Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-09-04
Excursion Train Crashes Into
a MIX Train Standing on
i Main Track. .5..>..: (, &. /. /,
WAS GOING At A RAPID RATE R. ]!
Former Running q Thirty-ftve
Mile Gait When the Wreck F.
+..s 49,. Occurred. "
Those Unhurt Go as Quickly
! as Possible to Aid of the
~ lninred. So

DOAS hA4A0A bAO OS0A Nv OeAVAo a. NA ON
10 the appalling record Of . rear end
collision between an excursion train
and a milk train on the Bethlehem;
branch of the Philadelphia and Read
ing railway at Hatfield. Pa, ~ miles
north of this city. -.
= The killed are: Annie Sherry, Rober,
Miller, Richard Bachmann, Ira Shret,
William Shret and Joseph Madaunt of
South Bethlehem; Charlie McFonigle
and Thomas Day Of Allentown; Mamie
Kalien and Godfrey Kalien of Bedford;
William Blackburn OF Amber; Harold
Landis of Hatfield, aud Mr.. Ackermanr
of Philadelphia.
The wrecked train consisted of 10 day
coaches and was the first section OF a
large excursion made up Of people from
Bethlehem, Allentown. and surround.
ing towns to Atlantic City. This Sec
ton carried only those persons who
lived in Bethlehem and Allentown, and
left the Union depot at Bethlehem at
sos a. M. exactly IS minutes behind
the milk train
Running Thirty-flve Miles an Hour.
The latter train consisted Of two milk
cars and two passenger coaches and
had stopped at every station on the
road from Bethlehem en- route to Phil.
adelphia. at 6:45 the milk train drew
up at the milk platform at Hatfield aud
in less than two minutes the special
excursion train, running at the rate OF
IS miles an hour, crashed into the rear
of the milk train. The locomotive
ploughed through the two passenger
coaches and crushed them as if they
were eggshells. The milk car imme.
diately in front was also badly wrecked.
Fear personse. Godfrey Kalien, his
daughter Mamie, Harold Lands and
William Blackburn, on the passenger
car Of the milk train were almost IN
SANITY killed. Fortunately there were
very few persons on this train. :,
The excursion train was picture Of
indescrl bable terror. The locomotive
was mass Of bent and broken iron.
and firmly held the bodies Of its engineer
and fireman beneath its great weight.
Behind the engine six Of the ten cars
were also q mass Of wreckage. The
first car was broken in twain and the
other five a.
Cars Wore Thrown ON Their Sides,
completely demolished. Nine persons
were killed in the first two cars and
the others in their coaches were badly
MANNED. As soon as the crash came a
terrible cry arose from the smashed
cars, and those who had not been in.
jrred quickly crawled or jumped from
the cars and went to the assistance OF
the injured. Many were pinned down
by the wreckage and had to be freed
by the liberal use of axes With three
or four exceptions the dead were killed
instantly, the others dying on their
way to the hospitals All the injured
were first taken to shed at the Hat.
field station and the dead were removed
to barn. Messengers were sent ia
nearby village for physicians and q re-
lief train was telegraphed for from
Bethlehem. With fifteen doc,ors and
half a dozen nurses special train was
sent from Bethlehem, but before il
reached the scene Of the wreck it was
signaled to return to Bethlehem. as a
special carrying nearly all the injured
had started for that place. On the run
from Hatfield to the hospital three Of
the injured died. -, ..