Show I IT rain I Kills KiHs 8 in East st Combined UP and INS BRYN IA 1 MAWR VR Pa May lay 18 18 The Pennsylvania Railroads Railroad's Red I Arrow Express plowed into the rear of oC a standing passenger train train Friday and a high police official I said at least eight persons were killed killed- six Fifty others were in in- in Police Chief George A A. A McLaughlin Me- Me Laughlin said 11 bodies had been removed from the jumbled mass massof massof I of wreckage and there still might he be others in there Bryn Mawr lawr Hospital reported it had admitted at least 50 persons persons persons per per- sons injured in the collision which an eyewitness said sounded sound ed like a clap of thunder The P R R said four cars were derailed when the carriers carrier's Red Arrow express plowed into the rear of another train Knocked From Fromn Rails nails Also knocked from the rails according to the P R R were two I rear sleeping cars of the P Pitts- Pitts b bur u r rg g Philadelphia h express I and two head end cars of the Red Hed I Arrow which rammed the other train from behind I The crash occurred shortly i a aft after f t e r the Philadelphia bound night express a 19 car 19 car train had I stopped for or a signal li light ht Edward Beck who lives near I the wreck scene said he watched the two trains collide One of the trains trams was stopped dead Beck said as the Red Arrow came up behind tooting its whistle But the Red Arrow did not stop and rammed into the rear of the stalled train tram |