The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-09-04
Excursion Train Crashes Into
. MIX Train standing on
Main Tracks
WAS COVE At 4 RAPID RATE
Former Running a Thlrtysflvs
Nile Gait Whsn the Wrsek
Occurred.
These URhuFt 90 AZ Quickly
~ Possible 10 Aid OF the
Injured.

PHILADELPHIA, B1pb, U,HA'J hlpb9gn pDrs
sODs KILLED md over ~ Otbeva injured
h Tho appalling record Of \ poAp and
collision between Nh excursion :tpaln
and \ milA train Oh Tho Bsthleh0m
branch OF the Philadelphia ADd heAd,
Ing railway NJ Hatfield, pa, w miles
north Of this Oily,
Hhe killed apel Annie sherry, Robert
Miller, Richard Beohmaln, lpa Bhpetl
William Bhpet md Joseph MA1Aunb ~
south Dethlehemj UhAple MGponlHle
and ThOmas Day OF AlloDt0wnj Mamie
KAlien and Godfrey Knllen Of BodfOpdI
William Blackburn OF Amblepj Harold
lands Of Hatfield, and Mr. AehepmAnn
OF Philadelphia
The wrecked train consisted Of 10 dry
0Oaehes md VIVA tl0 llpst so0tlOn vi N
large excursion made up OF people from
Bethlehem, Allentown md snppound
Ing towns No Atlantic glty, This seo'
lion eAppled only tlOse pepsODs wh0
lived IN Dathlebem md Allentown, md
left the Union depot No Bebhl0heM Nt
900 u, M, ekA0tly ID minutes DDhIDd
thp mllA train
Running Vhiptysnys Miller Nh Hour
The latter train consisted Of Two mills
0Aps ana Two passenger oDA0llOA NM
had stopped w every station Oh thg
V0Dd from Bethlehem on pOnln 10 Pills
alelphiM Az DAD th1 mllh tpMill draw
up vi The mills platform w Hatfield md
IN lesH lhAn Two minutes Ilo sDeolAll
excursion lpnlllJ running w IhA .pDbD Oh
I'D miles M hour, crashed INTO Ih1 penp
Of Tho mills tpAln, The locomotive
plOuHhed through the Two passenger
ware oAHslells The milk Oap lmm6'
dlAtely In Front VIVA also Dadly WpeoAed,
I0up pepsODse, Godfrey RalleD, hls
dHnght6p Mamie, Harold bandls md
William Blackburn, on Mo pnsgeDgOp
gAp Oh the milk tpAln were almost In
SANITY killed, Fortunately there wepe
very few popsOns on, bhls Train
the eaglpBlOn Train WIS " .plgtlpe 0f
indesepibpble terror The locomotive
wins N mass III bgnt ADd broken Iron,
snd firmly hold the bDdlDs Or lin engineer
and npeIlAR beneAth W. Hpeat weight
tSeUbktu buS vuBtue sln W wiz V"u vnEU
were Als0 v mRss Of WpeelAH0, Tho
hpst our wins broken IN twain md tho
other i've
Cars Wars Thrown IN Thsip silaH,
completely demolished, Nine pppsOns
Wepa killed In llp ilpst Two eaps ma
the others IN thelp 9OAghUa Wep0 DAdly
manned, An soon M lh0 crash 0nlD0 II
terrible evy AROSE from tle smashed
oars, md thOso who Ind MOI been IN
jnped qnlgAly MvAWled 0p Jumped from
lhe eals and went tD lh6 assistance Of
the injured. Many were pinned down
by Who WpaoAAge Alld Ind w be fpeed
by tll9 liberal llse Oh AkeA WIN lllv0e
OF fonp exemptions Tho dead were killed
instantly, tle others dying OD .th0ip
WAY No iie hospitals All the injured
were ipsb tAh6n 10 N sleh M tlG HAts
leld slayl0n Aln the dead Wepe removed
10 Il barn Messengers were seDt 10
nearby village fOp physicians Rnd \ w.
lief taln WaA photographed fW from
Bethlehem WIN nft6en dOotops And
hAlf N dozen nurses " special lpAln WIN
sent from Bethlehem, but before "
peAgll0d ble sgene Oh tl9 Wyegk N WIN
sigDAled 10 return 10 Bethlehem, As "
special eapvyinH nearly Nil the injured
lind stnpted f0V tlAt place, On tlls run
from Hatfield w the hospital three %
LIu iulupan dtnd,