Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1900 — DIE IN A WRECK. [ARTICLE]

DIE IN A WRECK.

Thirteen Killed nnd Forty-five Injured on an Fxcnrsinti. Thirteen persons were cruslied to death and forty-live others were injured, some fatally, in a rear-end collision on the Philadelphia and Reading Railway at Hatfield. I’a. The first section of an Atlantic City excursion train, on which there arc supposed to have been in the neighborhood of 500 persons, plowed its way through a milk train which was being loaded for Philadelphia. Of the five cars on the latter train three* were reduced to kindling wood and bent iron. The next car was smashed beyond repair, while the forward car nnd the engine practically escaped injury. The engine on the Atlantic City cx<nrsion section Was totally wrecked, thrown across the north-bound track, with the pilot pointing in the direction from which it had come. The first two cars of eleven composing the excursion train were splintered nnd several following were wrecked. The track was torn up for a quarter of n mile and the wreckage was piled up by the force of the collision to a height of twenty feet nnd extended for several hundred yards south of the station. The wreck is one of the worst with which the railroad has find to contend with in years. Instructions disobeyed seem to have caused the disaster.