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THIRTEEN KILLED (N WRECKItamrtlM atd MHk TntiM rmh Ttftlliii Nmt nilte4*lpbto|Philadelphia, Sept 4.—Thirteen per-eon* killed and over thirty others Injured. In the appalling record of n rear-end collision between an, excursion train and a milk' train on the Bethlehem branch of the Philadelphia and .Reading railway, at Hatfield, Pa., twenty-eeren miles north of this city. (The killed are: Miss Annie Sherry, aged Si yean, South Bethlehem; Robert Miller, SI, South Bethlehem: Richard Bachmah, 40, South Bethlehem] .William Cbret, IS, South Bethlehem; Ira Ehret, SO, brother of William, South Bethlehem; Joeeph Mordaunt.l SS, South Bethlehem; Charlee McOon-l lgle, Allentown; Thomas Bap* til—town; Miss Mamie ICaelln, 14, Teford; Godfrey Kaolin, father of Mamie; William Blackburn, Ambler; Harold Lan. die, Hatfield; —— Ackernmhn. PhiladelphiaThe wrecked train consisted of ten day coaches, and wan the first section of a large excursion made up'of people from Bethlehem, Allentown and surrounding towns to Atlantic City. This section carried only those persons who lived In Bethlehem and Allentown. shd left the Union depot 4n Bethlehem exactly thirty-five minutes behind the milk train. The tatter tralnlt; consisted of two milk cars and two passenger coaches, and had stopped at every station on the road Bethlehem en route to Phlladelphlf The milk train drew up atths^llk platform at Hatfield, and Atfless than two {minute* the specUS excursion train, running at the rate pf thirty-five miles an hour, crashed Into the rear pf the milk train.. The locomotive plowed through the two ger coaches and crushed the; they Were egg shells. The mi jdiately in front was alsoortunately there were persons on this train. 'The excursion train was a picture of Indescribable horror. The locomotive was a mass of bent and broken iron, and firmly held the bodies of its engineer and fireman beneath its great welgpt. ‘Behind the engine; six of the were also, a sums of wreek-The first car was broke in twain; other five can were thrown •ides, completely demolished. As boon as the crash came* terrible cry rbse from the smashed cars, and those who had! not been injured quickly crawled or jumped;from the ears and went to the assistance of the Injured. Many were planed down by wreckage and had to be freed by the liberal use of axes. With three or four exception the dead were* killed lndtantiy, the other* dying on their way to the hospitals. •ww * lffimedsd. f*
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Saint Regis Falls Adirondack News
Saint Regis Falls, New York, US
Sat, Sep 08, 1900
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