Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-05
THREE DIE IN WRECK.
Passenger Train Hits Freight
Near Erie, Pa.
SIGNAL WAS DISREGARDED
Score Are Hurt and Many Believed
Buried in Debris-Fire-
man Dying.

ERIE. Pa, September >. = Three are
known to be dead and as many more are
thought to be beneath the wreckage of
the Erie and Pittsburg passenger train
No POI, that crashed into Lake Shore
freight at Dock Junction last night where
the roads cross. The dead are Engineer
John ). Jones of this city, a tramp who
cannot be identified and an unidentified
passenger who was riding in the smoke.
The bodies were found beneath the
locomotive and the smoker early this
morning. the body of the passenger being
so badly mutilated that identification was
Impossible. The bodies were brought to
this city this morning by Coroner D. S.
Hanley. who said that when the wreck
ing crew removes the piled-up cars other
bodies may be found.
List of the Injured.
In addition to the dead, Fireman James
Firman of this city is dying in the Hanoi
Hospital He was scalded and burned
when the crash came. and was among
the first to be taken out. Others in the
hospital here are:
c. S. Carr. Erie, suffering from shock;
Hamot Hospital.
Hanoi Hospital.
f, c. Northup, Erie, head cut open
Hamot Hospital.
J. o. Alonsi miner, from Rarnsboro.
Cambria county, Pa, shoulder broken;
Hanoi Hospital.
on Erie and Pittsburgh train, leg broken;
at st. Nincent's Hospital.
r. A. Davidson, postal clerk Newcastle,
badly bruised: may he hurt internally.
l.
town, Pa: nose broken, bruised about
body.
T. w. Earn, salesman. Cleveland: head
and cheek cut. bruised about chest.
Colof Nebon, Erie express messenger:
head cut. burned and bruised about body.
IL. NJ. Straw, postal clerk, Cambridge
Springs: cut and burned.
A. b. Northup. engineer, l1H3 Plum
street, Erie: scalp wound.
G. NJ. Patterson, Albion; shoulders and
back injured.
A. C. Peterson, Newcastle; internally
injured.
Engineer Disregarded Signal.
The wrecked passenger train was bound
for Erie from Pittsburgh and was behind
time. 1t is said the engineer was running
block near the crossing. crashing into the
freight. Both engines and freight and
passenger cars piled up in mass of
twisted steel and iron, while the SPIN
tered woodwork soon took fire. 1T was
the latter that burned Fireman Firman
so badly after he had been scalded be-
meath his own engine The blaze was ex-
tinguished however. before the wreckage
had been consumed.
The train was due here at $40 m. and
the first known of the wreck was at $50,
when telegraph operator at Dock juno
ton telephoned to the hospitals here for
all the ambulances that could be sent.
When further details had been learned
three ambulances and number of pri-
vate automobiles We're dispatched. while
a corps Of physicians and nurses was
sent out over the Lake Shore road on a
special train. The Wrecking crew was
soon on the scene and worked all night
to recover any bodies that might be in
the wreckdge.
All Recovering Save Fireman.
The baggage car was demolished and
pieces of baggage were scattered about
the road bed. The Lake Shore tracks
were blocked, holding up traffic on that
road.
Besides the injured in the hospitals
more than a score were taken in auto.
mobiles to nearby houses, where they
We're attended by physicians, and were
brought back to this city to continue
their journey. At the hospitals this
morning. it is reported that all the in
jured will recover except Fireman Fir
man. The coroner announced that as soon
as witnesses can be summoned he will
hold an inquest and that a complete in
vestiga ton will be made