Show A contractions CONTRACT OnS OaS BLUNDER two passengers killed and three fatally injured philadelphia doc dec 21 A local northbound train on tile the reading railway left the suburb of frankford Frank tord at 6 11 44 a m NIt without hout waiting as la 13 customary for tile the down tiala which arrives at 6 41 the insult was a licad head end collision at sellers street two blocks noth of frankford Franl cord station two persons were killed find several injured three fatally the killed are ar daniel hart aged 70 of frankford george anderson adderson Au derson 16 frankfor FranK foi d the injured edward stott 20 frankford both legs crushed will probably pio bably ile die samuel els frankford both lees lega and one arm crushed will probably die george walters frankford Iran kord I oth legs and one arm crushed will die charles guard 23 8 philadelphia baggage master injured about legs and shoulder heibert B E fray 17 one leg lee crushed body badly brul bed william 16 frankford l rank loth both legs badly hult irwin udall 45 both legs an and d one arm broken the usual orders are fur the outbound train to wait lit at Frank frankford foid fo tor the tiala due at the same time lime frota from ilia alio north conductor lewis jarrett of the northbound train ordered the engineer to go eo a head ahead the train hid barely left the depot when the engineer sent the fireman bade back to ask the conductor if orders had been rec received elved to go ahead Is as lie he had bad received none As soon as the fireman to tho the conductor th the latter jumped up and pulled the rope for the train to back before the lie engineer had time to reverse the down train crashed into the northbound tie the I 1 tender of the northbound train w was as driven clear through tile the baggage co compartment pait ment of tile the combination car into the smoking compartment which was crowded with passengers and tills this Is where tile the slaughter took place |