The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-02-21
ONE KILLED; : !,
FIVE INJURED
ON THE B. & D..
DISASTROUS WRECK :.
NEAR QUAKER CITY.
Wheeling st. Lquis Express
IN Disaster-Wm. Floyd,
of Newark Killed. ="

One trainman was killed. a second
was severely scalded and three pas:
Sengers and a mail ctrk were less sc:
riously hurt Tuesday morning at IL: 40
o'clock. when the Baltimore tS Ohio
Railroads Pittsburgh-5t. Louis express
train No. SO. westboInd. was derailed
and plunged down an embankment be.
tween Quaker City and Lore City,
Ohio, 40 miles west IF Wheeling.
The Dead.
WILLIAM FLOYD, ingineer, Of New.
ark, Ohio. instaStly crushed to
death.
The Injured.
F. B. SCOTT, frei,an, of Newark,
Ohio, severely ssalded over the
back. Latest repotts say not fatal.
CHARLES PoULScN, of Columbus,
Ohio, mail clerk, r-b fractured.
MRS. MADDIE HIKE, of New York,
passenger, back teverely sprained.
Taken to Cambridge hospital.
D. S. STOUT, of Sl1lthield, W. Va.
passenger, bruised, about right side
and head. Takel to Cambridge
hospital. 49,
e. j., CALLAHAN, ajf Newark, ONO,
passenger, bruised -all over body.
Three Broth.fs Killed.
William Floyd. the baltimore & Ohio
engineer crushed e death. in the
wreck is the third &; a family OF hiy7
brothers, all engineers, to go TO hls
death in similar clients. About ten
wears ago Edward Floyd was crushed
10 death. when his fngine and tram
we're wrecked at me outskirts OF
GAINESVILLE, Ohio. !-bout four years
ago James Floyd, a. second brotner,
was killed in week at Madlson
Mills, near Cincinnati. The deatn OF
William FLOYD yesterday leaves Du.
Two, Joe and John. Of this family OF
well known locomotiie engineers.
Saved by S,eei Cars.
.Tbo fact that the (irecked train was
made up exclusively OF modern a1f~
steel coaches withtat a doGht pre-
vented a catastrophe that would haye
been numbered amrng the worst IN
the history of railrCAding in this sec
tion of the country, according to de.
tailed reports Of thefaccident received
here last night fro GAINESVILLE and
Newark. Running It rate OF speed
close 10 fifty miles Nm hour, the loco
motive was thrown rom the track by
spreading rails an!t the tender, eA,-
press, mail and luggage cars and
coaches were deraI:ed. Running for
several rods on the ties. the express
Stacked its speed romewhat, but the
engine suddenly he's led down fifteen
foot embankment md was followed
BY the entire traS. As the train
rolled over into thefditch the value OF
the all-steel coach &as demonstrated.
for in spite of the awful crash. it Is
declared not a sintle window in any
coach was broken.
Pinned Unctr Engine.
Engineer Floyd was pinned beneath
his engine as it overturned and was
instantly crushed tl death. His fire
man, T. B. Scott. W is caught with the
full force of escar{ng steam from
broken pipe, but although it was at
first believed tina: he was fatally
burned, it was dccl%red last night that
his burns should MT prove fatal. He
is at his home at Newark.
Passengers were Jumped into heaps
as the coaches wer,; ditched, but aside
from the few injure1 mentioned above,
than a bad shaking up and a scare.
Wheeingitis on Train.
4 number of WlSeling. people were
passengers on the. train, and Tor a
hrief interval aftey- the news re- >bed
here that the train had been wrecL
grave fears were TIT for. their safets 4
in q short while. thoweVer, relatives:
here had received kilograms assuring
them that their ftyends were unin.
jured: :.
office at Newark. through
which that section Of the road is oo.
Grated. the wrecA train was Eushed
from BenwOod 10 'he scene Of the ac-
and last night was still there
helping 10 clear ap the wreckags:
Traffic over the i1ewark division had
been restored to formal at midnight.