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27 Died In Train Wreck OnlE3Foggy Morning At AmherstFive nameless graves occupy Amherst’* Crown Hill cemetery, reminders of a foggy morning in 1016 when three passenger traiaj piled up one mile west of the town taking 27 lives and injuring more than 50 persons.It was March 29, 1916, just be* fori dawn, while a heavy fog had iettled in the area. Tower-man at the tracks, Albert Emit, threw the signal block giving the first section of t h e Chicago • Buffalo train, heading ea»t, the “clear .road aheadsign.'*Changed SignalFor some unknown reason the train ground to a halt. There was no reason for Ernst, sitting in the tower, to worry, he changed the signal for the second section of the train to red and settled back. Being a quarter of i mile from the first section he could not communicate with it.A few minute* later the second section poked its nose through the fog, traveling 50 miles an hour on the same track. The engineer failed to see a brakemsn who had gone downthe track to signal him to stop.The hurtling mass of iron that was the second section rammed into the rear of the first section.Sideswiped WreckThe sound of the crash bad notdied out before the famous 20thciHlt;was iAMHERST TRAIN WRECK KILLED 27, 50 INJUREDtracks, still holding many of the I dead and injured. jAs quick as the dead could be recovered and the injured rescued they were plaeed aboard; a special train and moved toCity’s National GuardReady For Small WarElyria Memorial hospital. j Lorain's National Guard com-jto Camp Perry, Ohio for week Five of the bodies were never;pany }_ reaHy for a small war.lend range firing.[Rome
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Lorain Journal
Lorain, Ohio, US
Tue, Jun 21, 1955
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