A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=49114 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: Philadelphia Inquirer Article Date: April 4 1900 Article Description: Interlocking Rail Switch Saved a Bad Wreck Article Text: Special to the Inquirer, Dover, Del: April 3, 1900 An interlocking switch saved many lives on the Delaware, Maryland & Virginia Railroad this morning in Ellendale, by derailing passenger train number 1 which leaves Lewes for Harrington at 6:45 A. M. At the Ellendale station there is an interlocking signal tower because of the intersection of the Queen Annes Railroad near that point. When one train is approaching on the D.M.& V. and has the rightaway the Queen Annes switches are opened by the automatic arrangement so that no train can pass through and telescope another, but will be derailed. This was the situation which confronted Engineer EWING and the passenger of the D. M. & V. train when they approached the Ellendale junction this morning. In the smoking car of the Lewes train were Secretary of State HUGHES, state Senator FRANKLIN C. MAULL, and Dr. HIRAM R. BURTON, who was today elected a delegate to the Republican National Convention. There were a number of others in this forward car and all saw their peril at o! nce, but almost immediately the train left the track and thundered along on the cross ties and stopped twenty feet from the Queen Annes tracks, just as the morning train on that road thundered by. The passengers were badly jolted but not seriously hurt. The fireman, thinking the trsin could not be stopped, jumped, and went over an embankment, breaking his ankle. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com