ANOTHER RAILROAD ACCIDENT

Cars Go Over an Embankment On the B. & Q.

BROKEN RAIL ON THE BRIDGE

Baggagemaster Killed and Several Others Injured--The Train Plunged Down an Embankment--Scene of Disaster in an Isolated Locality.

JOHNSTON, Penn., Aug. 3.--This morning the Baltimore and Ohio passenger train bound for Johnstown from Rockwood, was wrecked at 8:30 o'clock at the Paint Creek bridge, and the train plunged down. It is believed that nearly every person on board was either killed or injured, but as the spot is isolated no definite details are yet obtainable. A special train bearing doctors, nurses and newspaper men has gone from here to the scene.

A Somerset, Pa., dispatch says: Louis and 17 others injured. The smoker and baggage car went into the river. The train left Somerset at 7:17 o'clock for Johnstown, and consisted of the engine, baggage car and two passenger coaches. Just where the railroad crosses the creek the rails spread, and the baggage car and the coach next it went over a twenty-five foot embankment into a creek, a shallow stream. The engine and the last coach were not dragged down.

Don, the only man killed, was known as the hero of the frightful Duquesne Limited wreck on the Baltimore and Ohio, near Connellsville, two years ago. On that occasion, although his eye was knocked out and was hanging down on his cheek, he pluckily went back to flag the next train.

Port Townsend Daily Leader, Port Townsend, WA 4 Aug 1905
__________________

Transcribed by Linda Horton. Thank you, Linda!