Twenty Sleeping Passengers Killed in Mount Union Wreck
A fog shrouded crash at Mount Union station in Pennsylvania left at least twenty dead as an eastbound Mercantile Express was rammed from behind by a fast freight. Six freight cars plunged down a 40 foot embankment. Names include Chester Minds and family members from Ramey Pennsylvania and New York relatives.
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Associated Press
Altoona
Mercantile
Pennsylvania Railroad
Little Mountain
Mount Union
Here
Blair Memorial Hospital
Huntingdon
Mount Union Powder Plant
Mercantile Express
Desperate Train Rescue Story From Mt Union Wreck
Flagman S K Jacobs tells of a desperate effort to save the passenger train after signals misfired fog and air brake trouble near Mt Union. He describes signaling the freight to stop and racing along the rear platform with lanterns as the collision loomed, with investigation beginning at the Pennsy office in Mount Union and continuing at Altoona.
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Mt. Union Station
Flagman
Pennsy
Mt. Union
Jacob Whiteman
Middle Division
Pasenger
Altoona
S. K. Jacobs
Whiteman
Charles L
Wreck Witness Reports Sudden Collision At Mt Union
Edward Blecker railway mail clerk recalls the Mt Union wreck this morning noting the crash happened so suddenly the crew and passengers did not realize it at first. He describes mail scatters and the Bellwood sleeper cut in half with cars driven through others and reports no distress sounds heard. He adds it was hoped all on the rear sleeper were killed instantly and later returns to report casualties. Nearby dispatches note 65 wounded Russians died in a Holmsleden derailment in Northern Sweden.
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Bellwood
Edward Blecker
South Nineteenth Street
Harrisburg
Ben
Anyon
Associated Press
London
Germany
Holmsleden
Sweden
Copenhagen
Exchange Telegraph Company
Family of Famous Football Star Perishes in Mt Union Train Wreck
A Mount Union train crash early today wipes out Chester Minds and his family from Tyrone, along with several relatives en route to Utica New York for Mrs Minds father funeral. The Minds family includes Mrs Chester Minds and multiple children and siblings aged 4 to 35, all killed.
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Chester A. Minds
Ramey
Doris Minds
Chester A. Minds, Jr
Miss Maud Minds
Conifer
N. Y
Mr. Minds
M. A. Caslisch
A. Segar Delling
Cleveland
Minds
Richard Owens
Dorothy Owens
Jean Owens
Charles Livine
Nassau Street
New York
P. B. Polland
Lispenard Street
Milton Hymes
West 158Th Street
N. Bright
J. S. Kelley
Brooklyn
Denver
Colo
Mt. Union
Mount Union
Tyrone
University of Pennsylvania
Madera
Rainey
Utica
High School Students Narrow Escape in Fog Driven Wreck
Mt. Union Feb 27 Albert T Cook engineer on freight train blamed fog for failing to see signal to stop. He jumped from cab as engine and box car toppled down a thirty foot embankment. Passengers in hunts for survivors as debris cleared and bodies recovered from crushed sleeping car.
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Mt. Union
Albert T. Cook
Woodbine Street
Harrisburg
Mercantile Express
Cook
Gras
Huntingdon
Death of American Women Aboard Laconia Confirmed
Two American women aboard the Cunard liner Laconia died from exposure after the torpedo attack off the English coast. Of 294 aboard, 13 were lost. four Americans survived. The ship was torpedoed without warning on February 25 near Fastnet. official action from President Wilson awaited a full investigation.
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Associated Press
New York
Liverpool
Washington
Wilson
State Department
Laconia
Mary E. Hoy
Elizabeth Hoy
Chicago
F. B. Gibson
Chicago Tribune
F. E. Harris
Colonel Harris
U.S. A
Fort du Pont
Arthur F. Kirby
Upper
New York State
Father Wareing
St. Joseph’s Seminary
Baltimore
Fastnet
Washington wary as Laconia death spurs war powers debate
Washington reports ten American deaths in the Laconia torpedoing without warning as Congress eyes limits on presidential authority. House and Senate committees debate the broad grant to act against the submarine peril while Republican opposition grows and key Democrats hint at shifts.
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Washington
Congress
Wilson
White House
House Foreign Affairs Committee
United States
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Stone, Hitchcock
O’gorman
Weather report for Harrisburg region and rivers
Fair to night and Wednesday with colder nights and a low near 28. Eastern Pennsylvania expects fair to night and Wednesday, colder tonight and in the southeast with northwest winds. Susquehanna tributaries rise due to snow melt with Corning ice moving at 5 a.m. today on a 50 feet stage. Harrisburg forecast shows 5.1 feet Wednesday morning. Temperatures: 8 a.m. 44, yesterday high 57, low 35, mean 46. Moon first quarter February 28. River stage 7.8 feet above low water mark yesterday.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Chemuung
Corning
N. Y
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