People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1897 — TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT. [ARTICLE]

TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

j Tfrain Goes Through a High Trestle, Kills E;. Four Men anti Wounds Others. Butler, Pa., Jan. 25.—Saturday after- | poon, one-half mite east of Shippenville, L Clarion county, occurred one of the most frightful, wrecks in the history of p the Pittsburg and Western railroad, in > which four trainmen lost their lives Band many passengers were seriously inBijured. The dead and probable dying ' are as follows: Killed—Daniel J. Mori iarty, Foxburg, engineer; Ira Beatty, ‘ Foxburg,, fireman; William S. Copeley,KButler. mall agent. Injured—Thomaa KRainey, Foxburg, baggagemaster, arm fcbroken; James Tonks, Foxburg, conductor. injured 'internally; Ned Clark, Foxburg, trainmaster, arm broken; B-Charlie Carruthers, Butter, newsboy, inj.ired on head; twelve passengers, K names unknown. The remaining pasMfsengers marvelously escaped with slight injuries. L It was discovered later that BrakeJ inan George Wise, of Foxburg, was also 5. Conductor Tonics is not expected to live. The only names that can be fejearned of those among the passengers Who were injured are: Walter Johnson, shoe salesman, of Pittsburg, cut about face and head; F. A. Knox, hurt internally; Miss C. B. Hellock, of Allegheny City, ankle broken; ’Griff Clark, of Clar- . ion, cut about head, and Miss Annie ’ McCarthy, of Tylerville, head and face > cut. - ‘this terrible accident occurred immediately at the sharp curve upon the high trestle which spans Paint creek at this point. The train was composed of baggage, mail and three passenger coaches—all went down. At the fatal . curve, without a moment’s warning to ■ the fireman and engineer, the whole i trestle gaVe way, precipitating the load fully seventy feet to the depth below.