The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-30

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Philadelphia. Sept. 29.-Two persons
were killed. several more may die. and
twenty-five or more were injured in
rear-end collision of passenger trains
on the New York division of the Penn
sylvania railroad at Eddington, Pa,
nineteen miles north of this city, short
ly after o'clock today.
Following it's customary policy of 81
lence, the Pennsylvania railroad de-
clines absolutely to furnish information
regarding the cause of the wreck or
the number of killed or injured It is
said by passengers, however, that the
Long Branch express, bound for Phil
adelphia had stopped to cool a hot
journal While the train crew were at
work on the journal the express train,
which left New York at 7:30 a. M
Numbered around a curve and crashed
into the Long Branch train. 1t is de-
clared that the express from New York
disregarded signals and thus caused
the accident. Those killed and injured
were in a Pullman car on the rear of
the Long Branch train.
Pullman Cut in Two.
1t was cut in two as with knife. and
the impact smashed the two coaches
ties, Il was some time before the work
of rescue began. A train was quickly
made up and most of the injured were
brought to this city, though some were
sent to Bristol and Trenton. others
were cared for i'm neighboring farm
houses. The dead were extracted from
the mass of wreckage and stretched
out alongside the track. Two hours
later a northbound passenger train was
the bodies of the dead were sent to a
morgue at Bristol, Pa, seven miles
from Eddington.
Passenger Calls 1t hurder.
II. Hoppe of Gloucester, N. j., was a
passenger on the first train, with his
wife and two sons.
1T was simply murder-thats what
ii was" exclaimed Hoppe 1T saw the
whole thing. We were all on the first
train. the one that was struck, and it
had been standing on the track for
about thirty-fiVe minutes. There was
a siding near, but they did not put us
on that
About a square behind us was the
signal located near a curve. l got out
of the car to light a cigar and stretch
myself, and l noticed that the danger
signal was up. but the tower is at a
curve. Even II the engineer the
train did see it. as he doubtless did. he
did not have time to stop.
IF the fiagman had only walked a
couple of hundred yards up the track
beyond the curve, everything would
have been all right. The express train
then would have had time to stop be-
fore doing any damage.
Brakes Applied Too Late.
when the second train came spin-
ming around the curve ] saw il COM
ing, but did not think it was on the
same track as ours. Then 1 saw that
the engineer had put his brakes on
hard, but il was no use. In few sec
onds the train crashed into the rear
end of the ore standing, telescoping
the cars.
1.-The confusion was something terri
BILE Everybody was screaming and
trying to get out of the cars on both
trains. / rushed to the assistance of
my family and got them out safely.
1.-Two dead people and seven injured
ones were taken from the car we were
I'm while we were there"
Later Pennsylvania railroad officials
gave out a list OF injured containing
twenty-five names. All lived in the
east and. though a few were severely
hurt, all probably will recover.