Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1905 — FIVE DIE IN COLLISION. [ARTICLE]

FIVE DIE IN COLLISION.

Engine Plows Through Car, Crushing Occupants to Death. A rear-end collision between the eastbound New York limited from St. Louis and a local passenger train which was standing at the Paoli station of ths Pennsylvania railroad, nineteen miles west of Philadelphia, resulted in the death of five men and the injuring of more than twenty others. The force of the collision was so great that the engine of the limited plowed ten feet into General Manager Atterbury’s private car, and the latter was forced half way through the day coach ahead. At the time of the accident there was less than half a dozen passengers in th* local train and (hey were in the forward cars, which were not damaged. The engineer and fireman of the limited wer* not hurt, but a dozen persons on this traiu were injured by being thrown against seats and the sides of the cars. Four of those who lost their lives were killed almost instantly. The fifth man died in the hospital.

The Northern Pacific railroad has purchased twenty-three acres of property north of its present terminals in Portland. Orc., for $1,503,000. The ground is to be used for shops and additional terminals. The annual statistical report of the Friends' International Christian Endeavor Union shows 431 societies, with 10,715 member*.