SIX DEAD IN TROLLEY WRECK.

ACCIDENT NEAR COOPERSBURG, PENN., AT FOOT OF LEHIGH MOUNTAIN -- ELEVEN PERSONS INJURED.

Allentown, Penn., Dec. 23. -- Six persons were killed and a number injured tonight in an electric car that jumped tht track on a sharp curve at the foot of Lehigh Mountain, between here and Coopersburg. The accident was due to the wet rails and snow. The dead are:
REV. TOBIAS KESSLER, aged sixty, an unattached Reformed Church clergyman.
FRANK WESLEY of Allentown.
ALBERT YEAGER of Allentown, aged forty.
MRS. DR. JACOB FETZER of Coopersburg, aged thirty-five.
AMBROSE REINHARD of Freedensville, aged fifty.
IRWIN RENNER of Zion Hill, farmer, fifty-five years old.
Eleven were injured.
Motorman STOCKER tried hard to stop the car when it slipped on the steep grade, but it flew around the curve and swung against a guy pole, which tore off one side and roof. Those killed had been sitting along the broken side of the car and were crushed by the post. The new Coopersburg line, on which the accident occurred, opened only last Wednesday.

The New York Times New York 1901-12-24
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