Evening star., 1909-09-04
ROYAL BLUE FLYER
HURLED INTO DITCH
BY TRAIN WRECKERS
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five years old, bruised over right leg and
thigh.
Charles Buki Of Joliet, H., cut over en-
tire body.
\. > Hartman of Philadelphia, cut and
bruis ID about right arms and right leg.
Mrs. Kate Kaylor. 1915 West Harrison
avenue, Chicago cut on right side OF
head and on right arm. Her three-year-
| old boy escaped uninjured, although sit
ting beside her.
Mrs. III. C. Senneff of Chadwick, ILL.,,
| bruised about right shoulder and right
Mrs. W. McCrary of Chadwick, Ill.,.
| bruised over entire body.
! Frank Martin of Uniontown, Pa; Hen
ry Muller.
Mrs. Mary Domnice, thirty years old. 10
Hoyt street Chicago, in hospital at New
| Castle.
Master Stanley Domnice, seven years
old, 10 Hoyt street, Chicago.
Master Ralph Domnice, five years old,
| 10 Hoyt street, Chicago.
r. H. Lamson, thirty-fve years old, In
dianapolis, Ind.
Bloodhounds Taken to Scene.
WARREN. Ohio. September 4.-Dep-
uty Sheriffs William Schoenf1eld and
Barney Gillen left early today for the
scene of the wreck of the Baltimore
and Ohio train No. ). near New Castle.
The men took the Trumbull county
| bloodhounds with them.
Fireman the Hero.
That a hundred lives were not lost in the
wreck is due it is known today to the
bravery and quick action of Fireman Pur-
cell, who escaped death by a miraculous
leap from the engine cab as the heavy
engine and two cars somersaulted over
steep embankment.
Purcell modestly related his part Of the
early morning wreck today and told how,
when he felt the heavy engine on which
he was firing lurch and leap the rails.
he jumped to the right side Of the cab
and threw over the emergency brakes.
thus saving the ditching of the two Pull
man sleepers attached to the flyer. The
fireman's story is borne out by the fact
that the brakes on the Pullman car were
found to be tightly set and the cars i'm
movable early today by wrecking crews.
Purcelrs leap threw him from the roll
ing engine, while the engineer in his ef-
! fort to escape death was thrown directly
/ in the path of the lurching mass Of steel
| and iron.
| Stories of passengers aboard the
| wrecked train came to light today in the
Newcastle hospitals, where the more seri-
ously injured were taken.
The wrecked train was running on
schedule time and making at least fifty
| miles an hour when Chewton siding was
L
| tiny telegraph station there showed
clearance. Past the siding the limited
picked up speed on a slight downward
grade whistling for trestle bridge just
| drizzling rain was falling and fog over
hung the tracks Into the death trap the
heavy train plunged and before time could
| be recorded twisted mass Of tinfbers.
| iron and steel was all that was left OF
an. engine and heavy tenders and two
! cars, one baggage and the other pas
senger coach.
Coach Caught Fire.
| Engineer Din and Baggagemaster
Wheatcroft had no chance TO escape. The
engineer jumped in the path of the ditch
| ed engine and his life was crushed out.
! Baggagemaster Wheatcroft was crushed
| between heavy trunks In the forward part
! of the car. The more seriously injured
passengers were in the day coach, which.
| Goals and engine oil as soon as it reached
| a resting place in the cutters OF the fill-in.
| With hand grenades the surviving train
crew killed the flames. The injured were
and a brakeman was sent back to Chew
ton siding. where the first fash of the
| disaster was sent out. Within a re-
| markably short space of time a relief
train was dispatched from Newcastle and
| the injured given first-aid treatment.
| Motives for the wreck are today few.
No money was aboard the flyer, according
| to express company officials. The
| loosened fishplates and pulled spikes,
however, are mute evidence that some one
| skilled in railroading is responsible for
| the disaster. Secret service men on the
| scene refuse to divulge the result Of their
cursory investigations thus far, but before
nightfall, it Is believed, the perpetrators of
| the deed will be under surveillance Or
| Jailed.
Mother Saves Her Children.
| From the Shenango Hospital at New
| Costle came the story Of the heroic rescue
| by mother of her two little boys.
| The mother, Mrs. Mary Domnice Of
| Chicago. was seated In the passenger
coach with her two little ones tucked up
| on a seat in front of her. AS the train
| shot over the steep embankment the
| mothers first thought was for her boys
No sooner had the heavy coach settled
In the gulley Of the fill-in on It's side
than Mrs. Domnice began her battle for
| safety and the rescue of her sons. Break
the mother ffrst clambered out. Then leap
ing from the overturned car, she hoisted
the little fellows to the ground and
| safety.
The cut and bruised mother, despite her
| injuries, carried her two boys up the steep
| The little fellows were also badly lacerat-
ed by splintered glass, and their whimpers
! added to the distress Of the dismal wreck
scene. When the relief train brought
! physicians the mother insisted that her
| boys be given first aid before she would
submit to being bandaged. In a hysterical
condition the woman and her boys were
brought to the hospital. and when in
ternes attempted to separate the little
| family the mother again tainted. All