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Delaware Gazette And State Journal
Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware
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Three men—Ralph D. Clark, Joseph White, and William Beacon—were killed by the Royal Blue express train near Langhorne, Pa., on April 15. Clark and White, painters, stepped into its path avoiding a coal train; Beacon was crossing tracks.
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Three Men Were Killed Tuesday by Royal Blue Express.
Philadelphia, Pa., April 15—Ralph D. Clark, Joseph White and William Beacon were run down and instantly killed by a royal Blue train on the Philadelphia & Reading railway today at Langhorne, a short distance from this city. Clark and White were painters employed by the Reading company, and Beacon was a colored resident of Langhorne.
Clark and White, members of a force of men who were painting the fence between the tracks, stepped out of the way of a coal train directly in front of the Royal Blue express bound for New York. Beacon attempted to cross the tracks, and was hit by the same train.
The bodies of the men were horribly mangled.
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Langhorne
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April 15
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three men were run down and instantly killed; bodies horribly mangled.
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Ralph D. Clark and Joseph White, painters employed by the Reading company, stepped out of the way of a coal train directly in front of the Royal Blue express bound for New York on the Philadelphia & Reading railway at Langhorne. William Beacon, a colored resident of Langhorne, attempted to cross the tracks and was hit by the same train.