The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-12
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Harrisburg, Pa, May 11.-An ex-
press train OF, the Pennsylvania Rail-
road ran into a freight train in which
there were two cars loaded with dyna-
mite, at 1:10 o'clock this morning in
South Harrisburg, near the plant of
the Paxtang Light, Heat and Power
Company.
Three terrific explosions that broke
windows all over the city followed
and the two trains were completely
wrecked and took fire. 1t was esti-
mated at 3 o'clock that fifty persons
were killed and one hundred injured,
though these figures may be too
small.
j IT is impossible to ascertain the ex-
act number Of fatalities because the
proachable, IN which many of the
passengers and some members of the
train crews are pinned, and many
small explosions occurred continually.
Bodies Hurled Into the Air.
When the first explosions occurred
bodies We're thrown clear of the berths
in the sleeping cars, many landing
down the railroad embankment and
some even having been hurled into
the Susquehanna river, which parallels
the railroad in that locality. All the
physicians of the city procurable were
summoned to work with the injured.
a fire alarm sounded and the fire.
men arrived, to find themselves prac-
tically helpless in the work of rescue.
a police patrol wagon was commits"
stoned as an ambulance, as many of
the injured as possible were loaded
into it on each trip and taken to the
Harrisburg Hospital, the capacity of
which soon became taxed because of
the large number that were brought
in. A special train was made up and
brought injured and dying to the
Union station. Many of the injured
were taken into private houses.
Immediately after the wreck all
the passengers who could do so ran
from the scenes of horror to safety
from the incessant small explosions.
Heart Rending Scenes.
The agonizing cries of the unfor-
Inmates were heart-rending. The Of
flee of the Paxtang Light, Heat and
Power Company looked like a hos
pital. At an early the Harrisburg
Traction Company ran out a number
of cars from it's south Harrisburg
barns and used them to bring the
injured to the hospital.
With practically no clothing many
women and children from the train
We're compelled to wander about the
fields as there are few houses in the
Immediate vicinity of the wreck.
The train was the second section
of No. 10. There were 1853 passen-
gers in the train and the latest esti-
mate is that fifty were killed. The
hospital is crowded to the doors and
the hotels are being opened for the
care of the injured 1t may be neces-
sary for the authorities to seize one of
the hotels and turn it into a temper
airy hospital.
Among the Injured.
The following are among the in
jured Harry Splitter, Finnburg, criti-
cal; George Crabbe. Pittsburg, badly
cut and bruised, Charles DeForest,
Cleveland, seriously hurt internally
cut and bruised; III. L. Hartman, Pitts
burg, arm broken, cut and bruised;
Charles Johnson, Philadelphia, badly
cut and burned Robert G.. Daught-
erly, Philadelphia, and little son, Sc
riously injured; T.. Botstot, Chicago,
cut and burned; A. r. Outpost, Eliza
beth, n j.; r. L. VanBemen. New
York, cut and bruised; j. r. Phillips,
Pittsburg, will die; Charles DonneIly,
Pittsburg cut; Eberly, New
York, internally hurt. may die; -
Slotheimer, New York, internally
hurt, will die; A. G. Cope, Pittsburg,
cut and bruised; II. s. Watson, Clear
field. cut on hands; w. II. Valentine,
Pittsburg, head cut: Charles john
hahnson. Pittsburg, cut and scalded.
Train No. 10, which was wrecked
was westbound and is known as the
Cleveland and Cincinnati express. 1t
left Philadelphia at 11:05 Wednesday
night and was due at Harrisburg at
1880 a. M, and at Pittsburg at a. m.
The engineer Of the passenger train
was III. x. Thomas, of Philadelphia,
who was killed outright. He leaves q
family. The fireman, r. r. Dickey
of Philadelphia, was only slightly in
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