Norwich bulletin., 1912-02-16
Cars Co Over
 Embankment
THREE KILLED, e7 INJURED ON
 PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
EQUALlzINe BAR DROPPED
Caused Deraiment of Nine Cars When Train Was Travelling 50 Miles an Hour-Lives Saved by Steel Cars.

Huntingdon, Pa, r'eb. 15.-TAree persons were killed ani 67 were in- jured today whel the Pennsylvania Limited No. ,. eastoound, jumped the track at Warriors Ridge, a short dis tance west of this place. and nine of the eleven cars rolled doWn an em- eankment to the edge Of the Juniata river.
 The Dead.
 The killed: Harry A. Mass New York aity; Mrs. John F.. TaveDner, Cordova, Ill.,; Mrs. M. B. Hall, matron on train, New York city.
 The Badly Injured
 Those most seriously injured are: Mrs. John LeiDfried bedly bruised, Bethlehem, Pa; AIr. and Mrs. F. E. Stevens, Parsons. Kas.. badly bruised; MT, and Mrs. o. II. Trisselt, Columbus, O., badly shaken up: Mrs, II. S. Bake tel, New York cut on head; J. $. JChn- son, Denver, badly bruised; Dr. Ed ward Leonard. New York. arm broken; Odie Stewart, New York. dining car cook, scalded; John Updegraff, Pitts burg, badly bruis ei; Frank Gardner, New York, dining car cook, scalded; Fred J. Hewitt, Chicago. hurt back, head, knees and legs J. s. Jones, Pull man porter, Washington, badly scala ed; George Alexander. cook. Jersey City, \. J.. scalded; George M. Lee, cook, Jersey City, head and body hurt, seriously burned; Horace Bayliss, cook, New York city, badly scalded; Fred McCauts, Jersey City. cut about face and body; Miss Clara Jurgensen, Mexico, Mo, hurt on chest and back, broken rib: F. F. Brownel, Philadel- phia, hurt about head, body and chest; Stephen II. Hutchi5oa, New York. bad ly hurt about legs and head; J, $. Wood New ! ork. dining ear conductor, head crushed. may die.
 Train Was Hour Late.
 Warriors Ridge, where the accident occurred, is in the beautiful JUniata valley, and it is along the Juniata river that the Pennsylvania railroad tracks wind. The train, consisting of 10 passenger cars and a postal coach, left Altoona, 90 miles west of the scena of the accident, more han an hour late. At the time Of the disaster the limited was going at the rate Of 50 miles an hour. As the heavy train which was drawn by two locomotives neared the Ridge the equalizing bar on the second locomotive dropped to the
 
 wheel and holds up the spring of the locomotive.
 Nine Cars Go Down Emhankment.
 The first car passed over the ob- struction,. but nine succeeding cars jumped the tracks and dropped down the embankment to the brink of the Juniata river. The observation cal remained on the -ails As the ponder zs7rl,l dashed down the bank the telegraph poles were snapped off like pipestenls With the telegraph facilities thu' crippled, the telephone of the Juniats Power company, near the wreck, was ps9ssad into service. and word wa. sent to Altoona, Tryon and this towT for all available physicians and nurses As quickly as possible the relief party released the most seriously injured ant hurried them to local hospital
 Two Killed While Dining.
 All of those killed were in the frs dining car Mr. Mass and Mrs. Tav- enner, two of the killed, were dining at the time the train was derailed. Tn, impact threw them into the forward end of the car and they were crushed to death. Mrs. Hal, the colored maid was thrown through window an, had her skull crushed.
 Forty two Passengers Injured. In all there were 67 persons injured Fifty-one were given attention in tn local hospital, while the remaining l6 who sustained minor injuries, Wer' looked after by the volunteer physi cians.~ Of the 67 injured, 42 wer, passengers and 25 were railroad en ployes in charge of the train.
 Steel Cars Saved Many Lives.
 This is said to be the first time tha a train composed of all steel cars ha been wrecked on the Pennsylvania and had it not been for these life say CTS the death toll would have been ap palling. Nothing short of a miracl could have saved wooden cars iron crumbling and going into the Juniati l river. Even the big steel cars wer badly twisted, but there were no splin ters or fire to add to the horror of tn ] WTa,1Lr