The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-05
TEN ARE DEAD.
Twenty Of Passengers and Train
Crew Injured.
Collision of Express Trains on
the Pennsylvania.
THEY MET HEAD ON.
Nearly All Casualties We're Con-
fined to One East Bound.
All the Hurt Who Survived Are
Expected to Recover.
THEY MET HEAD ON.

Altoona Pa, May 5.-Ien persons are
dead as the result of a head-on col
lision on the Pennsylvania railroad
near Clover Creek Junction last night.
Six were killed outright and four died
as result Of injuries received.
About 20 of the passengers and train
crew were more or less seriously injur-
ed. but as far as is known all viii re-
cover.
The Dead.
J. ". WAGNER, Mifiingtown, Pa.
J. W. cox, Dowuingtown, Pa.
- SCHULTZ, Washington, D. c.
- JONES' residence not known.
All postal clerks.
F. GERHARDER, Harrisburg, Pa.
brakeman.
UNKNOWN WOMAN. supposed to
be from Duncannon, Pa
MAX TARLOVE. South Norfolk.
Conn, in charge of shipment Of
]. D. CONovER. travelling salesman
for Bunker, Neil & Forbes, New York.
UNKNOWN MAN.
J. W. HERR, Jersey City, baggage
master.
The trains were known as No. IS.
the Chicago mail. eastbound. and the
first section of the Chicago & st. Louis
express, westbound. With the excep-
ton of Baggage master Herr all of
those killed and nearly all of the in
Jured We're on the eastbound train.
The Injured.
The following were seriously injured:
Oscar Anderson, Belva, N. D.
John A. Camp, postal clerk.
". R. Baum, postal clerk.
A. T. Cook, fireman; leg broken.
Mrs. Zera Triflgneci. New Orleans;
bruised head.
c. H smith. road foreman of en-
gines, Philadelphia.
The collision came as result of a
ism mr. O re = nd # on the
part of the crew of the Chicago and
St Louis express. The two engines
ploughed into each other and were
wrecked, as were also the coach at
tached to the Chicago mail train No
IS, 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 over the
Petersburg branch the coach was di-
rectIy back of the engine. 1t carried
It was almost demolished. The wreck
age covered the track for a consider
able distance and some of the killed
and injured were pinned under the
coach.
The news of the wreck was con-
veyed to this city and the first orders
Of the railroad officials were to lis
patch physicians from Huntington
Williamsburg and Holidaysburg anc
then to send wreckers to clear away
the debris and render all the aid pos
sible. No passenger on train No. p
was Killed.
The passengers were caught undel
the wreckage by the piling UP Of tho
mail cars on the coach. This made #
impossible for those not injured t.
1 render any aid to those pinned dowr
/ by the wreckage until the arrival Of
/ the wrecking forces. Meanwhile foul
/ died of injuries while under the mas,
/ of wrecked mail cars and four other.
subsequently died while being con.
/ veyed to the hospital
Attached to the rear of the Chicago
mail were five cars of horses Thes,
cars remained on the track and were
/ hauled back in order that the wreck
! ers could reach the debris. A train wa.
made up of the cars of train No 8
wrecked, and the killed and injured
were placed aboard and brought t,
this city. The injured were taken t.
/ the hospital and the bodies of tn,
! dead delivered to undertakes to b,
/ prepared for burial.