The Archive · 1930

Pennsylvania Express Disaster

Elizabeth, N.J., July 21

The man who abandoned his motor car on the railway line yesterday, thus causing a train smash, in which one person was killed and 6% were injured, has been arrested. He will be charged with manslaughter.

'A message yesterday stated that the Pennsylvania Express, while travelling at full speed, struck an abandoned motor-car on As a result the locomotive was overturned, two carriages plunged over the embankment and a third hung precariously at the edge of a: bridge over a street. Fire. broke out and impeded the efforts of rescuers to extricate the hysterical women and children in the carriages.

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