Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1918 — 18 KILLED IN WRECK [ARTICLE]

18 KILLED IN WRECK

TRAIN RUNS INTO LANDSLIDE AT ELIZABETHTOWN, PA. Report Says Huge Bowlder Rolled Down Mountain and Wrecked Sleepers—Forty Hurt. Lancaster, Pa., March 15. —Reports received here say that 18 persons were killed and about forty injured in the wreck of a passenger train on the Pennsylvania ralroad at Elizabethtown, Pa., last night. The train is reported to luive run into a landslide. Philadelphia, March 15. —Reports received at tin* general offices of the Pennsylvania railroad here were that a huge bowlder rolling down the mountainside had struck train No. 19, wrecking three or four sleepers. The Masonic home at Elizabethtown, the reports stated, has been thrown open for the care of the injured, whose number has not yet been ascertained. Neither is it known whether anyone was killed. Traffic on all four tracks was blocked by the wreck. Harrisburg. Pa., March 15. —E. L. Edwards of Harrisburg, the conductor, is One of the seriously injured in Ihe wreck at Elizabethtown. Two cars were derailed. One was upset and the other is lying across the tracks. The train is said to have been running GO miles an hour.