The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-02-26

Johnstown. Pa, February 2s.-The
Pennsylvania special. the famous iS-
hour New York Chicago train q the
Pennsylvania railroad, was wreckod at
Mineral Point, seven miles east OF here
last night about midnight. None OF
the passengers was killed and bat one
John p. Kline, Of Joliet, Ills, probably
fatally hurt. The train crew also es-
capped serious injury. Practically all
the fifty-four passengers on the tram
were more or less hurt. Ten OF the
| injured were taken to the Altoona hos
pital and the others were able To con-
| tinue their journey. Tho escape Of
! the occupants OF the train from dea;h
was little short OF miraculous. The
train was running at the high speed Of
more than fifty miles an hour when the
| last three cars OF the train, Pullman
sleepers, suddenly left the rails. They
| turned over twice, then slid over the
] sixty-foot embankment into the Conc
maugh river. The cars went through
the heavy ice. but there was SO li,tIe
water in the river that there was no
| danger Of drowning
| The wreck, it was thought, was 0aus-
ed by the dropping OF the brake rig
ging on the first sleeper following the
locomotive and combination car The
/ rigging lodged under a tie derailing the
three cars.
The locomotive and combination re-
mained on the track
! Relief trains were at once dispatched
from Johnstown, Altoona and PItts-
burg. Eight of the injured ones we're
taken to the Altoona hospital, four
more were sent TO Pittsburg and taken
to the Allegheny general hospital. Hhe
4 other passengers, In insufficient cloth
: ing, shivering. many with nothing to
I cover them but blankets and bed cloth
;, ing were also sent to Pittsburg. The
j railroad supplied them with food. med
( ical attendance and clothing, and sent
0 them on west on special train which
= left Pittsburg at 10 O'Clock today.
Shortly after the relief passenger train
left Mineral Point for PittsbHrg a
g $ praise service was held In the COACHES.
The Rev. Edgar Cope, pastor OF the
Saint Simeon Protestant Episcopal
l. church, Philadelphia. made q short ad-
dress and led In prayer. LET Us thank
T. God" he said, that every man, woman
Ig and child on that ill-fated train escaped
TX death"
y OF the thirty injured passengers who
Id went west in a special train four we're
to taken TO a Pittsburg hospital seriously
but not fatally injured. John p. Kline
ee who is in the Altoona hospital. Is re
;" ported to be dying.
lis George s Wood, OF the Colonia
theatre, Chicago, was a passenger II
en- Car F. OF the train, and said: II wan
Of TO say 10 the credit OF the four VJmcI
y on the train that they acted nobly
1d There was no crying or Mysteries ,,
n. the three women on the train. and
n. girl whose name did not learn.
p managed to get the women fixed ur
as giving one Of them my overcoat fel
-iy pretty sorry for them because the
nd were in their night clothes. When IN
irs accident occurred their wearing IT
ng pareI was strewn in every direction.
"The experience Of rolling down tn
fed ennbankrnent was simply awful. I 81
va not know II we were going down Vi
uld side OF a mountain or what had bal
pened. was asleep and II appeared
be an age before that car finally stru'
las bottom. It landed with terrific fcrc
hr. breaking the car ;nto splinters and a"
ah any OF us escaped death Is a mysser
l'h Really I am surprised that am al
TO tell the tale"
nt Congressman Dawes, Of Ohio. VI
A., was en- route to Chicago. was arnn
,e the injured. He suffered consideras
~ pain and was taken to Harrison
ar where he took a train for Washingt'
d. c.
md An ofNrfaI statement gfyen out ~