The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-29
Operator Fails to Throw Right Switch and Fatal Wreck
 Follows SIX 0R EIGHT MORE
 OF INJURED MAY DIE Richard carIe's. Opera Company Ia On the Train, But All Escape scri- ous Injury--Telesraph op-
 orator Cart Be Found.

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 ihc passt running seV- ehlS mics dalSe up lost time The freight ldnins thirty miles an Carl BertY 4 passenger. Milwaukee
 Edward Hfaanes, passenger, Wheeling.
 William Shaw. passenger. Wheeling
 T. N. Gaibraith, patsenger engineer, Newark, O.
 F O. Motz, freishl conductor. New arp.
 JH. A. Lipscomb, freight engineer, New / ark. i Harold ztz. Newherry i A. E. Dunlap. passenger Flushing. o.. died at hospital tonight
 Fatally injured. N C Besant. zanes- ] ville o. cut about head ant hody: wil! { die, i G. l. Kneer. Mt Vernon, O. ribs broken and back and head cut. E. C. Blubaugh. Mt. Vernon, head in- iured and arm broken William Farrell Albany. N Y.. cut and bruised Clarence Johnson cut and bruised about head. face and bcay Hans Peterson, Hohokcn. N l., left leg broken il two places. head badly cut Frank Wilson. Wheeling, cut about head rfnd face, Injured: Patliek iawood Wheeling. cut and bruised Edward Parker, Wheeling, cnt about legs and bruised on body.
 John EIately, Wheeling. back and legs injured
 Phillip Yosbuch. Plttsburg, cut and bruised, serious.
 C. A Lotus, Cambridge, O., back sprained.
 Barney Daley. Pittsburs. right leg cut off at knee and head badly crushed. rous
 Gus Griffin, Bayonne. N. J., injured about hips
 William Zimmerman, Cambridge, mead and shoulders lacerated.
 Percy Ledsure, back hurt.
 Harvey Enghsn. Connersvile O., back sprained cut and bruised
 Peter Bodano. Pittsburg, back sprained and bruised.
 Ernest Jackson, Cambridge. O., neck
 Clarence Johnson. Cambridge. back and hips injured
 Sam Bardono. Zanesvllle. O.. legs crushed and head cut
 Leo Ralph. Quaker City O., head and back crushed.
 D. F. Clover, crushed about chest.
 August Meter. Newark, internally in- jured.
 Joyce Addison, Cambridge. cut and bruised about head.
 Adam Kokovitz. Benwood. W Va.. hips crushed, leg amputated at hospital.
 William Anderson of Mississippi, may be internally injured about head
 Fred Shelby, New York. cut about head.
 Gave the Wrong Signal.
 The signal operator at the Bellaire yard office whose name is McGann. gave the freight the eastbound track instead of the westbound Both engines were de- moished The baggage car and smoker were torn into by part of one engine. Nearly all of the injured were In tho smoker.
 Richard Carle's Spring Chicken" theat- rical company occupied a paror car on the rear of the train. It was demolished but none of the company was hurt
 rae dead and injured were pinioned un- der the wreckage, which caught fire.
 Engineer Lipscomb was caught under the wrecNage Of his engine
 Chop my leg off. will you?' he yelled to members Of the yard force. AZ axe was secured and wlik the stealn was pouring upon him he saw them hack off the limb, just above the knee He wal scalded all over the body, and died at the hospital an hour later. He was con scious 10 the last.
 General Manager Fitzgerald's s train was at BcnwoCd when news of the wreck was received. 1t was converted into a relief train and with doctors and nurses rushed to the scene of the wreck
 The operator who caused the wreck could not be found tonight
 Theatrical People Escape.
 Wheeling, w. Va. September 2S- I--.-. l.. .l....- :,