The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-09-01
TRAIN
LEAPS into RIVER
Twenty-Five Dead and Sixty
Are Injured.
G. A. R. MEN in CRASH.
Train Of Fourteen Coaches and Two
Locomotives Jumps the Track
While Approaching Bridge on
the Lenloh Valley Road.

Manchester, N. speeding east
ward behind time, Lehigh Valley pas
senger train No. ran into broken
rail on trestle near here Friday ana
two day coaches from the mid-sec-
ton Of the train plunged downward
40 feet, striking the east embank-
ment like pair Of projectiles.
lin the awful plunge and crash at
least rs persons were killed and near
ly so injured. The injuries of sew
eral are SO serious that it is fear they
will die.
The wreck was the worst in the
history of the Lehigh Valley in this
State and one of the most disastrous
ever recorded on the system.
Was G. A. r. Train.
Crowded with passengers, many
of whom were war veterans and ex-
cursionists from the Grand Army OF
the Republic encampment at Roch-
ester, the train, made up of IA cars,
! drawn by two big mogul engines,
was 40 minutes late when it reached
Rochester Junction and from there
sped eastward to make up time be-
fore reaching Geneva.
The engines and two day coaches
had just passed the centre Of 40
| foot trestle over Canandaigua Out
let, $50 yards east Of the station at
Manchester, at 1895 o'clock, when
the Pullman car Austin, the third of
long train, left the rails.
1t dragged the dining car with it
and two day coaches and two Pull
mans, in this order, followed.
Han on Ties.
ALI bumped over the ties a short
distance when the coupling between
day coach No. 237 and the rear end
of the diner broke.
The forward end of the train
dragged the derailed Pullman Austin
and the diner over safely, after
which both plunged down the south
embankment and rolled over.
The free end of an Inflated Lee
high Valley day coach, in which
most of the victims were riding,
showed out over the gulf and, fol-
lowed by Grand Trunk day coach,
stripped the rear guard of the south
side Of the trestle and plunged to
the shallow river bed, more than 40
feet below.
The end of the first day coach that
went over struck the east embank-
ment of solid masonry and, with the
other 60-foot car behind it, both
shot against the wall with terrific
force. s
Passengers Buried.
Both cars were filled with pasaon-
gers, in few moments the cars lay,
mass of crumbled wood, metal and
glass, under which a hundred men,
women and children, many of whom
were killed instantly, were buried.
The greatest destruction occurred
in the day coach No. 237 and a
dozen persons were taken later, dead,
from the second day coach, which,
after following the first over the
trestle, snapped its rear coupling and
thus saved the rest of the train from
being dragged along.
The second day coach struck on
the bottom and stood end up, the
rear end projecting few feet above
the top of the trestle.
All of the passengers in this car
were piled in a tangled mass of
broken seats at the bottom of the
car.
Help Long Coming.
Indescrible pandemonium followed.
The Pullman car Emelyn. which re-
manned on the bridge with one end
projecting over the gulch, and sew
eral cars behind it derailed and in
immediate danger of going over on
the mass of wreckage below, were
soon emptied of all their passengers,
who, aided by gangs of railroad en-
ployes from the big freight yards at
Manchester, rushed to aid
1t was several minutes, however,
before anybody reached the cars at
the bottom to help the victims.
There the dead and injured were
laid out on the ground while planks
and timber were requisitioned and
al -