Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-03-07
SEVEN ARE KILLED
IN RAILROAD WRECK
Trains Carrying Troops to In
auguration Collide.
ON REPoRTEO 10 b INJURgn

FRS, Train Was stopped BY Hos
Box and Before the Second Section
Gould as Tagged !, Dashed Into the
Frent Train.
Philadelphia, March 6-After the
mos searching investigation Is Is now
practically certain that the deaths
caused by collision last night be
tween the two special trains from
Cleveland. on The Pennsylvania rail
road at Clifton station. will not exceed
seyen.
Some Of the soldiers says number
Of their comrades arc stlll under The
wreo6ago hut an seem to have. been
accounted for The following 10 a
revised list OF the dead
Lieutenant Donaldson G. Schonold.
81 company y, a Cleveland architect
Captain William r Henry, battat
'on surgeon and prominent Cleve
land physician
Corporal James Kehoe company Q.
1f Cleveland
Private 4 n Held. company c.
Frank pluney AGED 10, son of Lieu
tenant o G. plnuey. Of company G,
Dode Pullman car conductor.
% Chicago
Private lllchard Eucpgcr company
G, OF Chicago
Early reports had one woman among
che dead This proved % be- a mistake
The list of Injured viii reach 20.
eis OF aeyou oi whom are likely 70 dle
Az are boins cared Tor at enc sever
al hospitals
Both trains lcft Cleveland about
noon Friday and were making q good
run % Washington Tho arsl train
consisted Of BAGGAGE aud ak Pull
maps Just after the train had PASSED
through lho Conway yard % had 60 bo
tiopaad ou account OF a hot box. The
box WAS cooled on but three other
stops were necessary by tho time Sc
wlCkloy had been reached These
Delays allowed ih0 second section 10
catch up and after passing scwicklcy
the trains were ualng pbuui ono
hl0ch apart
Al chiffon tho hut train was again
stopped bY the bot box The train
men say fagman john Murray was
sent hack as Hu extra precautIoh te
stop the train following Ia case e
had passed me last set OF slanals.
Murray had hardly left tho train
when The second ecilou running 20
miles an hour turned d slight bend AZ
this point Eas.neor Nicholas Long
90 me second train. said tie block
be passed showed green buf when be-
raw Faeman Mnray be- applied che
eif brakes u was COO iafe
The heavy train Epod on over co.
slippery ralls and crashed into fhe
reach euaeh 90 che nfsi train 81
great vas the speed that the engine
plowed clean through the heavy ob
HerYation caF. splitting d 20 two and
iammlng tho Trucks aealbst the second
coaeh The baggage ear and nfss
coach 4a lhe second train we're thrown
from ide trarkE
The N0f. Of rescue commenced al
once AlonEs.de lbe tracks whora
they had been thfosn from tho car
lay dead aBd Injured
Hardly bad the work Of rescue start
20 Hhea namft broke out Ia ths
Wrockase Affer ire are had been
brought under eohtrm ,he greekses
eree etb fbsir derrick began ~
eorh o. seafchlnE ne debris for more
victims
The caaued eoaehes we're Dnned
apart every piece being thrown late
,he river
la ihe p'le ~ smou'derag tlmbtm
uh.eh ay against the 'front.' Of iht
affchea eos.aa lbey found three bod
ifs iammfd i.ghflY fosethef 0nl'
one gf fbem vas idepn0ed f0f eome
umf That Nas thc boff 81 Fra1
pieheg iha i4gearo.a Dos
ase Taaafi Nee Heaty