to See Flagman and
Operator Displayed White Signal.

jamestown, N. Y, April I'll Eight
persons are dead and 10 injured
three of them seriously, as the result
of a collision between passenger
and freight train on the Erie railroad
near Red House, N. Y.
OF the dead only one, Robert N
Hotchkiss, of MeadvilIe, a brakeman,
has been identified. Seven bodies
apparently those of three men, three
women and a child, we're burned be
yond recognition in the fierce fire
which followed the wreck. The women
are said to have boarded the train AT
Youngstown and to have come from
Pittsburg.
r. U. MeCready, a mail weigher of
Meadville, Pa, and Frank Barhite, of
jamestown, a travelling salesman, are
missing and it is likely two of the I'M
men.
Mrs. Foote, E. c. Gabler and Fire
man Bell are in the hospital at Sala-
manea. The others injured are able
to proceed to their destination
Wreck Took Fire.
The wrecked passenger train was
known as No. 4, running from Chicago
to New York. 1t was derailed by strik-
ing freight train which was taking
a siding at Red House The wreck at
once took fire and the combination
car, two day coaches and two sleep
ers, together with several freight cars,
were consumed. There is some dis
pute as to the cause of the wreck.
The passenger train was running east
and the freight, which was westbound,
had orders to go into the siding az
Red House and wait for the passen-
ger train to go by. The siding is
about mile and half long and there
is tower of the block system near
the west end.
The freight was drawn by two en-
gines. Some trouble was experienced
If entering the siding and the fore
most engine Of the freight was sent
in along the siding with flagman TO
hold the express. 1t is alleged that
the operator in the tower Lawrence
Vale, boy II years old, saw the
light engine of the freight which was
bringing up the flag and supposed the
freight was on the siding behind it.
Vale then displayed a white signal
toward the passenger train, indicating
to the engineer that he had a clear
track
Failed to See Flaqman.
The engineer on the passenger train
failed to see the flagman sent out on
the rear platform of the freight train
and saw only the clearance signal
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 1t
was about to clear the main line. The
passenger engine and some of the
coaches crashed into a small wooden
structure used as a feed store and
school house. The first half dozen
cars of the freight were wrecked.
They were box cars loaded with coal
The coal filtered in amongst the
wreckage. creating an immense heat.
All but three of the cars of the ex-
press followed the engine and the
whole mass of wreckage was soon in
flames The tracks were strewn for
rods with burning wood and coal and
heaps of twisted iron work.
No. 4 is one of the fast trains on
the Erie. The two private cars at.
tached to it were occupied by w. J.
Murphy, his wife and two officials of
the Queen and Crescent railroad and
j. L. Frazer, general superintendent
of the Glover Leaf All escaped I'M
injured