Show LOCOMOTIVE BLOWS UP UPi II 15 DEAD I Explosion Kills f Mine Workers on on Passenger Train k 43 Injured in in West Virginia Disaster Vandalism Van Van- Blamed for Ohio Rail Collision Fatal to 3 r l t B Br nT PreS MONTGOMERY W. W Va Dec 27 Fifteen 27 Fifteen miners were were r killed and 43 injured today by the explosion of a locomotive l- l 0 of a train taking workers to a mine of the Elkhorn Coal company in the heart of this mountain country The fireman and engineer were among those killed The blast said to have been caused by bya a buckling of a firebox cover and the subsequent quent loosening of the boiler tubes echoed throughout the valley alley along which the little train daily dally hauled the workers to and from their homes Pieces of the locomotive and cars were blown yards away and the the flying debris cut or bruised those of the workers who were were- able to lice the wreckage itself Passengers More than men were riding on the thre three coach coach train The dead are William Blankenship engineer Delmar Oxley fireman Jess JeS William Maynes Ma Thomas Craft Sam Runyon Everett Leach Steve Kozna Sr William Turner Turner Tur Tur- ner ncr Pat Murphy Rome Home Walton and two unidentified miners The blast hurled dozens of the passengers passengers passengers pas pas- clear of t the tr tracks and the injured cried out in pain as they lay exposed to a chilling cold Company officials rushing to the s scene enc Jn in lutes autos trucks and buses quickly gathered th the dead and inJured injured in in- lured and took them to toa a a hospital here Injured May Die At the hospital hospit r an said We are afraid a a number 0 of the I injured men will die Within an hour the streets in front of ot the hospital were filled with men women and children who rushed from the mining settlements looking for lor for their loved ones The explosion occurred at a.m. a.m. a. a m m. a few seconds after alter the puffing locomotive paused to get up steam There was some difficulty definitely definite definite- ly establishing the number of dead some estimates placing the toll at 13 3 and some at 15 C C. R. R Stahl division superintendent of ot the coal company said J The boiler loft left the tracks and d came down on the first coa coach h killing kmin and nd- nd injuring a number of men soo There are arc 15 bodies in the morgue I r dont don't know whether any of at the others will die Montgomery a town of about 2200 J Inhabitants is about 50 miles southeast southeast southeast south south- east o of Charleston th the state capital The explosion occurred 11 miles mUe be below low here I The railroad belongs to the coa coal company a subsidiary of ot the Kopper Coal and Transportation company of Pit Pittsburgh burgh It hauls the workers to and from their jobs morning and night and carries coal from the mine to o Montgomery d during the day The mine employs about men Vandals Blamed for Ohio Wreck 3 S Dead CLEVELAND 0 O. Dee Dec 27 tf- tf J 4 Vandalism was blamed by F. F H. H Krick superintendent of the Cleveland division divi divi- sion of or the Pennsylvania railroad for 4 a a. passenger train wreck near Columbus Columbus Colum- Colum bus today in which three tr trainmen a were killed The dead are A A. A B B. B Eckels Eckes of Lakewood Lake- Lake Lakewood wood road foreman of o engines Engineer Engineer En En- gincer H. H S. S Beach of ol Ml Mt Vernon 0 O j and Fireman John of Cleve- Cleve I land Superintendent Krick said his office of of- flee fice had received d a 3 report from Irom the scene o of the wreck that a switch had been locked open M The train No carrying two iwo L coaches ran Into a line of ot eight boxcars boxcars box box- cars cars on on a siding Our information indicates that someone locked the switch open with the he intention of causing usIng a wreck Krick said |