Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-01-01
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s'xTY-THREE LIyFJ
Duquesne Limited Throw ,
Near connellsville, Pa, by
Dropped from Fra;
Cooked Alive in suot,. y

hneilsville, Pa, BY
Dropped from Freight p,l
Cooked Alive in SMOKING D.
sixty-three persons wer.
OF them being roasted to do.A Al
ing steam, and seventytiva ;ni,,
fatally when passenger train w "
"Duquesne Limited" on ,,1 ~
and Ohio Railroad, was wroc.
Wednesday night a mile and 5'ae
Connellsville, Pa. The train
to pieces, the mail and h".,
were hurled down a 15-foot Ss
into the Youghioghcny river v ,n
and dining cars were tbrnn,' VI
down the bank and most ~ d
burned by the fire set by tbo
locomotive itself was torn ~
and the pieces thrown into A,
Hours were consumed in W.,
bodies of the dead and the IN
tins from the debris. Durina
er part of this time nearly
able to reach the scene of ~
had displayed the greatest
Scarcely had the bodies been
rows on the bank, however, wbG
began to rob the dead of iaul
other valuables.
Burns His Coat to Save Or.
Baggagemaster Thomas 7
Hazlewood proved the archie,
occasion. His head and body !
fully cut in the wreck, but in
ment Of his injury he remcmhI
,,Mest-bound passenger train Nd
about due, If it ran into tbp
there would be another catasr
had nothing with which to sirnj
matches.
Crawling out from under II
that imprisoned him for TIM
ran down the track, pulled off
and stood ready for the approad
40. When he saw the headrc
through the darkness he struck Is
lighted a sleeve of his coat
waved the flaming garment as N
to the oncoming engineer.
The signal was seen and heel
10 stopped within a foot of Ri
within a short distance of lid
debris.
The wrecked train was runI
from Pittsburg at q rate of sill
an hour. 1t struck an obstrt
lumber Oh curve near Dawsoa
Most Of those killed were d
who were in the smoker, just bal K
baggage car, They were literal
ed to death, the baggage and
telescoping the engine and imI
catching fire. Many of their boz
burned to a crisp, The entire p1
turned out en- massc to assist d
for the living and in disposn
dead. A peculiar feature Of the
is the fact that not a woman VI
ed except slightly.
Lunber from Freight Causes
The wreck was caused by Il
ing Of the castings on car
bridge timbers on q west-bom
train which had passed LaureI
more than fifteen minutes betOf
fated passenger train. The wle
red on n curve and it was impO
Engineer Thornley, to see FAY
ahead to detect the timbers
fallen.
The big Atlantic type engine
into the timbers. then into the
ment, and the baggage and eS
were thrown into the lougAoS
err. The smoker followed the enF
landed squarely on top Of IT,
lowed the escaping steam from
to fill the car.
The smoker was packed to IL
capacity and all the passenger
cooked alive. Not single paSi
this car escaped with his llfe'
estimated that at least forty OF
were in the smoker.
An operator at "VR" to"erN
Pittsburg and Lake Erie RalIrOal
the Youghiogheny river, was ~
send word Of the accident anu
for relief. He was watching
ouesne limited as it was specul
the Baltimore and Ohio tracks
the cars pile high in the air anu
back on the tracks. The scream
injured and dying were PLAINLY
another second he was sehd'HS
the railroad officials at Dawson
nellsville.