Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1908 — COMBS NEAR A MIRACLE [ARTICLE]

COMBS NEAR A MIRACLE

five Passenger Cars Go Into a Dltob and Lena Than Fifteen Casualties Are Recorded. Greenwich, Conn.. July 17. —One women was killed, two were perhaps mortally Injured, and nearly a dozen persons were more or less hurt when the White Mountain Express, of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, was wrecked one hundred feet west of the station here. Spreading rails caused the ten-car train to leave the tracks, and five of the passenger coaches, Including four Pullmans, were hurled into a ditch, where they collapsed like paper boxes. The most tragic incident of the wreck was tbc death of Miss Margaret Armstrong, of Wayne, Pa., who was seated beside her mother In one of the Pullman coaches when the train left the track*. Miss Armstrong sprang from her seat and leaped out of a window, Just as the car toppled over, and she was ground to death as her mother looked on. The mother Is mad, and may die, and Mrs. A..W. Drake, of New York City, was perhaps fatally crushed. The only other badly wounded person is Mrs. Elizabeth Gibberson, of Brooklyn, whose left leg is broken and who is otherwise hurt. There were 180 passengers on the wrecked train.