Show ON THE 1 PENNSYLVANIA PENN SYLVAN I I IReal Real End Collision of Two Pas Passenger Passenger Passenger Trains at Eddington Near Philadelphia 4 4 4 t 4 t 4 4 1 i 6 t 4 i 4 4 Philadelphia Sept 29 General 4 4 Manager Atterbury of the Penn Pennsylvania 4 sylvan sylvania ia railroad stated this after afternoon afternoon f ff f noon that only two persons were 4 4 killed and twentynine Injured 4 4 some slightly in the rear ii col collision 4 near noar Eadington f 4 iN m W Wj WiN j lit W Q 9 11 e ra 4 Mrs Mary of Philadel Philadelphia 4 4 phia f Philadelphia Sept 29 Two persons were killed several more may die d Ie and or more were Injured in a collision of passenger trains on the New Now York division of the Penn Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania sylvania railroad at Eddington Pa nineteen miles north of this city short shortly ly after 9 today Following its customary policy of si silence silence silence I lence the Pennsylvania railroad de tie declines declines clines dines absolutely to furnish information regarding the cause of the wreck or orthe orthe orthe the number of killed or injured It is said by passengers however that the thc theLong theLong Long Branch express bound for Phil Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia adelphia had stopped to cool a hot journal While the train crew were at work ork on the journal the express frain train rain which left New York at a in m thundered around a curve and crashed into the th Long Branch train It is de declared declared dared that the express from New York disregarded signals and thus caused the accident Those killed and Injured were in a Pullman car on the rear of the Long I Branch train Pullman Cut in Two It was cut in two as with a knife and the Impact smashed the two coaches ahead of ot it Because of lack of facilities ties it was some time before the work of rescue began A train was quickly made up and most of the injured were brought to this city though some were sent to Bristol and Trenton others were cared for in neighboring farm farmhouses farmhouses farmhouses houses The dead were extracted from the mass of wreckage and arid stretched out alongside the track Two hours later a northbound passenger train was stopped at the scene of the wreck and the bodies of the dead were sent to a morgue at Bristol Pa seven miles from Eddington Passenger Calls It Murder H Heppe of Gloucester N J 3 was a passenger on the first train with his wife and two sons uIt It was simply murder what it was exclaimed Heppe I saw the whole thing We were all on the first train the one that was struck and it had been standing on the track for about minutes There was wasa a siding near but they the did not put us on that About a square behind us was the signal located near a curve I got out of or the car to light a cigar and stretch myself and I noticed that the danger signal was up but the tower is at a curve Even if the engineer of the train did see it as he doubtless did he did not have time to stop If the flagman had only walked a couple of hundred yards up the track beyond the curve everything would have been all aU right The express train then would have had time to stop be before before before fore doing any damage Brakes Applied Too Late When the second train came spin spinning spinning spinning ning around the curve I saw it com corn coming comIng cornIng ing but did not think it was on the same track as ours Then I saw that the engineer had put his brakes on hard but it was no use In a few see sec seconds the train crashed into the rear end of the one oe standing telescoping the cars The uThe confusion was something terri tern terrible terrible ble Everybody was screaming and trying to get out of the cars on both trains I rushed to the assistance of my m family and got them out safely Two dead people and seven injured ones were taken from the car we were In while we were there Later Pennsylvania railroad officials gave out a list of injured containing names All lived in the east cast and a though a few were severely I hurt hurt blY will recover H |