Show two miles a by a runaway car A runaway freight car that had become detached from a train caused a flurry ono cao ining on the philadelphia and reading railroad it was a box car loaded with merchandise and broke loose on the steep grade at alaska ten miles east of this place i it started from the main line at great speed the express for philadelphia was about due and the trainmen were over the thought of a possible collision A telegraph officer was summoned he sent a message to this place and ahe track was cleared the car shot by at the rate of two nyles a minute at weigh scales the express was flagged and the passengers got out As the train was running on the southbound track there was no collision the runaway car dashed by the train two minutes after the express had cometo a stop messages were flashed over the division as tar as sunbury and a clear track was opened for the runaway which owing ao 10 a broken wheel and heavy up grade at came to atoo the distance from alaska to the latter place is twenty to miles and was covered in sixteen minutes by the runaway philadelphia record |