The Washington herald., 1907-09-29

Bellaire, Ohio Sept. 2S-Thirteen persons
perlshed and scores were injured in a col
usion between the Chicago Express. bound
for Cincinnati. and freight train on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad just inside
the Benaire city limits this afternoon.
Confusion in orders brought the two
trains together on the same track, and a
green switchtender's panic prevented him
from averting the disaster when he saw Il
crash vas near.
The express struck the freight head-on
The passenger coaches were telescoped.
not a single occupant Of the smoker es-
Gaping at least serious injury, and nearly
every one Of the 100 passengers or the
train was more or less hurt.
Richard Carles Spring Chicken" opera
troupe was on the train. but none Of its
members was injured.
The Dead.
CARL BERRAM passenger. Milwaukee.
EDWARD HINES. passenger, Wheeling W Va.
WILLIAM SHAW, passenger, Wheeling, " Va.
L. ". GALBRAITH passenger engineer Newark
Ohio
F (. MOTIFS. freight conductor. Newark, Ohio.
Il. A. LIPsCONIB. freight engineer. Newark. Ohio
H. sErTz. news agent, Wheeling W. Va.
7, A. DUNLAP. passenger. Flushing Ohio
HARRY ENGLISH. passenger. Counorsyille Ohio
JOHN HAWK. passenger residence unknown.
". J. JOHNSON.
CURTIS LAFFERTY. passengcr Cambridge. Ohio
H. PETERSON. passenger. Hoboken y. j.
The Seriously Injured.
T. \. Dunlap. passenger fireman.
W. J. johnson Of freight train crew Newark Ohio
Harry English Conucllsrillp, Ohio.
Curtis Lafery. Cambridge. Ohio.
H. Peterson. 7Ol Willow avenue. Hoboken \. J.
John Hawk Pi,tsburg, Pa.
Alfred Daley New York City.
William Perre', Albany y. Y.
7. Wilsou Wheeling. w. Va.
Hal Elwood Wheeling.
Barney DALEY, Pittsburg, Pa
W. L. thinner, Wheeling.
+. Jackson Cambridge. ohio.
r Lawscn, Wsstoh, " "a.
c. johnson Cambridge. Ohio.
+. Addison, Crrubridgr, V-l,.
d. Z. Glover Kioe Ohio.
A. Meetier. Newark, Ohio.
W C. Basseft mail clerk; residence unknown.
F. Kneer mail clerk; residence unknown.
H A Lipsc0mb Passenger engineer. Newark, Ohio
The Boone Hospital at Bellaire is filled
10 overflowing with the injured, and many
are being cared for in private homes.
The trains were piled In a mountain OF
debris. and it is possible that more bodies
may yet be found in the wreckage as the
search for victims progresses.
Express Behind Time.
The Chicago Express. which was three
and one-half hours late and due here at
1850 a. m, was running at about forty
miles an hour. under signals for clear
track ahead, when It entered the Bellaire
Junction yards at Shlcks Station. a mile
from the Bellaire depot A west-bound
freight had been given siding at Shicks
Station 10 await the coming Of the eN.
press. but, through negligence. the opera
tor at the signal tower had failed to close
the tracks between the east-bOund track.
on which the express was travelling, and
the tracks on which the freight was
standing
The engine Of the express, following
the line Of the open switch, suddenly
veered of, and before the brakes could
and the freight came together. 1t was
exactly 3.15 that the crash occurred
When the shock came. the engine OF
the passenger train was driven back into
the baggage car and the baggage car
telescoped the smoker behind It. Every
one sitting in the smoker was killed or
injured. The second car behind the bag
gage car was badly damaged. but nobody
in that car was killed.
Smoker Split in Two.
The heavy passenger engine carried the
baggage car up on its boiler. and the
smoker was split in two. but none Of the
other cars on the passenger train was
derailed.
Neither engine crew had chance to
jump. Both engineers We're ,kfled out
right, and the fremen were seriously
wounded. The conductor OF the freight
train was killed, and g newsboy on the
express.
As soon as the collision occurred The
kilograms were sent for all the doctors
in the Wheeling hospitals and the staff
OF the BellaiTe and Glendale hospitals
A special train from BeIlaire carried a
crew out TO the scene Of the accident and
as fast as they could he taken on. the
injured were taken 10 Wheeling. BeIlaire,
and the Glendale hospitals.
The telegrapher in the switch tower.
who had failed 10 close the switch on
the freight siding, and TO whose negli-
gence the wreck was due, could not be
found tonight. He is reported TO have
left the vicinity
THAW TRIAL IN JANUARY.