South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-27
Train Speeding Between so
and go Miles An Hour
DemOliSheS Sleeper at
Mount Union, Pa.
ENGINEER DECLARES HE
WAS GIVEN CLEAR PATH
Claims White Signal Was
acknowledgement Sent to
Stop Freight Jumps to
Save His Life.
international News Service.

International News Service:
MOUNT UNION. Pa. Feb. e.
Eleven passengers and Pullman
porter were killed when a fast
freight crashed into the rear OF the
mercantile express train No. of
tho Pennsylvania railroad. east
bound. at the station here early this
morning. The sleeping car Belle
wood. on the rear Of the express
was telescoped and everyone in it
with the exception OF a woman and
81 boy. was killed The dead:
chester \ Minds. former Univer-
sity OF Pennsylvania athlete. and a
wealthy coal operator az Ramey. Pa.
Mrs Chester A Minds and the
12-year-old son. Of the Minds
Miss Maude Minds. sister OF Ches-
yer a. Minds.
NJ 4. Cadisch Utica, y Y,
Irother-in-law of Minds.
Miss A. Derin. Cleveland. O.
Three unidentified children
All these we're travelling together
from Tyrone Pa. 10 Utica, y. Y.
To- attend the funeral OF Mrs. Minds
father.
ON Way TO Orphanage.
The three unidentified children
were being taken 10 an orphanage.
Milton Hymes. New York.
p. r Tanning. salesman, Platte
vile Wis.
+. W. Montgomery, salesman,
Bloomington. I'll.
Charles Levine. salesman. believed
60 live i'm New York.
Phillip b. POLAND. salesman. New
York.
y Fright. Negro Pullman porter.
Three others have not been iden-
titled
Express Was Late.
The express. due here az 11:At
a.. M. arrived 10 minutes late with
brake trouble II was held here
while the trouble was remedied and
the signal 10 start had been given
when the preference" freight
speeding between so and so miles
nm hour. crashed into the rear
sleeper. Caught i'm their berths. the
passengers had not the slightest
chance for their lives.
Although il was first reported
that the Bellewood was OF the old
vooden type il was later announced
les Pennsylvania railroad officials
that il was an all-steel car as were
an OF the eight cars making up the
train.
Cook. the freight engineer. who
had ONLY recently been promoted to
the throttle il IS said. declares that
the block signal NJ the MI" tower.
q mile and a half from Mount
Union. showed white. indicating a
clear track. His fireman and brake
man. who were in the cab when
the tower was passed. declare they
told him IL was green, which would
warn that another train was i'm the
block. IT. r. Jacobs, Harrisburg
rarman on the express. who had
Seen sent TO guard the rear. says
che freight came rushing on de-
spitc his frantic signals and he had
% hurl himself down an embank-
rnent 20 escape death.
Warning too Late.
one hundred and fifty yards from
The station. the overhead bridge sig
ra1 doomed IN in front OF the
freight. II showed red. But the
warning was too late. Cook applied
his air brakes A moment later.
with the engineer and crew standing
steadfastly az their posts, the freight
crashed into the express.
How the engineer and his COM
panions in the cab escaped death
j. a miracle.
The first few cars or the freight
Iuckled up and wer, over the en-
lankment The sleeper Belewood
vas the rear car OF the express. All
that remains OF IL is kindling wood
And twisted metal The Brycevlle.
the sleeper in front Of IL. held up
under the crash. and So far as is
known no one was injured in this
rar.
Rescue trains were dispatched o.
The scene from Huntingdon and Al
toons, bearing surgeons and nurses.
but there vas little for them 90 do.