The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-12-05
SIX KILLED WHEN
TRAIN LEFT RAILS

.WESTCHESTER, PA. Special.
Six persons are dead and forty
one Injured as the result of the
wreck OF the Western Express on
the Pennsylvania Railroad, six
miles from here, Thursday.
That so many escaped death Is
considered remarkable, as the
tratns after jumping the tracks,
plunged down twenty-five-foot
embankment.
Tie dead were taken TO the
mOrgue.
Twenty OF the injured were
brought TO the WeStchester Hos
pital and tweuty-one were rushed
by special train TO Harrisburg,
where they were taken TO the Har-
risburg Hospital.
The known dead are:
III. L.. Baldwin, Pullman con-
\ ductor, New York.
Jones, Pullman conduc-
tor, no address,
Unidentified passenger, be-
ueved 20 be a woman.
The names or the injured I'm tho
hospital here, all OF whom are
suffering from broken bones, cuts
and bruises. are:
Mrs. II. Gregg, Trenton, N. j.;
Miss I. T.. Gregg, Trenton, N. j.;
:. Kaufman, New York; Samuel
Davis, New York; H. g. Davis,
address unknown; II. G.. Wilson,
n Persian missionary, Indiana,
Pa; l.. III. Scott, Cady, o.; John
Hickey, Altoona. Pa; III. Q. Mil
Ter, Altoona. Pa; Charles O.
beth Saiderday, New York city;
Eve Dzith (nO address,; w. 4.
Irondale, Westchester, Pa; A. l..
w alter, Somerset, Pa; =. II.
Byrnes, Pittsburg; Q. S. Mott,
Pullman porter, New York; a
Polish woman, name and adj
dress not known; Q. ID. Hadmub,
New York; Ruth Hadmub, New
York; Bertrand Bush, Harrisburg.
Pa; II. b. Quick, Pittsburg; Wi.
liam Dietrich, Cleveland; Mrs.
William Dietrich, Cleveland; Q.
9. Carpalino, Germantown, Pa:
w. j, Shipley, Washington, Pa:
NJ. H Lewis, Louisville, KY; j.
G. Leonard, Washington, Pa;
Mrs. II. @. Miller, AltoonG; Mrs.
John Hickey, Altoona; Mrs. c. f.
Wien, Germantown, Pa; Mrs. II.
q. Andrews, Altoona
Six of these injured are be.
ieved TO be fatally hurt.
The wreck occurred Rt Glen Loeb.
lonely flag station six miles from
mere. The express, which had left
night and Broad Street at PhIIa-
dclphta Mt 10s4S o'clock, was COM
posed of two engines, a postal car,
n combination baggage car and
smoker, one day coach and nine
sIeepers.
As the train was rushing along
level stretch OF track nc high
speed the first engine Jumped the
track From what cause has not
yet been learned.
The second engine. the postal car
and the combination car remained
on the track, but the first Ave sleep
ers, which were all steel, left rhe
tracks and rolled down q twenty
i've foot embankment.
All those killed were I'm the cars
Immediately word was wired to
nearby towns for relief trains and
phystckans. A train with twenty
doctors and large star of nurses
arrived from Philadelphia to assist
In caring fer the injured.
The exact point of the wreck
was Frazer Crossing. about n mile
west of Glen Loeb, where the main
line crosses low grade freight
line, known as the Trenton cut-oH.
4 broken rail now ts believed TO
have caused the wreck.
The FIRST engine jumped the rails
and rode the ties for n short dis
lance The weight OF the Eocomo-
tive tore through the bridge ties
and the heavy train behind swept
TO either side OF the second engine
and postal car, over both sides of
the trestle, and went down the EN-
bankment, and some of them fell ON
top of line OF freight cars that
were ON the lower tracks.
A snOwstOrm Ia in progress and
n heavy wind IN blowing, which
adds 10 the sunerinEs of the In
turcd.