The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-07-19
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT
On the Pennsylvania Railroad Ne s
New Cumberland, Pa, on Saturday
Morning. The Body OF One
Man Picked Up Two hun-
dred Yards Away.

the Pennsylvania railroad wreck on
May IL, in which twenty three per
sons were killed and many Others In
iured.
All the victims OF Saturdays diSaS-
ter were employees Of P. S. heroaugh
& Co., incorporated, contractors, who
are building the double tracks for the
Pennsylvania railroad to connect with
the Enola yards. The bodies OF the
men were terribly managed and par
ticles Of flesh and bone were scattered
for 200 yards from the scene Of the
explosion.
The dead are:
James Wiseman, aged fifty, dyna-
mite boss, 90 Front avenue, Buffalo,
n. Y.
Arthur Green, colorei, % years OF
age, steam driller, Harrisburg.
Robert Thomson, colored, % years
old steam drillers helper, Harrisburg.
Frank Mullach, a Slav, 43 years
old.
Three Italians and one Slav, known
only by numbers.
The injured are:
William Reed, colored, 20 years old,
steam driller, skull fractured and In
jured internally. Reed is at Harris
burg hospital.
G. c. Miller, 5S years old, OF Ida
vile, Adams county, bruised about
body, but not seriously.
Not trace OF the two cOlored men
who were killed can be found and 1t is
supposed their bodies were blown into
tie river, which is being dragged.
An iLquest was held Saturday after
neon by Squire Coble, Of Lemoyne.
The jury rendered verdict OF prema
ture explosion from an unknown cause
and no blame is attached to the con-
tractors,
All the killed and injured were
laboress aside from Wiseman, whose
body was terribly mangled. What
could be found OF it was identified by
the fact that he dyed his hair. His
scalp and a portion OF his head were
found on hill, 200 yards from the
blast. Wiseman has been with the
Kerbaugh company for five years, and
had gone to the scene Of the explosion
to personally superintend the prepara
tions TOR what is called q big shot, y
to be fred Sunday morning.
A 'big shot" consists OF series OF
blasts, the holes having been drilled
in rev, and the charges being SET
of simultaneously by an electric
spark. Five Of the holes had been
filed with powder and the men were
On the sixth when the explosion oc'
cured. 1t is supposed that small
stone had COTTON into the kole and
that the iron bar with which the men
were ''tanplng'' down the charge,
caused a spark by scraping on the
stone and that this igIited the pow.
der.
John Shelter, the fireman OF a
"dinky" engine, $50 feet away, was
thrown to the ground by the force OF
the explosion and slightly injured by
flying debris. Miller was sitting at
the door OF the shack were the men
bunk, 200 feet from the blast, and
was blown 20 feet and badly bruised.
One Italian escaped because fel.
low workman had playfully snatched
his hat and ran with it. The owner
ran after the man with the hat and
had Just got out Of the range Of the
explosion when it occurred. An Ital-
ian water boy, II years old, who was
on his way to the men with bucket
OF water, was hurled so feet. Every
stitch Of clothing was torn from his
body. A leather belt containing 1912
in paper money, supposed to belong to
one Of the men, was picked up near
the scene Of the explosion. Pieces OF
flesh and bone were found fastened In
the telegraph wires over the railroad
tracks. The fragments OF the bodies
we're placed in rough caskets after the
coroaer's inquest, and they were
buried Sunday.
There were no buildings in the i'm
mediate vicinity Of the explosion and
there was no damage except for the
destruction Of few telegraph poles
and q large tool shed in nearby,
quarry, which was torn clear out and
drawn fftsen feet toward the scene OF
the blast.
The explosion shook the country
for miles around and broke many win.
dowS in Harrisburg and towns across
the river. Twelve hundred and fifty
pounds OF rock powder had been IN
loaded just before the explosion, but
1t was not disturbed.