Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1907-08-14
A DEADLY COLLISION.
Passenger Train Runs Into a
Coal Car
FOUR DEAD; TWENTY-FIVE HURT
Titusvills Express sids-swiped by
Loaded Gondola Near Pittsburg
Engine, Tender, Baggage and Ex-
press Cars, With Three Day
Coaches, Dera!led.

Pittsburg, Special.-Four persous
were killed and twenty-five injured
in railroad wreck on the Buffalo s
Allegheny division of the Pennsyl.
vania Railroad at Kelly, about 81
miles from this city. The wrecked
train was the Titusyille express No
76, which left Titusville, Pa, for this
city at 7:1O Tuesday morning AT
11:3O, while passing through Kelly,
the train was side-swiped by gon-
dola coal car, and the engine; tender,
baggage and express cars, with the
three day coaches, were dcrailcd.
The dead:
Mrs. Alonzo Huff.
Infant Of Mrs. Huff, of Jobnstown,
Pa.
George Cochran, Of Rimesburg, Pa,
died at Kittanining hospital.
M. B. irwin, Of Oakmont, Pa, en-
gineer Of the passenger train.
The gondola was loaded with coal
and had broken away from a train
and rolled down over a switch en-
tending over on to the main track.
The passenger train, running at about
60 miles an hour, came around a
curve and before the speed could be
reduced had struck the gondola. The
engine was thrnwn 80 feet from The
track and landed on its side. Engi-
neor Irwin was caught beneath lis
engine. The tender was likewise
turned over and the cars broken and
battered. were strewn along the track
on their sides. Most Of the injured
were in the second day coach. Tie
majority Of these were cut by glass
and received bruises in the tumbling
over of the cars.
The dead and injured among the
passengers were in the second day
coach. It was in this car that Mrs.
Huff with her daughters and infant
was riding. The side Of the car was
crushed in and only two women who
were seated on the side toward the
gondola car escaped injury. They
were Mrs. Maud Whitsworth and Mrs.
Whitsworth, when the crash came,
threw ono of her two children out
of the car window on the sand. The
other child was thrown on the floor
but escaped harm. The child thrown
from the window was uninjured.
Wreck Near Raleigh, N. c.
Raleigh, N. c., Special.--Passen-
ger train No. 1876, eastbound, due I
leave here at $50 p. M, but running
late went head-on into freight train
at 81 milepost on the Southern Rail-
way half mile east Of Auburn ten
miles from Raleigh. Both engines
were locked together, many freight
cars were piled upon the engines
which caught fire and were burned
while the mail car was almost totally
wrecked and thrown upon an engine.
Passenger train Engineer Rippey,
a veteran of 33 years service, it is
said,, misread his orders which were
to stop at Auburn for the freight and
so was dashing on for Clayton. F[e
jumped. His injuries are not consid-
cred serious though one of the num-
erous surgeons who went to the
wreck said they might be graver than
is supposed. His fireman, Jack Beth
el, was pinned in the wreck but was
taken out. He was somewhat scaldel
and his face was covered with ashes
from the fire box. He was one Of
the oldest fremen in service. His
home was Graham. Engineer Charles
Parker, Of Greensboro, and his fire.
man, Will King, of Lexington, both
of the freight, were crushed beneath
their engine.