Three Killed, Thirteen Injured, when Trains Collide - 1907

July 2nd 1902, Buffalo Express Crash Near Sunbury

WRECKED CARS TELESCOPED

 Force of Sunbury, Pa., Collision; Crushed Both Locomotives

July 2.Buffalo express, north bound. while running at a high rate of speed, collided with an empty freight engine lying  on an open switch in the east yard at Sunbury, shortly before 1 o'clock this afternoon. 

Both engines were smashed to scrap iron and the two baggage cars on the trona end of the passenger train telescoped each other. 

The firemen of the flyer, Mr. McEvilla, Williamsport, and the express messenger, C. P. Hunter, also of Williamsport, were killed. 

Most of the passenger coaches left the tracks, but were not badly wrecked. All of the passengers were badly shaken up, some of them  in g slight cuts and bruises, but none was seriously injured. The bodies of the victims were taken to the Sunbury morgue, ,where an inquest. will be held this afternoon: 

While the railroad authorities pending an investigation refuse to place the blame for the accident it is said that the freight crew after taking their engine into the switch neglected to turn the switch after It, allowing the express train to follow it in.