The sun., 1905-05-12

Freight Train Had Buckled, ThFSWs
ing Cars on Express Track and Fast
WestbOund Passenger Crashed IRtO
Them-Dpnamite Laden Car ExpsOded
and Set Fire 10 the COaches-COncuss
sion Felt for Mlles-Hard 20 IdeatifY
the Dead-senstOr KnoSb DauShtsF
sayed-PromInen PittsburEerS Kmed.
HARRISBURG, Pa. May 1.-THE fast
Cleveland and Cincinnati express, west
bound, on the Pennsylvania Railroad
crashed into a wrecked eastbound frVight
train in the yards east Of this city early
this morning. A car filed with low grads
dynamite was eXpoded. The passenger
cars were shattered and the wreckagO
burned
In the morgue here are the charrei
bodies Of twelve passengers. IL Is lCnowl
that at least twenty were killed, Some OF
the bodies we're completely consumed
by the flames, which destroyed the elk
Pullman sleepers, one day coach and one
combination car which made up the train.
The identified dead are;
BRIGHT, PAUL OF PittsburR.
CRABBE. VIcToR L.. OF Pttsburg.
CROSBY, --, conductor Of PASSENGER tFala.
DoUOHERTY. Mrs. ROBEET O., Of Phlla-
delphia.
KUHLMAN. CHARLES. restaurant man, Of
Altoona, Pa.
MARTIN, NORMAN. child
PHILLIPS JAMES r.. Of PittsburE
sILvERMAN. J. L.. OF silyerman a WaltsfL
clothiers. Of Philadelphia.
STILLMAS. j., OF Philadelphla.
THOMAS H. X, OF PhilAdelphiG engineer
OF passenger train.
ZIEoER, GEORGE. Of Pittsburg.
James r. Phillips was prominent tin plata
manufacturer OF Pittsburg. and Victor u
Crabbe wss son in-lAW Of Robert Pitalrn.
the Pittsburg assistant 10 President Casaats
Of the PennHylyania Railroad.
Conductor Crosby Of the Inflated express
train dIsd at the sHa risbJrg hospital ~
il:SO tonight.
SAN sHUBERr AMONG INJUESD.
The list Of injured, which footS up over
one hundred, includes several well known
New Workers. Among these are San
Shuber the theatrical manager, aud his
manager, Abe Thalheimer, and his attorney,
William Klein. Shubert and Klein are
badly burned, especially Shubert, who's
life was despaired of early in the day. To-
night he is better, and his physician, Or.
O. NJ. Leiser, who came on hurri IDLY from
New York, is hopeful that he will pull
through.
shubert's mother and ais two sisters,
Misses Dora and Sarah Shubert, also came
here. and are attending the injured man
at his rooms In the Commonwealth Hotel.
Kleins injuries are not so serious, though
his face and hands are badly burned.
Among the more than 100 injured az the
Harrisburg Hospital is II. p. Bope Of Pitts
burg, ioe-prcsident Of the Carnegie Steol
Company He was in one Of the Pullmhns
and had both hands badly cut, his left eye
lacerated and his body cut and bruised.
He " resting comfortably.
Charles Donnelly, a Pittsburg millionaire,
also is at the hospital with a sprainsd
shoulder and arm, very painful, but not
serious,
George Sullivan, New York representa-
tive Of the Carnegie Steel Company, who
was with Vioe-President Bopo, was cut and
bruised about the body, but is in no danger,
Mn. A. j. Barr. wife Of the proprietor
Of the Pirsburo Post end her daughters,
Constance and Madeline, were slightly In
jured.
The Lat OF injured also includes thess
from New York and vicinity:
ERrcKsoN, HELNs, New York. left ear cut
KAUIz, =. r., New York; scalp out ana
burned and severe contuslons Of left shoulder
KLINENAN. NEWTON. New York hAnS
burned and body injured.
LUNDsIRoM. HANNAH. New York; badag
burned about face.
PERTHUsEI, SOLOMON. New York; hand
and leg lacerated.
RosTNsrocK. C.. New York; chest con
fused.
ROMAN, j.. New York; hand cut
srow. Mrs. {. H.. Brooklyn. eye injured.
SCHMIDT. H. j.. New York. head and back
sTABLrr. Mrs J. A.. New York. cut On
head
TAYLOR. joins. New York both lssS burnsi
and scalp cut,
YARD, Mrs. n. c. Brooklyn. bruised; her
ten months old baby injured
OLIVER, RobERT, New York arm injured
Posr, ARDEN, Elizabeth. n. j.; burns on
feet and head.
FBBIoHr TRAM BUcKLEp.
The wreck was caused by a slight aod.
dent 70 the freight train. Passing the plant
Of the PaK:ang Electric Company. an air
hose buut, setting tho brakes, and several
oan in the middle Of the train buckled up
and fell across the passenger tracks az the
side. Almost at the same time the fast
express dashed along and plunged into the
wrecked freight cans, including the one
loaded with dynamite.
Two seconds after we were warned d
trouble with the center Of our train sS-
planned one Of the crew Of the freight train.
We came TO a stop. In an instant the pas
senger train. Westbound. came along and
there was an awful crash. Following this
there were two explosions tbs. deafeDsd
All Of us and when we gathend ourselves
together we took in the situs ton OF the
awful wreck Of the passenger tfctn, which
had been partly blown down the ssr-..
along the passenger traok.
supt McCaleb Of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road tonight gave out the following ohiciAl !,
statement: