The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-08-17

route from Chicago to New York
jumped the track on the western out
skirts of this city, at $50 o'clock
this evening, while going at the rate
of so miles an hour. In leaving the
rails, the two engines pulling the pas
senger train sideswiped freight en-
gine and the three piled up in a
mass of bent and twisted iron.
Dead and Injured.
The dead are: VIM. E. Arrick,
freight engineer, Fort Wayne, Ind;
Peter Malone, Fort Wayne, engineer
Of flyer; W. Creich, Fort Wayne,
fireman on flyer; unknown passen-
ger, at st. Joseph's Hospital.
The following injured are at st. Jo-
seph's Hospital: - Snyder, Crest
line, Ohio. baggage master, fractured
skull, internal injuries, is in criti-
cal condition; F.. C. Burton and H.
c. Kohl, negro walters on passenger
train, hands and arms badly cut;
F.. C.. Bolyard, Fort Wayne, scalp
wounds, eyes injured, teeth knocked
out; p. B. Broobs, Chicago, steward
dining car, right arm broken, scalp
wounds; W. E. Thomas, negro, Chi
cago, hands and head buised; Will
liam Marshall, negro, Chicago, cuts
on head and arms; Ed Cohn, New
York city, left eye injured; E. J.
Massager, Milwaukee, left hand and
legs crushed; Earl Thomas, East
Palestine, Ohio, right hip bruised,
cut on face and abdomen bruised; L..
B. Havens, aviator, New York city,
hands and arms cut; ]. E. Sullivan,
New York city, legs crushed; P. j.
Dose, New York city, side and head
bruised; LIE Roy Rense, Chicago,
right hand cut; N. H. Crawford, Phil
adelphia, cut on forehead; R. B.
Russell Toronto, right ear torn of,
face smashed, left collar bone brok-
en-; Sam Rosenthal, Grand Fork, N.
D., left hip dislocated; Victor Rorers,
Mansfield, Ohio, mail clerk, back
and foot injured; James E. Sullivan,
New York, internal injuries; William
Creig, Fort Wayne, fireman freight
train, scalp wounds.
Taken to Hospital.
The police department and fire de-
partment and every automobile in
the city were called to the scene of
the accident and the injured were
soon taken to the hospitals. At least
SO were on the scene within a half
hour Of the time the trains came to-
gether, and within short time
thousands of people had collected
about the wreck.
The main track and the track on
which the freight, train was standing
was torn up for a distance of two
hundreds yards. The two engines of
the flyer were torn from their trucks
and thrown down the embankment,
while the engine of the freight rear
ed in the air over the trucks of the
fyef's engines. Passengers in the
seven rear cars escaped with only
cuts and bruises.
Engines Down Embankment.
The baggage car, smoker, buffet
and two sleepers turned over in the
ditch. Most of the injured were
seated in the dining car and smoker
when the accident occurred. The
two engines of the flyer we're torn
from their trucks and thrown down
the embankment to the park.
The all-steel cars of the flyer were
put to the first actual wreck test
they have undergone and proved to
be all that had been claimed for
them by their designers. Only the
first two cars Of the heavy nine-car
train were much smashed. Passen-
gers in the seven rear cars escaped
with only cuts and bruises, whereas,
it is declared by railroad men, if the
cars had been of the old-fashioned
wood construction, the carnage
would have been frightful. It will
take day or more to clear away the
wreckage, as the cars are extremely
heavy.
The wrecking crew from Fort
Wayne arrived at the scene within a
half hour, while the wrecking trains
from Crestline and Chicago arrived
later in the evening. Thirty more
passengers, who are badly bruised
and cut, are at the Anthony hotel.
Others Expected to Die.
Several of the injured at late
hour tonight are in extremely Sc
rious conditions and it is expected
that their deaths will occur before
the night is over.
; Evidence seems to point to the