People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1893 — SEVEN PERSONS KILLED. [ARTICLE]

SEVEN PERSONS KILLED.

Bad Wreck on a Branch of the Somerset & Cambria Railroad. PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 26. —A special to the Commercial Gazette says a frightful wreek occurred on the Bare Rock railroad shortly before 6 o’clock Tuesday evening. The road is about 2 miles in length and runs from Woys station, on the Somerset & Cambria road, to the quarries of the Somerset Stone company. The grade is very steep, being about 150 feet to the mile. In coming down Tuesday evening the train, composed of an engine with two cars loaded with large block stone in the rear, became unmanageable and dashed down the grade at a tremendous speed. On the engine were Engineer Neff, his little son Russell 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 runaway train dashed with fearful velocity. The engine and cars were thrown from the track and Pile, his wife and daughter were buried under the engine. When 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.