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Show UNITED EXPRESS CRASHES' INTO REAR Of STANDING TRAIN; SEVEN REPORTED DEED: i-INY HURT; WRECK ON PENNSY PHILADELPHIA, fcjept 29. Seven persons were killed, several more may die, and twenty-five or more Were injured in-jured in a rear-end collision f passenger passen-ger trains on the New York division of the Pennsylvania railroad at Eddington, Pa., nineteen miles north of this eity, shortly after 9 o'clock today. Following its customary policy of silence, si-lence, the Pennsylvania railroad declines de-clines absolutely to furnish information regarding the cause of the wreck or the number of killed or injured. Story, of Passengers. It is said by passengers, however, that the Long Branch Express, bound for Philadelphia, had stopped to cool a hot journal, while the train- crew were at work on the journal the express train, which left New York at 7:30 a. m., thundered around a curve and crashed into the Long Branch train. It is declared that the express from New York disregarded signals and thus caused the accident. Killed In Pullman. Most of those killed and injured were in a Pullman car on the rear of the Long Branch train. It was cut in two as with a knife, and the impact smashed the two coaches ahead of it. . Because of lack of facilities it was some time before the work of rescue began. be-gan. A train was quickly made up and most of the injured were brought to this city, though some were sent to Bristol and Trenton, and others were cared for in neighboring farm houses. The dead were extracted froy the mass of wreckage and stretched out alongside the track. Two hours later a Northbound passenger passen-ger train was stopped at the scene of the wreck and the bodies of seven dead were sent to a morgue at Bristol, Pa., seven miles from Eddington. |