Ligonier Valley Rail Road Newspaper Articles
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Latrobe Bulletin
August 30, 1923
Valuable Horses Dash Against Moving Coal Train On L. V. R. R. ; One Killed
Frank Brinker Loses Horse Valued at $600
A thoroughbred Shire draft horse, valued at $600 was killed, and the other horse of the team had its jaw broken yesterday afternoon when the team, which was standing in front of the home of a tenant of Frank Brinker in Derry township, near the Ligonier Valley Railroad, bolted and ran wildly into a coal train which was going over the crossing near the home. The horses were the property of Mr. Brinker, who lives on the Latrobe-Kingston road.
A flitting was being unloaded at the home, and the workmen had removed about one-half the household belongings from the wagon, when one of them turned around and saw the horses go tearing down the road, headed directly for the train, which was passing over the crossing, coming toward Latrobe. The two runaway horses plunged directly into the freight. The tongue of the wagon was caught on one of the cars and was crashed against the jaw of the horse on the right side of the wagon, breaking the jaw and knocking out a number of teeth.
The horse on the left-hand side of the wagon was swept to the side and caught between the car and the tongue of the wagon. It fell to the ground with a broken back.
After the men who had been unloading the wagon got to the crossing, they found that the wagon was not damaged. Even the tongue was not broken. Two jars of fruit which were broken in the wagon, constituted the extent of the damage to the contents. The owner of the flitting was William Devinney, the tenant.