Show accident occurred while a westbound train was passing the buffalo special at a speed of 50 miles an hour N Y feb A train men hobt their lives and a score of pas bangers were injured la a wreck anthe new york central at three alleg west of here at an early hour today none of the injured was dangerously hurt tho wounds being mainly cuts and bruises tho dead are john alien engineer and john brennan fireman As this train waa passing the buffalo special eastbound the boiler of llie locomotive of the westbound train exploded the force of the explosion and the upheaval of the engine threw the entire train of thirteen cars of the special from the rails the westbound train did not leave the track but the shock threw the occupants of the berths backward with great force in some cases tossing them out on to the floor an hour or moro was devoted to ex passengers from the interior of the eastbound sleeping cars but while many were found to be cut and bruised no one was killed from the fact that fireman brennan was instantly killed and engineer alien lived but a few minutes the cause of the explosion probably never will be known 1 the strangest feature of the acal i dent as it appears to an onlooker was 1 that the boiler of the westbound loco motive was resting midway between the rails of the eastbound track at a t point where tha eastern train had this suggested the theory to trainmen that the boiler had struck the second car of the eastbound train as it rushed by at the rate of 60 miles an hour the blow causing all the following cars to be hurled from the track |