The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-30
MANY REPORTED KILLED IN A b|G EXCURSION WRECK A Train Load of Teachers Jumps the Track and
 Catches Fire BIRMINGHAM MAN
 REPORTED INJURED Believed That Missing Persons Weri Burned in Wreck and That
 Many of Injured Will

Many or lnJured VIII
 Die
 Easton. Pa. April 2s.-Two persons los. their lives, eight are missing, and arS believed to be dead. and half hundree others were injured this afternoon ac Martins Creek N. J., in a wreck of an excursion train carrying ITO school teach- CTS and friends from Utica and Syracuse, N. Y, and vicinity to Washington for weeks outing. The train was one fur nished the teachers by the Delaware. Lackawanna and Western railroad and the accident occurred while 1t was trav- cling at a high rate of speed over stretch of track controlled hy 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 sideswiped an oil tank along the track when they left the rails. The entire train was quickly enveloped in flames and completely consumed by the fire.
 con sidered serious. A. l.. Friedman of | Birmingham suffered a broken leg. A | relief train was sent to the scene from Tarpon Springs.
 | The eight missing persons seven of whom were women. and lived in Utica, 1 are believed to have been burned to death in the wreckage. | The most seriously injured were re- moved to the Easton hospital, where two | of them. Miss Eleanor E. Rutherford, | Utica teacher, and Charles M. Person of Stroudsburg, Pa, Pennsylvania railroad conductor, died tonight.
 The physicians at the hospital said late l tonight that most of those In the hospital would get well.
 The cause of the wreck has not yet been determined The TTas Paen PPsn- rrso rSers the accident Unfinished work InaergoIng rna' @ ipa reppaS'rre responsible for the train leaving ths 1 track.
 | The dead:
 Charles NJ Person. conductor Strouds- burg, Pa, skull fractured, died after an operation,
 rnr -uIssing: Miss Bessie ns-l,-. Miss Susan Sessions, Miss Sarah JonSs.,' Mrs. Mary Allen. Miss Sophie Knott, Miss I.,nise Linsman, all of Utica. James Bcknell of Philadelphia tourist agent for the Pennsylvania railroad. Harry wilmer Trenton. \. !. bagga gemaster. charred body sup posed to be that of Winner was found in the ruins of the baggage car to- night.
 The Injured
 The most seriously injured are. W. M. Vanoy, Trenton. N. l.. engineer. head and arms injured may be hurt internally.
 George W. Parsons, fireman, Lam- bertville, N. J., burns about head and face; severe shock indicating internal injuries. Miss Julia Winchenbach. Utica, leg and arm bruised Miss Cora Baynes, Rome. N Y, seriously shocked and bruised. Miss Mary Condon, Utica, 1 N. Y, arm broken, cuts, burns. | In addition to these a score of per- sons were hurt, but declined to go to | the hospital.
 The train was travelling at rate of 50 miles an hour and when the loco- motive struck a sharp curve. where | tracks were being repaired, 1t jumped and ran along hillside, carrying four of the five cars with it. All of the cars took fire and burned like finder. Net a splinter is left.
 | Hardly had the train come to a stop before the fire started and spread so rapidly that some of the imprisoned passengers were burned to death. it is believed.
 As the train left the track it side- | swped and broke a tank of oil which ran over the wreckage and added to the fury of the flames. The fire box at both ends of the train, hot coals from the fire box of the engine start ing the fire at that end and flames from the stoves in the dining car starting the destruction al the rear. Physicians were called from this city and every town within a radius of 10 miles and they went to the scene of the wreck in automobiles and special trains. Twenty minutes after the acci- dent there were a score of physicians on the ground.
 Farm House Hospital
 Every farm house in the vicinity was quickly transformed Into an impro- vised hospital and farm wagons were pressed into service as ambulances. Many of the injured remain with the farmers and at the Martins Creek ho- tel Telegraph and telephone wires were torn away and for some time 1t was impossible to reach the outside world. Communication finally was re- stored to Easton.
 Men and women who were on the train say the scene that followed the accident is beyond their power of de- scription. Willing hands began the work of rescue as soon as they were able and had it not been for the he- roic efforts of men and women some of whom were cut and bleeding from their own wounds, the loss of life would have been appalling
 Unconscious forms were pinned be- neat the wreckage with the flames leaping 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 flames. One young woman was found sinigng and dancing on the railroad half a mile from the scene of the wreck She was cut. bruised and burned, but in her hysterical condition did not appear conscious of pain or of what had happened.
 Dr. Budd J. Reaser of Martins Greek was the first physician on the scene ' He said when the derailed cars hit tho - oil tank the flames ran through tho train like q blaze on a dry prairies.
 Men and women were in a state ol panic he said. and some were uncon scous on the ground where they hat been placed by others or had faller lin a swoon
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