Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-14
FAST TRAINS CRASH
Three Killed in Collision at
North East, Pa.
BLIZZARD HIDES SIGNAL
Limited Express Plunges Into Rear
of Lake Shore Special.
MANY PASSENGERS INJURED
First Report That Wrecked Train
Was "Twentieth Century Lin
tied" Proved to Be Error.
BLIZZARD HIDES SIGNAL
MANY PASSENGERS INJURED

NORTH EAST Pa December I4-A
wreck on the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern railroad near here last mid
night resulted in three deaths and the
injury of fifteen persons seven of them
seriously.
Plunging forward through a blizzard a,
the rate of over sixty miles an hour. the
New York Central limited from st. Louis
crashed into the rear Of the chicago and
Boston special All Of those killed and
injured were occupants Of the smoking
car of the special. None Of the pas
sengers on the limited was severely in
jured The engine Of the limited was not
badly damaged, and neither were some
of the passenger cars in the special.
Dead and Injured.
The dead
Anton Lund. Hollyville. Cal. on his
way to Copenhagen, Denmark.
John Clair, forty-five years. Cedar
Point, Kan. on his way to France.
Francis Bernard. thirtytwo Years,
Cedar Point, Kan, on his way to France.
Injured: George +. McEnslc, Indian
Harbor, Conn. cut and bruised and legs
broken: A. II. Whitney, Dunkirk. y. Y.
spine injured; Frank +. Cook, Green Bay.
Wis, legs cut, ribs fractured. L. l.. Cles-
son. Jamaica Plains. Mass, legs broken,
William l.. McFadden, Buffalo, n. y.
shoulder fractured: Luigi Btalls. Gin
cinnati, bruised: Aecola Delaoues. Au-
burn, n. V, bruised: Louis Zidole. resi-
dence unknown. bruised, Frank S. Stock.
Springfield, Mass, bruised.
passengers on the New York central
Limited who were injured, although only
slightly, were: Miss Edna I1ostus, New
York; w. r. Burr, New York; r. H..
Heading, Clevela nd; NJ. Masters, Cincin-
natl; Clayton Chapman. Elyria, Ohio, and
William Coale, Warren, Ohio.
Rear-End Collision.
The Chicago and Boston special, known
on the railroad tim card as No. 10, is a
slow passenger train. running eastward
1t was stalled at the depot here owing
to a breakdown to the locomotive on
train No. 12, known as the Cleveland and
New York special. which usually runs two
hours ahead of No. 10. The regular CHI
caxo section of the Twentieth Century
Limited was forty-tive minutes late. FOR
this reason the section from st. Louis
over the Big Four railway started east
first. although 1t was ten minutes late,
and running as fast as possible through
the binding storm to make UP lest time
When the repairs to No. Il were COM
pleted the block was lifted and NO. ~
was allowed to proceed, which 1t dld
slowly at first.
At this minute the limited vas due and
there was no block against 1t. and 1t con
tinued at the usual speed, with the slowly
moving No. 10 only d mile ahead
Directly in front of the depot mere the
limited ran into the rear of No. IL. Just
before the crash Engineer L. NJ Berger or
the limited noticed the train in front I'M
mediately the air brakes were applied
The sudden application of the brakes and
the slippery track apparently made the
limited jump forward rather than siacken
the speed. With the roar OF Missing steam
the two trains met.
torpedo had been placed on the track
to warn the engineer of the limited o1
danger ahead Owing to the binding snow
furries Engineer Berger was unable 10
see far ahead, and thus the tail lights
of No 10 were not visible in time to avoid
the collision.
SO slight were the damages to the Ne"
York Central Limited that as soon as
track was cleared. matter of only a
few minutes, the limited continued on 10
Buffalo with the same engine.
Not the "Twentieth Century,
NEW YORK. December 14.-The
.Twentieth Century Limited Of the New
York Central railroad was not in the
wreck at North East, Pa. as at first re-
nor,ed il was officially announced at the
New York Central offices here today.
Tbs trains In the wreck were the east
hound New York Central Limited, from
ST I,o,,is. which crashed into the rear OF
train No. 10 on the Lake Shore railroad
At the time of the smash-up the onl-
cials here say the Twentieth century
Limited was $50 miles away.