Omaha daily bee., 1912-07-07
TWENTY-ONE ARE
KILLED AS TRAIN
CRUSHES COACH
Double Header Freight on Ligonier
Road Crashes Into Car Loaded
with Excursionists.
IMPACT OF COLLISION TERRIFIC
Thirty Persons Are Injured, Prob.
ably Many of Them Fatally.
COACH CRUMPLED LIKE PAPER
Of All on Board, Only One Person
Escapes Without Injuries.
ENGINE PL0WS THROUGH CAR
Passengers Are Shot Out Into Space
by Force of Shock.
MANY FALL UNDER THE ENGINES
Fourth of July Excursion Ground
to Death Beneath Wheels of
POnderOus Machines.

LIGONIER, Pa, July 6.-Twenty-one
persons were killed, according to the
official list, in the accident on the Lig-
a passenger coach on the little coal road
was crushed between two locomotives
on steep grade.
With the Latrobe and Ligonier hos
pitfalls overtaxed, nearly score Of in
jured are in Pittsburgh hospitals where
they were taken in special trains last
night.
OF the missing that were thought
to have been in the wreckage, all but
two were found al ong the list Of in
jured. OF these latter, Mrs. tNettie Grey,
Of Wilpen, and Roy Grey. foster son,
were found in the wreckage this morning.
Struck by Freight Train.
An overloaded passenger coach pushed
by an engine was struck by double
header freight train Of coal cars crash
ing the coach like paper and spreading
death and injury to all but one aboard
the train.
The accident occurred at the fair
grounds, one and one-half miles from
Ligonier, a summer resort
The passenger train had started from
Ligonier. 1t consisted of an engine and
&C ach, the engine pushing the coach. The
freight train was made up of coal cars
and was being pulled by two heavy loco
motives. a.sa4a y. ~
The impact was terrific. The passenger
coach was practically laid open and the
passengers either crushed or thrown like
shot through the air. .,.
The dead: ...t..
GEORGE w. HUXLEY, Pittsburgh.
civil engineer; body crushed.
MATTHEW NIEPoNT, Pittsburgh;
crushed.
MARY HODDY, Ligonier.
FRANK E. BEATTY, engineer; head
crushed Era3
MRS. HARRY DILLON AND BABY.
Wilpen; crushed to death.
WILLIAM CAMPBELL, Wilpen. 4
FRANK M'CoNNoUGHEY. Ligonier,
engineer; scalded to death. -
GEORGE BYERS, Lgonier, fireman;
crushed and scalded.
LOUISE T. RHoDDY, aged s, McCance;
crushed.
ELIZABETH RHoDDY. aged 10. a
sister.
JOHN M. ANKNEY, Ligonier, fireman;
died on way to hospital.
MRS. M. ESsE, Wilpen.
THOMAS MUIR, I4atrobe; head crushed.
GEORGE ToSH, wilpen: body smashed.
MIKE HUDOCK, Wilpen; side crushed.
FRANK OvERTON, aged 10. Wilpen;
mutilated.
MRS. JOHN OvERTON, mother of
Frank, died on train bound for Pittsburgh.
UNIDENTIFIED BOY, aged u.
TWO UNIDENTIFIED FOREIGNERS,
badly crushed.
Thirty Are Injured.
A majority OF the injured, thirty in
all, were residents along the Wilpen
branch They were brought to hos
pital here, or sent to hospitals at Pitts
burgh, where it was found they were In a
critical condition. Among them were
DR.. j. B. Johnson of Ligonier, hurt in
ternally. will probably die e.
DIR. C. A. Hamill of Ligonier. was
crushed and may die.
Walter Serena Of McKeesport, Pa,
clerk in a bank at that place, is in a
precarious condition.
The injuries of the others were all
severe, consisting of broken legs and
arms and contussions.
The train was crowded, every seat in
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