Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-12-05
Death List of Eight in Wreck on
the Pennsylvania in
Ohio.
FOUR OF INJURED WILL Die
5roans of Wounded Most Pitiful
Prominent Wooden Manu-.
facturer among Those
Killed.

GAINESVILLE, Ohio. Dec. 3--Four persons
were killed and II injured, four of whom
later died at the hospital, in a Pennsyl-
W MIA railroad wreck near Dresden, Ohio.
10 -niGht Three Of the dead are Mrs. Il.
a. Emerson and two small children OF
GAINESVILLE. Mrs Emerscns father. Jacob
BurSy 81, of this city was on the train
and Is among the fatally hurt Mrs.
Emerson is 81, her little son two years
and her daughter three years of age.
The other victim, a man, has not been
Identified
Those who died at the hospital were:
Henry Balbian, Cleveland. who was man
ager Of a Dresden wooden mill Max Har-
ris OF Lodi. Ohio a travelling salesman,
and L. II. Blaney Of GAINESVILLE. q Gin
cinnati Musdngum Valley brakeman,
and Henry Bartles OF Albion. Mich. This
makes the death list total eight
Cincinnati & Mushingum Valley pas
senger train was following a Cleveland.
Akron & Columbus division passenger on
the single track between Trainway and
GAINESVILLE. The engine Of the latter broke
down and a tranman was sent to flag
the Cincinnati Muskingum Valley train
but the latter was too close. The engine
ploughed through the rear coach and COM
pletely demolished It. The dead and In.
1ured were all in this coach.
Those fatally hurt were William Rud
rick. 40, OF GAINESVILLE. bridge carpenter
head and face scalded; Harry Bartles
30, Albion, Mich, head scalded. cut an6
bruised: Jacob Burgy. 81, GAINESVILLE
head and face scalded and badly bruised
Max Harris 30. Lodi. Ohio. head ant
fare out and scalded L Fl. Blaney, "a
GAINESVILLE brakeman, badly scalded, GU
and bruised Henry Balbian, Cleveland
wooden mill manufacturer scalded ant
cut James Bryant, b. Lancaster, en-
gineer. severe cuts and scalded.
The accident to the c. A. & c. engine
was caused by plug blowing out
When the other engine crashed
Into the rear coach. the coact
was telescopei. A few Of tbs
passengers jumped out OF the Window
when they saw the impending crash
but tho rest had no chance to escape
Henry Balbian was found on top o.
the engine boiler and the others were
thrown In all directions.
Just before he died. Max Harris o.
Lost, Ohio. a travelling salesman. ask
ed II he had any chance for life ant
when told there was no hope. told hi
attendants to notify his sweetheart
Julia Rodman Of Paola, Kans.. to whom
be was engaged. Harris and Bartles
who aied within an hour of each othe
h q hospital. were chums and boil
wore Sigma Chi fraternity pins.
The engine OF the Cincinnati & Mus
kineum Valley train. which ploughe
through the coach, split 1t entirely in tw
and a remarkable fact is that the engin
held the rails while the sides Of the coac
dropped to each side of the track. TIL
Rroans of the injured could be heard &c
a considerable distance. All Of them wei
conscious and were suffering terribly
Henry Balbian. who died in local ho'
pdtal was one Of the best known woole
mill men in the country He had bee
located at Cleveland for many years, b'
for the last eight years was manager
the Dresden branch Of the Cleveland ar
wooden mills.
Mrs. Emerson was found with her hes
damned through a window and both n
children were found dead beside her. II
father. Jacob Burgy. Is still living b
there is slight hope for his recovery.
The body of the unidentified me-
has not yet been claimed. lett
on his body contains the names OF
NJ Sears and O. N. Rittenhouse. al
the letter seems to have been write
TO the American Agricultural Chemic
company at Cleveland. The body
the man was literally cooked to p'ec
by the escaping steam.