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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wreck ten nights before), highballed a mile and a half more and took off into a mountainside. When it was over, brave Porter Lee Keys Jr., who had gone back to fight the handbrake on the rear platform, was dead, and ten passengers were ready for Altoona, Pa. hospitals, still crowded by victims from the Red Arrow...
This week three other Pennsylvania trains were wrecked on a single night. At Freeport, Pa., Engineer W. T. Nixon was killed when his locomotive rammed a standing freight. At Belvidere, N.J., three were injured in a similar crash. And just east of the now infamous Bennington curve, three cars of an eastbound freight jumped the tracks...
...waited less than a minute. Driving into the curve ten miles west of Altoona, Pa., the lead locomotive of the crack Pennsylvania sleeper lost its footing. With a night-splitting roar, it ground into the ties, buckled, and took off over a 55-ft. embankment, pulling with it the second locomotive, a baggage car, three Pullmans and a diner...
Died. Grace Livingston Hill, 81, indefatigable, ' hugely successful author (79 novels; total sales: 4,000,000 copies) of pleasant, religion-flavored morality tales; while working on her 80th book; in Swarthmore, Pa...
Twenty-three-year-old Moravec, who hails from West Bridgewater, Pa., holds the Purple Heart for wounds received in a Naval encounter at Anzio Beach. He studied at Lehigh University before entering the service...