Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1885 — FEARFUL RIDE TO DEATH. [ARTICLE]

FEARFUL RIDE TO DEATH.

Four Men Killed and Three Fatally Injured hy the Wrecking of a 8 Coal Train. [Charleston (W. Va.) special.] A fearful accident occurred oa the Cabin Creek Railroad, resulting in the instant death of the following persons: L. S. Qakford, Superintendent of the works here. Thomas Peacock. Amos Mitchell. Joseph Hall. At the same time three other men wereseriously and perhaps fatally injured, among whom were Mr. Thoman, Superintendent of the Coal Valley Coal Company. The men with Mr. Oakford were on a train of cars proceeding to the mines, when six of the cars broke loose, and, running rapidly down the incline, jumped the track, causing the cars to be piled up in a broken mass. There were nine men’on the fugitive cars, four of whom were dead when found, and three others are so badly injured that but little hopes are entertained of tljeir recovery. The other two igen escaped with slight injuries. Mr. Oakford was a native of Scranton. [The Cabin Creek Road is seven miles long, and is used for transportation of coal from the mines to the Chesapeake and Ohio track It is a short distance above Charleston.]