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146 INJURED IN
PENNSy WRECK
Engine and -Four Cars Derai|ed
in Collision at Tyrone
RAN PAST THE SIGNAL
The Engineer Killed Whose Train
Crashed Into Pittsburgh Express at
Station.

Crashed Into Pittsburgh Express at
Station.
Tyrone, Pa, July 31-One hundred
and lortA six persons were injured, an
engineer killed and road foreman
badly hurt when Pennsylvania pas
senger train No. 13 crashed into west
bound train No. 15, just as it was leav-
ing the Ty: one station here.
Train No - was five minutes late
and No. Is was through train, not
stopping at Tyrone. The station is sit
uated ON a sharp curve, high hill
shutting off all view of the train at the
station from the engineer of No. 13,
gorge Funk, who was killed.
All the passengers were able to pur-
sue their journey or go to their homes,
excepting eleven, who are being cared
for in the Altoona hospital.
Westbound passenger train No. l5,
which arrived at Tyrone four minutes
late, had called in it's f1agman and had
already started to move away from
the station when No. 13, fast express
of eight cars, running on time and go
ing about thirty miles an hour, came
around the curve less than twelve car
lengths east of the station. The engine
plunged into the Pullman car on the
rear of No. Is. The impact threw the
locomotive of No 13 off the tracks and
against the railroad fence, three cars
following also being derailed.
The front mail car, in No. 10. also
went over while the seven cars be-
hind it stood the shock and remained
on the rails On the locomotive hauling
No. 13 were Engineman George X.
Funk, Fireman w. d. Barton and AS
sistant Road Foreman of Engines G.
E. Miller, all OF Harrisburg.
When the locomotive lurched over
Funk was crushed against the fence
and instantly killed. Road Foreman
Miller suffered fracture OF the skull
and the fireman escaped with lesser
injuries.
The passengers in the last two cars
on. No. Is, which received the worst
of the shock. were thrown from their
seats and more or less bruised and
cut but similar injuries were received
by others in all cars on the two trains.
Assistance and surgical aid were sent
promptly from Tyrone, the injured be-
ing cared for and all but eleven sent
on their way.
Henry WilmihisstoHna Der. NAH nhf Clerk.
injured internally; Donald Graffius,
Punxsutawney, head bruised; Rev. b.
J. Swillington, Remove, cut on head;
Rev. c. NJ. Stine, Hooversdale, Pa,
face and head cut; J. N. Herb, Harris
burg, mail clerk, head cut; F. E. Seitz,
New Cumberland, mail clerk. badly
bruised; William Wertz, Johnstown,
right arm bruised; Miss Catherine
Ritchey, Punxsutawney, left hip badly
sprained: Miss Janet Ritchey, PUNK
satawney, shook up; George Flater,
sixteen years old, Johnstown, hip
bruised; Mrs Carrie Mowery, Johns
town. forehead cut and bruised; Mrs.
Annie j. Bowman, Wilmerd1ng, Pa,
nose badly cut; Rev. J. V. Musselman,
Danville, Pa, slight cut on head;
George ]. Walker, Three Springs, Pa,
right leg cut; H. B. Vincent, Altoona,
head cut; Mrs T. B. Iddings, Fleming,
Pa, slight bruises; M. H. Smith, AL
toona. head cut; Dorothy May, Shamo-
kin, head bumped; Mrs. John Price,
Huntingdon, right leg injured; George
NJ. Dehaas, State College, right hip
hurt: Mrs. Annie Peters, Harrisburg,
cut on forehead: Ward NJ. Showers,
Pleasant Gap, Pa, right leg badly
sprained: Mrs. Ward M. Showers,
Pleasant Gap, Pa, both legs stiff; Miss
Esther Noll, Pleasant Gap. Pa, bruise
and sprains of right leg; John H. Det-
tens, North Penn, Pa, right leg badly
sprained; Mrs William Hanna, Frost
burg, Md, left leg injured; Mabel Nor
man, Liberty, Pa, leg painfully 1njur-
ed; Mrs. Roy Miles. Pitcairn, Pa, hurt
on back of head; Miss Bess Younkln,
East Stroudsburg, Pa, left leg sprain-
ad a