Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-02-28
WRECK on
THE pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA EXPRESS RUNS
INTO AN OPEN SWITCH
AT PlTTSBURG.
Five Women Are Injured, But Con-
tinue Their Journey-Victims Of
Disaster Near YOUNGSTOWN Are All
Reported As Doing Well.

Disaster Near YOUNGSTOWN Are All
Reported As Doing Well.
Pittsburg, Pa, Feb. 25.-The Phila-
delphia express on the Pennsylvania
railroad, due to arrive here at 6:35
Sunday night, ran into an open switch
in the yards at Sixteenth street about
seven o'clock.
The ambulances from the Western
Pennsylvania and Allegheny general
hospitals were hurriedly summoned to
the Union station, but according to
the railroad officials and hospital ply
sicians no one was injured.
The New York express, due here at
seven o'clock, narrowly escaped run
ming into the Philadelphia train, and
caused a panic among the already
frightened passengers.
One coach on the Philadelphia train
was telescoped and two others de-
rallied. The train was late and was
running faster than usual through the
yards. ,;z,>~ -. -. a. ...., -..a. s 4
1t was learned about II o'clock that
five women passengers had been in
jured. It is said they sustained seri-
Gus cuts and bruises. They were
given medical attention by the hos
pital and railroad physicians and later
continued their journey. VI. =.
IT, Injured Are Doing Well. 3,
The condition of the passengers in.
jured in the wreck Of the Pennsylva-
MIA special Friday night near Johns.
town, Pa, was reported Sunday night
from the Altoona (Pa.) hospital and
the Allegheny general hospital in this
city as being excellent. John F. Kline,
postmaster OF Joliet ILL.,, who is the
most seriously injured, passed favor
able day. In addition to many cuts
and bruises, Mr.. Kline sustained a
runcture of the lung. It is said at
the Altoona hospital that he will re-
cover, however, unless complications
set in. Frederick A. Busse, postmas-
ter of Chicago; Samuel F. Nixon, Phil
adelphia; Felix 1sman, Philadelphia;
Frank P. Rodgers, Chicago; E. j..
Murphy, Joliet, ILL.,, and G. w. Wink
Ter, Chicago, who are also in the AL
toona hospital, are resting easily and
will be able to leave the institution in
about ten days.
M. F. Pippenbrink, Joliet, ILL.,, will
be able to go home at once. W. H.
Baker, of Chicago, who was in the AL
legheny general hospital, departed for
home early Sunday, and ]. Wood Will
son, Marion, Ind, and Thomas. Bauer
of Lafayette, Ind, WILL it is said, leave
the hospital in two days.
Two Killed in Utah.
Salt Lake City, Feb. 23.-Clinton B.
Leigh, a well-known newspaper man
of Salt Lake, was killed; State
Representative Seth Taft of Wayne
county was fatally injured, and has
since died, and Speaker Harry Jo-
sephs was slightly hurt in collision
on the Copper Belt railway at the
mining camp of Bingham Friday af-
tetrnoon. The victims were members
of legislative party visiting the
Bingham mines. VI: 49,. 81. ..s
Mr.. Leigh was representing the Salt
Lake Herald. He was of prominent
Kentucky family and was at one time
city editor of the Greensboro (Ky.)
Messenger .--.- ... A..
Car Falls Forty Feet.
Dubuque, Ia.. Feb. ga combina-
tion-coach and loaded coal car of a
train on the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul narrow gauge between Belle
vue and Cascade jumped the rails at
a curve on trestle over small
stream near Washington Mills, and
fell distance of 40 feet, Friday, land
ing with the coal car on top of the
coach in which were ten passengers.
The coach was completely wrecked,
and one passenger was killed, two
fatally injured and seven seriously
injured. Mrs. John Rohan, of Fill
more, a., was the one killed.
Express Wrecked in Minnecota.
st. Paul, MINI, Feb. 23.~-Thirteen
persons were hurt, one probably fatal
ly and four seriously, by collision
on the Chicago Great Western road
about six miles south of Hayfeld,
Mimi. The train which was wrecked
was the Chicago bound night ex-
press, which left this city at 1880
Thursday night. A freight train broke
down and the passenger train was
helping it on to a siding. A f1agman
who had been sent back returned be-
fore the track was clear and an ex-
ira crashed into the express train,
completely wrecking THE baggage and
mail cars.
Fifteen Hurt in Collision.
Winona, Mimi, Feb. 23.-While pas.
senger train No. 6, outh-bound on the
Chicago Great Western railroad, was
waiting on the main line at Sargent
Mimi, to meet a freight train, an ex.
ira stock train, also southbound
ora shed int0 the rear end IF RI a. nac