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Alexandria Gazette
Alexandria, Alexandria County, District Of Columbia
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On October 31, a coal train rear-ended a passenger train carrying 1200 people to the Centennial Exhibition at Lehigh Summit, Pa., killing two passengers and injuring 25 others; one car was destroyed by fire.
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SCRANTON, Pa., Oct. 31.—An accident occurred on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad last night at a small station known as Lehigh Summit, on the Pocono Mountains, twenty miles from Scranton. The regular afternoon train to New York and Philadelphia, consisting of seventeen passenger coaches drawn by three engines had about 1200 passengers on board—principally bound for the Centennial Exhibition. The train was two hours behind time, and reaching the Summit shortly after eight o'clock, stopped to take water from the tank. While there a heavy coal train, drawn by three engines, ran into the rear of the passenger train, telescoping two of the cars through and through and breaking five others, killing two passengers outright and severely wounding twenty-five others. A passenger car caught fire in the wreck and was consumed upon the track.
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Lehigh Summit, Pocono Mountains, Pa.
Event Date
Last Night, Oct. 31
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killing two passengers outright and severely wounding twenty-five others. a passenger car caught fire in the wreck and was consumed upon the track.
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An accident occurred on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad last night at a small station known as Lehigh Summit, on the Pocono Mountains, twenty miles from Scranton. The regular afternoon train to New York and Philadelphia, consisting of seventeen passenger coaches drawn by three engines had about 1200 passengers on board—principally bound for the Centennial Exhibition. The train was two hours behind time, and reaching the Summit shortly after eight o'clock, stopped to take water from the tank. While there a heavy coal train, drawn by three engines, ran into the rear of the passenger train, telescoping two of the cars through and through and breaking five others.