New-York tribune., 1885-01-31

from tne stre,'9tb gave way in the ferry house.
and he was taken in carriage to the nome Oi "a
the afternoon com planning that their bruises were
greater than they had realized IN the morning o,
wreckng train on hand soon aiter ,ne rnad ac"i
dent and the work of repairing the track anu
he'd and of removing the injured cars proceedeaf
rapidly. One track was clear for ne passaeS o VI
regular trains, which were not delayed ny sio u''-
Bill Eaton, tall and stout, with fringe 90 OF
1ron-gray whiskers around his good-natuIed ldce'
the engineer of the train haVe and This Is nv
worst accident have run this train Tor nve
years didn't notice that ANYTHING was fs,Sbtfn %,t
force against the front of the cab. Qulck as 70;
covered myself reversed the lever ana stoppodd pd
quicker than ever did before. The switch stetu Sir,
ali right We did some rough travelling LOT thirty
rails couldn't jump the track TO the rienI whs %
full of coal cars. cannot say "ha' '""''" WV
accident" ,. ;htao,
years This was his first accident. He was IN the
smoking ar when it struck the coa cars Ire Ire ;d H;d
felt unusual commot0n under tns taI s switch u
was all right He had heard that peopie, saw
broken wheel when the train passed Greenvlile put
did not believe it, for broken wheel woand a bnp mT'
He was called to Jersey City TO make report
short time after the accident and thence TO nm tno
beth to see the Ess 4S PbaSeba "'' '
Harry Craig. the fireman., lives at Spmerv,ii,e, 10,
When asked to account for the accident ne Sald nc
Z.
most been knocked out by the shock and II lie nag
been firing" at the time he believed he would
have been fired into the furnace" r.roo,,;ra
Alfred Stanley who went out with wTecKing
train and brought the engine and tender to Cler-
mont said "The train looked as il 1T had been been
blown up with dynamite. The back driver oil the
engine was of the track The tender was COM
pletely off, Some of the boxes of the tender We're
broken off, and the connections with the smoking
car were also broken.'
EXPERIENCES OF PASSENGERS.
of lran ntou one nj he
who escaped with triAing injuries, gave this ac-
count of the disaster:
81 was sitting in the smokng-car The first inti-
nation had that there was anything wrong was
shaking and joltiug of the 1t soon ceased ana
thought it was merely some irreguarlty IN the
roadbed In a few seconds. however, it began
again and the.car swayed violently from one side to
the other was then prepared for something to
happen, for | have been in railway accidents he;
fore terrific crash came rs we ran into the coal
cars and shower of coal and snow came whIrllng
into the car | was thrown to the floor between the
seats and then something struck Inc violent blow
on the head, and became unconsclous; When
came 10 !my senses | kicked out the window oi the
car nearest to me and crawled out ielt an rght
then except for the effects of the shock and did my
best TO assist those more injured than myself. lhe
man who sat right in front of me had his nose cut TO
pieces and it 6ed PTG4g'sy wGSb tick n@
nearly opposite and tried unsuccessiuly to
stanch the flow of blood. l attended to him
connected with the road. don't know how long
i was UNCONSCIOUS. | still feel very much shaken:
and the muscles OF my neck pain me severely.
have no doubt that the accident would have been
much more serious had not run into the
standing cars of the coal tram. Inc
allowed us to come 10 a standstiil. When
/ got out the engine was some seven or eight hun
dTed yards from the smoking car,
Another of the slightly injured passengers was
d. H. Watts of the firm of Sharpless & Warts, we'll
known tile manufacturers of Philadelphia.
was slit ng in the rear seat OF the foremost car,
said he lust in front of the partition OF the toilet
room One of the officials had just come INTO the
car from the baggage department and had taken 2
loud thumps on the bottom of the car. i saw the
official raise himself out of his seat and he seemed
about to pull the alarm-cofd; then ne apparently
changed his mind and sat down again. Ihe thump- |
ing was followed by joIting, and the official once
more looked round ana seemed abont to speak to
me, when a crash came, followed by shower of
coal which covered the floor OF the car 10 the depth
of a foot at least. / was thrown TO the floor, my
back bruised, lump OF coal nearly drove my
teeth down my throat. stick Of wood hit me on
the forehead and and another skinned my right leg
from the knee down. Though | was nearest the
door, was almost the last man TO get out, AS
into the open air felt better and ran
down 10 the car behind ours j saw woman !
wedged in, and tried to kick the window ln in or
der TO extricate hcI. cou not break the glass,
however, and ran to the door aud helped her aud
some other women out III that way. never saw 80
much coolness exhibited by women IN time OF ex-
element. There about a dozen OF them and |
they were all more composed than the men. There |
was fire under both rear cars. which then helped
to put out. The living coal ] think did a great
deal of damage. Some men had small pieces driven
so far into their faces that they Will be dsigured
for life. | am black and blue all oyermyseli from
1t and can scarcely use my hands, they so
swollen and bruised"
Lewis Ilo zman. dealer in fruits and nuts, of
No. 325 North Flfth-st:. Philadelphia, had a re-
markablc escape. He was seated in the
font part Of the smoking car. 81 had
no warning of the ACCIDENT he said.
"All that remember most horrible
crash. The next thing knew was when ! lay on
nv back outside of the car OH piece OF the wreck
which seemed 10 have been one corner OF the snok'
ing-car. | could not have been UNCONSCIOUS more
than few seconds as saw the people climbing
out of the broken ears when came to. My valise
was crushed up and the heavy overcoat on 1t
had two or three Sits torn III the
back. The man who sat behind
me was all smashed up in his seat. When got up
my right side hurt Inc that could hardly rest
on the right foot. The whole corner of the smok-
ing car where sat seemed to have been knocked
OF, and carried with it aud dumped out on
the ground"
Mr. Holman was taken 20 physician in the
city aud was able to return home by the evening
tram.
Patrick Kelly, an employe on the coal train, said
to TRIBUNE reporter that he had q
narrow escape. He said that he had always
been fearful that accident would occur
at that point, because the tracks were so close 10
each other-that is the side and the main tracks.
noticed that it was "wobbng" more than usual.
He was not more than usually afraid Of an acci-
cent, but he jumped from the rear of the coal
tram on which he was standing aud when the ex-
press train dashed into the car the next moment he
fell on his knees and thanked God for his fortunate