New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-07-18
Another Accident on the Erie Railway.

To me Editor u The n. " Tribune
SIR: passenger train with $50 Rebel prison.
ers and guards-probably 1000 souls in all-was run
into on this road Friday last at Lackswaxen BY a
coal train and utterly demolished with loss Of over
100 persons killed and wounded. II is said the passen
ser train not on time" aud that the engineer OF
the coal train informed OF that fact, and
into IT, Has it then TO this that trains run at
random on this road and that the only security the
passengers have the knowledge that all the engineers
and conductors of the other trains then running ON the
road have ascerained that there are no out OF time OF
wildcat trains on the road
There have been several serious collisions on this
road lateya the result 1t is believed. Of careessness
reokessness but hear Of no Investigations into
the causes it is said there will be nonethat certain
officers Of the Company viii not permit II. Nhyf wiz
their own management or want Of management, rot
bear the lghtt Somebody must be IN fault Who Is
itf Show him up.
The Erie Railway has d telegraph connected with IL.
and If properly managed ougI 70 De one Of the safest
roads in the country but j. said that many OF the ope
rators are boys often absent from their posts and
some Of them Enthusiastically OF all times Who appoints
thsmf Is 1t true that the Directors have given the
patronage and conduct Of this great road into the hands
Of one manf
But 1T is not the telegraph operators alone that the
iect their duty On Sunday morning the Goth ult. two
eIra freight trains dispatched at the same time
one from Suerns Station and the other from Paterson
distant about sixteen miles, over single track Ne
each other. The collision was droadfl!-in short a
general smash The engineer and some others Jumped
of One faithful fellow, brakeman. who stood at his
post was terribly mangled and died in a short time
Murdered And that's the last Of 1t, we suppose as
We hear " inquiry. no punishment Of the guilty
and reckless dispatcher who could have prevented
the accident by simply sending telegram over the
wires as 1t his duty 70 DO II took nearly twenty
four hours. under Ere Railroad management 10 clear
the wreck Of this collision from the track. In the
mean time other trains arrived each side One pas
seDger train from the West was detained over twenty
hours and the passengers, among whom were women
ard children had 10 the country for something 10
eat Application was made TO New-York for authority
for the conductors to bring their respective trains 60
the scene Of the accident each side transfer the pas
sengers and let them proceed their journey; but il
was refused. Ii is said there one ct the bead
office who had authority 20 give the order and thus
hundreds Of people were kept in misery for over twenty
hours within twenty-iour miles OF the city OF New
York One can scarcely credit the statement that
great interest like the Erie Railroad could be left to
manage itself or 50 long time and yet Il seems TO be
literally true. Where the Superintendent during
ali toesc weary hoursi The public have right to de
mand that searching inquiry be made into the nan
agement Of the Eastern Division Of the Erie Railroad,
and that the guilty negligent officials be rooted out
4 CoNhUTER
Eeso yox. Julp lG 1884