Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1909 — SIX DIE IN 20TH CENTURY CRASH [ARTICLE]

SIX DIE IN 20TH CENTURY CRASH

Flyer Rams Boston Special at Town In Pecnslyvanla.

LOCK SIGNAL DISREGARDED?

Bath Train* Were Eastbound and Whirling Their Way Through a , Storm Relief Sent From Three Cities With Surgeons and Supplies - Sufficient to Care For All of the Injured—Bodies Have Been Removed From the Wreckage. New York, Dec. 14. —*The Twentieth Century Limited on the New York Central lines rammed the rear end of the Chicago, Boston and New York Special at Northeast, Pa. Six persons were killed and sixteen Injured. The bodies were taken out of the wreckage. Relief trains were sent from Cleveland, Buffalo and Erie which is twelve miles from Northeast. Word was sent ahead and when the first of the relief trains drew -into the Erie station every ambulance in the town and enough surgeons to attend to the injuries of everyone were waiting. On account of a storm which was severe along the shore of Lake Erie all communication with the towns of Northeast and Erie was cut off. Telephone and telegraph wires were down all along the line. The cause of the wreck was a breakdown on the Special. The engineer of the Twentieth Century, eastbound, apparently disregarded the block signal set at the signal station just west of the wreck and he allowed his locomotive to run into the last car of the other train a t ahigh rate of speed.