The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1905-09-27
WRECK IN PAOLI YARD.
Express Train Crashed Into a
Standing Local Train.
Five Men Killed and 20 lnjured-Ex.
press PIoughed Into Manager After
bury's Private Car, Which Was At
tached to Local Train - All the
Deaths Occurred In That Car.

Philadelphia, Sept. ga rearend
collision yesterday between the east
bound New York limited express from
st. Louis and local passenger train
which was standing at the Paoli sta.
ton of the Pennsylvania railroad, 19
miles west of here, resulted In the
death of five men and the injuring OF
more than 20 others. The dead:
Frank Brastow of Haverford, gen
eral agent at Philadelphia of the
Safety Car Heating and Lighting COM
pany, and a distant relative by mar
riage of w. w. Atterbury, general man
ager of the Pennsylvania Railroad COM
pany.
George NJ. Pennypacker, Philadel-
phia, foreman of car inspectors In the
West Philadelphia yard.
SIS. Walton, Altoona, Pa, steam heat
inspector at the Altoona shops of the
Pennsylvania railroad.
Richard Y. Garland, Narberth, gen.
eral foreman of West Philadelphia
shop of the Pennsylvania railroad.
Carl Dunhaur, Philadelphia, a rail
road employe.
Among the injured are: Mrs. J. H.
Voorhees,, Haverford, Pa, injured
back; Mrs. A. c. Riengler, New York,
shock; Miss e. X. Spangler, Merchant
vile, N. j., back hurt; Mrs. Clinton D.
Fisk, New York, leg bruised; o. Mil
entz, st. Louis, back injured; John
Ford, Jersey City, dining car cook,
back hurt; Mrs. Lamotte, st. Louis,
ear cut and shock; C. o. Denoist, g.
year.old boy, st. Louis, back hurt; D.
E. Bolt, Dayton, o., head cut; M. c..
Radfeld, Jersey City, back injured;
M. F. Elliott, Philadelphia, face cut
and arm broken.
All those who met death were in the
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 been overhauled
preparatory to sending it to Maine to
bring him home. 1t was sent out in
the forenoon for test run and was at,
tached to late afternoon local train
from Paoli for this city. In the car at
the time of the collision were about
a dozen persons who had been engaged
in overhauling the car. Those who
were not killed were injured.
Paoli is the terminus of the Penn
sylvania railroads suburban traffic
on the main line and large yard is
located there for the storage of cars
and of the engines. The local train
was made up in the yard on the north
side of the railroad and switched
across to the eastbound track No.
on the south side, and came to stop
at the station. Before the switches
could be set the New York limited
came along at moderate speed on the
No. 2 eastbound track, took the cross
over switch and crashed into the local
train.
The force of the collision was such
that the engine of the limited ploughed
10 feet into the private car and the lat
ter was forced half way through the
day coach ahead
At the time of the accident there
was less than half dozen passengers
in the local train and they were In
the forward cars, which were not dam
aged. The engineer and fireman of
the limited were not hurt, but a dozen
persons on this train were injured by
being thrown against seats and the
sides of the cars.
Hundreds of railroad men in the
yards came quickly to the rescue.
Nearly all the injured were at once
placed on the forward cars of the local
train, which was run to this city as a
special.
Four of those who lost their lives
were killed almost instantly. The fifth
man, Richard Garland, died in a hos
nita1 here last night