The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-01-31
A VERY BAD WRECK
ON THE nEADtNa RAILROAD.
The breaking of the wheel of Coach Piles
Upa Wreck, whiohwlli, Perhaps, Entail
Loss fLIfe-A Number of Passengers
wOuuded--scenes at the Wreck.

! Up u wreck, WmchWlH, tefhnpe, Enthh
Loss Of LIfe-A Number of Passengers
wouuded--scenes at the Wreck.
JERSEY CITY, N. j., Jan. 30.-A terrible
railroad accident, and may be, loss
OF life and many injured, occurred this
morning on the Reading RAILROAD, neal
GreenviIle. The train consisted Of four
coaches, well filed with passengers. The
accident occurred between Danforth Ay.
enue Station and Cemetery bridge. The
train was running rapidly, when the wheel
Of the forward coach broke and the car wis
derailed. 1t ran into q coal train and
was upset, and the other three cars were
wrecked.
The accident was witnessed by mount
ed policeman, who telephoned the facts to
police headquarters. Various hospitals
disptched surgeons and ambulances to the
scene. Up to the present time twenty-five
wounded persons were removed from the
wreck and many more wcreyet to beextrl-
Gated.
The cars OF the express were well.tllled
with passengers, and Us the cars crashed
into one another the shrieks OF the men
and women were heartrending. The rail
road hands in the neighborhood soon set
to work extricating the wounded from the
wreck, while the doctors bandaged their
wounds and sent them to the hospital as
rapidly as possible. At II o'clock twenty
seven persons in ali had been taken from
thewrcCk, more or less badly injured; !;
some, il is feared, fatally. Others are still
in the wreck, badly wedged in among
broken timbers, and 1t is reported that
several corpses can be seen among the
debris.
The train was running at high rate OF
speed ut the time, and was due in Jersey
City at $3.50 AN.
The accident, it is believed, when the
full details arc known, will turn out to be
one Of the most disastrous that has occur
red on any OF the Jersey roads for long
time past. The railroad officials say they
cannot account for the breaking OF the
wheel, rs the undcrpinning Of the cars,
axles, &c., are carefully examined and
sounded at every stop the train makes
between Philadelphia and Jersey City.
TIE INJURED rARrIEs.
The names OF the injured known at this
writing are:
NJ. NJ. FREnEErcKs, OF Bound Brook, N. j.,
seriously injured.
W. EAroS, engineer, badly hurt about the
body.
G. J. BuRDEII, conductor, painfully hurt.
". SuADwlcE, brakeman, severely in-
NJ. y. CORNELL, Of Philadelphia, seriously
bruised.
e. X. SEAEvlLLE, Of Philadelphia, badly
injured.
@. KEED, OF Philadelphia, badly injured.
II. BRAY, OF Philadelphia, seriously
hurt.
d. +. SCATTERGOoD, OF Scattergood 4 Co.,
Of Philadelphia, right arm lacerated and
almost torn from its socket.
CHARLES II. Pray, Of the firm Of Holmes
4 Pray, Of Pniladelphia, head cut and
skull fractured. His injuries will prob.
ably prove fatal.
o. REED, of Philadelphia, nose broken,
face cut, and one eye probably dis
lodged.
EIENnY Tracy, of Compton 4 Tracy, Of
Philadelphia, head cut and frontal
bone broken. Ills injuries will likely
prove fatal.
NJ. D. CONWAY, OF Philadelphia, arm cut
and ribs broken.
WALTER CLlcKNER, brakeman, was thrown
from the platform OF the rear cur and
was cut and bruised over the face and
body and severely injured internally.
n nf nj nh pIg all
fractured, probably fatally injured.
B. WINK, OF Philadelphia, seriously cut.
J. KELLY, of-Philadelphia, left arm in
jured.
j. T. HALLowAY, Of Philadelphia, shock
and cuts.
j. CoSNELLY, OF Philadelphia, cut badly.
L. 9. NErnEws, OF Philadelphia, bruised
and cut.
Il. D. ConCoEAx, OF Philadelphia, head cut.
CHARLES FEALLY, OF Bound Brook, cut and
bruised.
Il. G. WADE, Of Bound Brook, cut and
bruised.
Several gentlemen who were cut and
bruised refused their names for pubftca-
ton for iearot alarming their friends.
II Is now stated thatthere are no dead
bodies in the wreck, and that the engineer
and conductor OF the train previously re-
ported among the injured escaped unhurt.
TIE WRECK TAKES FIRE.
The rear brakeman broke the upper
windows OF the rear car and helped out
passengers. The newsboy, D. Curran,
said he was in the rear car, and alter the
car bumped along fora few minutes it
stood on end. Then he fell over the stove
and was pulled out OF q window. The
overturned stoves set Are to the wreck in
several places, but 1t was extinguished by
the efforts OF the brakemen and the res
Cucd passengers.
The Long Branch express came along
nine minutes after the disaster, but was
stopped bya danger signal. A special
train was sent out from Jersey City and
brought back tho passengers from the
trains. Those from Philadelphia were all
more or less the worse for the shaking up.
Torn clothing. dirt-begrimed faces with
blood stains, 6etokened the ordeal through
which they had passed.
The track was torn up for considerable
distance. The tender and cars were piled
in confused mESJ. The cause OF the ac-
Cidcnt can not DO ascertained, but It is GER
tain that the cars were OF the track some
distance beyond the switch, thus proving
that the latter was not the cause Of the
disaster.
III tlie.iront car were twenty passengers.
All but two were removed from 1t In an
unconscious condition. They were car
ried into tho waiting room OF the Danforth
avenue depot. Several physicians attend
ed them. In less than an hour after the
accident occurred all the injured passen-
gers recovered CongciousneSs and were
able to walk about. Eight Of them were
only slightly injured and declined to give
their names. They were placed on o spe-
cial train and taken to New York.
nov THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED,
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