THREE KILLED IN SUNDAY'S O. & W. WRECK.

A TRAIN OF EMIGRANTS HEAD ON WITH PUSHER NEAR NORWICH.

TWENTY-FIVE HURT.

ONE OLD COACH CRUMPLED IN THE IMPACT, THE ENGINE PASSING HALF WAY THROUGH IT AND DEAD AND INJURED WERE ALL IN THAT CAR.

Norwich, June 19. -- A passenger train laden with emigrants going to the West, running as the second section of No. 5, the Chicago Limited, on the Ontario and Western Railroad, was wrecked at Parker, sixteen miles southeast of this village at 2:15 a.m., today. Three passengers were killed and twenty-five were injured. The wreck occurred when the emigrant train crashed into a locomotive running light.
The more seriously injured are PERCY FURNIER, fireman of the locomotive, ankle crushed; B. F. KINGMAN, engineer of the locomotive, leg broken.
The engine running light was returning to Sidney from Guilford Summit. The engineer, B. F. KINGMAN had orders to wait at the summit until the second section of No. 5 had passed, but was dropping back to Sidney when at a sharp curve he ran into the heavily laden passenger train.
The train was made up of eight coaches and an engine and carried 371 emigrants. It was running about thirty miles an hour, up the heavy grade, and the light engine, making about twenty-five miles, struck it head on.
When the collision occurred the first passenger coach, an old one, immediately behind the engine, was crushed to pieces, the tender of the engine passing nearly half way through it. All the injured excluding the fireman and engineer of the light locomotive, were in this car, as the other seven coaches of the train remained on the track.

Victim Brought Here.
ROBERT TYLER, of 5 1/2 Albert street, was brought to this city on O. & W. train No. 6, Sunday night, and removed to Thrall Hospital. MR. TYLER received injuries to his back in the wreck. He was attended by DR. MILLS.

Middletown Daily Times-Press New York 1910-06-20
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