The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-05-17
HORRORSWERETHREEFOLD
A Railroad Collision, Fire and Dyna'
mite.
NINETEEN KNOWN TO Be DEAD.
Tenofs Of the Wreck Of The Passenger Train
That Ran Into Freight Cars Filled Win
Dynamite at Harrisburg -fiaIi.eiad Passen'
gers. Reused From Sleep by Terrific tx'
plosious, Driven Nearly Wild.

Harrisburg, Pa. Special) Nineteen
dead, nine of whom have been identi-
fed and more than 100 injured, some
Of them severely, are the fruits OF the
terrible accident to the westbound Cleve-
land and Cincinnati express on the Penn
| sylvania railroad, which ran into a de-
rallied freight train carrying dynamite
near the Lochiel Iron Works, South Har-
risburg, and on the east side of the Sus-
quehanna River. OF the injured 81
are still at the Harrisburg Hospital,
where nearly all Of the living victims
of the disaster were taken
The body Of an unidentified Italian
baby is at the hospital, and at the tenn
porary morgue at Boyd's undertaking es-
tablishment are nine piles of charred
flesh and bones, each of which was once
a human bein. Identification of these
remains is considered impossible
Besides the bodies recovered, it is like
ly that many others were destroyed in
the fire which consumed the wreckage
of the trains.
Among the passengers Of the day coach
were number OF immigrants going to
their new homes in the West, and how
many Of these perished probably will
never be known.
The accident which has filed Harris
burg's morgue with dead, its hospital
with MANNED and dying and the hearts of
its people with pity and sympathy was
terrible one. The wrecked passenger
train was the second section of train No,
10, which left Philadelphia at 1Ios
o'clock p. NJ. on schedule time. The
train was made up of an engine and ten
der, the former in charge OF II. K.
Thomas, engineer, and r. R. 'Dickey,
| fireman; a combination car, day coach
and six Pullman sleepers, four of which
were from Philadelphia and the other two
from Jersey City. There are said to
have been 100 passengers on the train.
The cause of the wreck was the sud
den stopping of an eastbound freight
train. The freight train was tagged by
the crew of a shifting engine, and the
sudden application OF the air-brakes
caused the train TO buckle up near the
rear end. The thirty-hfth car from the
engine was deraied and thrown over on
the westbound track. Half minute
later the express train, going at the rate
OF so miles an hour, crashed into the
wrecked car The car next the one
which caused the wreck was loaded with
dynamite consigned to Kerbaugh & Co.,
of Columbia, Pa, and this exploded with
terrific roar, demolishng every car OF
the express train and IL of the freight
cars.
That so many passengers escaped in
slant death seems almost incredible. The
shock OF the explosion threw nearby resi-
dents from their beds and broke window
panes for miles around, and the scene
which followed is indescribable.
The scene of the accident is a short dis
tance from the plant of the Paxtang
| Electric Company. The nearest resi-
dences TO the scene are a row OF small
frame houses about 100 yards away, oc-
cupied by laboring men and their fam
lilies, whose conduct was little short
of heroic. Hurled from their beds by
the shock of the explosion and not know
| ing what had happened these people
| pOuICu lIOlll llOlIlGS III ltIIOI. OJCC OUT
side, the shrieks and groans from the
great heap of wreckage and the white
clad figures rushing hither and thther
like frightened sheep apprised them of
the calamity that had befallen the trav-
elers.
And then that touch of nature which
makes all the world akin got in its good
work, and the half-dressed workingmen
set to work to pull the manned and
stunned from the heap of wreckage then
burning fercely, while their wives and
children set TO work to tear up their
bedsheets for bandages and draw on their
scanty wardrobes for clothing for the
half-naked passengers who had escaped.
The first persons TO reach the scene
of the wreck were almost unnerved by
the awful spectacle. In the light OF the
blazing cars scores of half-naked men
and women were seen rolling in agony
| pile OF Wreckage came the heartrendng