Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-09-30
WRECKED At PAOLl'
Pennsylvania Express Tele.
scopes Private Car.
FIVE DEAD And May INJURED
Force OF Impact SO Great Tbaf
Engine of Limited Piosved Ten
Feet Into Coach on Local Train
with Fatal Results.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. ga rear
| end collision between the eastbound
/ New York limited express from st
/ Louis and a local passenger train
| which was standing at the Pa0Ii sta.
ton Of the Pennsylvania railroad
nineteen miles west of this city, re.
suited in the death Of five men and
the lnjuring of more than twenty oth.
eTs.
The dead are: Frank A. Brastow,
Hayerford. general agent at Philadcl
phia Of the Safety Car Heating and
Lighting company and a distant reIa
tive by marriage of w. w. Atterbury
general manager of the Pennsylvania
Railroad company; George NJ. Penny
packer, Philadelphia, foreman of car
inspectors in the West Philadelphia
yards; S. S. Walton, Altoona, Pa. steam
heat inspector ut the Altoona shops OF
the Pennsylvania railroad; Richard Y
Garland, Narberth, suburb of this
city, general foreman OF West Pbila-
delphia shop of the Pennsylvania rail.
road, and Carl Dunlfaur, railroad
employee.
Among the injured are the following.
Mrs. J. II. Voorhees,, Haverford, Pa. :;
Mrs. A. G. Riengier, New York; Miss
Il. X. Spangler, MerchantvFIIe, N. j.;
Mrs. Clinton b. Fisk, New York; O.
Milentz, St Louis; John Ford, Jersey
City; J. Travis, Montclair, ". j.; Mrs,
Lamotte, st. Louis; G.. O. Denoist,
eight-year boy, ST. Louis; ID. E.
Bolt, Dayton, o.; j. A. Flaline, NJ. c..
Radfield, Jersey City; IT, NJ. Ryan,
Philadelphia, master mechanic iIs rail
road shops, and NJ. f.. Elliott. TAila-
delphia
All those who met death were in tie
private car of General Manager After
bury, which was attached to the rear
of the local train. Mr.. Atterbury is on
his vacation in Maine. He expected
TO return about Oct. / and his car had
ing IL to Maine 10 bring him home
1t was sent out i'm the forenoon for u
test run and was attached to a. local
train from Paoli for this city. In the
car at the time of the collision were
about dozen who had been engaged
in overhauling the car Those who
were not killed were injured.
Paoli is the terminus of the PennsFl-
vania railroads. suburban traffic ON
the main line and a large yard is locat-
ed there for the storage of cars and
engines. The local train was made
up in the yard on the north side of the
railroad and switched across TO the3
side and came TO stop at the station. |
Before the switches could be set the /
New York limited came along III mod
crate speed on the No. > eastbound
track took the cross over switch aud I
crashed into the local train
The force OF the collision was so
great that the engine of the limited /
plowed ten feet into the private car. |
and the latter was forced halfway |
through the day coach ahead
At the time of the accident there +!
were less than q half dozen passengers
in the local train ana they were in
the forward cars which were not dam
aged The engineer and fireman Off
the limited were not hart but a dozen
persons ON this train were injured byl
being thrown against seats and the
sides OF the ears.
Four of those who lost their lives /.
were killed almost instantly. The fifth
man, Richard Garland. died in the5
University hospital in this city