Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-03-15 | Page 1 | 18 Killed, 40 Hurt in Penn. Ry. Wreck

HURT IN PENNI RY RY WRECK 81 BIG 8 BOULDER HITS FLYER RUSHING RUSHIN EAST i t. t Sleepers Piled Up Ii Wreckage Doctors an and Nurses Rushed to th I Scene in Special r II By Dy Associated Pr i. i A LANCASTER Pa March l 15 1 Reports received tonight state that eighteen persons were killed and about forty injured in the wreck of train No 19 9 on the tha Pennsylvania nia railroad neat Elizabethtown The train is be to have run into a landslide land land- slide alide in in- inthe the tho west cut above th the station on the westbound track By Associated Press Pres H ISBURG Pa March 15 Pennsylvania railroad d tram train No 19 the Cincinnati In and Chicago Ex Express r westbound from Philadelphia was wrecked east of Elizabethtown Elizabeth Elizabeth- town near here early today It is reported to nave have been buried under a II landslide A relief train with nurses and physicians will start from Harrisburg lIar Har- for the scene as IS soon as asit asit asit it can be made up According to reports at di division division die di- vision headquarters many perSons persons persons per per- sons were injured and probably several killed Two cars were derailed One Ou was upset and aud the other is lying across the tracks The train is said to have been running at the rate of sixt sixty r miles an hour when a boulder in the Elizabethtown cut struck it in inthe inthe the middle By Associated Pesi en I PHILADELPHIA March Reports received at the thc general offices of the Pennsylvania railroad rail I road here were that a huge lingo boulder boul boub I der rolling down do dothe the mountain mounta mountainside n side had struck train No 19 ID j wrecking three or four sleepers The Thc Masonic home in Elizabethtown Eliza- Eliza has been beon thrown open for or the care of the thc injured I whose number has lias not yet Ct been ascertained Neither is is it known whether anyone was killed Traffic on all uIl four tracks wa waa blocked locked by br the wreck t