Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-08-14
PENNSYLVANIA FAST
TRAIN D|TCHED
TWO KILLED
FAST FLYING LIMITED
SlOESWIPES FREIGHT
Three Powerful Locomotives
Pile Up in Mass of Twisted
Debris Thirty Injured, Fear
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fort wayne, Ind. Aug. 1.-two
people were killed, two were reported
missing and thirty were injured at the
western limits of this city tonight in
the second wreck within a week of the
IennsylVanla roads Chicago-New
YORK eighteen-hour train
Pulled at top speed by two locomo-
tlVes, the heavy train ran into tenn
porary switch that was too weak to
stand the terrific strain. The rails of
the switch We're swept aside, the en-
Slhes OF the flyer careened and side
swiped the engine of a freight train
on side track. Engines and passen-
ger coaehes second later were piled
on their sides.
In panic which followed the
wreck, men fought women in their
FRENZY TO escape and scores of them
We're trampled and beaten.
The baggage car, smoker .uffet
and two sleepers turne1 over In the
ditch. Most of the injured were seat
ed in the diner and smoker when the
accident occurred
The wreckage has not beer cleared
and the list Of dead may be more than
the number reported. The thirty or
more injured are now in the hospitals
and it is believed thar at least four
OF 1--WE VIII uie'
The Dead.
VALENTINE SNYDER. of Crest
line, o., baggagemen on the flyer
w. A. ARRICK, of Fort Wayne.
Ind, engineer Of the freight train.
The Missing.
ira Burger. OF Fort Wayne, Ind,
engineer OF the flyer.
George wilson of Fort Wayne, Ind,
fireman or the flyer.
Patrick Malone the engineer OF the
spe0iai, . was Iouhu III Ialh.lhs cohui-
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elly Nere oa,led 10 lhe scene OF the
aceluen,' anu tie injured were soon
'aheh Me- W nospl,ais'
ine I,la'i uach anu 'he track on
witch .ile lreisht traih was iooatel
mere we, .oIh w lor TWO ruhureu yarus.
ne .mo ensines Vi tne lIEer were
Ioin ironi lieir trucks ana thrown
uowh the emDankment wnile the en-
e,ne VI 'ne iieisnt reaIeu up III the
an oNoi 'he Huohs Vi 'hc iyer
Inc train was running with TWO
engines, and, These, with the freight
engine, were piled up III mass OF
twisted iron.
me baggage car, smoker buffet and
Two sieepers turned over IN the ditch.
M ost OF the injured were seated In the
oiher ana smoker when the accident
occurred.
Inc ail-steel cars OF the tlyer were
put 10 the iirst actual wreck test they
nave undergone, and proved 10 pe ali
that has been claimed FOR them.
only the first two cars OF the nine
car traln were Dadly smashed.
Passengers on the seven rear cars
escaped with only cuts and bruises,
whereas, IT Is declared by railroad
men, If the cars had been OF the old
fashioned wood construction, the car
mage would have been frightful.
Several OF the injured, at late
hour tonight, are in an extremely serl-
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