The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-07-12
q DIE IN SMASH-UP
PASSENGER COACH SMASHED BY
DOUBLE HEADER FREIGHT
IN PENNSYLVANIA.
BUT ONE G A INJURY
Large Number of Injured Are Be-
Iieved Likely to Succumb-No
Connected Story Of Wreck
O~btainable.

Latrobe. Pennsylvania-Twenty-One
persons were killed and 80 injured, a
senger train on the Ligonier Valley
railroad was smashed from behind by
a double header freight train. Only
n passenger escaped without in
jury.
The accident occurred at the fair
grounds at Wilpen, one and a half
miles from Ligonier, a summer resort.
The passenger train had started
from Ligonier. 1t consisted Of an
ing the coach. The freight train was
made up of many coal cars and was
being pulled by two heavy locomo-
tives.
The impact was terrific. The pas
senger coach was practically laid
open and the passengers either crush
ed or thrown through the air.
1t was the first fatal accident. il is
said, in the history Of the Ligonier
road for 40 years.
All the occupants of the coach were
hurled to the roadbed. Some fell in
the path of the onrushing engines,
while others were partly imbedded in
the cinders and crushed stones beside
the rails. The first engine of the
freight train stopped soon after tear
ing through the passenger train, turn
ed half way around. and fell over on
it's side. Engineer M~cConaughey
was scalded to death, while his fire.
man, George Byers, Jumped. only 10
fall on the track and meet death un-
der the wheels.
Engineer Smith p. Beatty of the sec
ond engine, jumped and sustained a
broken leg. His fireman, John Ank-
ney, fell beneath a car. His legs were
severed and he died enroute to a hos
pital. Engineer Dunlap of the passen-
ger train and his fireman remained at
their posts and escaped with slight
injuries.
A pathetic feature Of the wreck wa
the injury of Miss Esther NJ. Matthews
the injury of four children she was
taking to the woods near Wilpen for
an afternoons outing.
Farmers near the scene Of the acct
dent and workmen employed at a race
track in the vicinity were at the
wreck within a few minutes. Mes
sengers were started at once to Lyon
Ter, while the others, assisted by En-
| gineer Dunlap and his fireman, we're
busy getting the dead and injured
clear of the wreckage. An hour and
a half after the accident physicians,
nurses and railroad officials had reach
ed the accident. From hat time on
the work of rescue and tending to
the suffering was affective.
The Pennsylvania railroad, of which
the Ligonier is a branch, sent a spe-
cial train from Pittsburg TO Latrobe
to take some Of the injured from the
overtazed hospitals here to Pittsburg.
The action was timely as the facilities
here we're exhausted.
When the first rescue train reach
ed here from the accident practical
ly the entire town met it. Every con-
veyance was ready to haul the in
jured to the hospital.
10 OBTAIN a COUUeCleu SlOTy lToTU
any of the victims was next to i'm
possible at a late hour. But one per-
son on the train escaped without in
Jury. He was a railroad employe and
was too busy to talk.
Casualties In Wreck All of Penn.
Mrs. Harry Dillon and baby Of Will
pen, crushed to death; William Cam
bell, Wilpen; Frank McConnaughey of
Ligonier, engineer, scalded to death;
George Byers, Ligonier, fireman;
crushed and scalded; Louise Rhoddy,
aged 8, McCane, crushed; Elizabeth
Rhoddy. aged l3, a sister; John NJ.
Ankeny, Ligonier, fireman, died on
way to hospital; Mrs. NJ. Ess. Wilpen;
Thomas MUIR, Latrobe, head crushed:
George Tosh, Wilpen, body smashed;
Mike Hudock, Wilpen, side crushed;
Frank Overton, aged 10, Wilpen, mu-
tilated; Mrs. John Overton, mother of
Frank, died on train bound for Pitts
burg; George w. HUXLEY, Pittsburg,
body crushed: Matthew Niepont. Pitts
burg, crushed; Mary Hoddy, Lyon
Ter; Frank E. Beatty, engineer, head
crushed.