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| Johnstown Tribune, 19 May 1914, Contributed by Lisa Baker |
| ONE KILLED AND FOUR ARE HURT Party of Five in Auto Run Down by a Passenger Train at Cresson SPANGLER BOY VICTIM Special to The Tribune Cresson, May 19. - One man was instantly killed and four others seriously and perhaps fatally injured about 1:30 o'clock this afternoon, when an auto in which they were riding was struck at Hogue's crossing by a passenger train running from Cresson to Ebensburg on the C. & C. Division. .... The dead: .... Philip Peters, unmarried, of Spangler. .... The injured: .... Theodore Peters, of Spangler, brother of the man who was killed. .... John Pfeister, proprietor of the Central Hotel, Cresson. .... Owen Rosensteel, of Ebensburg. .... Zeno Kirsch, of Spangler. John Pfeister had just purchased a new automobile and was receiving instructions from young Rosensteel on operating it. The other men were guests in the car. They were probably paying more attention to the operation of the car than their safety and it is said that the machine stopped on the railroad tracks and that before they could move, the passenger train bore down upon them. The five men were hurled in all directions and the auto was reduced to wreckage. The train was not derailed. When picked up, young Philip Peters was dead. It was seen that the other occupants of the car were badly injured and hurry calls were sent for physicians. Passengers on the train got out and assisted in caring for the injured men. Drs. Lynch and Prideaux, of Cresson, responded at once to calls for help and they gave first aid to the injured. Mr. Pfeister was removed to his hotel and was under the care of Dr. Lynch late this afternoon. Rosensteel, Kirsch, and Theodore Peters were sent to Altoona Hospital. The body of Philip Peters will be sent to his home in Spangler. Mr. Pfeister is said to be internally injured. He has a deep gash above one of his eyes and a gash in the back of his head. Young Rosensteel is said to have both collar bones, and an arm broken and a hole in his head. Mr. Kirsch is thought to be internally injured. The body of young Peters was horribly mangled, the head, arms, and legs being cut off. Mr. Kirsch came here to start a machine shop. Peters was working for him. |
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