New-York tribune., 1905-03-05
DEATH LIST MAY BE TEN.
Bitter Feeling OUer Wreck of CleUe-
land, Ohio, Inaugural Special.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE. ]

Pittsburg. March 4.-Much interest was de-
veloped to-day in the fatal railroad wreck Of
last evening, when a second section of train
from Cleveland. Ohio was permitted to run into
the first section about eight miles from Pitts
burg. killing at least seven persons and wound
ing forty.
Three privates from the Cleveland Royal Bat
TALON are missing and thought to have been
burned in the wreck. which took fire and burned
until there was nothing left. Their names are
Lemon, smythe and Keene, and should it be
proved they are dead the list will be increased
to ten, with about five Of the injured expected
to die
There is much bitter feeling on the part Of
friends of those killed or wounded in the wreck
over the story made public this morning but
not yet proven, that the block of the Pitts
burg Fort Wayne and Chicago road. on which
the accident occurred, had not been working
well for several days but that it was repaired
quietly this morning. Either the block system
failed to work or orders were disobeyed. Craven,
the rear f1agman of the first section. who did
not go back to flag the second section. thinking
perhaps that the block would hold it, has not
been found to-day. 1t is inttmated that he has
fed to his home at Wellsville. Ohio from where
ne will be brought back to the inquest
1t came out to-day that Cleveland physicians
| and soldiers were last night compelled to use
their guns on detectives of the Pennsylvania
road in order to get their wounded into the
nearest hospitals The railroad people insisted
on taking many of the injured through to Alle-
gheny and four miles further to another hos
pital. but were forced to stop at Allegheny.
CBy The Associated Press)
Pittsburg, March ALI the wreckage of the
Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad trains which
were in collision near Clifton, Penn. last night.
wa red bI
No bodies found. and previous estimates
Of seven dead thought to be correct. 1t is pos
sible however. that several bodies may have been
cremated in the fire following the wreck as three
members of the Ohio Engineers battalion and
three colored porters are reported still missing.
Richard Buenger, a private OF Company c, of
Cleveland, who reported among the dead, is
alive at the Allegheny General Hospital. His in
Juries not serious.
The many injured in the hospitals were resting
easily to-day Major ]. r. McQuigg, commanding
the engineers battalion, who is at the Bellevue
Suburban Hospital Is reported to be in a critical
condition. The survivors of the engineers battalion
returned to Cleveland early to-day while the Tppe-
canoe Club resumed it's journey to Washington.
After the most searching investigation ii is now
practically certain that the list of dead will not
exceed seven. Some of the soldiers say a number
of their comrades are still under the wreckage but
all seem to have been accounted for Early reports
had one woman among the dead This has proved
TO be mistake The list Of injured Will reach forty
six or seven of whom likely to die. All are
being cared for at the several hospitals
Both trains left Cleveland about noon yesterday
and were making good run through TO Washing
ton. The engineers had the first train, which con-
sisted or baggage and six Pumans. Just
after the train had passed through the Conway
yards it had to be stopped account of a hot box
The box was cooled off, but three other stops were
necessary by the time Sewickley had been reached
These delays allowed the second section to catch
up. and, after passing sewickey the trains
running only one block" apart At Clifton the first
train was again stopped by the hot box The train
men say Flagman John Murray was sent back as
an extra precaution, to stop the train following in
case it had passed the last set of signals.
Murray had hardly left the train when the second
section running fifty miles an hour turned slight
bend at this point. Engineer Nicholas Long, of the
second train. said the block he passed showed
green but when he Flagman Murray he ap-
piled the brakes. 1t too late.
The heavy train sped the slippery rails
and crashed fairly into the coach of the first
train So great was the speed that the engine
ploughed clean through the heavy observation car.
splitting it in two and jamming the trucks against
So great was the impact that the baggage car
from the tracks In a moment all was confusion
Above the hiss OF escaping steam could be heard
trains poured the unnjured soldiers and members
of the political club
the tracks, where they had been thrown from the
demolished car lay the dead and injured Hardly
had the work of rescue started when flames broke
out in the wreckag ge.
After the hre had been got under control the
wrecking gang began the work of searching for
victims. The charred coaches were pulled
apart, every piece being thrown the river.
No bodies found until they began tearing
away the pile Of smoldering timbers which lay
against the front of the wrecked engine
The wreck scattered along a distance of
half a mile The six which had been partly
destroyed burning iercely almost before the
occupants of the other cars. which remained on
the tracks, able to leave them. The flames
lit up the scene for miles around: the heat was
so intense that the occupants of the which
escaped injury almost scorched in their efforts
to assist the Imprisoned passengers