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Show " ,.-1. - . i . i i . - . J'ii'ii ii YCiiL CS ' 'ill IScIt Lake City Han One of Persons Hurt VIien Cars Slide Dovn Sixty-Foot Cmbanlraent Into the tliver; One Is Mortally Injured. ' . Hyrum Tyree of Salt Lake City was slightly injured in a railroad accident in Pennsylvani,a early this morning. It is thought his injuries are not serious. The Pennsylvania special, the Pennsylvania railroad fastirain between New York and Chicago, was wrecked a few minutes after midnight while rounding a sharp curve at lack Diamond, Pa.,' about seven miles east of Johnstown, Johns-town, Pa. , . , , The train was westbound and was running thirty-five 1 inutes late when the accident occurred. r . It was believed this morning that no one was killed, but probably all of the fifty-four passengers were injured. John F. KHnej postmaster of Joliet, 111., was probably . mortally injured. , from Johnstown and South Fork saved them from suffering serious consequences conse-quences from the extreme cold weather. The railroad officials at both ends of the division made every effort to care for the injured. There were only four women on the train and only one of them escaped injury. ALT OO N A, Pa., FEB. 23. SO FAR A8 CAN BE LEARNED FROM PENNSYLVANIA PENN-SYLVANIA RAILROAD OFFICIALS !lIERE,4:?0 ONE WAS KILLED IN A I WRECK OF THE EIGHTEEN-HOTJR I NEW YORK-CHICAGO FLYER, NEAR ! JOHNSTOWN, SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT. THERE WERE FIFTY-. FIFTY-. FOUR PASSENGERS UPON THE TRAIN, NEARLY , ALL OF WHOM 'WERE HURT. ONLY ONE PASSEN-i PASSEN-i GEE, JOHN F. KLINE, POSTMASTER OF JOLIET, ILL., . WAS FATALLY INJURED. HE IS IN A HOSPITAL, 'here. . IT WAS REPORTED THAT POSTMASTER POST-MASTER BUSSE OF CHICAGO AND ; SAMUEL NIXON, THE THEATRICAL MANAGER, WERE FATALLY IN-'jURED, IN-'jURED, BUT THIS IS INCORRECT. ' ' NEITHER WAS SERIOUSLY HURT. irELTK ISMAN, THE PHXLADEL-'PIUA PHXLADEL-'PIUA -BEAL ESTATE DEALER, HOWEVER, WAS BADLY INJURED. The train left this city forty-five minutes late and was running at high 'speed down the western slope of the ! Allegheny mountains when the brake rigging upon the first car fell and derailed de-railed the train. The engine and first car remained upon the roadbed while the three rear cars slid down the sixty-loot-embankment into the South Fork i 7oh of the Conemaugb river, the S fa falling over on their sides and be-iJz be-iJz partly submerged in water. The passengers were thrown about, many of them from their berths. Most of them escaped from the wreck with little or no clothing. J Relief Work Delayed. The telegraph lines were torn down when the train left the track and com- munica-tion.with railroad headquarters was delayed for an hour. ' As soon as ' possible Superintendent Lone of the Pittsburg division sent a relief train from Johnstown to the soens of the accident, ac-cident, carrying physicians and supplies. The Chicago and New York special, eastbound, arrived upon the scene soon after the aceident occurred, and . the crew and passengers turned out and " gave their attention to caring for the injured. Some of the more seriously injured were brought to this eity and taken to the Altoona hospital. A few were taken to the Memorial hospital, but the greater number, whose injuries were slight, continued their journey ' westward on a special train. The flyer -was composed of a combination combi-nation parlor car, two sleeping cars and an observation car. Cars Slip Into River. When the train left the rails instead of falljng over, the cars slipped down the steep embankment, which was covered cov-ered with ice and snow, into the river. Fortunately the water was very shallow. Had it not been for this, it is probable tbst many of the passengers would have been drowned before assistance could have reached them. As it was, their escape es-cape from death was very narrow. . Without clothing and exposed to the elements of fjie of the coldest nights of the year, the sufferings of the passengers passen-gers for a time were extreme. The arrival of the train from the west and the prompt response of the doctors |