The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1904-01-15

ltlsSBelieved Eare WILLIE NJ
More Fatalities From HE
Dawson Wreck.
Will ARE THE DEAL
Citizens of GonneIIsviIle Will See That
None y Buried IN the Potter's
Fieid-Too Busy for Prompt
Funerals.

G~onne4Issilles Pa Dec as-Another
name has been$addeda to the long death
lissresulting b Duquestae lin
ftedxNreck onsSthe BaitiraoreS ohio
railroad at Dawson Wednesday.
Harry Devlin, n sof the three re-
maining patients atgottage State hos
spital, died today total or dead
snoW@nuinbers sixty-five This prob
ably completes the list, as the two still
a the hospitallSar doing well and will
practically reegYsS
There Was one Christmas funeral,
that Of Edison Goldsmith. Goldsmith
was 1; poular young man, and amin
srnense c~oncourse attended the services.
The bodies OF other Conaellsyille
victims VIII be held Until Saturday or
Sunday before burial.as b eunder-
takers are too@overWorlsed to attempt
toeoEdlet several funerals In day.
Special services for the dead We're held
ia ansProtesfant churches ii the COKE
regions today. The bodies of about
thirty Of the victims We're gathered UP
iandStaken away on the early trains
today. The remaining identified bodies
Will be shipped Within h next tWen-
ty-four hours. and the unknown will be-
cared for by the borough council.
Will Care for Dead.
President George g. Porter has called
aspeeial meeting to take measures to-
ward Formulating a@reliefa committee to
look after the bodies ofssthe Unidentified
or unclaimed. In ase nc friends ap-
pear the citizens will see that the vic
tim does not fin a last resting place
in the potter's field. All who happen
to be left@to charity Willbe decentlyi
inferred andSa$ghristian burial service,
will be performed, the funerals par
F1I-;., - cf9 fl,n fnSa,S Of %fho ttaxx1,,,, l+aS i, &
ute to the memory of those whose lives
We're sacrificed in the wreck.
An oticial investigation into the
cause OF the disaster is being prose-
cuted vigorously by the officers of the
railroad company, butgit is doubtful If
an Individual can be blamed for the
accident. 1T is apparentthat a. number
Of switch ties which had fallen off the;
~westbound freight train and g@ere
strewn upon the passenger track;
caused the flying express to be de-
Tailed.
Gonnellsvilles Pa Dec. 24.-Sixty
people are known to be dead, score
more may be takenW@from the ruins,
and there are eleven injured, some Of
whom will die, as the result of a fear
full accident to the eastbeund Duquesne
limited on the Baltimore and Ohio last
night.
A freight train running ahead of the
passenger dropped some heavy timbers
from a. fiat arson4the track. Uncon-
scious of the ruin in her train, the
freight sped on. The limited, follow
Ing, was late, crowded with Christmas
shoppers, and running at terrific speed.
The thinkers lay on the track on a
curve. where the track follows the
tu~rlfofthe Youghioheny river. Strik-
ing them, the engine careerled, ran on
the outer rail of the curve, leaped from
the track, andsin an instant was buried
\ beneath the wreck of the train.
AT daylight there We're known to be
sixty dead as a result OF last nights
wreck. The bodies filled the tempo
rary morgues in this city andit is be-
Iieyed nearly a scoreSInore will be add
ed#to the death list before the day is
oyer.
Some Are Unidentified.
Of the bodies recovered forty-nine
have been identified and eleven are
I designated rs "unknoWn.'s Most of the
latter are foreigners, principally ltalT
ans
With few exceptions all the dead
We're scalded to death. Scarcely any
We're mangled. In the hospitals three
Of the injured were expected to die at
any moment, and five others were in a
critical condition.
All the dead and injured are from
pennsylvania, West Virginia and
Maryland.
During the night twelve of the in
jured died from the effects OF their
wounds. The train was largely used
by employees Of the Baltimore & Ohio
who #workain P~ittsburg, and many Of
them were victims of the catastrophe.
The sceneaat the5fWreck was awful.
Cars were piled one upon another ~
"a IN ~ ciJaSyrica and 6ot& 20 r1cr1lcM txyba tsa &or1rr
the earth supports them, while trucks
Ware piled high pon the banks and
among the bushes, as though thrown
there bysa giant hand.
Fully 200 yards from the seat of the
first trouble lies the wrecked engine,
Wher her great speed carried her after
Ii struck the wreck. Almost 100 yards
gage coach lying o n the slope of the;
bank. Z
Al Tale of Heroism.
A story of courage and heroism sell
dom equalled is told of Benjamin Mich
OILS, steward on the dining car. His
name Is being sung with praises by the
r%ailroaders and surviving passengers
today. When the accident occurred
Nichols was in the dining car at the
end ofsthe train. Before the car had
made its aSt9lurchA Nichols 1eaped and
was runningtoWard the smoker, which
was reduced to a mass of twisted iron
n splinterS. Steam was shooting
into@the car which was on.top of the
engine and upon the struggling mass of
humanity.
Taking off his coat, Nichols tore the
garment into shreds. With these he
plugged up the pipe me shut off the
steam. Temporary relief had been Civ
en sufferers, but Nichols was not yet
done. Long before the PASSENGERS in
the Pullman coaches had stepped to the
ground, Nichols had taken the first step
lii the work of rescue, climbing through
al broken window he leaped into the
dark car. Hot and s~uffocating fhessteam
ndedthe car, and the screams Of the
injured made it confusing what to do.
Picking up the first human form at
hand, Nichols carried it out Placing
tlleNvictim Upon the frozeniground, he;
re-entered the car.
More Rescuers Arrive.
BY this time other rescuers had ar
rived. One after another the victims,
were handed out until fire were res.
8cued. At this point the steward was
compelled to leap to the ground, ex-
hausted and overcome by the heat and
steam. Other employees e~atersdtlle car
and continued the work OF rescue: They
were soon rejoiIled by Nichols, who
lar recovered.
For hours the work continued, lit be.
ingdificult ven with the said Of ;a'
NyraeEfnp crew MaDv yiaffus ureno