Philadelphia-Allegheny County PA Archives News.....Crushed to Death. June 28, 1892
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The Weekly Constitution, Atlanta, GA. June 28, 1892
Eleven Lives Lost by an Accident on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Harrisburg, Pa., June 25. -- The western express on the Pennsylvania railroad, 
leaving New York at 6:30 o'clock p.m. and Philadelphia at 9:20 o'clock, is due 
in Harrisburg at 12:15 o'clock a.m.  This morning, however, it was several 
minutes late leaving Philadelphia and had not made up lost time when it reached 
here.  It was made up of one baggage car, one express car, three day coaches 
and the private car of George Westinghouse, the Pittsburg inventor of the 
airbrake.  Robert Pitcairn, of Pittsburg, was also with the Westinghouse 
party.  As the train rolled into Harrisburg it was stopped a few minutes at 
Dock street east of the station to allow some shifting in the yeards, a flagman 
being sent back to signal the second section, which was following close 
behind.  He was soon called in and the train had but started when the second 
section dashed around a sharp curve a few yards away.

Then came horrible grinding and crushing sounds and immediately after the 
groans and shrieks of injured and dying passengers.  It was an awful moment and 
the wonder is that so many escaped from the terrible wreck.  It was but a few 
minutes until the industrial establishments in South Harrisburg supplied an 
army of willing men who did all in their power to rescue the imprisoned men, 
women and children and alleviate their sufferings.  The firemen and police 
force, under Mayor Fritchey's direction, also did excellent service and 
assisted in getting the injured to the city hospital as soon as possible.  
Physicians and surgeons were also summoned and labored throughout the night to 
relieve the pain of the bruised and lacerated passengers.

List of the Killed.
The total number of dead thus far is eleven, as follows:
Robert S. Raymond, Columbus, O., horse dealer
E. M. Whitlock, 133 Arlington street, Cleveland, O., chief clerk of railroad 
company.
Daniel Mason, Hagerstown, Md., telegraph operator on the middle division of the 
Pennsylvania railroad.
Rev. D. E. Costa Pomeren, 3611 Hamilton street, Philadelphia
Mrs. Uriah Hebner, Norristown
Winfield Hebner, her son, aged seventeen years
Professor G. L. Smith, of Baltimore
Charles E. L. Fee, of 1 Windsor street, Allegheny City, supposed to be a 
telegraph operator
Richard Adams, Harrisburg, a furniture dealer 

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