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The Bloomfield Times
New Bloomfield, Perry County, Pennsylvania
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On the 29th ult., the Venango accommodation train derailed on the Allegheny Valley Railroad at Burning Well Station near Foster, plunging into a river from a 30-40 foot embankment. Of 21 passengers, 19 were injured, some fatally, including Oil Tom King; two boys escaped unharmed.
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A shocking railway accident occurred on the Allegheny Valley railroad, on the 29th ult.
As the Venango accommodation was going West, it ran off the track at the Burning Well Station, just below Foster, and plunged down an embankment into the river, a height of some thirty or forty feet.
The train consisted of two cars, one engine and tender. There were twenty-one passengers aboard, and of these all but two were injured, more or less seriously, and some of them fatally.
Singularly enough, the two passengers who escaped uninjured were two boys.
The shrieks of the passengers were fearful.
Among those who were killed was "Oil Tom King," who was widely known throughout the oil regions.
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Burning Well Station, Just Below Foster, Allegheny Valley Railroad
Event Date
On The 29th Ult.
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twenty-one passengers aboard; all but two injured, more or less seriously, and some fatally. the two who escaped uninjured were two boys. among those killed was "oil tom king."
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The Venango accommodation train going West ran off the track at the Burning Well Station, just below Foster, and plunged down an embankment into the river, a height of some thirty or forty feet. The train consisted of two cars, one engine and tender. The shrieks of the passengers were fearful.