Show FATAL RAILWAY WRECK seventeen people killed and fifty injured in a collision seventeen people were killed and about fifty injured tn a collision which occurred at midvale N J just before noon sunday when a regular passenger train on the greenwood lai branch of the erie railroad ran into an excursion train that had been stopped to take water all the dead and injured lived in jersey city and new york the accident Is believed to have ro bulted from a tower operator having lowered his signal too soon it Is said that the engineer of the regular train bad slowed down to about ten mile an hour before he crashed into th special but his engine tore through the rear car and drove the forward end of that car into the car ahead and injured were in these two cars the wreckage did not catch fire and the work of taking out th dead and maimed was accomplished quickly |