Manor Station, PA Train Wreck, Oct 1895 - Follow up

Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 10 - George Van Zandt and H. Kunkle, who sustained serious injuries in the wreck of the mail and express of the Pennsylvania railroad at Manor Station last evening, are resting easy at the West Penn Hospital and will likely recover. Mr. Van Zandt is a commercial traveler and resides in New York. He is badly cut and bruised about the head and shoulders and the physicians at the West Penn hospital say his skull is fractured. Kunkle lives at Johnstown, bus is employed as a blacksmith in the railroad shops here.

The body of John Miller, the conductor who was killed, was taken to Derry, where his family resides. He was 40 years of age, and had been employed on the road for many years. So far as could be learned, the other injured victims are in a fair way to recover.

The cause of the accident has not been definitely determined yet. A defective truck on the first car which left the track, or a broken frog are the causes prominently assigned.

At 2 a.m. the wreck had been cleared away and the trains were running as unusual. Superintendent Robert Pitcairn and Assistant - Superintendent M. Trump were in charge of the relief train and they superintended the clearing up of the wreck and the handling of the injured persons. They made a partial investigation into the cause of the accident, but were unable to find any defects in the track.

Columbus Dispatch, Columbus, OH, 10 Oct 1895
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