The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-16
MAJoRcEsERAL C. AtsswoRrH
ROGER A. PRYOR
LOSES HIS HELPMAT
TRAIN IS D|TCHED,,
THREE ARE KILLED
Nine Cars Roll Down Embark
nent to Edge of Juniata
River.

Huntington. Pa. February To-
Three persons were killed and sixty
seven were injured to-day when the
Pennsylvania Limited No. 2. eastbound,
jumped the track at Warriors Ridge,
short distance west of this place.
and nine of the eleven cars rolled
down an cmbankment to the edge OF
the Juaniata River. The killed:
Harry A. Mass, New York City.
Mrs. j. S. Travenner. Cordova, Ill.
VI. B. Hall, coIorcd, mutron ON train,
New York.
OF the ffty-one persons who were
given attention at the local hospital
to-day. twenty were able to leave the
institution tonight. OF the thirty
one T,maining, three are said to be
fatally injured. They are Frank Gard
ner, cook; ]. II. Jones. a porter. and
5. j. Wood. dining car conductor.
These three men were badly scalded
and bruised. the latter having his head
crushed.
Among those who escaped injury
were congressman Mondell of Wyom-
Ing, and Sloan, of Nebras ska, and PEN
sion Commissioner Mcbride, OF Wash
ington.
Warriors Ridge, where tho accident
occurred, is in the beautiful Juniat tn
valley, and the Pennsylvania Railroad
track wind along Juniata River. The
train, consisting of ten passenger cars
and postal. left Altoona. thirty miles
west Of the scene of the ACCIDENT about
an hour late.
AT the time OF the disaster it is
s. Id. the limited was going ct the rate
OF nifty miles an hour AS the heavy
train. which was drawn by two loco
motives. neared Warriors Ridge. the
equalizing bar on the second locomo-
tive cropped to the rails. This bar Is
over the trailer wheel and holds up
the spring of the locomotive
Drops Down Embnnkmcpt.
The first car passed over the OBJ
stTuction, but nine succeeding cars
Jumped the tracks and dropped down
the embankment 10 the brink of the
Juniata. The observation car re-
manned on the rails.
In short time two specials, one
from here and another from Altoona,
were rushing toward Warriors Ridge.
! The Altoona special stopped at Tyrone
/ en- route and picked up twelve phys.-
| clans at that place. In the meantime
! the train from Huntingdon had reach
: Cd the scene, where the greatest con-
fusion was manifest. Groans of the in :
jured. who were pinned within the
steel cars, were pitiful. AS quickly as
possible the relief party released the
most seriously injured and hurried
them to local hospital. All of those
killed were in the first dining car.
This Is said to be the first time
on record that a train composed of all
steel cars has been wrecked on the
Pennsylvania, and had II not been for
> These ponderous life-savers the death
toll would have been appalling. Moth
ing short OF miracle could have saved
wooden cars from crumbling and going
F.. into the Juniata River. Even the big
! steel cars ,ere badly twisted, hut
! there were no splinters or FIRE to add
/ to the horror of the wreck. The mo
mcmtum of the train can best Ire Judge j
! when II is shown that the two engines
/ and the postal car, which broke from
| the other cars. ran nearly half a mile
| down the track before they could be
brought to stop.