The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-16
THREE KILLED IN
 WRECK OF LIMITED Pennsylvania Train Leaps
 From Rails
SIXTY SEVEN INJURED
Heavy Train Rushing Eastward When Equalizing Bar on Locomotive Dropped-Steel Cars Save
 the Lives of Many

Huntingdon, Pa, February 15.-Three when the Pennsylvania limited No. ?. east bound jumped the track at Warriors Ridge. a short distance west of this place, and nine of the II cars rolled down an embankment to the edge of the Juanita river The dead are:
 Harry A. Mass, New York.
 Mrs ]. F. Tavenner. Washington, D. c. Negro maid named Hall, New York
 One body is supposed to be under the wreckage.
 Among those injured are:
 Nathan Epstein of Fort Worth, Tex, en route to New York. The car in which he was riding turned over three times and he crawled through window to safety, bruised.
 F. II. Wood of St. Louis, general attor- ney of the Frisco lines; sprained wrist. G. Halle, St. Louis, traffic manager Mis- sonri. Kansas and Texas railroad, slight ly bruised.
 George A. Gates of Nashville president Fisk university, slightly bruised.
 Running Late The train consisting of ten passenger cars and postal coach left Altoona more than an hour late. At the time of the disaster. 1t is said the limited was going at the rate of 30 miles an hour.
 As the heavy train, which was drawn by two locomotives. neared Warrior s Ridge the equalizng bar on the second lo- comotive dropped to the rails. This bar Is over the trailer wheel and holds up the spring of the locomotive.
 The first ear passed over the obstruc- ton but nine succeeding cars jumped the tracks and dropped down the embankment to the brink of the river.
 As the ponderous steel cars with their human freight dashed down the bank the telegraph poles were snapped off like pipe stems News of the wreck was sent out by telephone and in a short time two spe- cial trstins. one from here and another from Altoona. were rushing to Warriors 8 Ridge. As quickly as possible the relief party released the most seriously in- jured and hurried them 10 a local hos pltai.
 Thrown Through Window
 All of those killed wero in the nrst N. J. E. Tavenner, two of the killed, were dining at the time the train was derailed The awful impact threw them into the forward end of the diner and they were crushed to death. The negro maid was thrown through d window and had her skull crushed.
 This is said 10 be the first time on rec ord that a train composed of all steel cars has been wrecked on the pennsvl- Yania, and had 1t not been for these pom derous lfesavers the death toll doubt less would have been appalling Nothing short Of a miracle could have saved frail wooden ears from crumbllng and going into the Juanita river. Even the big steel cars were badly twisted, but there was no fire to add to the horror of the wrao k
 Conductor II. R. Patterson of Harris burg, who was in charge of the wrecked train, said there were 102 persons on the train. Patterson was in car that turned over on it's side, going down the embank- ment
 ''fhe greatest damage was done on the diner and one of the sleepers" he said The trucks came through the floor and while the steel shells did not buckle or crumble, nothing could stand the force of that awful stopping without giving somewhere"
 Train Speeding Along
 The momentum of the train can best be judged when II Is shown that the two engines and the postal car, which broke from the other cars ran nearly half mile down the track before they could be brought to a stop.
 It is said that some Of the cars in their