Summary
A passenger train with 50 people on board the single coach slowly left the Ligonier Station at about 3:45 p.m. Friday, July 5, 1912.
Among those on the train was Esther Matthews, who was taking Mary Elizabeth Rhody, 12, Louise Rhody, 6, Mary Helen Peters, 3, Bernadetta Andrews, 8, and Billie Brownfield, 5, to the woods in Wilpen to pick flowers. Matthews was a private-duty nurse working for George Senft, general manager of the Ligonier Valley Railroad.See the full content of this document
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Ligonier Train Wreck Killed 23 in 1912
"A freight train loaded with coal from Wilpen was late. A telephone call was made to the Ligonier Station to get permission to bring the coal train into Ligonier. They were told that the passenger train would be h...
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