The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-05-12
EXPIRES TRAIN
BLOWN UP
Explosion Of Car Of Dynamite
Kills Over 30 People.

Later reports 81 the railway disaster
40 Harrisburg, Pa. which was report
ed 10 the Evening Banner last even.
ing are 90 the effect that 10 Is
now known that 40 least thirty four
persons met death in the wrcck.ng 81
the Cleveland aud Cincinnati express.
wc-tbouud. on the Pennsylvania rai
road. which dashed 40 midnight into q
wrecked castbound freight train. cx-
plodlng a car filed with luOOU pounds
Of dynamite
Fifteen bodies remain unidentified.
Seven dead are known. ~ is c0nsid.
cred certain that at least dozen were
burned % death 10 the Pullmans ~
which nothing remains but twisted
iron and nshcs only few pieces Of
charrcd bones have been found Ia the
wreck Of two curs nearest 90 the car
containing blasting powder. The total
number Of injured Is l2J.
The identified dead are. Jack l. Sill
verman and Mrs Robert G. DoughcT-
Is ~ Philadelphia C. Kuhlman OF A.
tD0na. Pa. H. X Thomas. harrisburg.
Pa. engineer OF the passenger train;
Victor l.. Crabbe Of Pittsburg. son in
law OF Robert Pitcairn. who l. assist
ant 10 President Cassatf Of the Penn
sylvanla road: j. b. Phillips " Pitts
burg. IL $. Watson Of Ciearfeld. Pa.
George Zelgler. Pittsburg: Paul Bright,
Pttsburg; Mr.. Shaw. Pittsburg; Nor
ma Martina. seven months old. and
nine unidentified bodies.
The Pennsylvania railroad officials
have given out list containing the
names OF nlnety-elght persons who
were injured.
Passengers and tralnmen were burn
ed 20 n crisp. while others were pinned
helplessly IN the debris So complete
~ inclnerated were the bodies. that
Identification was almost impossible.
The women IN the wreck suffered
greatly. and many OF those who escap-
ed were found almost naked.
Among those who got out without
injury were Mrs Albert j Barr, wife
of the editor OF the Pittsburg Post. and
her two daughters, who were on their
way to Plttsburg
Mr.. and Mrs. Tindell OF Pittsburg,
the latter the daughter Of United
States Senator =. c. Knox. were in
jured 10y flying glass. They walked
from the scene Of the wreck 10 Steel
ton. where they called up Governor
Pennypacker by telephone and eX-
planned their condition. The governor
Immediately dispatched Private Score
tary Bromley Wharton TO the aid of
Mr.. and Mrs Tlndel They were
brought to the executive mansion.
where they were furnished with cloth
ing and medical attention.
The primary cause Of the wreck was
shifting engine It was going west
slowly when the engine driver Of the
eastbound freight train saw it coming
on his track. He applied the air brakes
suddenly. which caused the middle of
the freight train TO buckle, showing
several of the cars on to the westbound
passenger track A moment later the
express, one of the fastest night trains
on the road, came along and dashed
into the wrecked cars. The next in
slant the boiler Of the passenger loco
motive exploded The wreck took fire
and those who escaped began the
work of rescue.
Six minutes after the express struck
the freight the flames reached the car
filled with dynamite There was a-ilash
and II deafening roar. The earth trem-
bled rs though some terrible seismic
disturbance had occurred All who
We're not killed or injured by the ex-
plosion fed from the awful scene.
The entire wreckage became mass
of flames, and small boxes of powder
that had not exploded blew up continu-
ously. While these explosions contin-
ued men who had bravely gone to the
rescue before the first explosion did
not dare to approach the burning
wreck. though they could hear the ago
nizing shrieks of the dying
Flames began to consume the human
bodies that were helplessly pinned in
the wreckage.
An alarm Of fire was turned I'm and