Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-10-20
in THE WILDERNESS.
Particulars OF The Terrible Railway
Collision in New Jersey
SUNDAY Night.
A FuiI Ii.t 81 the KILLED and Wounded
sinny Inmigrnni- Liugedug in
the agony Of Dca,h.

last evening. the uedgcfntSs OF inc uttiun
twelve hours afterwards proves that we
have bowling wilderness ia the Jersey
meadows only three miles from the city
hall a. impcnetrAble aud as distant a. the
Sierra Neyadas.
Though there are no fewer than
eight railway tracks at the
point in question, there Is not a hahlta-
I able house IN either direction Tor miles
( The precise spot of the collision was
under the chute beyond the west end of
the Hackcnsack bridge. An express
train ran into an immigrant train, knock
/ inn the cahoosc that was at the rear of
the latter across the cast-bound tracks.
Both trains were bound west Before
the track could be protected across
which the caboose had been thrown the
passenger train on the Lehigh Valley
road came laundering up the east track
and spliutered the already dismantled
caboese and was itself dcrailed, the en-
zinc pluuging down a steep cmbanknent
and topping over into the mud, in which
II settled four feet deep. The baggage
car followed the engine down the bank
and the smoking car also left the track.
The Immigrant train was filed with pas
scngurs, many Of them women.
After the immediate shock many of the
passengers Joined the train hands in Tie
search Tor the hurt, to whom they were
guided hy the cries of the victims. The
area Of the disaster is not more than the
length of two cars
Two people were at once pulled out
from under the cabouSc. one was a
woman whose head had been cut off
Tho other was the body OF a man crushed
beyond recognition 4 man with bis
head bleeding cTlwlcd up the bank over
which the engine had toppled. He was
owen Hall, the engineer of the l.ehigh
express Others were found IN the cars
woman lay on the floor near the rear
door Of the ear that Immediately pre-
cedcd the caboOse on the immigrant train.
The car was trlescoped. rs the men
raised her, her leg dropped out Of her
dress. II had been cut off at the thigh
Word was sent TO jersey City soon AT
ter the accident and at $3.50 O'Clock a re-
lief tram arrived at TIM scene OF the
wreck. and w.th a portion OF the dead
and wounded at once returned TO Jersey
City, and another train soon arrived to
take its place, which ut ITO O'Clock went
back with tho rest OF the dead and
wounded.
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