Wreck of Teacher's train. Easton, Pa. (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Wreck of Teacher's train. Easton, Pa.
[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the
negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Easton, Pa.
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.09163
Call Number: LC-B2- 2192-12
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iSchmuts (59 months ago | reply)
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*Milou* (59 months ago | reply)
dvdkvk (58 months ago | reply)
From NY Times, April 13, 1911
query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B0DE 7DB1431E233A...
EASTON, Penn., April 29. -- A train, carrying 169 school teachers, friends, and relatives, bound from Utica, Syracuse, and Waterville, N.Y., to Washington, was hurled down a forty-foot embankment at Martin's Creek, N.J., nine miles north of this place, about 3 o'clock this afternoon.
Jean Knowles (58 months ago | reply)
The train was carrying 169 teachers -- the title should read "teachers' train" rather than "teacher's train" this would appear to be the 1911 wreck and not the 1907one.
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kerrins_giraffe (57 months ago | reply)
Easton, Pennsylvania Train Wreck
February 12, 1907
JUMPS TRACK ON BRIDGE
Black Diamond Express Comes Near Going Into River.
Passengers Thrown Into Panic and Expected Death, but Only Received Slight Injuries.
Easton, Pa., Feb. 12- An iron girder extending above the track this afternoon saved at least two cars of the Lehigh Valley's west-bound Black Diamond express from going over the side of the Delaware bridge and into the river, seventy feet below. The train was composed of a cafe\car, a day coach, a sleeper and observation car.
It entered the bridge at a high rate of speed, and was just beginning to increase the speed, when the two last cars were derailed in a manner that seems to mystify railroad men. The first of the derailed cars ran along the ties of a distance of about twenty-five yards. The other swerved to the right and ran to the very edge of the bridge, Another inch, and it would have fallen on the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks and rolled down an embankment into the river.
The passengers were thrown into a panic and expected to be carried down to death every minute. The women shrieked and the men ran toward the doors. Some were prevented from jumping out.
A number were slightly injured by broke glass. Those who needed medical attention: H. SEATON, Bethlehem, Pa., hand cut by jumping through a door.
CHARLES COZSINS, Alletown,[sic] cut about the head.
MISS M. E. COLAMAU, Athena, Pa., hand cut. Negro porter, back wrench.
All the injured continued their journey.
The Washington Post, Washington, DC 13
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