People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1893 — FREIGHT CARS ABLAZE. [ARTICLE]

FREIGHT CARS ABLAZE.

Two Men Burned to Death In an Ohio River Freight Wreck. Parkersburg, W. Va., May 12.— A southbound freight train on the Ohio River railroad went off the tracks at Walker’s, 12 miles south, at 3 o’clock a. m., falling 85 feet Fire communicated with oil from the freight cars, burning five oil cars, a caboose and two cars of general merchandise. Two men were killed, one being burned until unrecognizable. Another was fatally injured. Conductor George Ernst was badly hurt