Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-15
HUGE B0ULDERS HIT
% HURT
Pennsylvania Flyer Wrecked,
But Steel Cars Prevent
Greater Loss of Life.
BY the Associated Press.

HARRISBURG, Pa, March ID Two
persons were killed and twentyeight in
jured, only few seriously, early to-
day, when landslide in the Elizabeth
town cut, about nineteen miles east of
Harrisburg, struck the Cincinnati, In
dianapolis and Chicago express on the
Pennsylvania railroad. Miss Rena Pain
er of Morgantown, W. Va, was crushed
to death in a sleeping car, in which Miss
Vera Ravenscroft of Pittsburgh was
fatally injured, dying on the relief train
which was sent from Harrisburg. Con-
ductor E. E. Edwards of this city was
probably fatally hurt.
1t IS estimated that three hundred
tons of earth and rock fell into the cut,
striking two Pullman cars in the mid
die of the train. One huge boulder,
weighing about twenty tons. struck
the end of one car, lifting it up. and the
mass slid under the train, carrying the
two sleeping cars. containing over fifty
persons. over the tracks.
Charles Palmer, father of Miss Palm
of his daughters death while being
cared for in a hospital here. Other rel
atlVes were on the train. Most of the
injured persons were given attention
here. A squad of soldiers on the unin-
Jured part of the train gave first aid.
Taken to Hospital.
The relief train brought thirteen of
the injured to the Harrisburg Hospital.
They are:
Albert Sheff1ing. 13s Highland street,
Jersey City. N. J.. cut on face and head.
William Fitzpatrick, Morningside Drive,
N. Y, professor at Columbia Univer-
sity, cut on leg and body.
Charles DeForest. 105 East 22d street,
New York. cut about head and face
1Sadore Risenberger, Z West Goth
street, New York, lacerated scalp and
face.
Archibald Stooran. Montreal, Canada,
cut about face.
Alice Manning, III West 1920 street,
New York. cut on left arm and body.
Walter Croft. 224 Camp avenue. Brad
dock, Pa, cut on head.
H. H. SteinmetZ, Dover, n. j., frac-
tured clavicle and abrasio
Lewis Herchberger, Ford City, Pa,
slight cuts.
Hugh Stoles, Turtle Creek, Pa. slight
cuts.
Israel Lebenberger. Youngstown,
Ohio, slight cuts about face.
Thomas Shone, sol West 10th street
New York, cuts on both arms.
Charles Palmer, ATS High street, Nor
gantown, w. Va. cuts on both legs.
f. w. Forst, Duncansville, Pa: Leon
Cohen, 2115 Locust street, St Louis, and
George X Wright, East Liberty, Pitts
burgh, were cut about the head and
given attention by soldiers and rail-
road men.
Seven Others Hurt.
The railroad company announced that
in addition to those already given the
following had been injured:
E. H; Rowleyi, Pittsburgh. hand in
jured; F. r. Forker: OIL City. hand and
foot hurt; H. NJ. Wilson, Pittsburgh.
bruised
All three have left the hospital.
In addition A. Kaplon. New York: A
Richardson, New York. and j. r. Kemp.
New York. Pullman porters, and Mrs
Mary Pikulsky. Harmonic, Pa, are in
the hospital with minor injuries.
The wrecked care were damned
against the side of the cut. making the
work of taking out the dead and in
jured very difficult The first two cars
and the last three remained on the
rails, but the sleeping car next to those
wrecked jumped the track and its pas
sengers were badly shaken up.
Steel Cars Save Lives.
Railroad officials say the steel cars
prevented a heavy loss of life 1t is es-
timated that one of the rocks weighs
twenty tons and will have to be dyna-
mited to remove it from the roadbed.
The two sleeping coaches were thrown
across four tracks and if they had been
of the old wooden type would have
been broken to pieces.
None of the passengers was able to
tell any story of the accident except
that there was a terrific crash and the
two sleepers toppled over. Sergt. Ralph
knoe, 45th Infantry, who was with the
soldiers, said the shock threw men in
the first cars out of their seats. The
work of the soldiers was highly praised
by the passengers.
Residents at Elizabethtown threw
open their homes to the injured and the
Masonic Home sent automobiles and of
fered aid.
Passengers who escaped injury were
sent west on trains made up here