MANGLED CARS of an 18-car pileup blocked the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad line just west of the S. 1st St. crossing in Allegany. About 150 feet of track also was torn up as the 103-car freight derailed. Cause of the Saturday morning crash still is being investigated. Surgical gauze, beer, steel, sugar and a tank car of sodium nitrate were listed on the manifest. Marked “dangerous,” the tank car was watched throughout Saturday by Allegany volunteer firemen and State Police. Rail traffic moved today on one of the two tracks.
Source: Newspaper unknown (likely Olean Time Herald). Clipping found on Facebook.