(erielack) Erie Derailment Near "Mahoning" on Clev. Line Feb. 1902

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Mahoning, OH Train Wreck, Feb 1902
Posted  January 16th, 2008 by _Linda Horton_ 
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21 INJURED IN ERIE WRECK. 
Train Ditched in Ohio---President Ramsay of the Wabash a 
Passenger----General  Manager Blickensderfer Hurt. 
CLEVELAND, Feb. 12.---Train No. 10 of the Erie Railroad after leaving  
Cleveland at 1 P.M. to-day for New York was wrecked between Mahoning and  
Phalanx, Ohio. The whole train left the tracks and ran on for twenty car  lengths, 
finally toppling over in a ditch. Twenty-one persons are reported  injured, 
but it is believed there were not fatalities. As the train was made up  in 
this city most of the injured are probably residents of Cleveland. 
There were a buffet car, two sleepers, chair car, coach, and baggage and  
express cars. Physicians were called from Warren and Youngstown and left at 
once  for Leavittsburg, where some of the injured had been taken. 
The engineer was Matthew Shay of Youngstown and George Hopper of Cleveland  
was the conductor. Neither was hurt. Among the injured are Robert  
Blickensderfer, General Manager of the Wabash Railroad in St. Louis, who came  out 
with his mouth cut and his body bruised, and Max Tarshis of New York, whose  
arm was hurt. 
The cause of the wreck is said to have been spreading rails. Most of the  
injured were in the coach next to the last, that last being the private car 
of  Joseph Ramsay, President of the Wabash Railroad. 
Mr. Ramsay did heroic work in assisting the injured. He has wired his 
friends  that his party will go east via Pittsburg. 
The New York Times, New York, NY 13 Feb 1902 
TRAIN'S WILD DASH INTO DITCH 
Twenty-one Passengers Injured in Wreck on the Erie Railroad. 
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 12.---Train No. 10, on the Erie Railroad, leaving  
Cleveland at 1 P.M. for New York, was wrecked between Mahoning and Phalanx,  
Ohio, about 40 miles from this city, this afternoon. The whole train left the 
 tracks and ran on for twenty car lengths, finally toppling over into a 
ditch.  Twenty-one persons are reported injured, but it is believed no 
fatalities  occurred. 
The train consisted of a buffet car, two sleepers, chair car, coach, 
baggage  and express. Physicians were called from Warren and Youngstown and left 
at once  for Leavittsburg, where some of the injured had been taken. Some of 
the more  seriously injured were taken to Youngstown. The wrecked train is 
one of the  finest on the Erie road, and is vestibuled. 
George Thomas, of Cleveland, received what is feared to be fatal injuries,  
brain concussion. Among the others injured are C. S. Rusling, Philadelphia, 
arm  and hand hurt; J. T. Blair, Greenville, Pa.; Mrs. Fred. Kueh, 
Newcastle, Pa.;  Joseph Coglan, Girard, Pa., arm and shoulder bruised; George 
Eckert, Meadville,  Pa. 
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA 13 Feb  1902




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