Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-05-06
TEN ARE KILLED IN WRECK
Fast Trains on Pennsylvania Tine Collide
Near Altoona, Pa.
TWENTY PERSONS MORE OR LESS HURT
Four Died Before Tbey Could He RE-
moved from Debris and Four
Died EN- Route. to the
Hospital.

ALTOONA. Pa. May 5.--Ten persons are
dead as the result of tbs head-on collision
on the Pennsylvania railroad, near Glover
Creek junction. last night. Six were killed
outright and four died as a result of in
juries received. About twenty Of the pas
senEers and train crew we're more or less
seriously injured, but as far as is known
all will recover.
The dead.
J. w WAGNER. Wilmington. Pa
j. w. cox, Downington. Pa.
- SCHULTZ, Washington, ID. c.
- JONES, residence not known all
F, c. HARDER. Harrisburg, Pa, brake
MRS. TRINKLE. Philadelphia.
MAX TARLOVE, South Norwalk, conn,
in charge of shipment of horses
J. d. CONOVER travelling salesman from
bunker, Nell & Forbes, 1H Fifth avenue
UNIDENTIFIED MAN.
J. w. HERR, Jersey City. baggage mas
Names of Injured.
The following were seriously injured:
Oscar Anderson, Belva, n. D., injured In
Captain A. Camp Harrisburg. Pa. postal
clerk, badly bruised and spraned back and
", r. Baum. Harrisburg. Pa. postal
clerk, cut In face and wrenched back.
a. Cook, fireman. leg broken
bruised head.
c. H. Smith. road foreman of engines,
head
Also number Of others, slightly.
The trains were known No. Is. the
Chicago mail. eastboupd, and the first or
Chicago section of the Chicago and St.
Louis express.
With the exception of the last named
all IF those IN he =
bound train. Nearly all of the injured
were likewise on the eastbound train.
Cause of Wreck.
The collision came as a result of a mis-
understanding OF orders on the part of the
crew of the Chicago & st. Louis express
The two engines ploughed into each other
and were wrecked, as were also the coach
attached to the Chicago mail train, No. 49,
and five mail cars. The latter train on
reaching Altoona from the west had the
coach attached to the rear, but when it
was sent south over the Petersburg branch
the coach was directly back of the engine
1t carried about twenty-five or thirty pas
sengers for the east. 1t was almost demol-
ished The wreckage covered the track for
considerable distance, and some of the
killed and injured were pinned under the
coach
The news of the wreck was conveyed TO
this city and the first orders of the railroad
officials here were to dispatch physicians to
the scene from Huntington, Williamsburg
and Hollidaysburg, and then to send wreck
ers to clear away the debris and render all
the aid possible. No passenger on train
No. q was killed.
Passengers Caught in Debris.
The passengers were caught under the
wreckage by the piling UP of the mail cars
on the coach. This made IT impossible for
those not injured TO render any aid to those
pinned down by the wreckage until the ar
rival of the wrecl1ing forces. Meanwhile
four died of injuries while under the mass
of wrecked mail cars and four others sub
sequently died while being conveyed to the
hospital.
Attached to the rear of the Chicago mail
were five cars of horses These cars re-
manned on the track and were hauled back
in order that the wreckers could reach the
debris. A train was made up OF the cars OF
train No. Is not wrecked and the killed and
injured were placed aboard and brought to
this city The injured were taken to the
hospital and the bodies of the dead deliv-
cred to undertakers to be prepared for
burial.
The freight wreck at Union Furnace was
a bad one and a large force OF men was
sent to clear the tracks. The first track
was opened at 2:15 o'clock this morning,
and the Chicago & st. Louis express, which
figured in the Glover Greek Junction wreck,
arrived here at 4 o'clock and was sent
west.