In Pennsylvania coal country, five drown when a rail passenger car falls into the Lehigh River

After departing Mauch Chuck, Pennsylvania around mid-day, a train of the Beaver Meadow Railroad broke a rail at the Bear Creek Dam in present-day Luzerne County and its passenger car was thrown into the Lehigh River fifteen feet below.  As the car sank in around twenty feet of water, many of the twenty-eight passengers were able to break free and escape.  Four female passengers and the train's conductor were drowned, however.  (By John Osborne)