New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-12
TRIPLE WRECK FATAL.
TWO KILLED; IS INJURED.
Fire adds to Horrors of Baltimore
& Ohio Collision in Ohio.
[By Telegraph to Tho Tribune.


Fostora, Ohio, March 11.-Crashing into a
wreck of two long freight trains on the main
line of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad five miles
westbound, caused the death of two persons and
the injury Of fifteen. Flames caught the wreck
age and for time the lives of the injured were
threatened thereby. The uninjured passengers
and members of the train crews tore aside the
debris and one by one the victims were rescued
Two, however, were badly burned before the
rescuers could reach them. Escaping steam
from the broken engines added to the difficulty
Of the rescuers, several Of whom were scalded
while pulling the injured from under the spout
Ing steam.
The list Of dead and injured follows:
THE DEAD
HOFFMAN. John. Chicago Junction; fireman passenger
HOY W Wheeling. W. Va; postal clerk
THE INJURED
BAILEY ". A: cut about head
CRAIG cstharine. r. Baltimore: leg bruised and thigh
FRANK. c. P, Chicago: slightly Gu, about head,
GAGGHER. Ila, Philadelphia leg cut
HE;NsER William Aurora. Ill; head and body scadcd
Lee ott9 Fostoria; circus performer; head hsrds
LOTT Edward Lacey. Iowa: scalded
MARTRAT Oliver. Paris France; side burned.
Osborn; p r. Chicago Junction: bagsaseman; head
u,oa'. train, head cut left arm broken, scaldsd,
cut. scsided and internally injured
Stair. Mrs. George. Detroit; three ribs broken.
VAN Alta. Thomas Newark, ohio e1pressnan; bruised
WALLET H. r, Sullivan. Iowa: body scalded.
WOODS. owen Jessup. Iowa. neWsboy; head scalded,
In order to release the body Of HOFFMAN from
the escaping steam of his engine II was neces-
sary to sever his legs. Within half an hour all
n bad baAu
car of the passenger train that remained on the
track, and an hour later they were being cared
for by physicians in the Hotel Sherwood here
binding snowstorm caused the wreck. A
fast eastbound freight stopped at Godsend. the
scene of the wreck at 1885 TO take water. The
storm obscured the train from the view of Albert
Gaustke' engineer Of the second section that
followed closely. No warning fagman was sent
nack' according to the second engine crew The
engineer saw the caboose OF the first train lust
in time to put on the air brakes and call to c. E
Nicholson his fireman, of Garrett Ind to Jump
Gaustke followed him second later Both
landed safely in the snowdrifts. while their en-
gine tossed the caboose squarely across the
westbound track. Before the two could climb
out from the drifts the fast westbound passen-
ger train tossed the caboose into the air jumped
the track and ploughed into the the freight train
@ii0 hoSSo6C SUMMING anu OoS Sois were
piled up to a height of thirty feet.
The engineer OF the passenger train was try
ing TO make up twenty minutes on his schedule
and cutting through the binding storm at
fifty miles an hour. He was within two hundred
yards Of the spot where the first wreck hap
pened and had time TO put on little of his air
pressure Neither he nor his fireman had time
TO jump. The passengers IN the Pullman and
dining car were thrown from their seats, but
they hurried out OF their cars which did not
leave the tracks. and went 10 the aid of those
in tho day coach and smoker.