The Elizabethville Echo, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, of 1 August 1902, reported on a wreck of a coal train on the Lykens Valley Railroad that caused a significant delay in traffic on the line:
THE COAL TRAIN WRECKED
A very costly wreck occurred on the Lykens Valley railroad about two miles west of Elizabethville, on Wednesday afternoon
The coal train, carrying probably seventy or eighty cars of coal was passing through the “cut” just below the Lenker flag station, when a flange was broken from a wheel, and the truck turning cross-wise on the track, caused the loaded cars of coal to pile on top of another as high as the telegraph poles.
Twenty-three cars were derailed, and the wreckage will probably not be cleared away for two or three days. It is expected the tracks will be sufficiently cleared to admit the running of trains, by tonight. The Sunbury wreck train and crew were assisting the local crew last night and to-day.
The trainsmen on the wrecked train all escaped without serious injury, although one of the brakemen had his nose badly bruised.
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