The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-04-03
Nine Other Persons Hurt
and Several Expect
ed to Die.
EXPRESS HITS FREIGHT
One Engineer Stood at His
Post and Died
a Hero.

EORRISTOWN. Pa. April win
mighty crash. one OF the Pennsylvania
Railroads finest trains was wrecked
at Warwick furnaces. in the suburbs
OF POttstOwn. this evening.
When the mile-a-minute passenger 10
cCmotive met the numbering freight en-
gine. the pair reared in the air. and
then dropped to one side, with the eX-
press engine nearly halfway through
the other.
First Car Telescope5.
The sudden stoppage of the ay press
locomotive caused the heavy train OF
coaches back OF 1t 10 be driven on.
and when the crashing and quivering
and crunching stopped the first car @as
more than half teIescOped
Men. women. and children. who had
not been given a moments warning.
were pitched about in the train, but
tho Sc n tf5s arst car suffered most.
To add to the injuries caused by the
flying debris which pinned down human
beirgs. escaping steam from the de-
moHshed engine tortured them Uumerci-
fully. The havoc that was wrought IS
is best told by the roll of the killed and
inJuI ed.
List Of the Dead.
The dead are:
ANDREW FAGELEY. engineer Of Passenger
train, West Philadelphia; skull fractured.
JAMES HIRSCH. Reading passenger IN the
first passenger coach; skull fractured 2n1.
FRANcIsco cAyENTL Philadelphia; neek
broken by car seat.
Seriously Injured.
The injured: James Weeks. conductor
OF express. Philadelphia. compound frac-
tJsre OF legs; A. ". Loclzhart. 146 Baton
wood Street. Reading. compound frae-
ture OF leg. which has been amputated;
James Casey. STA Harlem Street. Phil
adelI MIA, foot crushed. internal injuries.
also scalded; William Boucher. rs Lin
den Avenue. Baltimore, leg broken;
Henry Keart. 336 North Front Street,
Reading, compound fracture OF leg;
Henry Markell, l-35 Hill Road Reading
foot crushed. William CaVanaugll.
Bardsboro, Internal injuries and leg
fractured; Mrs William CaFanaJGtl,
wife of former. similar injuries; James
Moore 6O3J Overlook Avenue. Phlladei-
phia. compound fracture Of leg. scalds-
Half Win Die.
Those injured are all in the POttstovn
Hospital. and their chances for recov-
cry are about even, but il is believed
that fully half viii die
A peculiar tlLEAlI4SLallEc abolL Do4NLt-
er is that he was going home to spend
Easter after having been in the Read-
/ ing Hospital with a broken leg Al
though still on crutches he was dis
charged and hobbled TO the Inflated
/ train only TO have his sound leg frac-
tured and the injury 10 the other one
/ aggravated
! Fully as many more injured were
taken 10 Reading twenty miles away.
and others were removed TO Philadel-
phia hospitals. forty miles distant.
[ Owen Brooke, one Of the owners OF
! Brooke's Iron Works at BardsbOrO. was
/ in the first car. and though he escaped
l without broken bones. he had eVery
/ inch OF clothing torn from him be Wa
/ en- route 10 his home in NorrtstOWn-
/ Notwithstanding his appearances ne
turned in and helped rescue those who
! needed more assistance than did ne.
/ Notwithstanding the terrific impact,
( two of the passenger coaches stayed on
( the track.
Engineer Dies Hero.
! The SchuyIkiH Valley division OF the
] Pennsylvania Railroad at the point Of
| collision is a single track Although the
/ Pottsville express has been running on
/ the same schedule for years. the con-