Milford chronicle., 1915-10-01
TRAIN KILLS
N!KE IN TUNNEL
Eight Others Are Injured, Sew.
GraI Fatally.
PASSENGERS N A PANIC
Reading Railway Express Dashes
Among Workmen in Black Rock
Cut, Near PhoenlxvilIe.

| FN"'S'9 WOINUHSH ~ DiaCk nOCl
Gut Near PhoenixvilIe.
Nine men were killed and eigh
others seriously hurt when an expires!
train over the Philadelphia and Read
ing railway ploughed through a ganl
of workmen in a tunnel near Phoenix
vile, Pa.
The men, nearly all of whom were
Italians, were engaged on the work oi
widening tie tunnel and they were
standing beside their work train
which was on the northbound track
There are but two tracks in the tun
mel and the men had no chance Of
escape when the express dashed into
III tunnel among them.
The dead are as follows:
James Tilley, foreman of track
crew; Antonio Dadario, Giovanni
Granato, Raffaelo Giannine, Domenico
Druno, Crecol PADDLE, Alfonso Sarivis,
Alphonso Lgziano, John Guiaziamono.
The injured, all of whom are in st.
Timothy's hospital, PhoenixviNe, are:
Wallace Zimmerman, foreman, Ia.
maqua, Pa, internal injuries, broken
leg and nose, cuts of the face and
head.
Guiseppi ,Piccirilli, internal injuries,
cuts and bruises of the head and body
Balparin Piccirilli, internal in.
juries; col lition serious.
Joseph Simoni, internal injuries,
serious.
Antonio Ii Fiori, internal injuries,
cuts and bruises; condition serious.
Carlo Rossi, internal injuries.
Chicihio Nunzio, internal injuries.
Nicholas Bruno, broken legs, inter.
nal injuries; condition serious.
Passengers on the express were
panic-stricken when the brakes wee
applied a ter the locomotive hal
struck the workmen.
The shorts of the injured and those
who escaped were heard by the pas.
sengers, " 10 bolted for the doors in |
an attempt to escape from the tunnel
Trainmen quieted those abroad by
leading them to the last car, from
which the end of the tunnel and dav.
light could be seen. Hurry calls were
sent to Phoenixville and Norristown
and physicians living near were sum
moned to the scene.
Wallace Zimmerman, the injured
foreman of the gang of drillers, man.
aged to tell of the accident, although
ne is in a serious condition in the
Phoenixville hospital. He said:
81 was work with my gang OF
lrillers in the tunnel. We were en-.
arging the roof. There are two tracks
n the tunrel, and we were 300 feet
n the tunnel from the south entrance.
We received the signal that the work
rain, which was on the other track
vas going to back out of the tunnel
nd the workmen and myself stepped ]
N the other track, which we believed
vas clear. Then Suddenly we saw t
light loom up in front of us and heard
he rumble of the oncoming express, i
'efore we could move, the passenger
rain dashed among us.
"The next thing remember I was b
wing in the middle CT .he track on :
'hich was the work train. I could
OF move, and l knew l was badly
urt. l could see the dead and dying -
len lying scattered around me. It N
as a horr.Ole sight. Soon l heard the .
louts of the rescuers and saw them
licking up the men who were lying y
bout and carrying them out of the =
lnnel t. ed to shout, but could not :,
AXE a sound. tainted, and the next W
ling l knew I was here in the hos.
tai. How horrible it wasl" es
Further inside the tunnel Tilley was W
work with twenty men. After the
ain ploughed through Zimmerman's B
ing it tore through the men under y
Hey, who had been engaged in pick.
g up rocks and loading them in the 8
Ork train. *