The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-30
EXCURSION TRAIN
JUMPS THE TRACK
Tank of Oil Runs Over the
Wreckage and Imprisoned
Passengers Have No
Chance of Escape.
By Associated Press.


EASTON, Pa, April 29.-Three per
sons lost their lives. eight are miss
ing and arc believed to be dead and
half hundred others were injured
this afternoon at Martin s Greek, n.
j., in wreck of an excursion train
CARRYING 10 school teachers and
friends from Utica and Syracuse, n.
Y. and vicinity to Washington for a
weeks outing
The train was one furnished by the
Delaware, Backawanna & Western
railroad, and the accident occurred
while it was travelling with high speed
over tracks controlled by the Penn
sylvania railroad. The locomotive
Jumped the track, the cars toppled over
and were set on fire by exploding oil,
the wrecked coaches having side
wiped an oil tank along the track
when they left the rails.
The entire train was quickly envel'
oped in flames and completely con
sumed by the fire.
The eight missing persons, seven OF
whom were women and lived in Utica,
arc believed to have been burned to
death in the wreckagc, The finding
of charred bones led the railroad
wrecking crews to the conclusion that
they are dead.
List of Dead.
The most seriously injured were re-
moved to the Eastop hospital. where
three of them, Miss Eleanor e, Ruth
erford. Utica teacher; Charles NJ.
Person of Stroudsburg, Pa, Pennsyl-
vania railroad conductor, and William
Vancy. Trenton, n. j., engineer, died
tonight,
The Missing,
Miss Bessie Walker.
Miss Susan Sessions.
Miss Sarah Jones,
Mrs. Mary Allen.
Miss Sophie knott.
Miss Louise Hnsman, all of Utica
James Bicknell Of Philadelphia, u
tourist agent for the Pennsylvania rail
road
Harry Wilmer, Trenton, n. j., bag
gagemaster.
The physicians at the hospital said
late tonight that most of those in the
hospital will get well.
The cause of the wreck has not yet
been determined. The place where
the accident occurred had been under
going repairs and unfinished work
may have been responsible for the
train leaving the track.
There was terrific explosion at the
scene Of the wreck tonight There
is no communication with the wreck
ing party, but local railroad men say
either the boiler of the wreck locomo-
tive or gas tank exploded.
Tonight the Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western railroad ran special train
from Stroudsburg to the wreck and
started back to Utica with all those
who were able to take the journey.
Going at High Speed.
The train was travelling fifty miles an
hour and when the locomotive struck a
sharp curve. where men had been re-
pairing the tracks. II jumped and ran
five cars with IL. All OF the cars took
fire and burned like tlnder. Not splinter
Is left,
When the train reached Stroud dsburg,
Pa, a Pennsylvania railroad crew took
charge and was to have run IL through
TO Philadelphia. The passengers were
enjoying the early spring scenery along
the picturesque Delaware River valley
when there was sudden jar and the
eXcursionists In each car were thrown
together in heap.
Hardly had the train come TO stop
before the fire started and spread so
rapidly that some OF the imprisoned pas
senRers are believed TO have been burned
to death. AS the train left the track 1t
wreclsage and added TO the fury of the
flames.
Relief Game quickly,
Physicians were called from here and
every town within radius of ten miles
and went to the scene III automobiles
and special trains. Twenty minutes after
the accident there were a score OF physi-
clans on the ground. Every farmhouse
near was quickly transformed into an
improviSed hospital and farmers wagons
were pressed into service as ambulanccs,
Many OF the injured remain with the
farmers and at the Martins Creek hotel.
Telegraph and telephone wires were torn
away and for some time IL was impos-
sible TO reach the outside world. Com
munlcation was finally restored to East
on, Willing hands speedily began the
work Of rescue. Unconscious forms were
Dinioned beneath the wreckage with the
! flames leapnE toward them when the
less seriously injured. at great risk TO
their own lives, plunged into the debris.
worked the unconscious victims loose and
carried them beyond reach OF the fire.
One young woman was found singing and
dancing on the railroad track a half mile
from the scene of the wreck. She WAS
cut bruised and burned but In her hys-
terical condition did not appear conscious
OF pain on OF what had happened
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