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Show FATAL COLLISIOH ON PEHHSYLVAHIA LINE Excursion Train and Regular Passenger ( rash Together. Two Dead, Thirtj Hurt. NEWCASTLE, Pa . Sept. 7 Two dead and probably thirty Injured Is the record of a wreck today on the Western New Y'ork and Pennsylvania division of the Pennsylvania lint b, seven miles above this cltv, when an excursion train, bound from this i Itv to the Stop, l".ro fair ravh.-l head-on Into the rcpulur south-bound passenger pas-senger train due here at 9:20 o'clock Engineer and Fireman Killed. Roth engines were reduced t-1 scrap Iron and turned at right angles to the track, and the engineer and llr.-man of the i x i-lar i-lar train were killed Nearly nil the Injured In-jured were on the excursion train The excursion train consisted of ten coaches and carried 300 people from Newcastle New-castle Passenger Had Right of Way. Tho reg.ilar passenger train, it Is said, had the right of way. Tho exeureion train was running rapidly, in an effort to make the nearest skiing When the relief train arrived hero those Of the victims suffering minor Injuries were sent to their homes and the more scrloiislv hurt were taken to tin- hospital |