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Show PASSENGER AND FREIGHTC0LL1DE Engineer Unable to See Block System Signals Through Heavy Fog. Pittsburg, Jan. 29. Pennsylvania passenger train No. 19, New York to Pittsburg, was wrecked near Cone-maugh, Cone-maugh, Pa,, today when it ran into a westbound engine and caboose. Three members of the freight crew were killed. The passenger train was running at high speed when, as it rounded a curve, the engineer saw the lights of. the freight train directly in front. He applied emergency brakes, but the heavy engine crashed into the ca-boose.. ca-boose.. The engine and the mall car on tho passenger train were derailed, blocking block-ing three tracks. Passengers were tossed about but none was seriously hurt. A heavy fog made It impossible for the engineer to see the signals of the automatic block system, with which the division is equipped. |