Daily Republican., 1885-10-20
A erribIe Disaster.
SEVEN PERSONS KILLED-Turp.
TEEN lNJURED-AN OPERATOR
HELD fOR AANsLAUGHEE TER.
HE OWNS HIS MISTAKE.

he OVNO HlN MlSIAkE
| JnRsRY CITY, n. J., Oct. 1s.-Thos
T. Pratt, the telegraph operator =
marion, was arrested this morning.
charged with having been the cause O
the accident on the meadows last night
Pratt, who is rs years old, is An expert
enoed operator. He admits thai he
did not give the right signal. He say,
he was advised by his friends 10 desert
bus he refused TO do 30. He was held
TO await the actiOnof the Coroner q iury
he resides at 32S Fifth street, This city
with bis wife and three children.
Inree more bodies were discovered
this morning buried beneath the front
OF The LehiRh Valley engine. They
we're Drought to this city and placed In
the morgue. The remains were those
OF woman, unknown and unrecognixa
ole' ana OF two boys, apparently about
ten years OF age. The tracks have been
cleared and the trains are running on
sohedule time. All that remains OF
the wreck IA the Lehigh Valley engine.
which is completely destroyed. Il will
oe dug out some time to day, and IL ia
thought that more bodies will then be
found. There have been eight deaths
In all, and most of the wounded will.
1t Is thought, die. The depot is sur.
rounded by a crowd of mOI bid spec ta-
tors, awaiting news, and great ex-
citement prevails here. The bodies at
the morsue have not been identifi
JERSEY CITY N. j Oct. l9.-Throngs
OF people In search of the latest particu
lars OF last nights disaster continue to
visit the office aud depot here of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, but
In the majority OF cases little informa-
tion can be given them, as the uniniur.
ed persons have been forwarded to their
destinations. Besides having personal
interviews. Superintendent Crawford
and his clerks have been kent pusy
repl ying TO foods of kilograms from ali
parts Of the country.
VI the seven bodies at Shier's NOR,
que, Jersey City, I've have been identi-
lied. They were those of Karl Henry
CONNER, aged So years, OF Norway !;
MS VIE Margaret, aged 80 years,
and their sons, William and John.
aged IL and years respectively. The
family were on their way 10 Battle
Creek, Michigan. Mr.. and Mrs. Com.
mer were decapitated. and their bodies
horribly mangled The fifth body Ia
known TO be that Of Mrs. Eulena Ar.
neares. aged SO years. who was going
10 join her father at Madison, Wis.
Both her legs were cut off. She died on
the steps OF St Francis Hospital. The
bodies are those OF WON an,
found 10 day, and boy, found last
night
Neither have yet been identified, but
were evidently emigrants. The woman
was cut In two by the pilot OF the LIE
nigh Valley engine, and her trunk and
lower limbs wers burned almost to n
crirp. The wounded passengers and
employees brought to Jersey City were
removed TO st. Francis Hospital. With
one exception all are In q fair way to
recover.
Several railroad employees were slight
y hurt aud were taken TO Newark.
They are: Frank Stevens, postal clerk,
leg hurt; William W. Stone, express
messenger, head and leg bruised Will
liam Turner, baggage master, leg
broken Oscar Leighton, fireman, head
and hand bruised; Frank @. Wells,
freight brakeman, head bruised.
The wrecked LehiRh engine was
raised at 30 p. m. In the mud ben cath
the boiler was found the body Of q boy
apparently about ten years OF age. He
had light hair and was dressed in a
gray suit, with stockings of the same
color, and q hickory shirt. Both legs
were off below the knees. The right
side OF the face was crushed in and the
hands were scorched. Beside the BODY
was fonnd the right leg OF 3 boy who
was presumably about twelve years of
age. The limb was epcased in boot
The member does not correspond with
the remaining portions of any of the
bodies in the morgue, and 1t 10 thought
that another life hAs been lost. This
max. = total of nine deaths. A pile
Of debris still stands where the lonomo.
tives lay, and the workmen are care.
fully searching it.
JERSEY City, N. j., October 10 =
Norman l.. Rowe, counsel for Thomas
Z. Pratt, the Pennsylvania Railroad
signal man, who Is held to await the
action of the Coroner's jury for causing
last nights disaster, gives the folio wing
Pratt was stationed in the Marion
signal tower, near the station Of that
name. He controlled the east end OF o
section OF the road, known az q block,
from Marion to the Fish
House, on the Hackensack meadows,
about three miles distant. 1t was his
duty to record the passage of trains and
their passing the Fish House upon a
tally sheet, which lay before him. The
emigrant train had passed his station
thirteen miautes before the Western OK.
press approached. Pratt glanced at h is
sheet and lnistook another entry for the
record OF the emigrant train having
passed the Fish House. The migrant
train had not left the block, however,
having backed down to pick up two
cars which had broken loose from the
train
In his statement to Chief Of Polioe
Murphy, Pratt admitted that he had
not received the signal from the Fish
House. but took it for granted that the
block WAS clear, becauseof the thirteen
minutes which had elapsed. Supt.
Crxw ford, of the New York Division,
states that an investigation shows that
Pratt alone IL responsible. A white
signal, dsnotinK . clear track, was
shown, and justified the engineer Of
the express train in running upon the
block.
The uninjured emigrants have been
forwarded to their destinations. County
Physician Converse is satisfied that
there are but seven bodies at the Nor
que. The mistake was caused by the
liking up of the dismem bered limbs
of tine woman found this morning.
If your horse is suffering from loss OF
vital energy give him Days Horse