MIRACULOUS ESCAPES IN TWOTRAIN SMASH
I » NEW YORK, July I I. The train crew and Ihe pnssengers on the crack Broadway Eimited liud iniraetilous eseape.s from death in a two-train derailnient 10 miles east of I.euiston ( iVnnsyl vunia) hist iiighl. The leading Joeomotive of Ihe Liiuited phinge.d down a 15ft. einbanknient into the, Juniata Ifiver, while (he seeond hieumotive of the same train sliirted iDun tlie embaiikinenl, but was- lield luiek by its tender. Six pas.senger etirs also jumped the tr.ieks. At leasl 23 persuns were injured, ineluding two engine drivers, and two Jiieiuen, and l.S dining-car attendants. The derailnient of the i'reighl train eaused the Liniiled lo erash. Thirly cais of the 123-car ireighl trnin jumped the Iraek, spilling coal over all four tiiu-ks of ihe main line. The Eiiniled, which was passing Ihe freigliler at the riiue, was derailei by tlie strewn coal.
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Chronicle (Levin), 16 July 1946, Page 5
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