The Green Forest tribune., 1912-07-12
TWO BIG WRECKS
 FATAL TO MANY
TWenty-0ne Killed in Head On Collisi0n---FOrty-Two
 In Rear End.
VICTIMS FALL UNDER WHEELS
catastrophes Were in New York and sylVania-SeVeraI Fatally
 Injured.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
 Latrobe, Pa.-Twenty-one persons were killed and 90 injured number fatally, in wreck on the Ligonier Val ley railway at Wilpen An overload ed passenger coach, pushed by an en- zine, was struck by a double-header freight train of coal cars, crushing the coach like paper and spreading death and injury to all but one aboard the train.
 This made the second big wreck in two days the other being a rear end collision on the Lackawanna railroad at Corning, N. Y.
 Westbound Lackawana passenger train No g, from New York, composed of two engines, a baggage car, three Pullmans and two day coaches in the order named was demolished at Gib- son, three miles east of Corning, by express train No. II. Forthy-two pas sengers were killed, and between 50 and 60 injured. Many of the victims were holiday eXcursionists bound to Niagara Falls.
 The atmosphere was heavy with fog, and to this Engineer Schroder, of the express. attributes the wreck. He said he failed to see signals set against his train, whipped around a curve at 65 miles an hour, and crashed into the stationary No. 9, held up by a crippled freight engine.
 The train had not been stopped long enough for a flagman to get back to protect the rear.
 The engineer lad no warning until he saw the outline of the rear coach of No through the fog. Then he threw on the reverse brakes without shut ting off steam.
 The jerk threw the train off the | track and the locomotive plunged on splintering the two day coaches filled with excursionists and tore through the last of the sleeping cars. Schroder said the impact hrew him from the cab and landed him clear of the train, practically unhurt. The 100-ton monster continued it's plunge through the middle of the train grinding everything in it's path. When finally blocked by the debris it re- mained on the roadbed in the midst of the desolation it had caused.
 Taking advantage of holiday excur- sion rates to Buffalo and Niagara Falls, many excursionists had board ed No. at all points. By the time Elmira was reached the train carried SC many passengers that a second en- zine was attached.
 In the Latrobe wreck the passenger train consisted of but one coach be- ing pushed by an engine, and, while generally speaking, the freight struck the rear of the train, the collision was head-on. The freight train was being pulled by two heavy locomotives, and the impact when they crashed into the crowed coach was terrific That any escaped death seems mira culous, as bodies of dead and injured were hurled through the air or crush ed in the debris when the locomotives split the coach almost in twain.
 The train was crowded, every seat in the lone coach being occupied with persons returning from holiday.
 The freight engines plowed through the wooden coach, crushing it as it would paper.
 All the occupants were hurled to the roadbed. Some fell under the wheels of the onrushing engines. The first engine of the freight train stopped soon fater tearing through the pas senger train, turned half round and rolled over on its side. Engineer Me- Connaughey was scalded to death. His fireman, GeoTge Byers. jumped, only to fall under1 the wheels. Engineer Smith P. Beatty of the second engine jumped and sustained a broken leg, His fireman, John Ankeny, fell beneath car His legs were severed and he died on the way to a hospital. En- gineer Dunlay of the passenger train and his firemen remained at their posts and escaped with slight injuries.