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Trains Collide

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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
July
Year
1889
Copyright
Public Domain
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KAIJjWAY HOL0CA1 Pittbkuk((H, Fa., June 27.- A fruijrht train which lef t Latrobe atü:oOa in. Wednesday with about forty-five men coming from Johnstown aboaid collided on the Fennsylvania raiauad britigo near Latrobe with an extra treint train. The wreckcd traína toppld over on another freight train which was side-tracked on the bridge, and thirty-one cars went over the bridge into the water flltyfeet below. It Is ahuost certain that twenty-üve or thirty people were killed and raany others were hurt. A car-load of lime in the center of the train was the last to go down, and it was scattered over the pile of shattered cara. Then the debris took lire. The work of clearing the debrij was continued all day and abandoned at 9 a. in. until to-day. Ten dead bodies have been recovered. Thosa of Engineer Caldwell and George Fralich, a fireman, have not yet been found, but it is expected that they will be reached before long. The lnjured, so far as known, number eleven. The water in the creek at the point where the accident occurred is about twelve f eet deep, and it is expected that a number of bodies will be found at the bottom of the creek under the wreckage. John H. Miller, a flagman on the freight, says that the .proper signáis were given, and Engineer Caldwell anBwered, but the speed was too high. When the 111-fated train lelt Bolívar about forty workmen boarded her, but Conductor Barnhart put them off at Derry. When the train left there a grreat inany of them boatded her again. Four of the injured taken from one car said that eleven others were in the car, and in another box car, It is said by one of the rescued, there were flfteen or twenty men. One or two of the bodies taken from the wreek were terribly burned by the lime which covered the wreek. The loss to the railroad company, it is said, will reach 100,000. Lateobe, Pa., June 28.- The loss of life at the Latrobe freight wreek will be probably larger thun was firat reported, and the death list may reach forty-flve. Engine 1,313, which was supposed to be lying atthe bottom of the Loyal Hannariver, was found resting on a box-car which was supposed to have contained ten or twelve tramps, and it is probable that a number of bodies vrill be found when the car is taken out. A WEECK IN TENNESSEE. Gallatin, Tenn., June 27.- The Cheeapeake & Nashville passenger train due here at 11 u. m jumped the track at Bledsoe Wednesday morning and the passenger and baggage coaches went down about Bixty teek Conductor E. B. Buck and Mail Clerk Henry Peacock jumped and were badly hurt. About eight persons wera seriously Injured and several children were more or less hurt. Ïh9 wrecked cars were badly slnashed and it ia feared there are a few bodies under the wreek.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register