New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-06-28
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Terrible ColIision Near ITohoI. M
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| ""' "a GobwissvnIs, N. j.. June "a, 1864.
Two "wild cat trains,r or trains dispatched
with orders 10 work their way By the regular time table
trains came In collision yesterday morning Dat $40
o'clock, In the deep .cuttng below Hoho<us. The col
iding trains were freight train from Saorns of 10
Is cars under Conductor Soule and gravel train from
Paterson. under Conductor Garrison, composed Of
~ cars loaded with stone TO be used In constructing
the double track being laid between Paterson and
sufierns Approaching each other in the cut, the
single track unobserved they met with fearful violence
The locomotives ramrsed each other almost 10 ATOMS.
and the cars OF both trains were plcd UP In almost
shapeless wreck SO sudden was the danger that the
engineer and remen Of each train had barely time to
reverse their engines and leap for their lives before the
SHOCK came One poor lrishmen. Jim - OF Paterson.
the brakeman OF the gravel train had IFS leg smashed
mince meat Conductor Eorthrop OF the milk train,
went up from Godwinsvile, with an engine and cars,
aud took the injured man TO Paterson but no survived
Only few hours. The other casualties were few and
ights Epglnoer Cooper @as severely Gut and bruised
tram ~ al directions, while Engineer Ronke had his
leg badly bruised inleaping from his engine ~ d,
SEr1eeskng tran with 100 men wes promptly dis
patched from the city TO clear tho track But so serious
was the damage cha. 10 wreck was not all removed
uhti oelock this morning. OF course, the western
rfPstss and ahsr traio1 ers detened all day and
selser irlns from NewYork were boekaded at Pater.
son and below. drove down to Paterson and LEFT
dispatch Tor you yesterday afternoon but no train went
| through tx this morning. - y -
Where the responsibility Of this dislster rests VIC
cannot determine by the rules Of the New ork and
Rtc Company, the position ~ each train should bo
known by the Division Superintendent or is assistant
TIE Regular trn dispatcher Of the Eastern or Port
Jcrvis Division not duty on Saturday and san.
day. but q substitute-a Mr. Edwards-acted for him.
He sent ont Souie with hls train 10 get through as
best he could Couductor GarTisson had been work
the trnck for two years haung stone for the nc
road bed. Whether tho rev dispatcher ct Port Jeryis
was aware OF this we cannot say Probably not or he
would not have sent out wid.ca train 10 meet IN,
other single track with the moral certainty Of
destroying or both Of them. Bot at all events.
some means should have been taken TO warn down.
trains that the working train was engaged in the cut
1t Il customary in sah believe. for the
ductor OF the working train to station lagman half
milo ahead OF his working point 10 notify approaching
trains Of bis presence. THIS preoauion 90 necessary
at this dangerous locality, WHORE the is sharp
that Trains y yards apart arc Hidden from each other
1t seems was not takn In This Instance and the result Is
heavy loss to the Company on rolling stock the bnsi.
ness Of the road stopped Tor nearly two daysthe first
way train not gettilg through 10 New York till II
O'clock this IBorDng-onc mans life sacrificed and the
lives Of others jeoparded IT. instead Of freight 1t
had been passenger train which met the construction
train In the eating fearful disaster would have FOL.
lowed Is II not time 10 stop running wild eat trains
upon single track. We Judge It viii take years
earnings OF such trains To make up the ALSO
lutte pecIniary damage OF yesterdays collision while
the reprtation Of the line must suffer TO far scri.
Gus extent. w. z