The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-02-23
FOUR PERSONS KILLED.
A North-Bound Express Crashes Into
an Accommodation.

PHILADELPHIA, PA, Feb. 22-The
Southern express on the Pennsylvania
road. which left BrOad-street station at
1920 this morning, collided with the Nor
ton Pa) accommodation train near
South-street station, West Philadelphia
Three cars OF the accommodation train
were wrecked. Three persons were killed
and twelve others injured. The injured
were removed to the Presbyterian Hos
pital.
1t was the northern-bound express
from Washington for New York that
crashed into the Morton accommodation
from the Central division OF the fhiia-
delphia. Wilmington and Baltimore road.
The local train was crossing a switch
TO pull into SOuth-street station. Ali the
cars but the last one had crossed. when
the express came rushing down the track
and struck the local passenger car that
was upon the switch full In the middle.
The express was made up entirely or
heavy Pullmans. and the light passenger
car was hurled fifty feet from the track,
broken and smashed by the terrible force
of the blow. The express train escaped
injury. and the engineer Immediately
stopped his train. The Twenty-first dis
trict police-station Is but few squares
from the place where the accident oc-
Cured, and squad OF officers was on
the scene and the work OF eXtricalhS
the injured passengers was soon accom-
plished.
THE killed and Injured were confined
TO the third car OF the accommodation
and this was completely wrecked. -Four
persons were killed and ten injured. Oh
the injured none are dangerously hurt.
Killed: Mr.. and Mrs. E. l.. MINER OF
Media; Miss Maria Read. OF Media, and
Rev. James Walker, OF Lenni. The In
iIred were all residents or suburban
places.
The President was on special train
following the express. His train was de-
layed about half an hour, and then pro
ceeded to New York. The accident hap
nened at 1925 o'clock. The tracks Of
the Central division and the main lire
cross at this point the former trains
running into the Sixty-second and Chest
rect station, and the latter running
into Broad-street station. The accomfno-
dation had the right Of way, the express
being blocked, but owing 20 the slippery
condition of the tracks the engineer OF
the express was unable TO control ms
train. and the locomotive crashed INTO
the accommodation. NO one on the eA-
press was injured, and the engine was
damaged so slightly that II proceeaea 10
New York with the train half an hour
ed. ,,
Both Mintzer and his wife were decapi-
tated. Their ten-year-old son, sitting In
the seat with his mother. was unhurt'
One Killed and Twenty Injured.
FORT WAYNE, IND, Feb. 2.-The
east-bound mail and express train No. 20,
on the Pttsbug, Fort Wayne and chi
eago railroad. due here at 2;20, was
wrecked two miles east Of Columbia City
Ind, about 1880 to-day by broken rail-
yhe engine, mail and baggage cars passed
over the broken rail safely. The last two
cars on tho train were preeipitated down
an embankment twenty feet high. the
cars turning completely over and being
badly wrecked. J. W. Paramore, OF He
hron. md, was killed. Twenty persons
were injured. Of whom two. one mail
clerk and another railroad employee.
are likely to die.
Another Fatal Railway Wreck.
READING, PA. Feb. IA wreck oc-
Cured on the Pennsylvania and Schuyi-
kili Valley railroad between Phoenix
Vile and Spring City last night. A shift
fns engine going east with an empty train
Of forty coal cars oolIided with sn sx-