The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-05-02
KILLED IN
RAILROAD WRECK
At Least Fifty Others Are
Seriously Hurt
SCHOOL PEOPLE ABOARD

sycciai Was Carrying Nearly 200
school Teachers and Their Friends
10 Washington. When Accident Oc-
curred-Bodies Of Missing Not
Found, But Charred Bones Among
Ruins OF Burned Coach Tell tho
TaIe-Particulars.
(By the Associated Press.)
Easton, Pa, April ga special
t,ain carrying 169 school teachers and
their friends from Utica and Syracuse,
n. Y, bounr for Washington, D. c..
for a holiday. was wrecked on the Bel
yidere-Delaware division Of the Penn
sy!yania Railroad at Martins Creek,
n. J.. eight miles north of his city
this afternoon. Seven persons ar
missing and they are believed to be
dead.
Charred Bones Tell the Tale.
Charred bones have been found in
the burned uin OF the train. The
injured number, at least fifty, some
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from three members OF the train crew
and one male passenger, the missing
and injured are
The more seriously injured are N
the Easton Hospital. The train was
travelling at a rate Of fifty miles an
hour, and when the locomotive struck
a sharp curve, where hen had been
re n3irinp the track If 1Ynenad thu
track, and ran along a hillside carry
ing four of h five cars with it.
Hardly a the train come to q
stop before fire started and spread so
rapidly that some OF the imprisoned
passengers were burned to death. As
the train left the track, 1t sideswiped
and broke a tank Of Oil. which ran
over the wreckage and added to the
fury of the flames. The fire broke
out at both ends Of the train, hot
Goals from the fre-box OF the engine
starting the fire at that end. and
flames from the stoves in the dining
car starting the destruction at the rear.
Twenty minutes after the accident,
There was a score Of physicians on the
ground, and every farm house in the
vicinity was quickly transformed into
an i~mprovised hospital, while farm
ers' wagons were pressed into service
as ambulances- Telegraph and tele-
phone wires were torn away, and
aor some time it was impossible to
reach the outside world.
Had it not been for the heroic eff
forts of the men and women. some
OF whom were cut and bleeding, the
loss of life would have been appalling.
Unconscious forms were pinioned be-
meath the Wyeckage with the flames
1eaDing toward them, when the less
seriously injured plunged into the
uepris. worked the unconscious vic
inns loose, and carried them beyond
reach Of the lanes
~Insaneay Hilarious.
One young Woma was found sing
half a mile from the scene Of the
wreck She was cut. bruised and
burned. but in her hysterical condi-
ZION did not appear conscious of pain
or OF hat had happened.
Priests from the Easton and Phil
Hpsburg, N. j., parishes were taken to
Martins creek in automobiles, and
worked among the injured.
Chas. M. Person, the conductor Of
the train, was operated upon, and died
at ) o'clock tonight, thus making one
known dead. The surgeons found a
~npound fracture at the base of the
brain.
Another Victim Dies.
Easton., Pa, April 29.-Miss Flea
nor Rutherford died at 1926 O'Clock
tonight. She was frigihtfuly mangled
ABOUT the head, and her face was not
recognizable.
Continued on Page Tenn
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