Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1904-01-07
Bad Railroad Accidents.


A bad accident occurred on the
Cumberland Valley Railroad near
| MELVILLE, Pa, on the evening of New
Years day, by which three persons
| were killed and dozen others injured.
Passenger train No. 7, south bound,
ran into an open switch and the rear
coach was thrown over an embank-
ment. The three persons killed were
Miss Emily Fuller, of Shippensburg
an Italian woman about 25 years of
age; A. G. Meyer, of Tyrone. Pa,
who had one OF his arms torn off and
died soon afterward. Miss Rosie
Middleton,a blind girl, was on her way
from Alabama to MELVILLE, and was
within three miles of her destination
when she was fearfully hurt, one Of
her arms being crushed off. Captain
Edward Burns, of Hagerstown, had a
leg broken and was otherwise injured.
1t was the first time in forty years
that a passenger had been killed on
the Cumberland Valley Railroad.
The most serious wreck that has
occurred on the Western Maryland
Railroad in many years happened last
Sunday evening between four and FIVE
o'clock. The fast mail train for Bal
timore was going up the mountain,
and when between Edgsmont and
Blue Mountain House broken rail
threw the rear coach from the track.
The car bumped along on the ties for
about 200 feet and then turned over
and fell down the mountain side. 1t
rolled completely over two or three
times, when it finally landed against
some trees, upside down. The trucks
rolled after it and smashed into the
car and crushed it. Two persons
were killed, Mrs. W. T. Man.ley, Of
Wilmington, Del, and Katherine Sen
er, aged IL years, daughter of Mandel
Sener, reporter on the Baltimore
Sun. About forty other persons were
injured, but none fatally. S. Burk-
hart Emmert, of Hagerstown, had his
shoulder di.located and bad cut in
hi, head H. S. Snader. of Baltimore,
who had been visiting in Jefferson
county, was painfully cut; Emory
Baker, of Grimes's Station, had an
arm broken and his head cut. The
others who were injured sustained
painful cuts and bruises. 1t is sup
posed that the rail broke because Of
contraction from the intense cold.
This was the first time that a passen-
ger had been killed by the Western
Maryland Railroad.
The wreck that occurred on the B.
t& O, Railroad Wednesday before
Christmas near Connellsville, Pa, was
one of the worst in the history OF
American railroads The Duquesne
Limited train was flying along at
speed of 60 miles an hour when the
engine dashed into some heavy timber
that had fallen from freight train.
In a few minutes IS persons had mis-
erably persisted. The smoking car,
which wac crowded, mounted the top
of'the engine and broke the steam
connections, and in an instant, with
fearful roar, the car was filled with
steam and every occupant was scalded
to death or aufocated. Among the
killed were Horace Gard, Howard
Roush and Jesse Twilley, of Martins
burg; G. W. Biser and Chas. W. Wag-
ner, of Berkeley Springs; S. G Heater,
of Leesburg, Va; Richard G Duckett,
of Baltimore, besides others not known
so we'll in this section.
By collision between passenger
and freight train on the Rock Island
Railroad near Willard, Kansas, yes
terday morning, II persons were
killed and 81 injured.