People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — ENGINEER’S BODY BURNED. [ARTICLE]

ENGINEER’S BODY BURNED.

Wrack In Pennsylvania Kills Two Man and Fatally Injures a Third. Shamokin, Pa., Aug. 5. —Two men were killed and another fatally injured in a freight wreck on the Philadelphia & Reading railroad six miles west of Shamokin yesterday. The wreckage took fire from the dismantled locomotive, and the knowledge that on the siding where the accident occurred was a carload of gunpowder prevented any attempt at rescue until the explosion had occurred. The body of Engineer Michael Smock was burned within view of the workmen. It was pinned beneath the engine and fiercely burning debris. The victims are: MICHAEL SMOCK, engineer, of Tamaqua. * ALEXANDER SMITH, conductor, of Tamaqua; dead. JACOB DREISBACH, fireman, of Tamaqua: badly scalded; will die. The wrecked train was running about forty miles an hour when it ran into a freight-car door that had fallen across the track from a passing train. The engine jumped the track and twelve cars were piled within a space of fifty feet