The Washington times., 1907-09-29

BELLAIRE, Ohio. Sept. 2s.-Eight
persons persisted instantly. sir or
eight were fatally hurt and thirty
were more or less seriously in
jured IN a collision between the
Chicago express, bound for Cincin-
natl. and a freight train on the Bal
timore and Ohio railroad Just inside
the Bellair city limits this after
noon.
Confusion in orders brought the
two trains together On the same
track and a green switch tenders
panic prevented him from averting
the disaster 'Then he saw a crash
was near.
Struck Head-on.
, The express struck the freight head
on All the passenger coaches were tel
escoped, not a single occupant OF tas
smoker escaped at least serious injury.
and nearly every one OF the 100 passcu-
gers on the train was more or less hurt.
Richard Carries Spring Chicken com
pany was or the train. md all its mem
The railroad has given out & list OF
Known dead, but il is certain three
others persisted v,hOse names have not
been accounted for.
Dead:
List of Known Dead.
HARRY STEATz.
Ed HEINZE, Wheeling, W. Va.
WILLIAM SAHE. Wheeling. ". Va
CARL BERER-AN. Milwaukee
L 5, CQLOKAITH. freight engineer,
Newark, Ohio.
F. e. woTz. freight conductor. New
AK, Ohio.
The seriously injured:
Those Seriously Hurt.
T. a. Dunlap. paSserger fireman: W.
]. johnson. Of freight train crew. New
ark, Ohio; Harry English, Conneilsvilie,
Ohio; Curtis Laf1erty, Cambridge, Ohio;
H Peterson. 7o4 Willow avenue. Ho-
Pa; Alfred Daley, New York city: WI
liam Perrell. Albany ". Y, 2 Wilson
Wheeling, w. Va; Pat Elwoo6, Wheel
ing; Barney DALEY, Pottsburg, Pa; W
L. thinner, Wheeling
F. Jackson, Cambridge, Ohio; P. Law
son. Weston, w. Va; G. Johnson, Cam
bridge, Ohio; F. Addison. Cambridge.
Ohio; d. e Glover, Kloe, Ohio; A. zee
tir. Newark, Ohio; W. G Bassett. mali
clerk. residence unknown: 3. =. Kinesr,
mail clerk, residence unknown; II. A.
4lpSGOAlDr passenger Newark. OHIO.
The Boone Hospital at Bellaire IS filled
70 Overlooking with the injured, and
many are being cared for n private
homes.
The trains were piled in a mountain
OF debris, and it is possible more DOfies
may yet be found as the search FOR vic
tins progresses.
Horrors of the Wreck.
The signal operator at the BeIlaire gard
Office. whose mana is Mccain, gave
the freight the eestbound track instead
# the westbound. as he should. and
the trains crashed together without
warning. Both engines reared straight
up in the air and came down with 2
crash. They We're demolished and q
portion OF one rolled over a fOrty-tcol
embanRment. Tho baggage car and
smoker OF the passenger were torn into
bits
Nearly all Of ne injured were in the
smoker. The dead and injured were
pinioned under the wreckaee, which
caught fire, adding terror 10 the sit
Uauon.
General Manager Fitzgerald's train
was at Benwood junction when the news
verted into a relief train and crowded
with doctors and nurses was rushed to
the scene OF the wreck. The dead were
removed 20 undertaking pdrlors III Bel
laire and the Glendale Hospital a.
Moundsviile. General Manager FitE-
gerald and members OF his star assist
Cd the nurses and crew n caring for
tie Wounded.
A SCI az was trade tonight Tor the
operator whose blunder caused the
wreck, but he co;lld not he found.