Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-17
Washington Man Twice in
Wreck of Same Train.
ESCORTING MOTHERS BODY
Escapes Death Second Time in Three
Days on Limited Express.
FIVE KILLED IN COLLISION
Pennsylvania Westbound Flyer
Plunges Into Wrecking Train
at Larwill, Ind.

Within three days Clyde III. Tavenner
of this city, employed in the office of the
sergeant-at-arms of the House of Repre-
sentatives has twice been in danger OF
his life by the wrecking of trains on
which he was travelling. Mr. Tavenner
was passenger on the Pennsylvania
Limited which was wrecked today near
Fort Wayne, Ind. He was escortinS the
BODY of his mother Mrs. John Tavenner
10 Cordova. ILL., for burial, after she had
been Instantly killed while travelling with
Clyde Tavenner on the corresponding
Pennsylvania eastoound train which
plunged over an embankrnent Thursday
morning at Huntingdon, Pa.
Although the details of Clyde Taven-
ner's escape in the present Pennsylvania
limited wreck are missing in the dis
patches from the scene, which tell OF hve
deaths and eleven injuries, the remark
able coincidence of two wrecks WITHIN
three days on the same train are eva
dent.
Narrow Escape in First Wreck.
in the wreck of Thursday. Clyde Taven-
ner was coming eastward with his mother
and escaped death by a few feet, as he
had left the seat by his mother to BRING
her a glass OF water. Before the Wdtef
had been drawn his mother was Ted, i"e
train being twisted and spiintered by its
awful plunge over an emUanhIhent. MIS-
Iavenlers girinood home mad been III
Cordova, H. and her son arranged to
take the body there for burial lie cnose
the westDound run of the same tram
whose wreck had caused his mothers
death.
Plunged Into Wrecking Train.
The Associated Press dispatch telling
OF the Fort Wayne wreck follows:
FORT WAYNE, Ind, February IL
] :,r men were i.i.ied a.id eleven were IN
ju.ed at J:4U this morning, wnen Penn
:. wanna Limited train NO. i, westbound,
Gdsheu mo a wreck train at Larwiil,
Ind. twenty-five miles west Oh here. No
one aboard the limited tram was injured
except baggageman.
Among the passengers. was Clyde II.
Iavenner OF tine sergeant-at-arms' ONCE
oI the House OF Representatives, wash
ington, u. G. re was taxing the body OF
las mother, who was killed in the wreck
o, the rennsyivania limited at Hunting
ovIi, Pa., thursday, To CordoVa, H., 1or
IGrlui. Mr. iav.nner, VINO was in the
, ..iI lagoon Nsiec--, .-a-n escaped unln-
3ufei.
Ine wreck was due to the fog, which
was so dense that u fiaGman sent back
from the wreck train was not seen by the
engineer of the limited. The wreck train
had been stopped by a trackman, who re-
ported a broken rail ahead, and while
the investigation was in progress the linn
tied dashed into the cabOose of the train
ahead.
The wreckage caught fire, and two Of
the dead were burned almost beyond
recognition
The dead are: Il. c. Stump. F.. Spolt-
man. y. Bailey. frank NIee.ns and r..
Lobberman.
All were railroad employ es and all lived
in Fort Wayne.
The injured, none of whom was serious
ly hurt, are: Georg. Ebener master Of
the work train: ID. Herderhoert, - Lab
key. - Weicaleff. A. Bartz. E. A. Kober
F. Robertson, F. Van Horn, G. Beegart,
II. Bonne. j. j. Lee.
Three Cars Destroyed.
The train left Pittsburgh at 3:55 o clock
last evening, en- route for Chicago 1t
was running schedule time through
Indiana this morning when it was re-
ported. The engineer failed to obserdve
the danger signals. and after passing the
red oiocE, ether ulu not see or ignored
the red flag of the fagman of the work
train who had been sent back when the
work train stopped.
Three cars on the work train were de-
storyed. The engine of No. ). the limited
and the first two cars were derailed. The
limited's coaches were all of steel con-
struction.
PHILADELPHIA, February 1.-THE
Pennsylvania Railroad Company's ad-
vices from the scene of todays wreck
say that the limited ran into a work
train derailing the first two cars of the
limited. No one on the limited is re-
ported injured.
The two derailed cars were cut out of
train, a new engine was supplied and
the train proceeded after some delay.
The wrecked train Is a counterpart Of
the PENNSYLVANIA limited wrecked at
Warriors Ridge. Pa, Thursday, while
eastbound.