The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-10-20
Aud Many More wounded
Careless telegraph Operator
was the Cnuse.
4 Mig sirist OF Galveston Items
The Omcial Count Has BE
gum In Onto.
BurInah Is willing to Fight
china will Build Railway
Other Foreign News.
TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT

TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
A Collision ON the Pennsyly ania Line
Results I'm the Death OF Eight
| New York, October 19.-The news
! of the morning is terrible collision
on the Pennsylvania line. Although
the collision occurred soon alter 8
o'clock last evening the meagroness
OF details, twelve hours afterwards,
prove that we have bowling wilder
ness In the Jersey meadows only
three miles from the city hall, as i'm
penetrable and as distant as the
Sierra Nevadas. Though there are
no fewer than eight railway tracks at
the point In question, there Is not a
habitablc house in either direction
for miles. The precise spot of the
collision was under the shute beyond
the west end of Hackenseck bridge.
The express train ran into an emf
grant train, knocking the caboose
; that was at the rear of the latter,
across the east bound tracks. Both
trains were bound west Before the
track could be torpedoed across
which the caboose had been thrown,
la passenger train on the
Lehigh Valley road came laundering
up the east track, splintered the al
ready dismantled caboose aud was
itself derriled; the engine plunging
: down the deep embankment and top.
ping over into the mud into which II
. settled four feet. Tho baggage-cai
followed the engine halfway down
the bank and the smoking-car also
left the track.
: The emigrant train was filled with
messengers, many OF them women
: After the first immediate shock many
passengers Joined the train-hands ID
the search for the injured, to whom
they were guided by the cries of the
victims. Two persons were at once
pulled out from under the caboose
: One was woman whose head
. had been cut OIL; the other the body
of man crushed beyond recognition
A man with his head bleeding, crawl
!, ed up the bank over which the en-
! CINE had toppled; he was Owen Hall
: the engineer of the Lehigh express
y Others were found in the cars. A
woman lay on the floor near the rear
door Of the car that Immediately pre-
coded the caboose on the emigran
s train. This car was telescoped ant
X as the men raised her, her leg drop
IS ped out of her dress. II had been Gu
y off at thethigh. Word was sent +,
r Jersey City soon after the accident
IS aud at $50 o'clock relief train ar
If rived al the scene of the wreck an,
7, with q portion OF the dead an,
& wounded at once returned 10 Jerse,
o CITY. Another tram arrived to TAX
II It's place, which at 10 o'clock wen
back with the rest of the wounded.
ID The accident was caused by the de
G. lay of the emigrant train from tn
h city In getting out OF the way. II lei
X Jersey City al sos; the express TO
h lowing at 1915. The EN-
p grant train stopped at III
a. shute for coal and had losde
n and was backing slowly when the e.
I'd press came along not having bee
u warned by the operator at the bloc
In station at Marion.
al The bodies of two boys and o " OF
I'd an were found this morning und,
nc the Lehigh Valley engine, but ha'
MT not been identified.
Gu Thos. p. Pratt, telegraph operat'
VI NJ NATION, mas Dccn uTrcbtcu. "a
ed Is 26 years old, and is an experience
'e- operator. He admits he did not gi
ID, the right signal, and says he was q
he vised by his friends to desert, but
IN refused TO do SO. He is held TO aw,
the action of the coroner's Jury.
The following is list Of the dc
and wounded as far as known:
KILLED.
he Karl Henry Grommer, aged
vas wears, Norwegian, head taken OIL;
e. unknown boy. aged 8 years, horri'
,ed crushed; an unknown woman he
ans taken of: Euliua Arreares, aged
Ibf- years, died at st. Francis hospital.
. Four more bodies that were fol
this morning under the wrecked
bur high Valley locomotive, have
as been identified. Two unknown b
us. were found under the pilot trt
the QUE aged years, the other IL.
the unknown woman, head and al
Fe gone aud the remains badly scorcl
an unknown man, trunk burned
w. crisp, found five feet below the
ersl face. The bodies were sent 10 Sp
% of morgue.
The wounded brought to Je
City were sent TO st. Francis hosp
,r. They arc:
s,s Kiinger, Norwegian, had both
. of and skull fractured, Will die; y
Gar. Hall, engineer OF the Lehigh Va
|, Nv train, severe coutusions about
,hec head and neck but still alive; Nv
hons Bowers, fireman of the Lehigh
con- ley train, skull fractured and mt
sion injuries; he cannot live; Ralph Pu
Car. Englishman. injured about the |
vord not seriously; Christina Rolsta.
, Inc wegian, leg broken and injured !
's,hie nalIy, condition critical; Laura II
Ishon sen, Norwegian, severely III
about the head and back, not co
cred dangerous her 2 year
child had It's leg broken.
Superintendent Crawford, o
4 Hot New York division, states than q
Reid animation shows that Pratt all
Il the responsible. A white signal den
shot clear track was showing and
'fter a fed the engineer of the express
in running upon the block. II
Injured einigranis have been for
ed to their destination.
Thomas =. Pratt, the telegraph
ator, was arraigned to-day ON
OF manslaughter. Tie waived
animation and was held TO avn
action Of the coroners jury.
Normal l.. Rowe, counsel fol
uon' makes the following stat
OCULAR .Prntt was stationed in the
rs, sin signal tower resr the station
ments, name. He controlled the east
'ss aud a section OF road known rs /
Pfic extending from Marion 10 I
Ieeisi House on the Hacken sack m,