Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-03-05
SEVEN ARE KILLED
IN RAILROAD WRECK
Trains Carrying Troops to In
auguration Collide.
FORTY REPORTED TO BE INJURED
First Train Was Stopped by a Hot
Box and Before the Second Section
Could Be Tagged 1t Dashed Into the
Front Train.


Could Be Tagged 1t Dashed Into the
Front Train.
Philadelphia, March 4.-After the
mos searching investigation is is now
practically certain that the deaths
caused by a collision last night be,
tween the two special trains from
Cleveland, on the Pennsylvania rail
road, at Clifton station, will not exceed
seven.
Some of the soldiers says a number
of their comrades are still under the
wreckage, but all seem to have been
accounted for. The following is a
revised list OF the dead:
Lieutenant Donaldson G. SchofieId,
of company D, a Cleveland architect.
Captain William R. Henry, battal-
ion surgeon and a prominent Cleve-
land physician.
Corporal James Kehoe, company C,
of Cleveland.
Private R. II. Held, company c.
Frank Pinney, aged 10, son of Lieu
tenant O. C. Pinney, of company C.
- Dode, Pullman car conductor,
of Chicago.
Private Hichard Buenger, company
G, of Chicago.
Early reports had one woman among
the dead. This proved to be a mistake
The list of injured will reach 40,
six or seven of whom are likely to die.
All are being cared for at the sever
al hospitals
Both trains left Cleveland about
noon Friday and were making a good
run to Washington. The first train
consisted Of baggage and six Pull.
mans. Just after the train had passed
through the Conway yard it had to be
stopped on account of a hot box. The
box was cooled off, but three other
stops were necessary by the time Sc
wickley had been reached These
delays allowed the second section to
catch up, and after passing Sewickley,
the trains were running about one
block apart.
AT Clifton the first train was again
stopped by the hot box The train
men say Fagman 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 so
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this point. Engineer Nicholas Long
Of the second train, said the block
he passed showed green but when he
saw Flagman Murray he applied the
air brakes, 1t was too late
The heavy train sped on over the
slippery rails and crashed into the
reach coach Of the first train. So
great was the speed that the engine
plowed clean through the heavy OBJ
servation car, splitting it in two and
jamming the trucks against the second
coach. The baggage car and first
coach on the second train were thrown
from the tracks.
The work of rescue commenced at
once. Alongside the tracks where
they had been thrown from the car
lay dead and injured.
Hardly had the work of rescue start.
ed when flames broke out in the
wreckage. After the fire had been
brought under controi the wreckage
crew with their derrick began the
work Of searching the debris for more
victims.
The charred coaches were pulled
apart, every piece being thrown into
the river.
In the pile of smouldering timbers
which lay against the front of tbs
wrecked engine they found three bod
les jammed tightly together. Only
one Of them was identified for some
time. That was the body of Franl
Pinney, the 1O-year-old boy.