The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-03-12

oouy oi Fireman John HOFFMAN has
been Forwarded to Garrett, Ind.
Toledo, o., Mar. 12-Two killed
aud - injured, one Of whom will
die. IS the list of fatalities in a.
wreck Of two freight trains and fast
passenger train No. Z on the B. &
o. railroad, which occurred at Us
O'Clock Sunday about two miles
from Bloomdale.
Two engines we're completely
wrecked and the mail and express
cars, two baggage cars. two passen-
gel cars and four freight cars were
completely demolished and later
burned up.
The dead are as follows:
John HOFFMAN. Chicago juno
iion. fireman passenger train.
w. Huey, Wheeling, postal clerk.
The fatally injured:
Benjamin c. Shook, Chicago
Junction, mail clerk, head cut, scalp
e.l and internally injured.
The seriously injured:
j. Fl. Siegel, Chicago Junction,
engineer passenger train, head cut,
left arm broken, scalded.
B. ii. Osborne. Chicago Junction,
baggageman, head and hands burn
Ell
Otto Lee. Fostoria, circus per-
former, head and hands scalded.
Mrs. George Stair, Detroit, three
ribs broken.
II r.. Wallet, Sullivan, La, body.
scalded.
catharine Craig, aged 12, Balti-
more, leg bruised and thigh scalded.
Oliver Martrat, Paris, France,
side burned.
Owen Woods, Jessup, Ia, news
boy, head scalded.
William Henser, Aurora, ILL.,, head
and body scalded.
w A. Bailey, cut about head.
Thomas Van Alta, Newark, o..
expressman, bruised.
g 2 Frank, Chicago, slight cuts
about head.
lla Gaggher, Philadelphia, leg cut.
sFhe east bound freight train. No.
50. from Garrett, Ind, was running
III Two sections. At Godsend,
small station two miles from
Bloomdale the first section stopped
Tor water. A fierce snow storm was
raging, and obscured the first section
from Engineer Albert Guastke and
Fireman Nicholson, Of the second
section, and their train dashed down
upon it. When they discovered it.
ii was impossible to stop and their
engine crashed into the rear of the
freight ahead, throwing one car over
On the parallel track, which was open
for the fast passenger, No. Z, west
bound. AT this moment the passen-
gercame along at full speed. The
engine hit the derailed car and was
almost demolished. The mail and
baggage cars were thrown over the
engine, two passenger coaches were
splintered and a Pullman car was
derailed, but none Of the occupants
injured.
The engine and four cars of the
freight's second section were demol-
i<hed Fireman HOFFMAN was PIN
ned beneath the engine and tender
d the passenger and instantly crush
81 70 death. Engineer Siegel was
thrown into the air and fell sense
les beside his engine.
Passengers and trainmen caught
beneath the wreckage cried for help.
The debris caught fire and for
time worse catastrophe was threat
cned. The work of rescue was inn
mediately begun by crews of the
freight trains and others. Help
was sent for from Fostoria and
Bloomdale. Corps of physicians
from both places were rushed to the
scene
The body of the dead fireman was
saved from being burned only by the
rs.~cuers cutting off a leg which was
- 81 the tender.
reeling crews from Garrett and
b,cago Function reached the scene
shortly after 2 O'Clock, but it was
after dark before the track was
cleared. Conductor Koebel, Of Chi
cago Junction. was in charge Of the
passenger train. Injured passen-
gers who are now at the Hotel Sher-
wood, Fostoria, will be sent on 10
fho;r dasfinafion fcdo.. a ~, i