Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-02-16
PENNSYLVANIA
FLYER WRECKED
Fast Train from Chicago to New
York is Derailed at Warriors
Ridge, Pa.
FOUR DEAD, MANY INJURED
Train Was Behind Time and Was
Running Rapidly.
NINE STEEL CARS ARE UPSET
Two Locomotives and Postal Car
Stay on Rails.
CONGRESSMAN SLOAN ABOARD
Nebraskan, Who Was Returning TO
washington, Is Uninjured-Con-
gresham Mondeli of wyo-
ming Il Also Unhurt.
FOUR DEAD, MANY INJURED
NINE STEEL CARS ARE UPSET
CONGRESSMAN SLOAN AB0ARI

ALTOONA, Pa, Feb. 15.-Four passen-
gers were killed and twenty-five Others
injured today when the Pennsylvania
limited express. which left Chicago at
$50 D. m. yesterday and which was due
in New York at $50 p. m. today, was
wrecked at Warriors Ridge. Pa.
The train left Altoona one hour and
seven minutes late. II carried a postal
car and ten steel passenger cars drawn
by two locomotives.
while passing Warriors Ridge station
the two locomotives and the postal car
broke away from the rest Of tho train
and ran ahead quarter of mile. The
remainder of the train upset or fell. all
the cars falling on their sides except
the combination car, next to the postal
which WAS only partly overturned.
The derailmenf OF the cars broke the
telegraph wires and communication with
warriors Ridge is greatly hampered. The
Huntingdon hospital this afternoon sent
a request TO Altoona and Harrisburg for
twelve or more nurses TO attend the In
ju-ed.
Congressman Sloan on Train.
A partial Hist OF passengers who es-
capped injury Includes congressmen Mon
deli OF wyoming and Sloan of Nebraska
Pension Commissioner Mcbride OF Wash
inkton and S. Kern. Mcpherson, Kan.
A railroad man here said the wreck
was caused by one Of locomotives drop
ping its equaliElng bar on the tracks.
The first car passed over 1t safely but
the second car struck 1t. causing this
car and all the others. to jump me track
and turn over. The cars slid down the
river bank. but did not go into the
water.
Partial List Of Victims.
The dead In the morgue at Huntington
are:
HARRY A. MASS, New York.
MRS. JOHN e. TAyENNER. Wash
coLoRED MAID. name not known.
One body Is supposed to be under the
wreck.
sns<hsr ear when the wreck occurred
and after the crash found his .saother.
Mrs. John N. Tayenner. dead in the
wreokaxe- They had been visiting at
CordovA Ill.
Among the injured are Mr.. and Mrs.
Il. b. Stevens. Parsons, Kansas. badly
bruised.
]. s, johnson, IA West Eleventh
avenue, Denver. Colo. badly shaken up
and bruised.
W. F. Balm. Polo, ILL.,. shaken and
back hurt.
Congressmen Continue Trip.
HARRISBURG. Pa. Feb. ia train
bearing some Of the passengers who
escaped unhurt or with minor injuries
passed through here late this afternoon.
Among them were Congressman Mondell
Of Wyoming and Congressman Sloan OF
Nebraska They were in the rear car
and were thrown from their seats, but
were not injured. They proceeded to
Washington.
Mrs. Gertrude F1elscher Of Arizona and
Nathan Epstein Of Fort Worth, Tex,
en- route to New York. said their car
turned over three times. They crawled
through a window to safety.
C. c.. Hamlin Of Colorado Springs. a
nephew of Senator Clark of Wyoming.
was slightly injured, but continued on his
way. He was hurled over several seats.
CONGRESSMAN Mondell told a thrilling
story Of the accident
II was sitting in the observation car
with Congressman Sloan when there
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