Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1905 — PLUNGED INTO THE RIVER. [ARTICLE]

PLUNGED INTO THE RIVER.

Philadelphia, November 30. — The Scranton flyer, which left Philadelphia at 6 p. m. and was due at Scranton at 1 a. m., one of the fastest trains on that system, is in the Lehigh river. It is said 100 persons were killed and that the wreck is burning, The train wrecked is the New York flyer, leaving this city at 6:55. The train consists of three day coaches and a Pullman, At Stony CreeK, three miles below Penn Haven, the train left the track, and the engine and three day coaches plunged into the Lehigh river. All the wires, telephone and telegraph, are down between here and Penn Haven, and railroad officials are without particulars. So far as known the fireman and engineer and six passengers were killed, but rumors are to the effect that all the occupants of the coaches were killed.