The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-30
JoyousJourney Of School
Teachers Turned Into &
Disaster.
TWO KNOWN DEAD.;;
SEVEN MISSING
Only Heroic Efforts on Part os
Cut and Bleeding Men and
\ Women Prevent Appalling
Loss of Life-Wreckage
Is Consumed by 3S
Flames.
I Especial to The Times Dispatch!l

Especial to The Times Dispatchl l5s
Easton, Pa. April 29.-SkippinE
along at fifty miles an hour. nye-
coach excursion trnin on the Belyes 81
derc division of the Pennsylvania RailSff
road. plunged from the rails eighs u
miles north of this city this afternoon,@4
sideswipcd an oil tank and hurled 15S ;S
passengers into a forty foot gulch on IN
the west bank of the Delaware River. re;
One body has been recovered. Nine w
persons are missing or dead and forty; &
arc injured. r.
Most of the passengers were school
teachers from Utica. n. Y. and neigh4
boring towns. bound for weeks trapSy
to Washington, d. c. Without an ms
stant's warning tile merry party shot 81
over tho bank. Oil from the wrecked rs
tank poured onto the debris. Fire i'm ~
mediately started in the fifth car. and 4f
fed by the oil. quickly swept through
tho entire train leaving 1t in q twisted VI
mass OF Iron and charred wood. 5s!5iss
The cries OF wounded women ran 53
out above the crash of the wreck, and ~
brought aid from farm house which III
stands within stones throw Of the Il.
Martins Crock ferry. where the train III
left the track @ fss5
At IL o'clock tonight the Nre is g
still burning, and the bodies of the II
missing passengers and crew are pron4ES:
AMY Crenldteu IN the ruins. Five III
hours after the crash a gas tank OF ~
the rear coach exploded with terrible &
force, hurting score OF spectators Il
to the ground and injuring three men. &
The known Dead. tn
Conductor Charles NJ. Person, OF 4.
Stroudsburg, PA. si ;53S3 IA,
Miss Eleanor rutherford 3
The missing; who are probably idend l.!
nrci ltA GtlI "
Miss Sarah Jones', tUticn, ,3T5i S Eli
MINIS sophie Knoult, Utica. siSS
Miss Iicssic Walker, Uticn. III !s.5
Miss Susan Sessions, Utica IN ~
Miss Louise I.in,isInnn, Uticn. sss
Miss Mary Allen, UtIan. VI:
EnEEnHemnster, name unknown I'll \ 45S
Among the Injured are: Miss NeiIieGi
Bayres cut hbout head and arms: Miss "
Gathering Bayrcs. cut ai,out head and "
arms; Miss Catherine Lawson, scalp @
wound; Miss Marjorie Williams. scalp
wound; Miss Edith Boil broken arm: =
Miss Borthn Hall, broken arm; Mrs.aS
Catherine Boggs. slightly cut; SamueY ~
Sprowl Easton. trainman. head and NJ
race cut; Clark Parsons. fireman. scald- 81
ed; Miss creeiia Linsman. cuts: Miss Il
Anna Campbell, laccrittions; Mrs Il. g.
Howley and her daughter, Edith. cuts
about arms and head; Miss Mary n, i$l
Condin, left arm broken
slightly injured; Miss Augusta Light,
New Hartford; Miss Ethel d smith, III
e.
Utica; Miss Frederick Schwabe, Utica :i%
Miss Anna Cavanaugh, 90 Court Street, \
Utica. and Mrs, Catherine Dufy. &; o.
Expected joyous Trip. s}l
The excursion train, made up "a OF 64s
oela ware and Lackawanna coaches and Efs
q Pennsylvania engine left Utica m
about o'clock this morning. Tho Il
teachers. In expectation OF Joyous Z,
trip, had decorated some Of thea
coaches with school banners All &
along tho route their train was az t9s
corded joyous welcome. Hi
At tho point where tile train left the 43s
single track road, the rails run on a. s5gst
high embnnkment, with forty-foot q
valley. through which tricllles a smalI9f5
stream on one side and a strip of woods ".
on the other side. ~ gung Of Itaiin MS sgis
we're repairing the road there to- d i1E
and had Just rclald the rails when Tho tt
Utica special rounded the curve IA { IN
top speed it. 3sSssS
The tracks. not securely spiked.8 &
spread. hurting the train into the ravine, lSGs
the engine lies beside the track almost, III;
upside down. The wreck of the be . SsSSS,,
gage car is seventy five feet to the}Esss
left Of the roadbed. Tho ruins Aof the u;
third and fourth cars are near the ~
track Tho fifth coach was burned fs55
TO ashes upon the rails. For /. 200 81,
feet the rails are torn from the road st
bed. 7}19s AZ
David billiard, an aged farmer. who, VA
lives nearby, was the first one to the iS
rescue. He heard the crash and Tie mi
cries Of agony ms the injured school, S5ld
teachers struggled to free themselves ~
from tho debris.
II Jumped into car window to free va
a woman whom I saw lying telplesa Isl
there he said. Already the fire was N:
burning her dress. dragged her out.3s
and as did so I saw man lyfne5Es
pinned beneath by heavy BEAM 6 X RI
tried to pull him out. too, but could %
not AS he reached for my hand the w
fire was on him. Good by, good b Il
he cried and ieaped out. saw him AZ
twist minute. and then he was buried aess,,
I'm tho flames. 4,t I'm
Women were running wildly about,5sS
their clothes and hair on fire. n You s25s
could hear their shouts for a mileiSzS
Those who We're only scared dragged gsSs
out the wounded and carried them q In,S S Ss
to the grass. J heard ono woman or y -, RI
Ing for her daughter, and then SAW
her jump Into II burning 3car@to getSthS 81
girl. did not see her again 3 Sssssssjssss;
Tho women injured the most \ sapiy 39}%.
ously wcrn carried to my house, q ard al gs3Sss
my wife did the best she could fortho,ss sui
The whole wreck was on fire In a fIars. ggs
1t started IN the middle and ran BOT ii sSsssl
ways sF4 is lgslsti is8 275sssTS2
Heroic Efforts shown, Ss;sssS
HID II not been for tho h aroicg eH 81 b sg%
OF the men and women. sol me OF ~ h9YtsssF
were cut and bleeding. the ioss 81 ;Iirasas
would have been apnailins, i$S Itneon y2ss
scious forms were psnioned tbeneat In t:rl8S
wreckaSe, with the flames II lea pln " ~ 8ss
ward them. when the legs serious ssE n: ksSS
jurcd plunged into8t the dabris@yy an a1ss sSSay'