The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-07-07
PASSENGER COACH CRUSHED
BETWEEN TWO LOCOMOTIVES
ON LIGONIER VALLEY.
CROWDED CAR IS 'DEMOL|SED
Coach, Pushed ~ Engine, Full of Ex-
cursionists, Crashed Into by Double
header Coal Freight, and Crushed
Like Paper.

Llgonier, Pa, July 6.-Twenty- one
lives, according to the official liza
were sacrificed in the railroad crash
on the Wilpen branch of the igonier
Valley railroad last night WI Ell a
passenger coach was crushed between
two locomotives.
With the Latrobe and Ligonler hos
pitals over-taxed nearly score of
injured are in Pittsburg hospitals,
where they were rushed in special
trains last, night. Of the missing that
were thought to have been in the
wreckage, all but two were founo
among the list of injured.
The Dead.
Mrs. Harry Dillon and baby of Will
pen, crushed to death.
William Campbell, of Wilpen.
Frank McConnaughey of Ligonier,
engineer, scalded to death.
George Byers of Ligonier, fireman,
crushed and scalded.
Louise Rhoddy, aged s, of McCrance,
crushed.
George W. Hubley of PittsDurg,
civil engineer. body crushed.
Matthews Niepont of Pittsburg,
crushed.
Mary Rhoddy of Ligonier.
Frank E. Beatty, engineer head
crushed.
John M. Ankey of Ligonier, fireman,
died on way to hospital.
Mrs. Messee of Wilpen.
Thomas MUIR of Latrobe, head
crushed.
) George Tosh of Wilpen, side
mashed.
Mike Hudock of Wilpen, side crush
I ed.
Two unidentified engineers, badly
crushed.
I The passenger train had started
from Ligonier. 1t consisted of an en-
gine and coach, the engine pushing
the coach, and the freight train was
made up of coal cars and was being
pulled by two heavy locomotives.
Impact Terrific.
The impact was terrific. The pas
senger coach was practically laid op-
en- and the passengers either were
crushed OR thrown like shot through
the air.
1t was the first fatal ACCIDENT, it
is said, in the history of the Aigonier
road for the past forty years
A majority of the injured, thirty in
all, were residents along the Wilpen
branch. They were brought TO a hos
pital here or sent to hospitals in
Pittsburg when it was found that
they were in a critical condition,
The train was well crowded, every
seat in the lone coach being occupied
with persons returning from a Fourth
of July holiday.
The freight engine ploughed thru
the wooden coach, crushing it as If
paper.
Coach Ripped Open.
The coach was ripped to pIeces.Th
the occupants were hurled to the
roadbed. Some fell in the pash of the
AoSiiilS ChSlhCo, NHllC OIHCIS NCAC
imbedded, partly in the cinders and
crushed stones besides the rails The
first engine of the freight train stop
ped soon after tearing through the
passenger train, turned hale way
around and fell over on its side En-
gineer McConnaughey was scaided to
death, while his fireman jumped only
to fall on the track and meet death
under the wheels. Engineer Smith p.
Beatty of the second engine, Jumped
and sustained broken leg HIS fire
man fell beneath car His legs
were severed and he died enrorte to
a hospital. Engineer Dunlap of the
passenger train, and his fireman, re-
mained at their posts and ese1ped
with slight injuries. A pathetic fea-
tune of the wreck was the injury OF
Miss Esther NJ. Mathews, a nurse,
and the death of two and ire injury
four children she vas taking to
the woods near Wilpen for an after
Moons outing.
Beaman Cato of Morristown, NJ,
who lost his wife in the wreck, be-
came violently insane late today and
was lodged in the police station, where
he was given medical attention. He