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Show Nurse Is Heroine in Railroad Disaster ; Helped Doctor In Caring for Dying and Injured. ALTOONA, PA Two motion-pic- i ture executives aboard the l'ennsyl- i vania railroad liver, tlie American, wrecked near Huntingdon, named a I registered nurse as the "heroine" of the crash. John R. McCrory and Julian Bryan, Bry-an, both of New York City, said they I were passengers on a sleeping car i ! to the rear of the coach which was telescoped. They said all lights were knocked out in the crash and that trainmen rushed through asking for medical aid. An unidentified doctor and the I nurse, Myrtes Carlo of Bronx, N. Y., hurried to aid the dying and in- j jured. Miss Carlo said that there were "no plasma, no sulfa drugs and no morphine aboard the train. "We had to work only with bandages band-ages until a doctor arrived with morphine mor-phine a half hour after the wreck. The railroad aid car came from Al-toona Al-toona an hour and a half later." Miss Carlo said she and the doctor doc-tor had to work by lantern flares. She said most of the injured sulTered shock and had had bad cuts. McCrcry said the freight train carrying car-rying sheet steel on two gondolas had stopped on a westbound track, i The steel cut loose from its moorings, moor-ings, striking the baggage car behind be-hind the American's engine as the American flashed along an adjacent westbound track, he said. "Then," McCrory continued, "the steel bounced back, slashed across two cars and cut through the fourth car like a knife." "It hit the upper part of the window win-dow of that coach," he said, "and ripped the entire side of the coach to pieces. Then the steel caromed through a washroom into another couch." |