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The Dead.

Engineer Wm. Thornley, of Hazelton, Pa.;
Division Engineer S. G. Heater, of Hazelwood;
Fireman Thos. Cook, of Hazelwood;
Herbert Holmes, of Emmeliton, Pa.;
Jesse Hines, of Tarboro, N. C., Union New Company agent on the train;
Charles Lindford, of Confluence, Pa.;
______ Edwards, of Pittsburg, wife in Cumberland;
J. W. Martin, of Hancock, Md.;
Richard Duckett, of Baltimore;
Edison Goldsmith, of Connellsville;
The Rev. Father Finello, pastor of the Italian Catholic Church at Connellsville;
Charles E. Sangford, of Wilmerding;
J. I. Egerly, of Butler, Pa.

The other fifty-three dead are mostly foreigners and negroes, who were riding in the smoking car. Work on their identification has not yet begun.

The injured:

W. H. Hancock, of Pittsburg, slight;
John W. Bromley, of North Broddock, Pa., slight;
Annie Reese, of Greenwood, Pittsburg, Pa., slight;
Thomas J. Dom, of Hazelwood, slight;
J. W. Martin, of Hancock, Md., slight;
J. A. Allfurter, of Bealton, W. Va., seriously;
Henry Davin, of Rockwood, Pa., will die;
C. H. Lineford, of East McKeesport, Pa., wife and three children at Confluent, will die;
Thomas Tippler, of Philadelphia;
Harry Devlin, of Connellsville, seriously;
W. H. Stowward, of Connellsville;
E. P. Keifer, of Somerset;
John K. Powers, of South Cumberland;
J. W. Altman, of Connellsville;
Aaron Verge, East Pittsburg.

The Morning Herald, Lexington, KY 24 Dec 1903

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On Wednesday evening, Dec 23, 1903, Father Fienelli [of the Mount Carmel Italian Catholic Church] lost his live in the wreck of the Duquesne Limited train on the B. and O. railroad at Laurel Run, below Dawson. He was returning from Pittsburgh, where he had been buying gifts, decorations and sweetmeats for a children's entertainment on Christmas. He was buried in the Catholic cemetery in Connellsville.

Centennial History of the Borough of Connellsville, Pennsylvania, 1806-1906, page 377