New-York tribune., 1909-09-05
SEEK TRAIN WRECKER
THREE DIE B.&O. CRASH
SeUenteen Hurt When Royal Blue
Is Derailed- -Rezcard of $25, 900.


New Castle. Penn, Sept 4-Seeking a reward of
$4,000 offered by the railroad company, over a
hundred men, all members of state. railway or
private criminal catching organizations. are here
tonight Strengthening out a maze of bewildering
clews that may lead to the discovery of the per
or persons who early to-day pulled the spikes
from a sixty-foot rail on the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad the siding known on train schedules
Chewton. ditching the Royal Blue flyer
The train its way from New York to Chi
cago Three persons were killed and seventeen in
jured.
THE DEAD
Dill. Charles A engineer Chicago Junction. Ohio
tca tion. ~ Ohio 5fhr l. "eo'se' 0aesNee
CAvANAUGF E P chief boiler inspector, Baltimore &
is believed tonight that all of the injured will
Most of them received only slight in
juries
Two men were arrested at Elwood City. Penn.
S o'clock to- night suspicion of being connect
ed with tho wrecking Baltimore & Ohio Railway
detectives ''sweated the suspected men until after
II O'Clock. Superintendent Delehanty of the Balti-
more x Ohio Railway police said over the tele-
phone that he believed the men would make con-
fessons before morning.
That hundred lives were not lost in the wreck
is due to the quick action of the fireman. Purcell
who escaped death by leap from the engine cab
the heavy engine and two cars somersaulted
over steep embankment.
When he felt the heavy engine urch and leave
the rails Purcell Jumped to the right side Of the
cab and threw the emergency brakes. thus
saving the dtching of the two Pullman seepers
attached to the flyer The brakes on the Pullman
car were found to be tightly set and the i'm
movable Purcell saved his life by jumping from
the right side of the engine cab His leap threw
him from the rolling engine while the engineer IN
his effort escape death. thrown directly m
the path of the lurching mass Of steel and iron.
The more seriously injured passengers were in
the day coach. which. rolling on its side and slid
ing down the steep embankment, was fired by hot
Goals and engine oil it reached a rest
ing place in the cutters of the flt-in With hand
grenades the surviving train crew extnguished the
flames. The injured were placed on the rough
ballast of the track bed. and a brakeman was sent
/ back to Chewton siding, where the first news of
! the wreck
Motives for the wreck are few. No money was
aboard the flyer. according to express company
officials The oosened fish plates and pulled spikes
however. are evidence that some one skilled In
/ railroading responsible for the wreck
Malicious mischief and THE deed of fends' are
phrases used by the railway officials in announcing
the extent OF the wreck. They deny the rumors
accredited to them that they blame former employees
OF the road We one" said General
Superintendent Finney tonight This. however Is
far the officials will 60
Only definite fact established to-day.
The wreckers. after they had made the derailing
OF the flyer certainty, escaped across the marshy
fields in the general direction OF Wampum. lonely
and many more from here. Bloodhounds used
by the railroad detectives followed trail from the
wreck scene bur after bringing up abruptly at a
slaughtering pen used by New Castle butchers at
. Wsmpum. the animals lost tho seemingly fresh
/ scent and refused 10 be goadcd on any further
Tonight the consensus OF opinion expressed
by Of the Baltimore Ohio police when he
said: The train wreckers In the vicinity of
New Castle. They have not attempted 10 ny. nor
Will they. They left tho OF their dastardly
! nd taking n roundabout m
back 10 tho place they started from"
Late to-day 5000 was deposited at local bank
by railway secret service men To the credit Of
Henry Millard. OF Iafsrge. Wis. who lies injured
grip from New York city containing this amount
In negotiable bonds. securities and cash and had
placed the satchcl under seat In the day coach.
When the train ditched the satchel lost
for a time, but recovered by railway employees
Millard greatly relieved to learn late to-day
that his wealth had been taken care OF.
From the Shenango Hospital came tho story OF
the heroic by mother of her two little
boys.
The mother. Mrs. Mary Domnicc. OF Chicag 80. was
seated in the passenger coach with her two little
tucked up scat in front Of her. As the
train shot over the steep embankment the mother $
/ first thought FOR her boys. No sooner had the
heavy coach settled on It's side than Mrs. Domnce
began her battle for safety and the rescue OF her
sons. Breaking her way through Il car win
dow the mother clambered out. Then. leaping
from tho overturned car. she hutsted the little
fellows the ground and safety
The cut and bruised mother. despite her injuries
carried her two boys up the steep hill 20 the track
where she swooned The little fellows were badly
lacerated by splintered glass. and their whimpers
added To the distress Of the dismal wreck scene
When the relief train brought physicians the
mother ins.steu that her boys receive aid before
she would submit being bandaged. In hysteri-
cal condition the woman and her boys we're
brought TO the hospital. and when ihternes at
tempted TO separate the little family the mother
again tainted All three later placed in a
large ward bed. None will die