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Show t:tVEtt.M;t II I LI. Sfj? rreTeuteit Fruui Tollonlnz ,lfH lroraumii. C.vhkkn W. Va., Oct S3. U vt-rnor Hill and patty, accom-p accom-p inle-s ly T. S. Riley, Chairman of the D'lWcratic State committee, tJv. Fleming aud othtrs, left Wheeling this morningoverthelUI-tinlire morningoverthelUI-tinlire and Ohio. He was to havo stepped at all the stations between Wheeling and Harper's Ferry to alloc tlio Governor to make addresses. addres-ses. Tnu programme, however, was interfered with iiy tbo collision at Moundsvillc. Ills train was about starting when .Engineer Wells heard the warning note rrom the engineer or the Chicago Express Ex-press which told him that a traiu was approaching on the S3ms track about oi feet ahead of where the Governor's train was standing. A wide and lo.v highway bridge spans the railroad tracks here, making mak-ing it Impossible to sec the approach-I'm approach-I'm train on t'rj other side of the bridge. About twenty-five feet behind be-hind the Governor's train, the ac oommodation train, runulng between be-tween Wheeling and Cumberland, cme to a stand. When Kugl nor Wells notied the approach of the Chicago express be Immediately reversed re-versed th-s engine, backing the train, bat the Chicago express was moving at a lilh -peC'l aud soon caught up to the Governor's train and crashed into it The cow-Cjtchtr: cow-Cjtchtr: on totti trains were demolished; de-molished; oa is ere the pLtforms of three coaches!. Uavcrnor Hill's traiu was thrown back on the a:-cona:noda.io!i a:-cona:noda.io!i traiu. The cowcatcher cow-catcher of that locomotive was smashed. Rchiud tho accommodation accommoda-tion train was a heavily loaded freiKht train and the trains were together tliruwi) back on that with slight force, but with no damage to tho latter except that the cowcatcher cow-catcher was torti away. Had the Governor's traiu consisted or ordinary ordin-ary coachta it would have been crushed like au eggshell between the two heavy trams As it was, both thee oirs escaped without even a scratch. Tho accident was duo to the failure or the air brakes to work ou the Chicago express. |
