Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-05-15
TEN-coAcH PASSENGER TRAIN
WRECKED AND BURNED ON
PENNSYLVANIA -RoAo-cRASH.
ED INTO CAR OF DYNAMITE
TWENTY KILLED AND 100 IN.
JuRED -PAssENGERs ASLEEP
WHEN CRASH CAME

WHEN CRASH CAME.
HARRISBURG, Pa, May IL
Twenty dead, 100 injured, ten coaches
OF a passenger train burned and a
long freight train partly consumed,
| sum up the chief results of disas-
| trous collision of the Cincinnati and
Cleveland Express on the Pennsyl-
vania with freight train OF the same
road nere early today.
An air hose on one of the cars of
the freight train burst, causing the
brakes to become so tight that the
| train buckled in the center and some
of the cars turned over QUITO the
track upon which the passenger train
was running. and into these the train
crashed exploding two cars OF dyna-
mite. The explosion set fire to the
cars OF both trains. There were 1863
passengers on the train and they
were hurled into heap wnen the
crash came. Survivors Of the wreck
say flames seemed to start simuitane-
ously everywhere. Most OF the pas
sengers were temporarily stunned.
Those who were in the Pullmans
who were able freed themselves from
the debris and clambered to safety,
but many were pinned down by the
wreckage and were partly or entirely
consumed by the flames.
David Bateman. an employe Of a
steel plant nearby, approached the
, burning wreckage and caught hold OF
the arms Of man In one Of the cars
flames scorched his face and hands
and he was forced to leave mis- shrek
ing victim to die by fire.
At noon eighteen bodies had been
recovered. but 1t is thought the death
list will reach twenty-five.
OF those killed in the Pullman cars
twelve are at the morgue and other
bodies are being brought to the dead
house as quickly as they can be To-
Gated
The passengers and trainmen were
burned TO a crisp, while others were
pinned helpless In the debris. SO
completely cremated were the bodies
that only four could be identified up
to noon. The women suffered great.
| ly. many of those wno escaped being
found almost naked.
Ghouls we're at work soon after
daylight this morning-negroes and
| foreigners searching for loot. The
heat, however, was 30 intense and
the crowd so reputable that 1t 10 be
lieyed the pliagers secured but little
OF value.
| II is now known that the primary
cause OF the wreck was shifting
engine, which was going slowly when
the engineer OF the eastbound freight
train saw II coming on his track. He
applied the brakes suddenly. which
was the cause of the buckling OF the
train in the middle, showing severs
of the cars onto the westbound pas
senger track. A moment later the
fastest night train on the road came
along and crashed into these cars
| Six minutes after the express strucl
the freight wreck the flames reached
the car filled WITH powder There wal
a Hasn and deafening roar: tbs
earth trembled. and those who wer'
not killed or Injured fed from thu
awful scene.
Special trains were rushed TO thu
scene of the disaster. the first bring
ing back sixty-six injured to the hos
pital; the second. twenty-five. Amonl
the injured Is the daughter OF Sen
ator Knox.
| CHICAGO. May ia break cam
in the great strike today. The ha.
and feed drivers refused to obey tn
BOYCOTT and deliveries are being mad
by union drivers to all the stool
firms. The drivers say tnat they ar
not going to stand by and see horse
starve to death. Union men declare
however. that this is merely q subtel
fuge to cover the real attitude Of tn
drivers who do not favor the strik
and are anxious to go on with thei
, work.
SILvERTON. May 11.--A jury 1
the case Of Arthur Rice. charged wit
killing Marshall Mackenzie 1t Eli
eka some months ago. WAS empans
led and sworn in just before the moo
hour and this afternoon the introdu'
ton of evidence commenced.