The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-02-15
REPORT FOUR DEAD.

ALTOONA, Pa, Feb. 15.-At least
four persons were killed and twenty
five injured today when the Pennsyl-
vania limited, east bound from Chica-
60 to New York, was wrecked at War
rior's Gap near here. No reports
reached here from the scene of the
wreck that between forty and one
hundred persons had been killed, rail-
road officials declaring that only four
persons had lost their lives. The ac
cident was caused by the breaking Of
q truck on one of the engines which
was drawing the train. Ten of the all
were derailed. The train left Altoona
at 10 o'clock this morning, and its
next stop was to have been Harris
burg, 1SO miles from here. The acci
dent occurred at 1850 a. m. The
train, which was made up of eleven
cars, and two engines, was travelling
at an estimated speed OF so miles an
hour. when truck on the second en-
gine broke. and ten of the cars
plunged Off the track. The railroad
officials attribute the small loss OF
life to the fact that all the cars of the
train were of steel construction.
All the available physicians and
nurses from surrounding towns were
summoned to the scene. The mass of
debris which was swept for hundreds
Of yards by the impact, snapped off the
telegraph poles and prevented defi-
mite news of the disaster being sent
out. The first news of the wreck came
from Huntington. That report said
that three nf the overturned cars had
plunged into the river and that all the
passengers had been drowned.
chloroform A Victim.
PORTLAND, Me-, Feb. 15.-Three
men were killed. one of them burned
alive, in a head on collision early to-
day between two freight trains on a
branch Of the Grand Trunk railroad at
North Yarmouth, 13 mites northeast
of this city. The wreck caught fire
and half dozen cars were burned.
Chloroform was administered to the
victim who was pinned down by the
debris and who could not be rescued.
Flames were leaping in his face when
doctors chloroformed the victim into
unconsciousness and then the flames
burned him to ashes.
One of the victims was Roy B. Jor-
dan, a trainman who lived in Var
mouth.
The cars took fire after the coils
ion and those pinned under the de-
bris were blistered by the flames.
Doctors called to the scene of the
wreck administered chloroform to
some of those who were crying in
their intense agony.
The weather was intensely cold and
passengers who escaped injury suffer
ed intensely. The Yarmouth firemen,
doctors and every one who could drop
their tasks in the village responded
to the call for aid The flames threat
ened to destroy all the wreckage and
kill all pinned under the cars.
Many of those who attacked the
wreckage were burned severely them
selves in their efforts to reach those
pinned under the dbris. A telephone
message received here at o'clock
said that as far as could be told by
hasty examination there were four
dead. The railroad man who sent
the report said, however, that there
might be more dead in the wreckage.
A train was made up here and sent
to the scene of the wreck with doc
tors and nurses. Arrangements were
made to bring the injured to the
Maine general hospital in this city.