Pleasant View, West Virginia Train Wreck
May
1, 1907
WRECK FATAL TO THREE
Sixteen Others Hurt at
Pleasant View, W. Va.
EXPRESS TRAIN LEFT
RAILS
Was Speeding at the Rate
of Sixty Miles an Hour – Three Coaches Rolled
Down Embankment – Defective Rail Supposed Cause
of Wreck – Relief Trains Hurried from
Parkersburg.
Special to The Washington
Post.
Parkersburg, W. Va., May
1. – Train No. 716, the fast flyer,
northbound on the Ohion River division of the
Baltimore and Ohio, was wrecked this afternoon
at Pleasant View, three miles south of
Ravenswood. Three persons were fatally injured,
four seriously injured, and twelve injured so
that physicians attentions were necessary. The
wreck was caused by a defective rail, it is
supposed. The entire train, except the engine,
left the track and the three rear coaches turned
over and rolled down an embankment. Nearly all
the injured were in those coaches.
Fatally injured:
William Stanley, Pittsburg, traveling
salesman; internally injured
Judge Ollie Ohley, Charleston,
injured on head and back and probably internally
Richard Cowell, Parkersburg, injured
in back, probably fatally.
The Seriously Injured.
Seriously injured:
F.
E. Gettler, Gallipolis.
J. P. McNelly, Pittsburg.
Elbert Hager, Burlocksville.
Mathias Stiles, Lincoln Cocnty, [sic]
W. Va.
R. L. Stowers, Hager Post-office.
Rhoda Stowers.
E. M. Hager, Hager, W. Va.
Amelia Hager.
Six or eight others were
cut and bruised.
Among those on the train
not injured was Adjt.
Gen. S. B. Baker, of Clarksburg. He
was badly shaken up, but did not require the
attention of a physician.
Trains Hurried to Scene.
News of the disaster
reached here shortly before 5 o’clock. A
wrecking train, followed closely by a special,
on which were dozens of physicians, was hurried
to the scene. The relief train returned with
the injured at 8 p. m.
The wreck occurred about 3
o’clock p.m. while the train was running sixty
miles an hour. The tender of the engine left
the track first and was followed over an
embankment by three of the five coaches.
The Washington Post,
Washington D.C. 2 May 1907
DITCHED BY BAD TRACK
Twenty Persons Injured
in Wreck at Pleasant View, W. Va.,
Parkersburg, W. Va., May
2. – A passenger train on the Ohio River
division of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, the
fast fiver between Kenova and Pittsburg, was
wrecked at Pleasant View last evening while
running 60 miles an hour. The baggage car
jumped the track, causing the locomotive and all
five of the coaches to leave the track, the two
rear cars turning over the embankment. Twenty
persons were injured two fatally. The cause of
the wreck is assigned to the bad condition of
the track.
The most seriously injured
are: Judge William A.
Ohley, Charleston, W. Va., perhaps
fatally; Captain T. R.
Cowell, Parkersburg;
William Stanley,
Pittsburg, salesman;
F. E. Gettler, J. P. McNelly,
Pittsburg, salesman;
Elbert Hager, Burlocksville, W. Va.,
Mathias Stiles, Lincoln, W. Va.,
E. M. Hager, Hager, W. Va.;
Rhoda Stowers,
Griffersville.
Indiana Evening
Gazette, Indiana, PA 2 May 1907
Articles transcribed by
Jenni Lanham. Thank you,
Jenni!
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