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LRailway CollisionTWO CABS DESTROYEDEXPRESS MESSENDER BURNED.Between six and seven o’clock Smturon occurred at Hoi1m1 i*.Hday’s Cove, about five miles east of here, on the Pan Handle railroad between the Steubenville Accommodation (No. 12), Conductor Mooney, coming west, and the Fast Line (No. 1), Conductor Champ, going east. The Fast Line was on time, and the Aceommoda-probahly a minute late. Hol-Cove is the passing point for the and it was the duty of the traintrains, and it was first arriving there to wait twenty-five minutes for the other before proceeding. The Fast Line reached the station first, but did not stop, going ahead at full speed. The engineer, Charles Ted row, was out on the enuine adjusting thepumps, which were not working well,about three hundred yards beyondlinnstation he observed the L a 1 light of' I $approaching locomotive of the Ac-imodation. He at once sprang back i the cabin of bis own engine, gavenintr to the fireman, reversed thethe fireman jumpedtolhe grouad. A fearful collision followed, and the engines came together witua terrific crash. Both engines fairlyimbedded themselves -and stood upright on the track. Each train kepttbetrack,hut the shock of the collision spent itsellt(3i«]Ioq the expreai aod baggage car* oi both trains, which were broken up into kindling wood. From the stoves the expresscr and baggage car took fire and were ental 1 v rnnstimed with most of their contents.
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Steubenville Weekly Herald and News
Steubenville, Ohio, US
Fri, Jan 30, 1874
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