New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-10
KILLED AT A CROSSING.
TWO WOMEN STRUCK BY AN ENGINE.

| WV NohIIN by AN ENGINE.
FOUR WOMEN THROWN FROM WAGON AT ST
GUINEs CROSSING IN STATEN IsLAND-THE FATA
REsULTs-THE RAILWAY COMPANY BLAMED FOL
THE ACCIDENT.
| Mrs. Louis Faerber, wife of q musician who i
1llIng summer engagement at Manchester
w. and Miss Lena Homan, a daughter O.
| George Is. Homan, nineteen years old wer
Killed Monday evening by locomotive engn,
NO. Oh the staten Island Railway, at the CROSSING
VI oegulnes road, q few rods from Pleasant PLAIN.
! station. Mrs: Holman and Mrs. Amasa Hiooins nj
NO. l4o Sufiolk-st who were riding with the YOUNG
women at the time of the accident ,rer1
| slightly injured Mrs. Holman is the keeno,
OF summer clearinghouse at Princes Boy Staten
Island, about mile distant from the Pleasant
llahs station. The four women started out after
supper Monday evening to do some marketing at
Pleasant Plains They rode in two-seated. omen
spring wagon Mrs. faerber and Miss Lena Holman
occupying the front seat and Mrs. Holman and Mrs.
Higgins the one.
Having completed their purchases tbev turnod
down Scguine's road for home Miss Holman wos
driving. Either because they were occupied with
oihef thoughts or because there was no sionoI
gwen they dld not hear the approach of the down
ward train, which leaves Vanderbilt,s Lapdino
at O'Clock, The front wheels of the wagon were
on 'he 'fdck, When a sharp whistle warned them of
danger second two later the enpino s4r,cI, tI,
were hurled TO the ground one side of the track
the morse on the other The shafts of the wagon yo,o
chTeu several hundred feet by the engine. tbe rest
was dashed INTO spinters. Mrs. Faerber was burInd
Iorty Ieet down the track Miss Homap six or oigbt
feet. Both had been struck nv tho onrins
ana were so frightfully Inanged and
oiu'Seu 'na1' although they breathed for
nearly man an hour they never regained
Consciousness. Mrs Holman suffered only sli,,lt
Commissions, and Mrs. Higgins who ia ift,nino no.s
ola, was painfully bruised about the face and bd,
ana her ankles were spraincd She was under ,,,adi
ca treatment yesterday and was not permitted to
talk about the accident. Mrs Holman SAID that
she thought the down train had possod opd on
s'so h'iScii no uneaSness concerning it. She did
no' near the customary signal which is USUALLY
gwen when the train is nearly half n n;lo from, tl
crossing but only the quick sharp warning which
siie heaIu as she saw the headlight over them,
There might have been time to back off if sba had
hbd presence OF mind enough to tell her dauobtor 70
pun on the relns. moment before they had looked
packto see what had become of q wagon which tbe,,
had heard behind them my
Ihe tfaln was in charge of Conductor Charles
Wilbur, and Henry Krikel was the engineer Kril,oI
sS o "ocod'eu careful man and he claims that he
cro ,ro customary signal before reaching the
t t5S at horse +" .ton and n Until o' w Sas
descent in the grade at the place and ve nf Wy
VI me road except the part where il nfnryccts tb
railway which Is hidden by the higher pronnd ~
'he slde win trees and houses upon it, ~
me Villagers of Pleasant Plains byyc beep ,,roon,
shocked ny the accident and MANY hIa,no To ~
read company. Joseph Simonson. who lives bn.iIo
wIo tracT at the Intersection sat at an open
H. Mi'oM nionuaE night overlooking the crossing
except tho, danger signal and before hc |
ronia turn his bead he heard the crash Daniel |
bcucli droFo doWn the road behind the i'll |
starred party. He was unaware that the |
ram was passing until the same signal startled
num- BON men say that usnalI,, |
me whistle is blown half n mile from the crossnSy
ana me BEL IS kept ringing until the station Is
fearheu. Twice within month John Scgnine;s |
buggy has been struck by the engine nj the SAND
Fossil e, ana once hiS daughter seemed so near de-
,,ur,i"h tllt vIilager. w ho saw her the track
turned away so as not to witness her death 10y
MIS- Faerber was n beautiful woman tyvcnt,
,nree years old, and the mother of two small chill
iI'h IieF home was at No. rs Second-aye in this
NY Ter mother, widow named Frederick
y nose husband once owned n furniture store i'm
fraud ST., took the children To her home yost,ri
he inquest will be held to-hay ''''1'