Eden, Maryland Train Wreck
April 26, 1907
ENGINEER KILLED IN CRASH.
Two Others Injured in Head-on Collision on the
N. Y., P. & N.
Special to The Washington Post.
Salisbury, April 26 – In a head-on
collision between north and south bound trains
at Eden, a few miles south of this city, on the
New York, Philadelphia, and Norfolk Railroad,
JOHN P. PHILLIPS, engineer was
instantly killed, and
J. E. Strugis, conductor, and
B. F. Bennett, fireman of the
south-bound train, were seriously injured.
Sturgis
and Bennett
were at once brought to the Peninsula General
Hospital, in this city, where their wounds were
dressed. Sturgis is suffering from injuries to
his back and hips and a slight scalp wound.
Bennett is in a more serious condition, being
badly lacerated about the face and head and his
left shoulder is dislocated.
The exact cause of the wreck is not known.
Mr. Sturgis
stated in the hospital this morning, however,
that he and his crew were running with an empty
engine on passenger-schedule time on their way
to Pocomoke City to assist the regular morning
north-bound passenger train. Train No. 24, a
north-bound freight, containing sixty cars, was
for some unknown reason running on the open
track on the south-bound engine’s time, and the
trains came together just below Eden at the end
of the passing siding. The accident occurred at
2:25 o’clock, and Mr. Sturgis stated that the
smoke of the north-bound engine was beating down
so that the train could not be seen.
No one of the crew on the freight train was
injured.
The Washington Post, Washington D. C., 27
Apr 1907
Engineer
JOHN PHILLIPS,
of Delmar, Del., was killed in a head-on
collision between a south-bound local passenger
train and a north-bound freight on the New York,
Philadelphia & Norfolk railroad at Eden, Md. No
passengers were injured.
Gazette, Stevens Point, WI 1 May 1907
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