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Show jllllL IN TOE WRECK. Ndw York's Bachelor 0 vernnr Has a Narrow Escape From Death in West Virginia. CAUGHT IETWIEN TV70 TBAIN3 The Failure of the Air Brakes Causes a Little Excitement Amen; Democratic Demo-cratic Politicians. , Cameron, W. Va.. Oct. M.-Gov ernor Hill and party, accompanied by T. 8. Riley, chairman of the democratic state committee, Gov. Fleming and others left Wheeling this morning over the Baltimore Ohio. The party was to have stopped at all stations between be-tween Wheeling and Harper's Ferry to allow the governor to make addresses. '- The programme waa however Interfered Inter-fered with by a collision at Mounds-ville. Mounds-ville. His train was about starting when Engineer Wells heard a warning note from the engiueer of tho Chicago express, ex-press, which told hint that a train was approaching on the same track, about 50 foot ahead of where the governor's train was standing. A wide and low highway bridge spans the railroad tracks here, making it Impossible to see approaching trains on the other side of the bridge, About twenty-five feet behind the governor's train an accommodation train, running between Wheeling aud Cumberland, came to a stand. OWhen Engineer Wells noticed the approach ap-proach of the Chicago express, he Immediately Im-mediately reversed his engine, backing the train, but the Chicago expreM was moving at so high a rate of speed that It soon caught up to tho governor's train and crashed Into It cow-catcher. Both engines were demolished as were the platforms of three coaches. Governor Hill's train was thrown back on the accomodation train and the cowcatcher cow-catcher of that locomotive smashed. Behind the accomodation train was a heavily loaded freight train and the trains together were thrown back on that with a slight force, with no damage dam-age to the latter except that the cowcatcher cow-catcher was torn away. ' Had tho governor's train consisted of ordinary coaches it would have been crushed like an eggshell between the two heavy train. As it was, both hi cars escaped without even a scratch. The accident was due to the fa'lure of the air brakes to work ou the Chicago express. After a delay of two hours at Mounds-vlllo, Mounds-vlllo, the two parlor car were attached to a ear of the accommodation train and proceeded. |