Jumped The Track

JUMPED THE TRACK.

Engineer's Effort to Save Man's Life Caused Serious Wreck.

Wheeling, W. Va., Aug. 6.––The limited Panhandle passenger train from the west, moving towards Pittsburg at the rate of sixty miles an hours, was derailed at Lumley's Crossing, between Jewett and Scio, O., last night. One man was killed and one fatally injured. The dead man is Fireman John W. Smith of Dennison, O., 35 years old, scalded to death under the engine. Engineer John B. Hoffman of Allegheny was badly scalded beneath the engine and may not recover.

There is a sharp curve in the road near the scene of the accident. The engineer saw a man walking on the track ahead of him in the direction in which the train was moving and immediately applied the air brakes. The effect was to make the engine leave the rails on the eastbound track, leap across the westbound track and continue over a high embankment, where it was partially turned on its side.