Evening star., 1945-06-16
Mrs. Martha Prentice,
DC. Resident, Among
Dead in PennsyWreck
BY the Associated Press,

tinued their work to identify of
10 persons killed yesterday in a
collision here between the Do
minion Express from Washington to
Buffalo and freight train.
A Washington woman, Mrs. Martha
A. Prentice, of SIG A street NE, a
War Department employe, was
among the dead. Three Washington
women also were among 20 who were
injured.
Among the three women and one
serviceman still unidentified are a
woman with a wedding ring en-
graved FEC to ARF. 10-20-41" and
a soldier whose clothing bore only
a laundry mark, railroad spokes-
man said.
In Buffalo, it was learned, a SOL
dier, homeward bound after AZ
years In German prison camp.
was among those killed.
Mother Waited at Terminal.
He was Pfc. Herbert E. Swan, son
Of Mrs. Emma Swan, who spent
several hours waiting at the ter
minal for her boy.
Railroad officials said the Penn
sylvanias Williamsport Office re-
ported Pvt. Swan was trapped in
the car in which most of the vic
TINS lost their lives, and that his
body was identified in a Milton
undertaking parlor.
Pvt. Swans entire family went to
the railroad station to meet the train
after he had telephoned his mother
he was coming on the Washington
Buffalo Express Learning of the
wreck, they went home and returned
later to meet the relief train at
pm. Again they went home dis
appointed, and there were informed
of the soldiers death.
Rail Crews Clearing Wreckaxe.
Railroad crews are working 10
clear away the wreckage of the ex-
press and the freight train.
Traff1c was detoured yesterday
over a 40-mile stretch, but P. w.
Neff, general superintendent of the
railroad at Williamsport, said a
single line was ready for use early
today. Crews are rushing repair OF
a second track so normal traffic can
be restored, Mr. Neff said
The identified dead in the crash
are:
Mrs. Prentice, Pvt. William T. Chris
toff, Ridgeway, Pa: Mrs. Frances
rbac1ank Shop,n nHiy Do NJ z croaR
fireman, Harrisburg, Pa; r. C. STRAIT
ton, engineer, Camp Hill, Pa: A. R.
Hoverter, brakeman, Harrisburg,
Pa; Mrs. Catherine Ennes. London,
Ontario; Dorothy Reynolds. mem
ber of the Women's Army Corps mo
address; Pfc. Swan; Eldred P. Bo-
land, North Tonowanda. N. Y; Ed
ward J. Seibert, Buffalo, N. Y; Will
liam A. Lawrence. North Tonowan-
da, N. Y: Mrs. w. D. Butler, Ture-
mansburg, N. Y; Mrs. H. E. Saylor,
Montezuma, N. Y. and Sergt.
Charles j. Finley, Camp Shanks,
N. Y.
The injured:
Sunbury Community Hospital
Mrs. Miriam MacMurray, 38, VIII
Transport. Pa; Mrs. Ralph Marshall,
Williamsport: Pvt. Edward Craig,
Niagara Falls, N. Y; Sergt. Dwight
zassenbraker, IS, Trent, Mich; Miss
Miriam Hoen, 20, Buffalo, N. Y;
Mrs. Mildred Double, a, 1913 Seven
teenth street Sc, Washington; Mrs
Blanche Kelley, Toronto, Canada; ;
Doris Larkin, 20, Buffalo, N. Y, dis
charged; Jean Rock, Is, Baltimore,
discharged; Conductor George L.
Sneeder, passenger train, 56, Har-
risburg, Pa.
Geissinger Memorial Hospital.
Danville, Pa.-John Rohr, 80,
Cheektowaga, N. Y; Corpl. Hilga
Price, 40, Portland, Greg; Donald
80, Elmira, N. Y; Mrs.
Margaret Sicuranda, 81, Renova,
Pa; Miss Adele Leonard, 81, Sha-
mokin. Pa; John Krohn, baggage
on passenger train, 70, Pen
brook, Pa; Olex Ennes, So, London,
Ontario; Carl Gamble, brakeman
on passenger train, Sunbury, Pa;
Corpl. Richard Meyers, Hamburg,
N. Y, discharged.
Evangelical Hospital, Lewisburg,
Pa.-Genevieve Cohen, 49, and David
IS, both of Philadelphia;
Joseph Donegan, So, express mes
senger, Sunbury. Pa; Mrs. Clara A.
Troutman, 81. 1875 @ street NV,
Washington; Fred Bonnat, 20, Ham,
burg, N. Y; Mrs. Anna Wright, 40,
"a Buchanan street NE, Washing
ton: Frank Mercklency, Buffalo,
N. Y, discharged; William S. Ron
ney, Carlisle. Pa, discharged; E. L.
Burr, Mechanicsburg, Pa, dis
charged, and o. D. Dennis, Mechan-
icsburg, Pa, discharged.
Mrs. Prentice was a stock clerk
in a cafeteria in the War Depart
ment, friends said today. She lived
in Washington for a number of
years up to 10 years ago, then re-
turned here four years later She
was en- route to visit a son in Buff
falo when she was killed.