New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-29
FOUR KILLED, 60 HURT
IN PENN. TRAIN WRECK
ElQht Express Coaches Plunge
Down 30-FoOt Embankment
Near Philadelphia.
SAGGING GIRDER BLAMED
DEPRESSED Track and Caused
Coupling TO Break, IS Belief
-Four OF Wounded in
Dangerous Condition.

pnIaGrluaIa. Nov. 2>-Four men We're
killed ANA nearly ualC auuured pas
.n.ec.s were injured on the Peuusyiyanio
railroad at Gleulo,n. near here, at mid
.-rf. wien eight care of the westDound
r.-.unat. express plunged from the track
and down a :hrtv-loot cmhankm"nr
Ike dead.
BALDWIN. ID -. nulluu Conductor,
3d. ..l Clarendon Eoao, FIatou-h.
COLLINS. James. Pittsburgh passenger.
lv<rEY. G B.. Pittsburgh passenger
ZONES. =. r. Pullman conductor
~r. -ouowirg New Workers were
among The injured;
BROWNING. j. H.. 80. ~ chambers
street.. fractured rius.
BENJAMIN, .. W.
DAVIS. Corwin No. ID lGIlh street. lace
rated left shoulder and right ankle hDF'
GOLDBERG. Charles, No. 52S EaS, s,h
street, arm SpTained.
1u-DNUTT Miss Ruth skull fractured.
grDNUTT Mrs. Mary, No. 425 Fort
Washington avenue, two fracture" loS.
Jones. A. r., Yonhers, New York Cen
rs' engineer, bruised.
rs,-FMAN. Solomon. No. 80 West End
=
sfAPp. carl. negro porter OF sleeper
MATT c. s, lacerated hip and injured
SIDE
sANTRILLY. Mrs. Elizabeth, face cut
and nip hurt.
wrrPERMAN. r. j.. No. l2l Brooklyn
avenue, Brooklyn.
Others injured:
ANDERSON. Il. c.. Hagerstown, Mo,
Iacerated scalp and left hand.
BUSH. Bertrand, Harrisburg, Penn, bad
Iy bruised
cAvALLONA. u. G.. Germantown, Penn,
cut about face.
CALDWELL, G. H.. Nashville, Tenn
back strained and head cut
DIETRICH William, Cleveland bruised
about body.
DIETRICH, Mrs William, injured about
the feet.
TFNENCE. stephen, Fast Brownsville. ,
Penn. conclusion Of the brain.
GRIGGs. Horace. and son, Trenton. !
seriously injured.
GRIGGs. Mrs. Carrie, Trenton, seriously
injured.
Graz. q. r, Hacerstown. Nd. scalp
hickey. Airs. John, Altoona, Penn" face
rrr and bruised.
EoKE, II. f, Harrisburg, Penn, bruised
uAsEO, Mrs. r., Cleveland, fractured
EEER n G.. and mother and sister,
WHkinshurG, Penn, bruised.
NELLY. Miss Jane, Chicago, suffering
from shock
LEONARD. j. w, Washington. Penn,
confused nose and sprained back
LEWIS NJ. H. Louisville, sprained ankle
,,,ro-.Te Cedar Panide Iowa.
Confusion n head
N,TIIER--SIrS Fl. c, Altoona. Penn,
eight side and hip Injured.
MURPHY. Harry, Philadelphia, baggage
master leg Injured
NAFFAH. L. Pittsburgh Commissions and
decorations Of face and body.
PEACOCK. r. p Pittsburgh, arm in
IuTcd
REYNOLDS. Allen r., Poughkeepslt. |
wrist spralncd.
SARODE. Elizabeth, Youngstown, ONO. F.
,rrfusiOns Of hip.
SuIPLEY. ". D.. Williamsburg, Penn, /
back SpraIncd.
SCOTT. l.. H, Cadiz, Ohio, leg fractured /
vATJ.FNE. Victor. Philadelphia, scaip !
wounds ana contusiOns OF nip.
WALKER T l.. Somerset, Penn, frsct- .
Ured arm and rib.
WILSON. the Rev s. c., Indiana Coun- /
", Penn, sprained back.
YINHN. 6. r. Pittsburgh, strained back. ,
Many OF the injured removed to hospi- |
tails in West Chester and Harrisburg /
Penn, were sufficiently recovered to-day |
20 20 TO their homes, and only four pas
seneers are now regarded as in a critical !
condition. They are Mrs. Mary Hudnutt, |
NJ New York; her daughter. Miss Ruth |
y Hudnutt, twenty-five years old, and /
Albert s Walters, ffty-three years old, |
OF Somerset Penn, who are In the West |
Chester Hospital, and Archibald Read |
Jones. Of YOnkers who was on his way |
20 Williamsburg, Penn, in the Coatesville |
Fospital Jones was the last of the in |
jured 10 be removed from beneath the /
wreck He lay for seven hours under |
mass of twisted steel.
Marshal John p. Dohoney Of Harris
burg, who Investigated the wreck on be-
half Of the State Railroad Commission, |
said tonight:
The wreck appears TO nave been caused /
by the sagglng Of a girder on the bridge
which depressed the track. This probably |
caused couplings 10 break and the cars 10
leave the tracks beyond the bridge
The train was composed Of two locom5-
lives a postal car. a combination baggage
and smoker one day coach and nine Pull
mans. mostly sleepers.
Relief trains were rushed to the scene
Of the wreck from Philadelphia and Ian
caster and the injured removed 20 West
Chester and Harrisburg. while some were
cared for in neighborng farm houses.
The dead were removed from the wreck
With difficulty. all being taken from be-
meath the game Pullman car
Snow and darkness added 10 the horror
Of the accident The cars were badly