The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-05
TEN DEAD AFTER
CRASH OF TRAINS
Fast Pennsylvania Passengers
Meet Head On Near Altoona. y
-Dakotan Dying. ~

/ Altoona, Pa, May 5.-Ten persons
are dead and nearly a score seriously in
jured as a result of the collision of two
Of the fastest mail and passenger
trains on the Pennsylvania system on
the Petersburg branch. near Glover
Creek Junction, late last night:
The Chicago mail, westbound, and the
sent around on the Petersburg branch
to avoid the wreckage of a freight train
on the main line, crashed together,
head on, while going at full speed.
Seven cars were smashed and both en-
gines twisted into scrap iron in an in
slant. by the terrific crash.
j: W. Wiener. Miflintown, Pa,
J. W. cox, Downingtown, Pa, postal
} = sCHUYLTzE. Washington,
ID. c., postal clerk.
49, JONES. residence not known.
postal clerk.
i. F. q. HARDER. Harrisburg, Pa,
UNKNOWN WOMAN, supposed to
be from Duncannon, Pa.
: MAX TARLOVE, South Norwalk,
Conn, in charge Of a shipment Of
horses.
j. b. CoNovER, travelling salesman
L
hvenue, New York.
! UNKNOWN MAN.
. J. W. HERR, Jersey City, baggage
master.
With the exception of tn least-named
man, all of those killed were on the
east bound train. Nearly all of the in
3ured were likewise on the east-bound
trip.
Dakotan Is Dying. ~
!. The following are the most seriously
injured:
!. Oscar Anderson Of velva, N. d., bad
" injured; will die.
Baggagemaster Kerr, Of No. 81, Har-
sisburg, fractured skull, probably fatal
" injured.
Fireman Cook, Of No. IS, Of Harris
burg, leg fractured.
Broken Air Hose Cause.
The. disaster was Indirectly due to a
freight wreck on the middle division at
1924 pm, when twenty-seven loaded
cars of an east-bound freight train were
wrecked at Union Furnace, about
Z twenty miles south of here, blocking all
cracks. ..' g.. IL -,
/ In order TO avoid detention of trains,
passenger traffic was sent over the
Petersburg branch. The Pennsylvania
special, the eighteen-hour flyer west
bound, was the first train to pass around
and make the trip in safety. No. 81,
the St. Louis and Chicago express, was
the next train to be sent westbound
over the branch. 1t collided with No.
Us, the Chicago mail, going in an oppo-
site direction, on single track near
Glover Creek junction.
Coach Next to Engine.
No 81 was sent out Of Altoona re-
yersed-that is, the coach was run next
to the locomotive: This was done in
would have been occasioned by shifting
the train. The train was sent east al
far as Elizabeth Furnace, on the mair
line, when the locomotive was shifted
and the trip over the cutoff started.
The accident appears to have resulted
from a misunderstanding of orders OF
the part of the train crew of the Chi
cago and st. Louis express.
Caught Under Wreckage. e.
. killed.
" The passengers were caught unde
the wreckage by the piling up of mail
cars ON the coaches. This made it i'm
possible for those not injured to rem
der any aid to those pinned down b,
the wreckage until the arrival of tn
wreeking forces Meanwhile, four die
Of injuries while under the mass o
wrecked mailcars and four others SUI
sequently died while being conveyed t
the hospital.
Attached to the rear of the Chicag
mail were five cars Of horses. Thes
cars remained on the track and wer
hauled back in order that the wreck
ers could reach the debris.
A train was made up Of the cars Q
train No. Is not wrecked, and the dea
and injured were placed aboard an
brought to this city.