New-York tribune., 1907-09-29
EIGHT DEAD TN WRECK
TRAINS Crash IN OHIO.
Spring Chicken" Company IN Fatal
Baltimore & Ohio Collision.

Wheeling w Va, Sept 2s.-Eight persons
were killed, four fatally injured and seventeen
more less seriously hurt late to-day. when
the Chicago G. Wheeling Express Train IA. on
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, wrecked In
the yards at Belaire. Ohio. few miles below
this city. a freight train had just taken a sid
ing for the express The passenger train. how
ever. failed TO pass over the switch and crashed
into the freight. Until a late hour tonight the
exact number of dead and injured not def
nitely known.
The dead:
BERERoN. Carl No. 1875 9th street, Milwaukee
GALBRAITfI. L N. freight engineer. Newark, Ohio
HBINZE. Michael. Wheeling.
LIPsCOAfB. H A. passenger engineer. Newark Ohio.
MOTZ. F. E. freight conductor. Newark. Ohio
ROSE F. l.. Arcade, Cleveland
SHAW. William. Wheeling
SEITZ Harry. newsboy. Massilon Ohio
VIII die:
BLUBAUGII E j. mail clerk. Newark Ohio.
DAILY. Dennis. Pittsburg.
DoSANT. w. C. mail clerk. Newark, Ohio
kNEER. d E. mail clerk, Newark, Ohio
The injured:
DAL.BY Alfred No 419 West 12lst street, New York.
DUNLAP. T. A. passenger fireman
ELWOOD. Patrick. Wheeling. w. Va
ENGLISH Harry. Connersville. Ohio
CLOVER D. E. Klee, Ohio.
HAWK. John, not known
JACKSON F. Cambridge. Ohio
JOHNSON. o.. Cambridge Ohio.
JOHNSON. W S. freight engineer. Newark Ohio
LAWSTON. F.. Wooston. ". Va
LAFFERTY. Curtis. Cambridge. Ohio
MOOTTAR A. Newark. Ohio
PETERSON. H. No 7o4 Willow avenue, Hoboken, n j.
TERRELL. William. Albany n. Y.
WILSON. r. Wheeling. W. Va
Z-MMEI2. W. l.. Cambridge. Ohio.
The wreck was due. Il is said. to the failure
of an operator to throw a switch. The west
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passenger the western limits OF the Bellaire
yard. and was moving slowly along the siding
At the point where the wreck occurred there IS
a sharp curve which prevents the engineers OF
eastbound trains from seeing more than few
feet ahead. The passenger train swung around
the curve at high speed, being three hours late.
and should have gone on in safety on the main
line The switch to the siding, however. had
not been turned, and the train shot on to the
siding and into the freight There was hardly
time to apply the brakes and no time for tho
engine men to jump.
The two engines were reduced to junk by the
impact but the worst damage was done to the
smoker, which telescoped completely
by the baggage car that every seat was thrown
out of the coach. Every occupant of the
smoker was badly injured. The passengers in
the other day coach and the two PuImans were
jured
Galbraith. the engineer, was burned TO death
by escaping steam. The injured were taken 70
the Glendale ". Va. and Bellaire hospits1s. Gen
eral Manager Fitzgerald, who was In IN, ncistl-
borhood on an inspection tour and General Su-
perintendent W. c. Loree. of Wheeling, person
ally superintended the rescue work Great
difficulty experienced in removing the IN
Jured passengers from the wrecked smoker.
Work was slow because the victims were en-
tangled in mass Of timbers and twisted iron.
Among the passengers the wrecked train
were the members of Richard Carle's Spring
Chicken" company. which was 10 have played
at Wheeling this afternoon and evening. All
the members Of the company escaped serious
injuries, except Alfred Dolby. the musical di-
rector. 1t found necessary TO amputate his
right arm thus ending his career in his profes-
sion. He was riding in the smoker. and was
found with a heavy timber tightly binding him
b. the arms
rrhe wrecked passenger train left Chicago for
Pittsburg and Wheeling at $50 O'Clock last night
and is known as train No. Il. The train Is
divided at Chicago Junction, part going on 10
Pittsburg by way of Akron and the other part
coming through TO Wheeling by way OF Newark
The Wheeling end of the train consisted of six
coaches.
At the Office of Superintendent Loree tonight
y WAS said that they were not yet certain which
operator was to blame for the accident. but that
a thorough investigation was under way.
The property damage will amount to about
$50 900 A curious feature of the wreck is that
the baggage car and the smoker the only
cars on the passenger train damaged.