Telegram from Pittsburgh published in the papers of New York of January 15, says: train ran off the track the cars made a leap of some forty feet into the Little Juanita River... People of the town of Birmingham came to the recue.

The early Pennsylvania Central morning express from Cleveland, Ohio was near Birmingham in central Pennsylvania when it left the tracks and two passenger cars were thrown forty feet down an embankment to the bed of the Little Juniata River. The stoves in the carriages started a fire but despite the crash, the fire, and the some injuries, no fatalities were reported.
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"Railroad Accident," New York Times, January 15, 1864
"A Railroad 'Accident', " Harper's Weekly Newspaper, February 6, 1864, p. 85.

Identifier: harpersweeklyv8bonn (find matches)
Title: Harper's weekly
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Bonner, John, 1828-1899 Curtis, George William, 1824-1892 Alden, Henry Mills, 1836-1919 Conant, Samuel Stillman, 1831-1885? Schuyler, Montgomery, 1843-1914 Foord, John, 1842-1922 Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916 Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906 Nelson, Henry Loomis, 1846-1908 Bangs, John Kendrick, 1862-1922 Harvey, George Brinton McClellan, 1864-1928 Hapgood, Norman, 1868-1937
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