Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1888 — A PENNSYLVANIA CRASH. [ARTICLE]

A PENNSYLVANIA CRASH.

Three Lives Lost by a Collision N ar Harrisburg. A passenger train on the Pennsylvania Railroad collided with a heav7 freight train near Huntington, Pa., at 3 o’clock Monday morning, and both trains were wrecked. Robert Gardner, engineer, and Fireman Mowery, both of the passenger train, were instantly killed. The express, which was coming wejt, was behind time and wail running at the rate of forty-five mile 3an hoar. The collision was terrific. Three Pullman cars were wrecked and three passengers were injured, but their names could not be learned. The accident occurred at “Nigger’s Gap,” a rough part of the road about forty miles east of Altoona. Tha brakeman on the freight, Ernest V. Moyer, Harrisburg, is the third death reported from the wreck. The wreck is simply colossal. There were sixtythree passenger on the western train, and the tracks are lined with detained trains. The wreck involves an estimated loss of $75,000. ——