Kensington, Ohio Train Wreck
May 12, 1910
THREE MAY DIE FROM INJURIES
Sustained by Derailing of a Pennsylvania Train
on Cleveland and Pittsburg Division
AT KENSINGTON, 18 MILES FROM ALLIANCE
Five Cars of the Train Were Derailed and Went
Over a Fourteen Foot Embankment – The Injured
Passengers Riding in the Smoking Car. Cause of
the Wreck Unknown.
Alliance, May 12. – Three men were probably
fatally injured, several other passengers and
trainmen were badly hurt and many persons were
given a severe shakeup when westbound passenger
train No. 307 on the Cleveland & Pittsburg
division of the Pennsylvania lines west, was
derailed and all but one of the cars was thrown
over a fourteen-foot embankment shortly after 9
o’clock to-day at Kensington station, eighteen
miles south of Alliance.
The injured are:
P. F. Gagan,
of Crafton, Pa., head and ribs
injured; continued his journey.
J. Helstein, Cleveland, O., head and hands
injured; continued his journey.
G. H. Gages, Cleveland, O., head and knees
injured; continued his journey.
H. Duncan, an aged passenger, address unknown,
cut about the heat and sustained fractures of
the ribs; taken to hospital in Cleveland.
Fireman L. Kurtz, Pittsburg, crushed under
engine; may die.
W. Joyce, Cleveland, internal injuries and cut.
W. Dennison, Summitville, O., skull fractured;
may die.
Engineer Hayes.
Express Messenger Bittmer, Canton, O.
Fireman, name unknown.
All more or less hurt.
The cause of the derailment is a puzzle to the
railway officials. It is officially stated that
the train was not running over thirty miles an
hour and a cursory examination of track and the
equipment does not show reason for the wreck.
The injured passengers were riding in the second
or smoking car. Passengers in other coaches were
shaken up but not severely hurt, although five
of the cars on the train slid over the steep
embankment. The sixth coach was derailed but
remaining upright on the roadbed.
A special train bearing physicians and nurses
was made up at Alliance and cared for the
injured.
Mansfield News, Mansfield, OH 12 May 1910
Transcribed by
Jenni Lanham. Thank you,
Jenni!
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