ONE
KILLED, NINE INJURED
In
a Collision Between a Lehigh Valley and a P. R. R. Train.
Special Dispatch
to The North American.
POTTSVILLE, Pa.,
Jan. 28.A serious collision occurred at New Boston cut, near Mahanoy
City, between a Lehigh Valley and Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train
this afternoon. Engineer Dietrich, of the Pennsylvania train, was killed,
and nine passengers more or less injured, among them a son of Superintendent
Blakslee, of Delano. All traffic was delayed. The Lehigh Valley train
left this city at 12.32 this afternoon. It is said the Pennsylania train
was behind time and was trying to make Marea switch. Both locomotives
were wrecked.
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