Eureka Reporter | 1906-05-11 | Page 2 | Many Are Killed

MANY ARE KILLED mail and express trains on the penn sylvania road come together head on I 1 altoona pa chicago mall train no 21 and chicago and st louis ex press no 18 on the pennsylvania rail road running at full speed met head on near furnace on the petersburg cutoff eighteen miles from this city at 11 clock friday night and eight or ten passenger were killed the cause of the disaster Is said to have been a misunderstanding of or ders by the operator at springfield junction the railroad officials aa huntingdon and williamsburg hava received a report that both lococo lives the express and mall cars and passenger coaches are completely de polished moli shed one of the trains was run ning reversed with the coach next the engine