Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-07-09
RAILROAD MURDER.
Collision and Fire---Passsngsrs Burned
to Death.
List Of the Killed and wOanded---ThrlIIlug
Particulars.

NEW YORK, July S.-The sos train
from Newark. and the 1885 train
from New York, on the Neg
York and Newark railroad, met on
an open switch at Beyel station.
The engines were demolished and
the first and second cars of each
train vera completely telescop-
ed. Both trains were thrown from the
track. The cars caught fire from the
locomotives and two Of theEl were en-
tirely consumed. -Four persons were
killed and nine wounded. The names
of the killed are, Frank Karns, engi-
aeer, scalded and both legs broken;
John Lynch, fireman, instantly kill
ed; Dan. White, brakeman, caught
between the telescOping cars and in
stantly killed. George Hill, engineer,
killed. Wounded, Stephen A, Dick
iusOn, of Newark, Internally; Carl
Scheller, slightly, and son, aged six
years, head fractured; Anderson, OF
Newark, cut and internally injured;
Banks, fireman, badly hurt; John
Russell, brakesman, badly cut; Sam'l
Taylor, fireman, badly scalded; H.
Freherns, of New York, slight cut on
the head. David Letter, of No. l6
Ludlow street, New York, cut on the
leg; A. @. Van Fleet, Of New York,
arm cut. Various other persons were
slightly bruised. Some OF the passen-
gers worked hard to save the cars and
their contents from destruction.
NEWARK, n. j., July S.-A
shocking accident occurred on the
Newark and New York railroad this
morning near Ferry Street Station, in
this place, resulting in the death of
several persons and WOunding very
many more. The 8:05 O'Clock train
this city and another from New York
were running on the same track and
came in collision. The cars are a
heap of burning ruins. Already
seven bodies have been taken out and
it is supposed that there are many
more in the ruins.
NEWARK, July Sat about ten or
fifteen minutes past O'Clock this
morning, the 7 As train from New York
and the sos train from Newark sight
ed each other, then dashing along at
full speed. No whistles were blown,
and without any diminutiOn in inn
pulse, they approached the switch at
Brillis farm, through which the rail-
road ran. A gravel train had been
the last switched of there, and the
switch had not been replaced, and the
trains meeting each other Immediate
ly at the junction, the New York train
ran of the up and on TO the down track |
and cut tight into its UiS q UiS, and /
jumping from the tracks, bounded
down the embankment into the ditch, |
dragging with il the three foremost |
cars. The smoking car of the down |
train was thrown upon the tender and |
engine, and the first passenger car be- |
hind ii was telescOped into it for fully /
fifteen feet. In few moments subse- !
quent to the calamity, the terrible fact |
became apparent that the cars and |
engine were on fire. The flames |
spread rapidly, and soon envelOped |
everything within reach. The great i
est alarm and terror prevailed among |
the passengers. The ladies screamed |
and the men became frightened and /
terTOr-stricken and rushed TO the doors,
while Others threw their baskets. |
etc., and in some instances,
small children out Of the windows. |
The terror thus created was augment |
cd by the report that a score of human /
beings were in the burning carriages,
unable to effect their escape. The fire |
alarm was rung, and the fremen were |
on hand to extinguish the |
flames.
The scene of the disaster is a fearful |
sight. For $50 feet the tracks are lined |
with the debris of destroyed cars. Two
engines and one hundred men are
working, clearing away the rubbish. |
of people are congregating
at the scene.
One man jumped out OF a window
at the moment of the accident, and |
thus saved himself. The killed were
all employees of the road. Search is
now being made for more bodies.
The distance from Newark to the
scene of the disaster is one mile and a
half. The general impression is, that
the accident was the result of criminal
on the part of the en-
plOyees of the road. All travel on
this road Is suspended. The following
is a list of the killed:
George Hill, engineer, roasted alive |
under his engine; Frank Keernan,
horribly mangled and died |
in ten minutes; Daniel White, brake. |
man, and M. NJ. McManus, fireman,
on the up train. General Burks, an |
is missing, and is supposed |
to be buried under his demolished To- |
The number Of passengers |
injured is not less than thirty. Geo. !
Of New Haven, and Frank |
Adams, Of New York, are the only
ones supposed to be fatally hurt.