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www.gendisasters.com/data1/pa/trains/easton-trainwreck-fe...

Thanks for the link -- I was just thinking 'I should Google this and find out what happened!' [PS I love your Klatu icon!]

From NY Times, April 13, 1911 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B0DE7DB1431E233A... EASTON, Penn., April 29. -- A train, carrying 169 school teachers, friends, and relatives, bound from Utica, Syracuse, and Waterville, N.Y., to Washington, was hurled down a forty-foot embankment at Martin's Creek, N.J., nine miles north of this place, about 3 o'clock this afternoon.

The train was carrying 169 teachers -- the title should read "teachers' train" rather than "teacher's train" this would appear to be the 1911 wreck and not the 1907one.

Easton, Pennsylvania Train Wreck February 12, 1907 JUMPS TRACK ON BRIDGE Black Diamond Express Comes Near Going Into River. Passengers Thrown Into Panic and Expected Death, but Only Received Slight Injuries. Easton, Pa., Feb. 12- An iron girder extending above the track this afternoon saved at least two cars of the Lehigh Valley's west-bound Black Diamond express from going over the side of the Delaware bridge and into the river, seventy feet below. The train was composed of a cafe\car, a day coach, a sleeper and observation car. It entered the bridge at a high rate of speed, and was just beginning to increase the speed, when the two last cars were derailed in a manner that seems to mystify railroad men. The first of the derailed cars ran along the ties of a distance of about twenty-five yards. The other swerved to the right and ran to the very edge of the bridge, Another inch, and it would have fallen on the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks and rolled down an embankment into the river. The passengers were thrown into a panic and expected to be carried down to death every minute. The women shrieked and the men ran toward the doors. Some were prevented from jumping out. A number were slightly injured by broke glass. Those who needed medical attention: H. SEATON, Bethlehem, Pa., hand cut by jumping through a door. CHARLES COZSINS, Alletown,[sic] cut about the head. MISS M. E. COLAMAU, Athena, Pa., hand cut. Negro porter, back wrench. All the injured continued their journey. The Washington Post, Washington, DC 13

I believe this article from the New York Times explains what happened here: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D0CEFDF103BE633A...

"'WILD WOMEN' BURN AND SMASH FOR VOTE" -- Yes, that's amazing stuff! How did we ever live without this kind of free access to the pre-1923 New York Times online? How many of us would ever have gone to the library and scrolled through the microfilm for this kind of thing?

Those gals rampaged elsewhere too. I'll find some references.

This wasn't their only visit to Kew... query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70A16FD385F13738...

7th March 1913: Suffragettes jailed for Kew Gardens blaze Two women were sent to jail for an arson attack which destroyed the tea pavilion at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, west London. Lilian Lenton and Olive Wharry, Suffragettes linked to the Women's Social and Political Union, had been arrested nearby on the night of the fire. Found guilty, they were sentenced to 18 months imprisonment at the Old Bailey in central London. Both were sent to Holloway prison in north London to serve out their sentences but immediately went on hunger strike, saying that they would not eat until they were released. Lenton was quickly freed after she became seriously ill following an attempt by the prison authorities to force-feed her. After a 32-day hunger strike, which she apparently managed to keep a secret from the guards, Wharry was also released. Source www.london-today.net/web/events/march/7/00003218/10251353...

The Bain photographers really had a thing for blown bridges, didn't they?

Original Agence Meurisse photo at Gallica site, pub. date 1914, with caption: "Compiègne : le pont de pierre détruit par le Génie Français " Compiègne: the stone bridge destroyed by French engineering gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9041779h

Artolog: Thank you for finding the matching image on the Gallica site. We will add more details when we update.