Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1887 — WEEKLY BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE EASTERN STATES. Friday night, as a fast train west on ttie Pennsylvania Railroad was nearing Kittitaning Point, Pa, the wheel of a car on a freight train east burst, and the car crashed into two passenger coaches with terrible effect, killing instantly four men and injuring many others. Telegrams were immediately sent to Altoona for physicians, and all that could be procured were detailed to the wreck. The killed and injured are as follows; Killed—Dal Graham, son of ex-Speaker Graham, Allegheny, Pa.; J. H. Stauffer, of Louisville, Ohio; Wymer Snyder, a one-legged man, of Shamokin, Pa.; John Dorris, newsboy, East Liberty, Pa,; Frank McCue, 15 East Thirtythird street, New York, will die; Charles Beidelman, of Brenfield, Noble County. Ind., dying. Injured—A. Agen, Fayetteville, N, Y., head and side; Clara Albert, Flint, Mich.; Rev. John Alford, Beaver Falls, Pa.; Hattie Luckett, colored, Alexandria, Va. ; Rev. R. H. Porter, colored, Detroit, Mich.; Edith Gase, aged eleven years, traveling with her mother. The stables of tho Belt Lino Horse-Car Company, between Fifty-third and Fiftyfourth streets, on Tenth avenue, New York, were consumed by fire Friday morning. Several tenement houses in the same block were also destroyed. Twelve hundred horses were roasted and 103 families rendered homeless. Lj-b, $1,353,000. The accident on tho Pennsylvania Railroad at Horseshoe Bend turns out to have been more disastrous than first reports indicated. Eight deaths have already resulted, and some of tho injured are in a precarious condition. Miss McMahon, a school-teacher in Florida, who was on her way to her homo in Beaver Falls, Pa, furnishes a thrilling account of the catastrophe. Tho story, told in her own words, is as follows: I was sitting about the middle of the second coach from the engine. The train was running at a high rate of speed when the accident happened. The shock was terrific. I was thrown violently against the seat in front of me. The train stopped suddenly. In a minute all was confusion, and I was at a loss to know what had happened. I soon heard shrieks from the passengers in the coach in the rear of the one I was in, and I at once knew that something awful had happened. I raised the window and looked out. The entire sides of the two coaches immediately in the rear of the one I was in were crushed in I could see the passengers climbing out over the coal-cars lying on the adjoining track. The passengers who were not injured assisted in removing the killed and wounded.