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Show TWO WERE KILLED A FATAL WRECK ON THE PENNSYL VANIA ROAD THIS MORNINC. The Second Saetioa of a Passenger Train Crashes Into an Kast Bound Express With Dire Results The Wreck Then Takes Fire. Pittsbubo, Nov. 14. The second section sec-tion of the western express on the Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania railroad collided with an east bound express train at New Florence, Pa., this morning. The wreck took tire and one Pullman was burned. Two persons were killed and eleven injured. The killed are: Henry D. Minst, Boston. Mks. S. H. Angku,, Washington. . The accident between the two sections sec-tions of the western . express which left New York last evening was caused by a fog, which preventedthe engineer of the second section from seeing the first section in time to stop. The first section was made up pf Pullman sleepers and day coaches and the second section wns composed of baggage, express and mail cars. The first section was behind time, and the second crushed into the sleeper Biscay, telescoping it ten to twelve feet. The sleeper caught fire and was nearly destroyed. The Achetes, the next sleeper, was thgowu from the track. The scene following the collision was exciting in the extreme. The passengers pas-sengers became panic stricken, and in their efforts to get out broke the windows win-dows and crawled through. As quickly as possible the passengers in the unfortunate Biscay were removed, re-moved, when it was found that two were killed outright and eleven more or less seriounly injured. At least four of the injured it is thought will die. They were conveyed to houses in the vicinity of the .wreck. The uninjured arrived in this city shortly before nocu. Later news reports seven more injured, in-jured, making the total number of injured in-jured eighteen. A Baltimore aod Ohio Wreck. Bellaibe. Ohio, Nov. 14. A collision colli-sion occurred on the Baltimore & Ohio road near Scott's station at 4 o'clock this morning between freight traics, killing John Watson, engineer, and James Fleisher, fireman. James Barrett Bar-rett fireman, acd Thomas Burke, an- other employe, cannot recover. Both e ngines and cars were completely wrecked. The accident was caused by disregarding orders. The Third Wreck of the Dar. Washington, Not .4. Rumors have reached here of a disasterons railroad wreck on the Norfolk & Western railroad rail-road near Petersburg, Ya. It is stated that two were killed and a number injured. in-jured. A Bail road President K Iliad. Boston, Nov. 14. H, D. Minot, who was killed in an accident near New Florence, Pa., was born in Boston, but lived at St. Paul the past eight years. He was president of tbe Eastern railroad rail-road of Minnesota, and a director) of the Maaitasa. . ' |