Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-07-09
RAILROAD HORRORS.
Two Trains Collide at Full
Speed in New Jersey.
The Gers Take Fire - Men
Roasted Alive.
Some 40 Persons Killed or
Manned.
First Dispatch.


from Newark, and the 7:30 train from
New York on the Newark Railroad, met
on an open switch at Brill's Station. The
engines were demolished, and the first
and second cars of each train telescoped.
Both trains were thrown from the track.
The cars caught fire from the locomotives
and two of them were entirely consumed.
Four persons were killed and nine wound.
ed, and various other persons were
slightly bruised. Some of the passengers
worked hard to save the cars and thei1
contents from destruction.
Second Dispatch.
NEWARK, N. j., July 8.-A shocking
accident occurred on the Newark and
New York Railroad this A. NJ, near Ferry
street station, in this place, resulting in
the death of several persons and the
wounding of very many more. The sos
train from this city and another from
New York were running on the same
track, and come 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.
Third Dispatch-Full Details.
NEWARK, N. j., July Sat about ten
or fifteen minutes past s o'clock this
morning, the 7:45 train from New York,
and the sos train from Newark, sighted
each other, then dashing along at full
speed. No whistles were blown, and
without any diminution in their impetus,
they approached switch at Brilrs far.l,
which the railroad runs through. A
gravel train had last been switched off
there, and the switch had not been re-
placed, and the trains meeting each
other Immediately at the junction, the
New York train ran off the up on to the
down track, and cut right into its visa
vie, aid jumping from the track, bounded
down the embankment into a ditch,
dragging with it the three foremost cars.
The smoking car of the down train was
thrown upan the tender of the engine,
and the first passenger behind telescoped
into it for fully fifteen feet.
In a few moments subsequent to the
calamity, the terrible fact became appa-
rent that the cars and engine were on fire.
The flames spread rapidly, and soon en-
veloped everything within reach. Great
alarm and terror prevailed among the
passengers. The ladies screamed and the
men became frightened and terror stricken
and rushed to the doors, while others
threw baskets, bundles, and in some in
stances, small children from the windows.
The terror thus created, was augmented
by the report that score of human be-
ings were in the burning carriages, unable
to effect their escape. The fire alarm
was rung and the firemen arrived prompt
ly to extinguish the flames.
The scene of the disaster is q fearful
sight. For one hundred and fifty feet
the tracks are lined with the debris of the
destroyed carsand two engines, and
hundred men are working clearing away
the rubbish. Hundreds of people are
congregating at the scene. One man
jumped out of window at the moment
of the accident and thus saved himself.
All the killed were employees of the
roads. Search is now being made for
more bodies. The distance from Newark
to the scene of the disaster is one mile
and half. The general impression was
that the accident was the result of crimi
nal negligence on the part of employees.
All travel is suspended on this road.
The following is a list of the killed:
George Hill, engineer, roasted alive IN
der the engine; Frank Kiernan, engineer,
horribly mangled, and died in ten min
utes; Dave White, brakeman, and NJ. III.
McManus, fireman on the up train. Geo.
Banks, engineer, is missing, and Is sup
posed to be buried under the demolished
locomotive. The number of passengers
injured cannot be less than thirty. Geo.
Ranks, of New Haven, and Frank
Adams, of New York, are the
only ones supposed to be fatally.
Another Accident An Engine and
Several Csrs Smashed.
New YORK, July 9.-About II A. NJ. 8
freight train on the Morris and Essex
Railroad ran into coal train, near Hobo
ken depot, and four cars were wrecked
and an engine and some freight cars badly
damaged.
still An0ther-A Prominent Ken
lucky Banker Horribly MangIed.
LoUIsvsILE, July Sat six O'Clock
this evening, James E. Edwards, Treasu-
rer of the Louisville and ShelbyVille Rail
road, and prominent banker of Shelby
vile, was run over by train and killed,
at Shelbyville Junction, near Anchorage,
on the Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexing-
ton Railroad. He was thrown from the
front platform of the rear car, one coach
passing overhim, mangling him to pieces
and smesriDg the bloody remains along
the track and over the wheels of the car.
But small portion of his body could be
collected for burial,