Show DEATH ON THE RAIL SIXTY THREE LIVES BLOTTED OUT IN FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT some were roasted by fire while others were slowly scalded to death every passenger in smoker meeting death sixty three lives were lost and thirty persons injured as the result of a passenger train wreck at laurel run pa when the through passenger train from pittsburg to new york on the baltimore ohio railroad crashed into a pile 0 of lumber the killed were mostly foreigners who were in the smoking car just back ot of the baggage car they were literally roasted to death the baggage and smoker telescoping the engine and immediately catching fire many blany ot of their bodies are lying burned to a crisp in the baggage room of the baltimore ohio depot to be removed later to the different undertaking shops in the city A peculiar feature of the accident is the fact that not a woman was injured except a few slightly the wreck was caused by the breaking ot of castings on carload of bridge timbers on it 11 westbound freight train which had bad pissed passed laurel run not more than fifteen minutes before the ill fated passenger train the wreck occurred on en a curve and it was impossible for engineer thorley to see far enough ahead to detect the obstruction on the tracks A big atlantic type engine plunged into the tim timbers tillers lers at a velocity of sixty miles an hour the engine plowed into the embankment and the baggage car was thrown into the river the smoker followed the engine and landed squarely on top lop of it this allowed the escaping steam from the engine to fill the car the smoker was packed to its utmost capacity and all the passengers were cooked alive not a single passenger in this car escaped alive and it Is estimated that at least forty of the dead were in the smoker |