The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-05-16

more than n hundred Others were
injured in the railroad wreck and dy-
Mantle explosion which occurred early
this morning on the Pennsylvania rail-
road in the southern part of this city.
That not more persons were killed is
considered remarkable by the Pennsyi-
vania railroad officials, as a full box
car of dynamite exploded directly AT
the middle of the heavy express train.
The Ii C lad and injured is o. oil
lows !:
LIST OF THE DEAD.
The following is a list of the dead:
v. l.. CRABBE. Pittsburg.
GEORGE ZEIGLER, Pittsburg.
JAMES r. PHILLIPS, Pittsburg.
PAUL BRIGHT Pittsburg.
MIR. SHAW, Plttsburg.
]. L. SILVERMAN, Philadelphia.
MRS. ROBERT G.. DOUGHERrY,
Philadelphia.
H. X. THOMAS, Philadelphia.
H. K. THOMAS, Parkersburg, ensi-
neer Of express train.
NORMAN MARTINA, seven months
u, hUHl1NNAN AllOOua, I'd.
old.
Nine unidentified bodies.
The Pennsylvania railroad officials
tonight gave out q list containing the
| names of ninoty-eight persons VINO
| are injured and treated at hospitals
Or elsew here.
The company also gave a list con-
| tanning the names of ~thirty-siX persons
| who we're in the wreck and whose IN
| juries are not given. Among the injur-
ed is F. w. BroIe, Memphis, Tenn,
who had his face lacerated.
PROMINENT PERSONS ON THE
TRAIN.
The train carried a number of prom
inent persons and most of them soap
ed with only slight injuries. Among
those On the train were Mr.. and Mrs.
James r. Tindeii. of P%ittsburg, the
latter the daughter Of United Siases
Senator Knox; Mrs. A. j. Barr, wife
of the proprietor of the Pittsburg Pos
and her two daughters; Victor l.
Crabbe, son-in-law of Robert Pitcairn
of Pittsburg, assistant to President y
J. Cassatt, of tire Pennsylvania rail-
road, and Sam. S. Shubert, OF tho
prominent theatrical managers OF New
prominent theatrical managers of NeN
York. Mr.. Crabbe died in the Harris
burg hospital at noon, a few minutes
before his father-in-law reached his
bedside. MIR. Shubert was reported tt
| be badly injured, but the others wcr'
only slightly hurt.
:. The wrecked train wasthe secon!
! section of the observation-disclosures
express, leaving Philadelphia at it:o;
: o'clock last night. 1t consisted Oh
combination baggage and smokihi
car, one day coach and six sleepers.
,onse nsaot. etaoln shrdlu
!, Thereare various stories as to nov
the wreck occurred. butthe official Yer
ii sion is as follows.
OFFICIAL VERSION OF THE DIS
ASTER.
About lao O'Clock the engine on az
), e%astbound freight train was tagged b!
{ the crew of a shifting engine ahean Oh
the same track. The engineer quick!
e nut on his air brakes, and the traiL
| an unusually long one, came to a SUI
den halt. The strain on the air vaivei
q was a severe one, and a connecting al
! hose in the middle of the train blew
T out. This caused the middle or III
the train to buckle n the dam
aged cars fell over on the passenge
tracks.
Just as his happened the Ciese
/. land express came laundering up, al
u ..side swiped the wreck" The expires
( was stopped within its own length a.:
the third sleeper was opposite ID
wrecked cars. Before any n COIL
leave the passenger train, which va
not very badly damaged, a few sigh
explosions occurred and then there W.
enc great fash and roar that shool
: the earth. The whole affair occurr-'
within the period of a few seconds.
A SCENE OF TERROR.
A scene Of horror followed the expo
! sion of the dynamite. The passengc
ears and some OF the freight cars III
stantly took fire. AS the reverbeTa
e ton of the terrific explosion died aw l
4 in the hills across the S~usquehan
e river. the agCnizing cries OF the injuf
ed could he heard. Men and woms
d came tumbiing n climbing from II
/. car windows. or crawled from unds
Il the wreckage. No n for the N
n ment seemed to know what 10 do. an
y many of the passengers, momentarii
b seized with terror, ran wildly abot
the fields on the north side OF the raj
b road or waded into the shallow water
of the river which parallels the raj
re- road on the south.
n-rls;no fhnf~ CaFotr and tho dar