MAIL TRAIN WRECKED.

A Pennsylvania Flyer Jumps the Track at Manor.

ONE KILLED AND MANY HURT.

The Injuries of Five Will Probably Prove Fatal – The Conductor of a Freight Killed by Being Struck by a Car That Upset.

PITTSBURG, Oct. 10. – A wreck occurred at Manor station, on the Pennsylvania railroad, last night about 7 o’clock, in which one man was killed and five people were probably fatally injured and 24 others hurt. The train that was wrecked was the mail train, No. 13, due in Pittsburg at 7:30. It was running at a rapid rate. Just after a curve had been passed at Manor station the second coach from the rear left the track. It slewed across the track and upset, causing the rear car to slew over and strike an eastbound fright standing on the middle track, the front end of the rear car going on top of a coal car.

John Miller, conductor of the freight, was killed. He was standing on the platform or close to the track; was struck by the car that upset and killed instantly. He lived at Derry; was 40 years old and had a family.

The injured are:
H. Kunkle, Johnstown, contusion of right shoulder; Thomas Donahoe, Greensburg, wound on left temple; Mrs. Margaret Metzer, Irwin, scalp wound and contusion of the right hip; Miss M. H. James, Johnstown, cut about the head and bruised ankle; Mrs. S. A. Pace, Allegheny, cut and bruised about the body and seriously hurt; John M. Baker, Mano, bruised face and shoulder; unknown man, scalp wound; unknown woman, fracture of the lower jaw; P. Nester, 308 Franklin avenue, Wilkinsburg, back and collarbone hurt; Mrs. George Robinson, Rhoadestown, left arm broken; Jennie Gray, 250 North avenue, Allegheny, head and back hurt; Mrs. S. S. Kelly, 250 North avenue, Allegheny, slight scalp wound; W. M. Webb, Hawkins, master carpenter Pittsburg division Pennsylvania railroad, cut about head and neck; G. Van Zandt, 376 West Thirty-second street, New York, cut about the head and shoulders; H. J. Lope, Altoona, cut about the head and leg; John Truby, Beaver Falls, bruised head; Miss Fannie Washington, East street, Allegheny, injured internally; C. E. Strong, special agent of the New York, Lake Erie and Western railroad, back and shoulder hurt; C. G. Montague, Walls, arm and head hurt; J. D. Ruth, Altoona, left hand cut; R. G. Gamble, 211 Chartiers street, Allegheny, head, hip and side hurt; Miss E. R. Allison, telegraph operator at Union station, left foot sprained; Rev. D. Shanahan, Oilsville, Butler county, Pa., head and ankle hurt; Mrs. M. B. Messler, Canton, O., chin cut; D. R. Stewart, 30 Junella street, Pittsburg, bruised arm and leg; Robert Johnston, deputy sheriff, lives in the East End, Pittsburg, side bruised; George W. Lewis, conductor of the passenger train, Willinsburg, severely cut about the head, wrist and hand; George M. Hosack, an attorney, Marchand street, Pittsburg, head cut and leg bruised.

The Evening Democrat, Warren PA 10 Oct 1895