Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1893 — SEVEN PERSONS KILLED. [ARTICLE]

SEVEN PERSONS KILLED.

Bad Wreck on a Branch of the Somerset , and Qauibrla Railroad. A frightful wreck occurred on the Bare Bock Railroad in Pennsylvania. The road is about two miles in length, and runs from Woys station on the Somerset and Cambria Bond to the quarries ' of the Somerset Stone Company. The grade is very steep, being about ISO feet to the mile. In coming down, the train, composed of an engine with two ears loaded with large block stone in the rear, became unmanageable and dashed down ‘the grade at a tremendous rate of speed. On the engine weiro Engineer Neff, his little son liussell, and a farmer, John E Pile, with his wife and daughter, while on the cars were some twenty laborers returning from the day’s work. At the foot of the grade were standing a number of cars loaded with stone. Into these the lunaway train dashed with velocity. The engine and cars were thrown from the track, and Pile, his wife and daughter were burled under the engine. At hen taken out they were dead. Engineer Neff and his son were severely scalded, the latter fatally. A number of the laborers jumped from the train before the crash came. Those who staid on were buried in the wreck. Seven dead bodies have been taken from the wreck.