Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1901 — Crash on a High Bridge. [ARTICLE]

Crash on a High Bridge.

A frightful wreck occurred at Everson, Pa., on the Monongahela division of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, and six men were killed. An engine-driver, in saving the life of his fireman, lost his own. Engine No. 359, running without cars, going across the fiftyfoot high trestle at Everson, collided with engine No. 230, drawing forty empty cars. The dead are William Bowman, engine driver; John Devinny, fireman; William Parrish, conductor of 359; Wiliam Parrish, brakeman; Joseph King, conductor of 230; William J. O’Neal of Leading Creek, W. Va., passenger.