The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-08
WRECK VICTIM BEGGED
TO HAVE ARM CUT OFF

! WNCUh VlOllW DLOuLU
TO HAVE ARM CUT OFF
So Trainman Pulled Out Jackknife
and Completed Severing Of Arm
Which Was Hanging
by Shreds.
Cleveland. O., March S.--Two Twen-
tieth Century limited trains on the New
York Central lines, one bound to Chi
cago, the other to New York, were
wrecked in Ohio yesterday morning.
One life was lost, and more than a
, dozen persons injured one of them Sc
riOusly.
While running at high speed to make
up the thirty minutes it was late, the
second section of train %, the Twen-
tieth Century westbound, on the Lake
Shore tracks, was wrecked just east
Of the Collinwood yards at 2:4S o'clock.
Peter MARI, a switchman, was killed,
three passengers were hurt and fifteen
badly shaken up.
The dead and injured are:
Dead.
PETER MARI, switchman.
Injured.
c. L. HALL, Woonsocket, r. T., left
arm amputated; condition critical.
WILLIAM D. GALBRATH, l47 Elm
avenue, Mount Vernon; nervous shock.
JOHN C. GREENWAY, Barbce Ariz.;
right knee injured.
GEORGE H. GILMORE Clairmont, \.
a.; back spraned.
ELLA SHEFTABL, Pullman maid, AZ
West 1881 street, New York; shock.
HENRY NJ. SWEET, Boston, Mass;
right arm injured,
+. D. VAN, Toledo, O.; left arm brok-
Ell.
FLETCHER COWHERD, Kansas City,
Mo-. bruises and shock.
JOHN ENCOE, Pullman porter Nor
ris Park, L. T.; right side bruised
G f. FARMER, Brookline, Mass;
head and hands injured.
4. j. FISHER, Pullman conductor,
25S Audubon avenue, New York. right
arm injured.
CHARLES W. HOUSE, West Hart
ford, Conn; back injured
w. II. LEONARD, Denver, Col; back
sprained.
GEORGE POPE, Woonsocket, r. l.;
knee injured.
LEONARD RoWLANDS, Chicago, H.;
bruised.
The third car from the engine, Pull
man, jumped the track on account of
a broken wheel, and turned over. The
two Pullmans back of that left the
track but remained upright. The first
Pullman that turned over crashed into
a switch shanty and the switch tender,
Mari. was instantly killed.
c. L. Hall, a passenger from Woon
socket, r. l., who was in the Pullman
that turned over, was so badly injured
that he was hurried to hospital prob
ably dying.
Hall was found lying by the track
after the crash, with one arm almost
severed He had been hurled from his
berth, but was conscious when a train
mar reached him. He looked at his in
jured arm, which was hanging to his
body by a shred of flesh and said to
the trainman:
Cut it off Cut it oil.
The trainman drew a pocket knife and
bending over the injured man, severed
the remnant Of flesh. A tourniquet was
applied and Hall was put on relief
train for Cleveland and taken to hos
pital. His condition is critical, but doc
tors say he has chance to recover.
Charles w. House and another pas
semger from some point in Connecticut
and bound for Chicago, were also in
jured, but not seriously.
The official report from the Lake Shore
Offices says that fifteen other passengers
were badly shaken up but not serious
w hurt. The train was in charge of
Engineer George Brown and Conductor
G. +. Garner After the Pullmans left
the track the train ran several hundred
feet before it could be brought to
stop A new train was made up as
quickly as possible and all Of the pas
scngers except Hall were able to con-
tinue their journey westward.
James Gayley, a negro porter on the |
wrecked sleeper, was standing in the |
rear vestibule when his car was over
turned. He was hurled through the |
glass door onto the track, but picked |
himself up almost unhurt and began at /
orce to aid the passengers TO escape. /
The ear was from Boston and con-
tanned eleven passengers, all men.
Hall was thrown clear of the wreck |
ami most of the others were able to |
get out themselves, but two were pinned |
in bv wreckage These two Gayley |
rescued by using the emergency axe.
The second wreck was train No 20 /
on the Big -Four lines, bound from St /
Louis to New York. It was derailed /
near BeIlefontaine. o., when it crashed /
into box car that had toppled over
on the rails while being loaded on the
adjoining tracks
Several of The steel Pullmans left the
rails. but these were not overturned /
The locomotive rolled down an embank-
nent The engineer and fireman jumped
Just before the crash and escaped with