Inter-Mountain Republican | 1909-01-23 | Page 1 | Twenty-Five Dead and One Hundred Injured

TWENTY FIVE DEAD ANDONE AND ANDONE ONE HUNDRED INJURED Altoona P Pa Jan 22 3 a a. Two m.-Two m. m Two B of Pennsylvania anla passenger train No 21 21 the tho Chicago and St. St Louis tAula express which left New Now York at t I 50 o'clock yet yesterday afternoon collided I ab abut ut midnight at t Summerhill a small station 28 8 mItes milas from Altoona It was U one one of ot the worst wrecks wreck the Pennsylvania Pennsyl- Pennsyl vania vanta has bad in a long time One re report report re- re re-I re port says saye that twenty live persons were vere killed and injured Most of I Ithe the injured on tho Chicago and arid I ears cars on n th the J first section I Fiese lIe cars can which were wert carrying pas passengers from N New w York uric urk erG sero broken to Officials Of ot otho the tho rod here bore however 4 t aa 81 say they ha e r received c I d word that only the live were killed They gl give no estimate ecU esti I mate of ot the p ber of ot wounded but admit it 11 Is ts Ia e e eIt I It i la known the hea he heavy engines of the th second e nd section travelIng travel travel- traveling Ing t st a a. rate rat of speed p ed l through the entire nine cars can of tot the first section Only the locomotive and first car of ot the e second section rr ere r damaged aced It Is I. reported d the first ft section was standing on wi gie track at t Summerhill having ha n a bro broken broen en axle r repaired when I thu the second section crashed Into It 1 I second section was waa a u double hoaxer I I with two large Urge engines and it li U I. said salti hI to 1 ha have e been going at a it rate of ot nearly 50 GC miles an on hour Immediately after attel th wreck hurry hurr calls were Issued for all available physicians at at- both this and nd at John Johnstown town und In fn I. I less than 50 physicians were ware on OD hour nurl an of ot the acci their way wa to the scone scene s ene dent nt The wreck between telegraph stations When tho the special t train in left laft stationed at atthe atthe attl this city officers were Werts tl the depot to 10 prevent prent newspaper m men r from accompanying tie the A At bodies al already al- al 2 o'clock this morning five 8 ready redy ha l been taken take out of the massof mass mas of or wreckage that Was tho but section and the tho lift ot of Injured Is enormously largo large o. o