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4 DEAD, 81, HURT
IN PENNSY WRECK
Express Goes Down Bank Near
Philadelphia
EIGHT CARS TOppLED OVER

Train Going Fifty Miles an Hour
Jumps Track on Bridge and Runs
Over Ties.
Philadelphia, Nov. 29.-Four bodies
have been recovered from the debris
Of the Pennsylvania railroads Cleve.
land and Cincinnati express, which
was wrecked. supposedly by a bridge
which sagged half mile east of Glen.
loch.
The Pennsylvania railroad issued an
| official statement denying that the
bridge was weak or had caused the
wreck. The locomotives jumped from
the rails while on the bridge and
every coach followed. The train kept
on the ties until the chasm had been
crossed. Then eight of the coaches, all
filled with passengers, rolled down a
thirty-foot embankment. The train was
going fifty miles an hour at the time.
It is believed that the total number
of persons injured was about seventy
five, but in the excitement and hurry
of rescue a complete record could not
be obtained. The list obtained numbers
ifty-four.
There were many who were only
slightly hurt, and who continued their
way westward on another train. 9th
ers were cared for in the homes Of
farmers who lived near the accident.
The seriously hurt were taken to the
Chester county hospital in West Ches.
ter. The dead:
Howard L. Baldwin. Flatbush, N. T..
Pullman conductor.
Edwin R. Jones, Pittsburgh, Pa,
Pullman conductor.
L. D. Finley, Squirrel Hill. Pitts
burgh, Pa. passenger.
Unidentified man.
The following are among those In
jured:
Victor Cavallene. Philadelphia, scalp
wound and confusion of hip.
D.. G. Cavallene, Philadelphia, cut
about face and bruised.
William Dietrich, Philadelphia.
bruises on body.
Mrs. Dietrich. Philadelphia, body
bruised.
Harry g. Murphy, Philadelphia, bag
gagemaster, leg bruised. b
G. G. Anderson, Hagerstown, Md,
scalp and left hand lacerated.
Bertram Bush, Harrisburg Pa, con-
tusions.
Mrs. Bush. Harrisburg Pa. cnt an.As
bruised.
Stephen Perenc. Brownsville. Pa
face and hands cut
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Fox. Shippens
burg, Pa
c. E. Gray. Hagerstown. Md. scalp
cut.
William H. Griggs, Trenton. N. ].
sprained back.
Mrs. Griggs, Trenton, N. j., body
bruised.
Forrest Griggs, fifteen years old,
Trenton, N. j., shock.
Mrs. John Hickey, Altoona, Pa, face
and hands cut.
Mrs. B. Hosko, Cleveland, o., frac-
tured leg.
H. C. Hoke. Harrisburg. Pa. back
injured.
Archie Reed Jones, Williamsburg,
Pa, ankle broken.
Mrs. Margaret Kerr, Williamsburg.
Pa.
Miss H. L. Kerr, Williamsburg. Pa.
bruised.
Benjamin Klee, Canonsburg. Pa, el-
bow injured.
]. w. Leonard, Washington, Pa,
confused nose and sprained back.
Mrs. Louisa G. Miller, Altoona. Pa,
cut and bruised body.
w. D. Shipley, Williamsburg, Pa.
sprained back.
Rev. Samuel Wilson, Indiana, Pa, a
missionary, hands and face cut and
probable internal injuries; serious.
Albert L. Walters, Somerset, Pa,
fractured right arm and decorations Of
face; serious.
The accident occurred between Fra
zer and Glenloch, about twenty-f five
and a half miles from Philadelphia.
Just east of the actual place where
the cars toppled over the embankment
Is the bridge across the Trenton cut
off. At the foot of the north embank-
ment Is spur of the cutoff, on which
were standing three loaded coal cars.
Three of the sleepers when they
rolled down the embankment struck
these cars, and one of them was part
" telescoped. All the dead and many
of the most seriously injured were
found in this car.
The ties and roadbed are torn up
for a distance of 200 feet east of that
structure, and the ties of the bridge
also show that at least some of the
cars were off the rails when they
bumped across the chasm.
Notwithstanding an official denial
from the railroad that the accident
was due to a weak bridge, persons
who inspected the structure expressed
the belief that the sagging Of the
bridge was at least in part RESPONSE
BILE for the catastrophe.
The crash of the cars as they rolled
down the steep incline was followed
by screams from the passengers who
were penned in the overturned cars.
The day coach turned complete SON.
ersault and came to rest with is
wheels in the air.
The passengers were thrown vio-
lently against the top of the car.
Many were unconscious from blows on