Show SiXTY S StNbERb ON B 0 TRAIN ROAST IN WRECK Duquesne Limited i Plunges to Its Ruin LONG LIST 0F WOUNDED Train Strikes Switch Timbers and Goes Ovor Bank People in the Smoker Killed and StcnIT and Fire Add Horror to tha Tragedy f Connellsvllle Pa Dec 3Thc Du quesne limited the fastest through passenger pas-senger train from Pittsbur to New York on the Baltimore Ohio ran Into a pile of lumber at Laurel Run two miles west of 1 Dawson at 715 oclock tonight and in the wreck that resulted sixtythree lives were lost and thirty persons Injured DEAD Engineer William Thornley of Hazelwood Hazel-wood Pa Division Engineer S G lleaton of Hazelwood Pa Fireman Thomas Cook of Hazelwood PaHerbert Herbert Holmen of Emmelton Pa Jesse lilacs Tnrboro N C the Union News company agent on the train Charles Lindford C Confluence Pa Edwards Plltsburjj wife in Cumberland Cum-berland J J W Martin Hancock Md Richard Duckett Baltimore Edlon Goldsmith Connellsvllle Pa The other dead are mostly foreigners and negroes who were riding in the smoking car INJURED W IT Hancock Pittsburgh slight J W Bromley North Braddock Pa alight Annie Reese Greenwood Plltsburg bruises and cuts Thomas J Dom Hazelwood Pa slight Conductor Heigth Hazelwood slight w Martin Hancock Md cuts and bruises J A Alfurter Bealton W Va serious se-rious Henry Davies Rockwood Pa badly < Injured V E Llnford East McKeesporl Pa will die William Edwards Cumberland Md Thomas Tippler Philadelphia Hurry Devlin Connellsvllle PaW Pa-W II Stoddard Connellsvllle Pa E P Keller Somerset Pa John K Powers South Cumberland J W Altman Connellsvllle Pa Aaron Verg East Plttsburg VICTIMS ROASTED TO DEATH The killed were mostly foreigners who were In the smoking car just bad of the baggage car They were literally roasted to death the baggage and smoker telescoping the engine and Immediately Im-mediately catching fire Many of their bodies are lying burned to a crisp In the baggageroom of the Baltimore Ohio depot to be removed later to the different undertaking shops In the city NOT A WOMAN INJURED A peculiar feature of the accident Is the fact that not a woman was Injured excepting a few slightly CAUSE OF THE WRECK The wreck was caused by the brrak 1 Ing of castings on a carload of bridge timbers on a westhound freight train which had passed Laurel Run not more than fifteen minutes before the ill fated passenger train The wreck occurred oc-curred on a curve and it was Impos sible for Engineer Thornley to sec far enough ahead to detect the obstruc tlon on the tracks PLUNGED INTO TIMBERS A big Atlantic type engine phinje Into the timbers at u velocity sixty mlicB an hour The nifilno ploughci Into the embankment and the baggage car waii thrown Into I thr YOllHhlo hell river The smoker followed < l the engine and landed squarely on top of It this allowed thft oKcupitiK tfteam from the engine to Jill the cur STEAM ADDS TO HORROR The smoker was packed to Its utimos t capacity and all the passengers wer cooked alive Not a chif I passengo In this car escaped alive and It Is esti iiuitod that at least forty of lie dad were in the smoker PROVED A HERO Baggagemaster Thomas J Baum or Kazolwood who watt on the wrtickei train proved himself a hero VIth hIs head and body frightfully cut he man aged to crawl from the wreckage and gmplro bin way along In the darknos > lagged tha westbound passengo train No JIiJ 1 He had nothing will which to log the train except matches and these he made ust of In his desperation despe-ration taking oIl his coat and mttlng file 10 IL Hi stepped the train junl In time to prevent it from plunging Into Continued on Pace 0 ROASTED IN A WRECK Continued from Page 1 the wreck and adding further horror to an already indescribable disaster Baum collapsed when he saw he had succeeded In slopping the train and I when the engine stopped he was lying within L few feet or i OPERATOR WITNESSED WRECK An operator at A tower on the Pittsburs Lake Erie railroad across the Youghloffheny river was the first to send word of the accident and to send for relief lie was watching the Duquesne limited as it was speeding along the Baltimore Ohio tracks across the river Ho saw the cars pile hlch In the air and then sink back on the truck The screams of the Injured and dying were plainly heard In another an-other second he was sending word to the railroad officials at Dawson and Conncllsvlilc CARS DISMANTLED For more than COO feet both the cast and westbound trades are torn up Tho engine was completely demolished and the big 7000gallon tank on the tender was thrown 100 feet ahead from the wreckage The baggage car was thrown into the river but was only slightly wrecked All the cars were derailed de-railed and the truck of all except the diner were torn completely from underneath under-neath the cars RELIEF AT FULL SPEED Few people were seriously Injured In the Pullman cars and the diner although al-though few escaped without at least some slight Injuries As soon as the wreck was reported in Connellsvlllo all the available physicians were summoned sum-moned including Baltimore Ohio physicians and 3 special train was made up and taken In charge by General Gen-eral Superintendent Sims and Superintendent Superin-tendent Irwin of the Pittaburg division The relief train was run at full speed and the scene of the wreck was reached about 9 oclock V HELP FOR INJURED The injured were looked after Immediately Imme-diately and everyone was made as comfortable as possible They Were loaded onto the relief train and taken to the Cottage hospital here The dead were placed In n long row on the embankment em-bankment opposite the wreckage and Inn In-n single line thirtyeight forms lay cold and stiff on the frozen ground LONG ROWS OF DEAD Another row on the opposite side of the wreckage contained eleven and scattered here and there through the underbrush were the dead bodies of many who had bcen able to crawl from the wreckage but died before aid reached them Under his engine lay Engineer William Thornley dIm bowled and mangled almost beyond recognition I vas impossible at the time to extricate his body and It will be several hours before the wreck crew will be able to remove the engine which pinions his remains under the huge mass of steel GHOULS AT WORK Hardly had the bodies of the dead been removed from the coaches until thieves began robbing the dead of jewelry and money Special officers were deputized and with the aid of the Baltimore Ohio police force and Connellsville ofllcers the work of the ghouls was stopped Several persons are under suspicion and arrests will follow tomorrow I is charged that the foreigners who escaped serious inJury in-Jury in the wreck immediately set about robbing their more unfortunate countrymen coun-trymen and the dead us well a injured in-jured were robbed of their money and other valuables DEATH LIST INCREASES At 230 oclock it was definitely known that sixtythree persons are dead The dead bodies are all now in the morgue piled up In a gruesome mass and it Is impossible at this time to pursue the work of identification with any success suc-cess It Is presumed that many of the dead belong In Connellsville but so disfigured are the faces that they would be passed by as unknown even by their nearest relatives The clothing of many have been searched for some identification clue but this means has proved fruitless It is probable that nt least half the dead will never be IdentifiedHAD I HAD INHALED STEAM I One man after rushing Into the I woods came back again went into the baggage car of tho relief train and silting sil-ting down said i My God The next Instant he dropped over dead without another word There was not it scar on him He had Inhaled the steam |